Original Doom music

Bashe · Post by **Bashe** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:50 pm

Thanks for the link, CheapAlert! Now my IMF music sounds like the exact original!

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:28 am

Funny that... my oggs sound almost identical to the originals

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Chilvence · Post by **Chilvence** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:33 am

IMF? Wow! As in Wolf 3d and all that lot, right?

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:36 am

IMF? Is that like the sound you make when getting hit or something?

Post by **Chris** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:53 am

No, that's the sound you make when you yell "IMP!" with a mouthful of food.

Chilvence · Post by **Chilvence** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:55 am

No, it means you can listen to wolfenstein music in all its pingy glory

I wonder what it would take to get Randy to put this in Zdoom, or even whether you could convince the fmod guys to use it...

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:01 am

I can't think of a single reason to do that... Maybe it's just because I like to make my music and I just use Oggs, but don't half decent mods sound better? Plus, if I want old skool Snes style music, i'd compose it myself

. Anyway, that's me... I suppose we aren't all musicians

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Mr.Clutchpants · Post by **Mr.Clutchpants** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:34 pm

[quote="CheapAlert"]I've been wanting an OPL2/3 midi player for a long time, and the closest I could find is:

http://adplug.sourceforge.net

I dont know how to get this to work

I downloaded the Zip, and have winamp, but where do I go from there?

Mr.Clutchpants · Post by **Mr.Clutchpants** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:42 pm

I cant seem to get winamp to play any of the Doom Midis.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:34 am

That's because they are midi's but not midi files... they're Mus'... so you'll need to convert them with mus2midi or something else... Be warned, they will only sound as good as your sound card (none of that OPL emulation or anything, unless you can find a dedicated OPL synth for windows or summet).

Mr.Clutchpants · Post by **Mr.Clutchpants** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:47 am

Or a SoundBlaster 16! haha, everywhere I have read about them people say to stay away, they only have OPL. ITS WHAT I WANT! Well, back to studying, I got my intro to intro quantum physics final out of the way- Time for vector calc!

Post by **Chris** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:47 pm

Note that even though SB16's have OPL3 chips, under Windows it won't sound like you hear in Doom. The only external player that I've seen recreate the OPL synth sound you hear in Doom is Vladamir Arnost's Musplay (is that the name? it's been too long). ZDoom fakes it, and while doing a great job is heavy on the CPU.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:14 pm

Why do so many people want to have such an inferior means of playing MIDI's?

OPL was a crappy workaround in 1993 and it's still one today.

Post by **Chris** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:52 pm

Beats me. As far as I'm concerned, a good wavetable synth makes the Doom music sound so much more immersive. You can get one for free as long as you have difital sound output (Timidity + a good wavetable patch set). You can even add chorus and reverb effects to make it sound that much more realistic, which the original music couldn't do.

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:26 pm

Graf Zahl wrote:Why do so many people want to have such an inferior means of playing MIDI's?

Because MIDI's will never sound realistic unless considerations are taken for individual files. Even the legendary Chaos Bank doesn't make, say, the Descent soundtrack sound better. I figure, it's a friggin' MIDI file, and if it sounded that way in 1993, it may as well sound like it now. I still have fond memories of the "Jill of the Jungle" soundtrack making such great usage of the OPL chip, and I can't experience that again unless I play the game. And what if I want to just listen to the music? I can go download some crappy rip-pack, but it won't sound the same.