Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-07-29, 09:13:In a recent interview on the RetroManCave YouTube channel, Lee Jackson the original Duke Nukem 3D composer, confirmed that the music was created on a Roland SC-88.
while i didn't watch the whole thing yet, this is certainly an overinterpretation of this one short sentence on the subject. this has been up for years now: http://www.rinkworks.com/apogee/s/2.8.14.1.shtml
so for the duke3d midis he primarily used cakewalk with a RAP-10 (which was sold by him a couple of years back on ebay), and apparently also did have a GUS MAX while doing ROTT and duke3d (https://forums.duke4.net/topic/2505-roland-sc … post__p__206525). now, that intermission track in duke3d, prerecorded in pretty low quality, was indeed done on the SC-88 he got late in the game's development cycle, as was the modified grabbag track they put on the atomic edition disc (which he also released as a midi file a while back, without any reverb in it).
i do believe the midis in shadow warrior shareware were actually meant to be played on the SC-88, but for the final game they for some reason decided to ditch midi altogether and to go for CD music only.