System Shock 1, using BASSMIDI for higher quality music with soundfonts (.sf2)

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66471665d2087

09. October 2011, 23:50:33

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XenoneoQuote

I'm glad I could contribute some information to help people out.

It's going to take me a while to make myself stop playing with soundfonts and midis.
This rabbit hole goes deep and there's some crazy stuff in here.
Some of the musicians I listen to used midi sequencing to make their songs, so now I've fallen even deeper as I learn how to do that.

If I had never tried to make SS1's music sound better, I'd have never learned about all this stuff.

Now how to I get out of here...~ooo a shiny! *runs off distracted*

66471665d2171

20. October 2011, 13:28:05

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oozeQuote

Wow, thank you very much Xenoneo! This improves my SS1 experience a lot. And it was really easy to set up.

66471665d2213

24. October 2011, 06:51:36

#12

XenoneoQuote

I'm glad it helped you out, ooze.

66471665d22de

11. November 2011, 06:21:58

#13

r0b0_j0Quote

Hi, I am having trouble getting BASSMIDI to work properly. I have followed all steps of installation, but my audio sounds exactly the same (definitely not as good as that video up there). I'm playing the SSP version of SS1 and I have windows XP. Any ideas? I'm sure I'm not giving you much to work with, so let me know what other info you'd need to know. Thanks!

66471665d246d

07. December 2011, 00:34:28

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TarvisQuote

Hello there, I would like to point out (as the creator of the video above) that I recorded the audio from Foobar2000 using the Bassmidi plugin there, not the game itself. I have a feeling that Foobar2000 makes it sound better than it will in the game, because even my game doesn't sound quite that good. Still a huge step up from Windows' General MIDI though.

Additionally, I don't use BASSMIDI because of the game's tendency to pause the entire game to load music. I use Timidity because I can get around that using MIDI Yoke to send data to Timidity instead of having DOSBOX use it directly. I wish I could do this with BASSMIDI because it sounds better, is more reliable and is much less resource intensive than Timidity, but alas BASSMIDI has no "MIDI In" option that would make it compatible with MIDI Yoke.

But, I still reccommend trying BASSMIDI first. Maybe it will work without pausing the game for you.

If you want a guide for Timidity in case it does the above, I followed this thread:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/thread/51868/

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