Proper Duke3D Roland SC-55 Music Pack (At Last!)

[Scotty]

My first computer from back in 1998 had a SB AWE 64, and Duke3D sounded awesome on it. I played Duke3D one last time on that computer before dismantling it in 2000.

I've tried all sorts of soundfonts and so-forth since then, but the Duke3D tracks never sounded right.

This kicks ass. Thanks for putting this pack together.

[supergoofy]

with Yamaha SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50 the midi files are also sounded very nice

[MusicallyInspired]

Ok, here's Whomp Beta.

[moggimus]

Shit, that's ****in hot. Good job sir!

[Cipher]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

[MusicallyInspired]

Not related to Duke3D, but I've created a ROTT SC-55 pack as well. Here is the thread.

[Tea Monster]

I was playing Duke again last night and I had to pause and go open the music folder and feed a few of those ogg files into VLC.

Storming!!!

I remember my dissapointment when I got my new Win95 machine and I thought WOW, this is going to kick ass for a DukeStation! Then I fired it up and it was one of the biggest downers when the this flat, toneless crap came out of the speakers.

I used to have an AWE 64 in my old PC and it sounded awesome.

Thanks again for making a quantum leap in the overall Duke experience.

[Blade Nightflame]

Thanks for making such a small leap? That's kinda degrading considering how much others like it..

[MusicallyInspired]

He said quantum leap not small leap. And you're welcome .

[MusicallyInspired]

Thanks to Oasiz, the ROTT and Duke3D SC-55 packs are now available here to download: http://lerppu.net/sc55/

[Blade Nightflame]

I'm not sure you realize quite what "quantum" means..

( http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1554.html )

Spoiler:

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In the vernacular, the term quantum leap has come to mean an abrupt change or "step change", especially an advance or augmentation. The term dates back to early-to-mid-20th century, coinciding with the discoveries of quantum mechanics. The popular and scientific terms are similar in that both describe a change that happens all at once (revolutionary), rather than gradually over time (evolutionary), but the two uses are different when it comes to the magnitude of the change or advance in question.

In real physical systems a quantum leap is not necessarily a large change, and can in fact be very insignificant. A good example of this can be taken from the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, where the observed energy shifts associated with shifts of different quantum states (quantum leaps) span a wide range from large to small (when compared to the energy required to completely free an electron). In the popular sense, the term is usually applied to mean a large or significant change, which is thus not strictly correct.

--Wikipedia

ergo, while to most it would sound like a huge change, technically, it doesn't have to be.

But enough of this off-topicness now.

[Commando Nukem]

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

He said quantum leap not small leap. And you're welcome .

Quantum = Small.

[MusicallyInspired]

Ok, so either Tea Monster was sarcastically insulting my work or Blade Nightflame was making a corrective joke. Which is it?

[DeeperThought]

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

Ok, so either Tea Monster was sarcastically insulting my work or Blade Nightflame was making a corrective joke. Which is it?

I'm sure Tea Monster was not insulting your work; he clearly likes it.

[MusicallyInspired]

That's what I figured. But the way everyone was talking got me confused lol.

[hightreason]

to add to the confusion;
I thought Quantum was a defunct hard drive manafacture?

[Radar1013]

I also thought that Quantum was an old video game released by Atari in 1982?

Okay, let's get back on topic now.....

[Blade Nightflame]

Just felt like pointing that out, no offense intended.
How he meant was that it was actually a large leap, but I felt like being a bit anal about it.

On another note, I do agree that it's nice to hear these tracks.. Although, to be honest, I haven't heard them like that when I first played Duke 3D, so I can't really tell much. ^_^;

[Hendricks266]

Could you put up the addon ones you made as well?

Here's a pack containing the MIDIs from SW, Blood, NAM, and WWII GI.

sw_blood_nam_ww2gi_midi.7z

I know SW and Blood have CD tracks, but it would still be cool to have these.

[MusicallyInspired]

Sure. I'll do it when I have some spare time.

[HellFire]

Originally Posted by Hendricks266

Could you put up the addon ones you made as well?

Here's a pack containing the MIDIs from SW, Blood, NAM, and WWII GI.

sw_blood_nam_ww2gi_midi.7z

I know SW and Blood have CD tracks, but it would still be cool to have these.

Great idea! Also if possible please do FLAC versions of the midi only musics from sw (theres two musics that only appears in the demo version of the game: morse kodo and 254mm), please

[Hendricks266]

You could just upload the wave files. I could make them into high compression FLACs.

For reference, the MIDI files that I extracted out of the GRP have different names than the ones found in the goodies\midi directory on the CD.

GRP - CD - Title (extracted from MIDI file)
THEME.MID - OKINOWWA.MID - Okinoww!a
E1L01.MID - EVRYOFF.MID - Everybody Off
E1L02.MID - MORSE.MID - Morse Kodo
E1L03.MID - 254MM.MID - 254mm
E1L04.MID - A10TION.MID - Attention

[Hendricks266]

New submission. A (the) track from Powerslave beta, 2 from SW beta, Legend of the Seven Paladins full, LameDuke, and rejects from Lee Jackson.

midis_pslavebeta_swbeta_lo7p_lameduke_ljackson.7z

TX, you should add support for EMIDI, by Lee Jackson.

