Didn't one of the TNT Evilution songs "corrupt" when trying to play? I forgot the name of the track but it plays on Map02.

MusicallyInspired wrote:

Hexen

A little redundant there? The CD tracks are (most of) the midis through a soundcanvas. 😉

DracoNihil wrote:

Didn't one of the TNT Evilution songs "corrupt" when trying to play? I forgot the name of the track but it plays on Map02.

Yes, but it was an easy fix.

leileilol wrote:

MusicallyInspired wrote:

Hexen

A little redundant there? The CD tracks are (most of) the midis through a soundcanvas. 😉

From the SC-88 rather than the SC-55, wasn't it? Also, those tracks don't seamlessly loop. You could create tags sure, but with my recordings I have the control to create perfect loop points without any popping or clipping sounds. I can also do my own post processing. Besides, I don't have the CD and neither do a lot of others.

EDIT: Just looked it up and apparently not all the MIDI files are represented on the CD soundtrack. That's reason enough to motivate me to rerecord.

Heretic SC-55 Music Pack is released! OGG/FLAC/MP3 (metadata loop tags don't work in MP3 as usual)

Thanks, downloading now. But the URL is misspelled on the clickable link.

Thanks for mentioning that! Fixed.

To avoid derailing the other thread, quoting it here:

MusicallyInspired wrote:

Volume-wise, and patch-selection-wise, yes they are more balanced. The patches used on the SC-55 for the Heretic soundtrack are awful (not the patch sounds themselves, as the SC-55 has great sounds, but rather the choice of patch selections in these tracks. I just don't think they work well. I still think it's an afterthought). The whole soundtrack in SC-55 is horrid IMO. Yeah, there's plenty of polyphony problems on OPL and it's not optimal, but you can actually hear everything that's being sounded (if there were no polyphony issues). There are channels that are set way too low in volume on the SC-55 that you can hear just fine in OPL (there's a string channel in E1M2 for instance).

Just listened to your pack, and another example that sounds pretty off-balance, IMO, is E1M8 (Hell's Maw). The main theme (or at least what I consider to be the main theme) is so quiet that it's barely audible; the AWE32 rendition exhibits the same problem, while the Adlib (FM) version, sounds much more balanced (even if the instruments are worse). To me this is another evidence that the tracks were balanced for FM output, not General MIDI / wavetable.

Agreed. My enhanced pack will fix all these issues. Also, I was wondering if AWE32 wavetable had the same issues. Thanks for confirming that for me.

I'm curious if it sounds more balanced on the Yamaha MU modules? I have an MU1000EX with the officially licensed GS mode and it tends to change the balancing on tracks quite a bit. I wonder if it'd make Heretic sound better...

Doesn't hurt to give it a try.

Roger that. I'll report back to you in a moment - I needed to boot that thing up for work on another piece of music anyways 😀

EDIT: Got them recorded - I forgot gzDOOM automatically sends GM resets now, so this was recorded with my MU in GM mode. Pretty impressed with how it sounds, even though the drums are definitely too loud in E1M1.

E1M1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bSu4N0qtfqH … iew?usp=sharing
E1M8: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1imXwtU465gRh … iew?usp=sharing

It sounds nice, true. In E1M8, though, the main theme is still overshadowed, just like in AWE/SC-55 versions. Do you think this is how it's supposed to be?

Can you do E1M2 and E2M3? I'm curious about those. Both have missing instruments in GM.