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Re: Come on, give us the tracks, man. | ||
Posted By: Adam | Date: 4/23/16 10:11 p.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Come on, give us the tracks, man. (VikingBoyBilly) : This is awesome! : Only one thing - these sound like midis. By that, I mean not the soundfont we
Considering the timing (c. 1997), the QuickTime instruments of the time were used and expected when Trojan was made. It could sound better, but the format not MIDI exactly. It’s QuickTime Music which is based on MIDI but adds the ability to mod instruments. Technically, the original Music is made up of QT movies concatenated together (can be made to store sampled-sound tracks, but only QT Music was used). The mods would be lost converting the tracks to basic MIDI. One of the Trojan tracks in particular (Song 17) makes use of custom instruments. Live playback is limited in quality for performance of course. The “Export to AIFF” feature will try to complete all the effects, and allows for higher sample rates (I think PPC only goes as high as 22KHz stereo); the only drawback to Exporting is bug(s) in the QT mixing code that produce pops. I did what I could to fix the pops with Audacity… a long, educating process. There are a few tools in the Archives (e.g., Marathon Music Exploder) to extract the song movies so they can be played back in native QuickTime (no need for an emulator afterward). Of course, you won't get the atmospheric effects I added for the MP3s…
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