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« on: July 03, 2004, 06:41:52 PM » |
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Has anyone played Beneath a Steel Sky? That game is awesome! I was just wondering has anybody thought of making the soundtrack to that game.
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2004, 01:05:49 AM » |
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The game got released into the public domain for ScummVM. I started to play it but didn't get far.
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2004, 07:30:40 PM » |
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I'm looking hard for BaSS soundtrack too and I want to ask Tom: if you can, please, record MIDI's from the game, there are not too much.
Only I found at the moment is soundtrack in strange Amiga format dl. on 'Unexotica' site.
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« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2004, 11:00:12 PM » |
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DL: Dave Lowe format, just another custom tracker among the hundred that emerged on this machine  You can play it on the Amiga (obviously) with DeliTracker, or on Windows with DeliPlayer and the appropriate DL plug-in (available at Wanted Team). |
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2004, 10:31:34 AM » |
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Thanx a lot! What about converting it to MIDI?  |
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2005, 03:11:46 PM » |
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Oh mate if you ever get these then PLEASE send some my way. I spent a ludicrous amount of time trying to track the BASS songs either in MP3 or MIDI format. Or even adlib module format but to no avail...
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2005, 03:37:22 PM » |
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I can't get DeliPlayer to play the soundfile from unexotica even with the plugin installed.  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2005, 01:33:13 PM » |
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Blanka and all BaSS fans! I am beginning recording of BaSS soundrtack in MIDI. There's some problems, but I hope it'll be done soon! Of course I'll tell you and give links when complete. I'm not that professional like Tom and Alistair are, but I hope you'll be happy to have the only BaSS soundtrack in MIDI. As I understand there isn't another on the net now. Although you can find these strange 8SV-tracks (I didn't manage to play them yet! ) on UnExotica and low-quality MP3 inside Flash on http://www.game-nostalgia.com/bass/sky.html . |
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2005, 01:45:00 PM » |
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If you manage it you deserve virtual cookies!!!  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2005, 01:55:11 PM » |
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On the other hand, isn't the standard MIDI actually Roland MT-32s? I know ScummVM does a fairly good job of mapping the MT-32 soundbanks to similar GM soundbanks. I guess it goes well because they didn't use anything special in the MT-32 for the music. Which is a blessing in this case. That site with the flash on it makes me want the music more!! I played BaSS through fairly recently and it brought back so many memories as before that I hadn't been able to play it for well over two years because ScummVM always crashed on Windows 98SE. I upgraded to XP and (not totally unsurprisingly) it stops crashing. Man, I love that game... EDIT: And one other thing if/when you get it done I'll do my best to render tham on the SC-8850 and post MP3s. |
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2005, 02:22:27 PM » |
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And one other thing if/when you get it done I'll do my best to render tham on the SC-8850 and post MP3s.Well, that is better than virtual cookies! And I can render them on Yamaha Softsynthesizer, which sometimes I like more than hardware ones. (writing this, I accidentally wrote 'heardware', isn't that funny?) Man, I love that game...I love it too! It became one of my most loved games when I finished it! (well, actually, earlier, when I started to play it seriously ) Let's discuss it it somewhere!
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« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2005, 06:15:52 AM » |
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On the other hand, isn't the standard MIDI actually Roland MT-32s? I know ScummVM does a fairly good job of mapping the MT-32 soundbanks to similar GM soundbanks. I guess it goes well because they didn't use anything special in the MT-32 for the music. Which is a blessing in this case. The DOS version supported both MT-32 and GM for MIDI. I haven't looked too much into it, but I'd suspect that the MT-32 soundtrack is a conversion of the GM. On the other paw, the Amiga version seems to use MT-32 samples, or something similar. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2005, 07:04:11 AM » |
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I'm assuming the game was designed for adlib as the adlib soundtrack sounds somewhat fuller than the GM version.
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2005, 11:31:12 PM » |
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Here's my humble work: http://adventures.bestmusicpages.com/BaSS.zipI hope it's quite good. Only one thing: they all have a some delay in the beginning, just like QuestStudios MIDI's, so they're not good for looping. But I'm gonna make version where all songs will start playing immidiately. Waiting for your opinions and critic! |
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2005, 06:43:39 AM » |
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Link isn't working at all. |
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2005, 08:06:00 AM » |
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Works neat, Nemo Did you make the GM transcriptions by hand or did you log the soundtrack via ScummVM / VDMS? The DOS version supported both MT-32 and GM for MIDI. I haven't looked too much into it, but I'd suspect that the MT-32 soundtrack is a conversion of the GM. To my knowledge, there's no native GM support in BASS. The setup of my DOS copy only supports AdLib/SB and Roland -- Roland MT-32 obviously, since it sounds horrible if you try it with a GM device. Unless there was a late GM patch, which I'm not aware of. |
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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2005, 08:10:09 AM » |
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As far as I know using ScummVM with the roland mt-32 option you can have it map the MT-32 midi to a GM compatible synth using appropriate instruments.
That's what I thought it was anyway.
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2005, 08:15:25 AM » |
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There we go! Got it working! Thankyou!!!  |
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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2005, 08:48:58 PM » |
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Do you really liked it? I recorded from ScummVM using its internal GM emulator. Blanka, you may think, it's dedicated to YOU! )) Now, do you remeber what you've promised? |
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2005, 09:20:54 PM » |
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Soon as I have my line-in problem sorted I will do them indeed. |
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