Update: 21Oct06 - Leisure Suit Larry 3 Digital Soundtrack Updated

[Tom]

The original Leisure Suit Larry 3 Digital Soundtrack has been updated with high quality Ogg Vorbis files.  This is the original MT-32 score (with SC-55 enhancements.)  The soundtrack was previously posted with a combination of both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis digital files, encoded at 128 kbps.

[Alistair]

Whee! <takes Tom and dances around the room> Been wanting this for years.

- Alistair

[BlueMax]

I loved all the LSL3 remakes that someone did with the fancy synth (Triton?)  This is the same idea only closer to the original?

Still - one of the BEST Sierra soundtracks ever!

[Tom]

This is the original MT-32 soundtrack as heard while playing the game, with a few alterations.  Since the MT-32's acoustic piano really sucks, all tracks that contain a piano use the SC-55 piano timbre instead of the MT-32.  There are a few other, minor instrument enhancements as well, mostly in the area of MT-32 strings being replaced (or acompanied) with SC-55 strings.  This was one of the first digital soundtracks I put together, and it was specifically designed for CD burning.

[Ari]

I loved all the LSL3 remakes that someone did with the fancy synth (Triton?)  This is the same idea only closer to the original?

Still - one of the BEST Sierra soundtracks ever!

You mean Shad0wfax's Fantom XR version?

[gortmertl0]

Thanks, Tom!

Gary

[Tom]

You mean Shad0wfax's Fantom XR version?

I'm sure that's what he meant.  Although I absolutely LOVE Shad0wfax's XR version, it'll never replace the love I have for the original MT-32 version.  I have a strange attachment to it.   

[Ari]

I can perfectly understand why.
I thought of maybe doing a CM-64 version of the LSL3 soundtrack. It seems to have better piano patches than the SC-55's, but I don't know when I'll get around to it. So far I've done 3 or 4 themes.

Would anyone even be interested in such a thing?

[Alistair]

You could do it as a novelty thing for us members, we'd appreciate it. Make sure you record the GS soundtrack and not the GM one, of course (that's the one Tom used for his LSL3CD).

- Alistair

[Ari]

emm... I'd probably be using the MT-32 one, and it would sound almost exactly like Tom's digital soundtrack.

[Tom]

Make sure you record the GS soundtrack and not the GM one, of course (that's the one Tom used for his LSL3CD).

I used the MT-32 version for the LSL3 CD.

[Alistair]

emm... I'd probably be using the MT-32 one, and it would sound almost exactly like Tom's digital soundtrack.

So, why bother? I thought you meant you'd use the CM-64 as an improvement over the SC-55 GS Tom used.

I used the MT-32 version for the LSL3 CD.

For some tracks, for others (e.g. Larry's Casino Show) you recorded them solely from the SC-55 GS soundtrack. Nontoonyt Hotel is another example, and Girl in the Binoculars as well, if I remember right.

- Alistair

[Ari]

Well, first, that's why I asked if there'd be any takers.
Second, you seem to misunderstand the way a CM-64 works. It acts as an MT-32 (or rather, a CM-32L) with tracks 2-10 and as a PCM module with tracks 11-16, which means that I could take a piano track from the CM-32L part, like Tom did with the digital version, and change it to a track on the PCM part, and choose a proper piano patch for it. I could to the same for trumpets, brass, bass and guitars, and leave tracks that use good MT-32 patches such as the clarinet, flute, vibraphone etc.
The point is, that the PCM part of the CM-64 sounds considerably different than an SC-55, and that the instrument replacements you'd choose for the SC-55 would sound different on a CM-64 mix.

[Alistair]

That's kind of my point- whereas the MT-32 'conversion' or mere playback would sound near identical, the SC-55 parts wouldn't.. but anyway.

which means that I could take a piano track from the CM-32L part, like Tom did with the digital version, and change it to a track on the PCM part, and choose a proper piano patch for it.

Do you mean 'like Tom did' in the sense that he used a CM-64 or CM-32L too, or that he took the MT-32's piano and played it on a SC-55?

- Alistair

[Ari]

The latter.
It would simply mean different enhancements.

[Alistair]

So you'd mix it, but all using the one module. I get it. It's be more interesting if you'd play it all back on non MT-32 patches, though. Say, CM brass and such.

- Alistair

[Ari]

It would be impossible to do that. First, because there're only 5 channels for the PCM part of the CM-64, and if there are any themes in the score that need more than that, it would create a slight problem. The second reason, is that the PCM part only has certain types of instruments. There are 64 in total, and it doesn't conform to the GM standard, which means there are various categories of instruments which simply do not exist: no clarinet, no flute, no overdriven guitar, etc. Now, there is an expansion slot for cards that contain 64 more instruments, but for now, I don't have any expansion cards.

[Kaminari]

I thought of maybe doing a CM-64 version of the LSL3 soundtrack. It seems to have better piano patches than the SC-55's, but I don't know when I'll get around to it. So far I've done 3 or 4 themes.

Would anyone even be interested in such a thing?

Are you talking about a digital soundtrack or a MIDI one? I'd love to hear a complete MIDI soundtrack for the CM-64 (it would be very interesting to compare how it fares on my CM-64 and CM-500).

[BlueMax]

It wouldn't be very different from what Tom has already done;  MT-32 for 90% of the song, improved instruments (whether CM-32P or Sound Canvas) for stuff that's really weak on MT-32 (like piano.)

I doubt you'd hear much (if any) difference if it was a CM-64 version, or MT-32 + Sound Canvas like he's already done. 

[Ari]

It probably wouldn't be that much different from the MT-32/SC-55 mix, but it could be interesting.
And yes, it would be one long MIDI file, at least at first.