Dune. PC-DOS MT-32 Music

[crishellreads]

Dune <3

[marquis0r]

how to connect a soundblaster card to a mt32?? do i need drivers? got a midi cable but in sound setup nothing happens on the mt32

[edwlee78]

This was one of the first PC games I played when I upgraded from PC Speaker to a Sound Blaster Pro (I had to save my allowance money to get the SBPro!) The music was indeed great (though slightly short of Toto's Dune soundtrack).

[fuckcomments]

oouch

[ben2point0]

The MT-32 doesn't sound as good fo sho

[jedancovek]

one of my top 10 favourite game soundtracks!!! I grew up on Amiga version, but both this and the Spice Opera versions are great!!

[BVargas78]

Good times

[eskaeska]

Yeah the Adlib version was a way better...What a great in-game music and what a great game, taking less than 3 Mo if I remember this old good time!

[Acadianiste]

Well I think these musics were created using/created for the adlib sound card, so that may be why it sound more authentic with adlib... but this is still pretty interesting .

[McDughf]

Personally, I still prefer the Adlib version. I mean c'mon - the bit with Chani's eyes in Extreme CloseUp at 1:05 is a joke on the MT32 Version. It was supposed to be a Jarring / wake up moment after the serene calmness of the desert's dawning.

Watch an Adlib version if you're not quite following me here

[dlfrsilver]

The adlib music got special treatment from Cryo.

Their Herald Adlib music system was done with the help of adlib. The MT32 is really awful :(

PS : The amiga version has the most emotional feeling of all versions.

[djstkora]

The AWE-32 OPL Yamaha FM synthesis,RULEZ. Final.

[happylucky]

I don't see how you could prefer the soundtrack to Dune 1 over the soundtrack to Dune 2 (still waiting for the MT-32 version of the closing credits to be posted)

[chinitosoccer1]

i can record it if you are still interested

[happylucky]

Awesome to offer, but I've actually been able to hunt down some .mp3's.

[tweakynips]

played dune2 years ago and now im finally playin this, fantastic game but whats the deal with gurney and his twitchy eye? maybe i need to read the books

[MarcoLorrins1]

The best video game of Dune, i like too.

[voltaris]

oh c'mon, be serious.

[SiriusHardware]

Has anyone seen Disney/Pixar's WAL-E yet?

Listen out for slightly reworked, but unmistakeable renditions of two of the tunes from the Dune game. I scoured the end credits thinking Stephane Piq would be sure to be credited, but either I missed it or it wasn't there... anyone else noticed it?

[DeckerFI]

That's real nice. The Amiga version had far superior quality soundtrack though. The Amiga version intro is posted on Tube as well, look it up and listen.

[timppa000]

No it didn't. ;) Ps. The Roland MT-32 music of PC Speedball 2 is also far superior to the Amiga original. I must check if I can upload the music to Youtube.

[DeckerFI]

Yu-huh it did! Listen to the tablas or whatever the finger drums are called, they're the best example of the lacking quality of instruments on Roland compared to Amiga. And the low, subtle bass is completely absent from the rhythm.

I like these discussions, it's early 90's all over again =) We're not gonna agree on this, methinks.

[timppa000]

Yeah I guess we have to disagree on this one. The Amiga version soundtrack painfully presents the lack of audio RAM on Amiga ( => very scratchy and poor quality instrument sounds) and lack of sound channels. The MT-32 version, which was the original, has much cleaner sound and sounds like real music in comparison. Mind you, I also had an Amiga.

Compared to many other MT-32 game soundtracks, Dune is quite feeble, though. Best soundtracks are in Inferno and TFX. Links in QuestStudio forum.

[SiriusHardware]

I thought the in-PC (Soundblaster) music on Dune was bloody brilliant, so I bought the soundtrack CD expecting it to be a well mastered exact version of the game music - instead it was completely remixed on synths and frankly awful. The MT32 (played on a real MT32 via MIDI), is better, but still not as good as the PC's own version which is perfect.

[Orion2349]

It's interesting. This is the only game where people have said they prefer the OPL3/Adlib/Soundblaster track over the MT32.

I don't really get it. The soundblaster music sounds so tinny, I can't stand it myself.

I heard some MP3s form the soundtrack CD and I love it, but where on earth do you find a copy of it these days?

[asterixsub]

@Orion2349 : I personally prefered the OPL3 version, because I'm one of the rare people who had an Ensoniq Soundscape, which was rendering the tunes in a brilliant way. This Youtube video is the closest one I found to "my" version, even though, as you said, "my" version sounded so much deaper, wider, bigger!

[Shendue]

@Orion2349: I think it's due to the fact the MT32 is poorly used. Both it and the cd version lack the edge of Sounblaster's deeper, heavier sound (i'm specifically referring to this game, not in general).

Actually, i have similar feelings for a few other games.

[timppa000]

People prefer the inferior Adlib/Soundblaster or Amiga soundtrack of this game because that is what they are used to hearing.

There is really no denying that this Roland MT-32 soundtrack is the best of the three, and this is what it was _supposed_ to sound like. Soundblaster and Amiga soundtracks were mere renditions of the original Roland soundtrack.

[sctriplefox]

Cryo is an exception to the "Rule of MT-32" rule in early 90's games. Being based in France their preferences were different, so what I've read says that Adlib/SB was the target device, MT-32 was secondary. Certainly, there's more evidence of careful, detailed sound programming for the Adlib/SB. The mix is better balanced there; percussion is VERY quiet in this version.

[sargothas]

Hmm I think I like the soundblaster music better.

[rey666xyz]

The music in the CD version is horrible

[Orion2349]

The music in both games is exactly the same.

[rey666xyz]

uhmm... setting the sound as ADLIB fixed the sound. Why is so bad when the MT32 is selected?

[doctopus23]

OMG :'D