Which Lucasarts Adventure games support Mixed Adlib mode?

Mau1wurf1977 · Post by **Mau1wurf1977** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:13 am

I am wondering which games benefit from using the Mixed Adlib mode?

So far I know that Monkey Island 1 and 2 have missing sound effects when played on a MT-32.

But what about the other games?

Fate of Atlantis seems to have speech and sound effects played through Sound Blaster out of the box. But the option for Mixed Adlib mode is still there?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:55 am

SCI games benefit as well, especially SCI1.1 and newer ones. A lot of digitized sound effects had synthesized counterparts

Mau1wurf1977 · Post by **Mau1wurf1977** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:20 am

That is interesting!

As long as the MT-32 plays some sound, im cool. But to hear no sound at all like in Monkey Island 2 was quite a surprise to me...

I am not sure why they didn't add more sound effects. Especially as the MT-32 allows custom patches and can produce sounds only limited by your imagination.

Space Quest III seems to have all the sound effects on MT-32. E.g. door closing, jumping out of the ship...

SQ4 is quite interesting as most sound effects you hear on Soundblaster are actually recorded from a MT-32.

The MT-32 goes nuts in SQ4, a ton of custome patches are uploaded and all the sound effects from the intro are MT-32 (The space ship zooming past, the jumping sound when Wilco jumps through the time gate...)

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:21 am

It's not a LucasArts game, of course, but The Legend of Kyrandia (the first game only, I believe) uses it. It's not that the MIDI effects are missing, but at least on my sound card they sound very bad compared to the AdLib ones. I've never heard what they sound like on the MT-32 though.

(From what I remember, there's AdLib music in a few places where there's no MIDI music, but the mixed mode has no effect on that.)

LogicDeLuxe · Post by **LogicDeLuxe** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:14 am

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:Especially as the MT-32 allows custom patches and can produce sounds only limited by your imagination.

Not exactly. While you can infact upload custom patches, it is limited to reprogram the synthesizer. You can not change the samples.
For instance, it is famous for not being able to produce a convincing piano sound.

Mau1wurf1977 · Post by **Mau1wurf1977** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:43 am

LogicDeLuxe wrote:
Mau1wurf1977 wrote:.
For instance, it is famous for not being able to produce a convincing piano sound.
It played the best piano of any Sound Card available in 1988 and walked all over Sound Blaster.

Have you ever listened to SQ4 on a MT-32? All the sound effects you hear on the Sound Blaster version are recordings of a MT-32.

Sierra really knew how to get the most out of the MT-32...

The MT-32 is now ~ 23 years old. It still sounds fantastic to this day.