You should look up this interview with Jehung Hwang, he mentions some Roland synthesizer with a "Orchestral" addon card installed on it.
I forgot what it was really called though...
US Navy Fighters is a CD game that supports General MIDI
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wrote:wrote:Mech2's midi had valid reasons though. Constant disc access (for the 2d frontend animations and minimum installations) and Redbook streaming isn't something very mixable.
Does anyone know what Mech2 was composed/synthesized with?
Was looking for the same thing... Turns out "Roland JV1080 with the Orchestral and World expansion cards".
Source: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov98/articles/jeehun.htm
Yeah, I found it too. He demoed to the Activision execs with some tracks he made on his Korg keyboard. Amazing!
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Two more that haven't been mentioned:
Anvil of Dawn
Gabriel Knight CD
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wrote:Blood (midi is better than the CDDA)
Agree, MIDI are sounds are beautiful, but CD music on same game is really spooky...
Just bought Albion (1996 sci fi RPG) that plays almost entirely from CD but supports all kinds of music options:
Tandy 3-voice, MT-32, General MIDI, ESS, Adlib, Adlib Gold, PAS, GUS, AWE-32, DB50-XG and of course SB Pro/16. In fact, CD Audio is NOT an option. 🤣.
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Lemmings 3D would play CD audio during the levels, but use MIDI everywhere else.
wrote:Sam and Max hit the Road: The CD has some audio tracks, but the game is still midi, and the sampled song is merely of 8 bit mono quality.
Yup, as you said, the talkie version of Sam&Max Hit the Road kept its MIDI music.
And if you copied the disk's content to HDD, it was also possible to run it without CD-ROM.
Another nice feature was the lack of the copy-pro.. I mean, it sadly hadn't that awesome mini game the floppy version had.
Oh, and the CD version also had a few audio tracks with a special sort of.. uhm.. country music. 😉
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wrote:I mean, it sadly hadn't that awesome mini game the floppy version had.
You can buy that dress up game from one of the Snuckey's. 😉
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Hexen II gives the choice for either Redbook Audio or MIDI
Already mentioned a page ago and that is not DOS.
Maybe Warcraft? Warcraft 2 definitely had both though
Warcraft only had a CD soundtrack for the Mac version
wrote:wrote:Blood (midi is better than the CDDA)
Agree, MIDI are sounds are beautiful, but CD music on same game is really spooky...
Hmm. I like CD music more.
wrote:Maybe Warcraft? Warcraft 2 definitely had both though
War2 for DOS has MIDI music. War2 for Windows has the same tracks rendered as mp3 or similar.
It's not clear form the title, does it have to have both audio tracks & midi or be originally released on CD?
If not, then the CD release (the floppy as well of course) of Rise of the Triad has midi option for music.
I think Screamer offers Midi as well as CD-Audio soundtrack.
wrote:wrote:Maybe Warcraft? Warcraft 2 definitely had both though
War2 for DOS has MIDI music. War2 for Windows has the same tracks rendered as mp3 or similar.
Yeh talking about the DOS version, which had both CD and MIDI music.
wrote:It's not clear form the title, does it have to have both audio tracks & midi or be originally released on CD?
If not, then the CD release (the floppy as well of course) of Rise of the Triad has midi option for music.
Pretty sure its games that have both CD and Midi music, I guess to compare the 2 different styles
