Didn't have a change to listen to your creation, but I can tell you this:
because of the use of iMuse in dott, the use of audio files will be nearly impossible.
It would be possible with an implementation of Dreamcast ADX format or something similar, that allowed for several loops that changed with user action in the same way iMuse does. Or perhaps mod/s3m/xm? but again it would be painful to do. BTW if ScummVM supports custom audio some day, I'll make my LOOM Enhanced Audio, with full orchestral music. I already have several versions of each music, now I just need to choose the best versions (and look for their copyrights: most classical themes are public domain, but not all of their recordings).
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it's not just looping, afaik iMUSE allows to turn single instruments on/off
you'd basically need to rewrite the whole music engine plus the sounds to make it sound better
clem wrote:it's not just looping, afaik iMUSE allows to turn single instruments on/off
you'd basically need to rewrite the whole music engine plus the sounds to make it sound better
MOD-type files allows that. The Amiga versions of the iMUSE-enabled games are unlikely to use MIDI files as the Amiga didn't have a synth of any kind and was too weak in terms of CPU and memory to allow a softsynth at the same time the game was running. Most likely they used some custom derivative of the MOD format.
With that in mind, XM/IT or some other modern MOD format would be the most likely successful way of implementing a soundtrack with remastered samples and effects. Though as has already been said, it would require such profound rewriting of the engine that it probably wouldn't be worth it in the end. Or perhaps not, as the Amiga versions must have had code that could be useful in working it out. Then again, it'd still be a lot of work. Too bad I'm not a programmer.
cappuchok wrote:The Amiga versions of the iMUSE-enabled games are unlikely to use MIDI files
Though they do, nevertheless. Check out the resources! It's exactly the same format as in the PC version (they are even based on the MT-32 default instruments). The difference is merly that there are less instrument, since the amiga can only play 4 sounds at a time. And there are less tunes, probably due to memory constrains as the games are supposed to run on a plain Amiga 500 with 1 MB. The wavetable is spread over the disks in those amiga.ims files.
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very bad news , but are you 100% sure there is the same problem in dott?
i'm sure that dott doesen't turn on/off instruments
i think it plays integrated midi files (full tracks) - i know that because i have those files (to be honest: somebody ripped them but this shouldn't change a thing)
if the music is script driven, there has to be some kind of command that turns on/off the tracks. so it should be possible use that command to play/loop the audio files instead of the midi tracks
@ pelayo: there is already a loom cd version with audio tracks
I know, but loomtowns use a very bad synthesized music at least for me (I liked more the original ADLIB music), and loomCD is awful, they took away half of the game and the music is also synthesized. And replacing loomtowns tracks with orchestral ones doesn't work, as they need to have the correct size or they cut... the track length is scripted or hardcoded in scummVM?
optimus$prime wrote:very bad news , but are you 100% sure there is the same problem in dott?
i'm sure that dott doesen't turn on/off instruments
The very theme that started this thread - Red Edison's theme - seems like a good example to me: The harpsichord only plays while you're actually talking to him.
, but are you 100% sure there is the same problem in dott?