The named tracks are:

E1L01(a).MID - Taiko Recall
E1L05.MID - Pyroclastic Flow

DARKMATT.MID - Dark Matter
SUPFNORD.MID - SuperFnord
Whomp (proto).mid - Whomp (early version)

BROWNEYE.MID - Brown Eyed Girl
MISTACHE.MIS - Mist Ache

note: the SW beta also included the shareware MIDIs
note2: LameDuke also has FASTWAY from ROTT, not included
note3: Lee Jackson also had FISHPOLKA from ROTT as a rejected track, not included
note4: stuff in red was added by me

[Cipher]

He already did the Whomp beta.

[Hendricks266]

It's a dead link for me.

[MusicallyInspired]

Originally Posted by Hendricks266

New submission. A (the) track from Powerslave beta, 2 from SW beta, Legend of the Seven Paladins full, LameDuke, and rejects from Lee Jackson.

midis_pslavebeta_swbeta_lo7p_lameduke_ljackson.7z

Nice! Will do.

TX, you should add support for EMIDI, by Lee Jackson.

YES. Currently the MIDIs don't use loop points in eDuke32 like they do in regular DOS, for instance.

Originally Posted by Hendricks266

It's a dead link for me.

Whomp Beta. Not a dead link. I just tried it.

[Hendricks266]

That link gives me this... I'll run a virus scan overnight.

[d3ad connection]

It's a dead link for me as well.

[hightreason]

YES. Currently the MIDIs don't use loop points in eDuke32 like they do in regular DOS, for instance.

That gives me an idea, how about being able to set a loop point for .ogg as well in the .def file - maybe we should request this of TerminX (but i wouldnt until Polymer is done)

[ProAsm]

Links are dead.
Is it also possible to supply files in .zip format.

[MusicallyInspired]

Whoa that's weird. My webhost looks like it just went under without telling me. But it was working yesterday when I tried the link when you said it didn't work. Let me see what's going on. Maybe it's just down.

The ROTT and Duke3D packs are still available in ZIP format here in the meantime.

[Lope]

Unfortunately when I loaded up eDuke32 on my PC with a SB Live value sound card, it sounded like absolute CRAP!
I googled a lot, and came across the concept of sound fonts. I downloaded many sound fonts, and found every SC-55 sound font I could, and every sound font I could recognize, like Gravis Ultrasound, Yamaha XG or whatever. Some sounded better than others, but they all sucked.
Then eventually I saw a post about someone having no sound, and needing to select their windows MIDI device. I finally switched from the SBLive synth to the Microsoft GM synth. THANK GOD. Duke MIDIs again!

What a waste of time that was. I think it would be good to add to the FAQ that if the MIDIs play like crap, you should check what MIDI device you're using. I didn't even know there was a MS midi synth. I thought they were all hardware or implemented at driver level. (device specific)

In the mean time I've downloaded the eDuke32 music pack, and will check that out.

[Dr. Kylstien]

Originally Posted by Hendricks266

BROWNEYE.MID - Brown Eyed Girl
MISTACHE.MIS - Mist Ache

note: the SW beta also included the shareware MIDIs
note2: LameDuke also has FASTWAY from ROTT, not included
note3: Lee Jackson also had FISHPOLKA from ROTT as a rejected track, not included
note4: stuff in red was added by me

Mist Ache is in ROTT too. I don't get the point of Brown-eyed Girl either.

[hightreason]

Originally Posted by Dr. Kylstien

Mist Ache is in ROTT too. I don't get the point of Brown-eyed Girl either.

I rememeber it being played in LameDukes elevators sometimes.

[MusicallyInspired]

It's weird to talk about MIDIs in Lameduke because I never did get sound to work at all for it.

Also, a note about the Blood MIDIs. They all seem to be mono. All of the channels are center-panned which makes it sound very bland and boring. So unless there exists some better MIDIs from the game with stereo-panned channels I'll have to take some creative liberties and pan them myself.

I'm going to reupload the add-on SC-55 pack from Life's a Beach and Nuclear Winter since it was on my now seemingly non-existent website and therefore not available anymore. I'll wait, though, so I can add Whomp_Beta and the other tracks in the same archive.

[Hendricks266]

That's a relief, for me at least.

[supergoofy]

Roland SC-55 Music Pack for Caribbean Vacation and Nuclear Winter

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?krmiljkugmn

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ROTT Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 Music Pack

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mmynin1ytzj

[Hendricks266]

Here's a list of duplicate MIDI files:

NAM:
PLT201.MID
 - PLT202.MID
 - PLT209.MID

PLT203.MID
 - PLT207.MID

PLT204.MID
 - PLT206.MID

PLT205.MID
 - PLT210.MID
 - PLT212.MID

PLT208.MID
 - PLT213.MID
 - PLT214.MID

WWII GI:
BATTLE2.MID
 - SADLONG.MID
 - TITLEB.MID

Powerslave Beta:
LEV1.MID
 - LEV2.MID

LameDuke:
from ROTT:
 - FASTWAY.MID
    - E2M1.MID
 - MISTACHE.MID

Shadow Warrior:
THEME.MID
 - OKINAWWA.MID
E1L01.MID
 - EVRYOFF.MID
E1L02.MID
 - MORSE.MID
E1L03.MID
 - 254MM.MID
E1L04.MID
 - A10TION.MID

[Manskirt]

Would you mind including MP3 versions, for those of us who prefer listening on an ipod or similar device?

[Nimoy]

You can convert them yourself with a program like Goldwave.