ScummVM Audio and Midi questions

simonbelmont2 · Post by **simonbelmont2** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:37 am

For example, when you install a Sierra game it will ask you about what Music and Audio would you like to choose. So, for ScummVM:
Audio tab is referring to Music in Sierra games?
Midi tab is referring to Audio in Sierra games?

Thanks!

CaptainJei · Post by **CaptainJei** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:55 am

Simon, I don't entirely understand your question, but I'll try to answer anyway.

In ScummVM the Audio tab is used to select your MIDI playback device (emulated or otherwise) and other settings. The MIDI tab lets you select a few more advanced settings. I usually leave the MIDI tab alone except in special cases. Does that help?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:12 am

"Audio" in SCI games refers to digital audio (sound effects, speech, digital music). "Music" refers to synthesized (MIDI) music.

In ScummVM, the Soundblaster effects are chosen, unless you specify that you want the (inferior, IMHO) MIDI ones. Speech and digital music are always enabled. As for synthesized music, you can select if you want it to use Adlib or MIDI (MT-32 for older games and/or GM/General MIDI for newer ones). These are the main options, but you can choose cards like CMS as well.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:57 pm

md5 wrote:In ScummVM, the Soundblaster effects are chosen, unless you specify that you want the (inferior, IMHO) MIDI ones.

Unless you have a real MT-32 (in some cases)...also, this has never worked for me and still doesn't. It always selects digital sounds regardless of what I pick.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:25 pm

MusicallyInspired wrote:
md5 wrote:In ScummVM, the Soundblaster effects are chosen, unless you specify that you want the (inferior, IMHO) MIDI ones.
Unless you have a real MT-32 (in some cases)...also, this has never worked for me and still doesn't. It always selects digital sounds regardless of what I pick.

Once more, PLEASE file a bug report of this with details on how to reproduce it. Otherwise, if this bug exists, it will be forgotten, and if it can't be reproduced, it can't be debugged and fixed. Thanks.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:34 pm

I've filed bug reports on this before and I've just been waiting for them to be resolved, since I didn't think you guys wanted duplicate bug reports. I was trying to be conscientious. If they were ever marked as solved then it was incorrect because it still does not work. I'll go ahead and file another bug report then.

simonbelmont2 · Post by **simonbelmont2** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:09 pm

I think I found a bug on EcoQuest II when using "Edit Game..." options.

If I overwrite the global "Audio" options using "Edit Game... " and check "Override global audio settings" then set "Music Device" to "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth or AdLib Emulator" the voice of the bad guy (white clothes) from the beginning of the game will not be heard.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:15 am

simonbelmont2 wrote:I think I found a bug on EcoQuest II when using "Edit Game..." options.

If I overwrite the global "Audio" options using "Edit Game... " and check "Override global audio settings" then set "Music Device" to "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth or AdLib Emulator" the voice of the bad guy (white clothes) from the beginning of the game will not be heard.

First: Please don't reply to unrelated posts, as it makes it hard to find your post afterwards.

Second: This is bug 6118. It is fixed in the daily version of ScummVM, and it will probably be included in the next bugfix stable release (1.5.1).

simonbelmont2 · Post by **simonbelmont2** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:39 am

I apologize for the misunderstanding md5 but in the first place that's why I asked about the Audio and Music options of ScummVM. Didn't know that was a bug (I was thinking that I did something wrong with my options or I didn't understand how to use them) and forgot to post about that issue for EcoQuest II (I've posted it later).
It's good to hear that this bug will be fixed in the next version.

Smewtheye · Post by **Smewtheye** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:31 pm

OK so I'm a partial noob in here. but my question is about specifically the Kyrandia 2 Hand of Fate game. the sound effects in my version are kinda newer than I'm used to from the childhood and tbh I hate them. I'd like to find out how to get the old DOS kinda SFX. is there a data file somewhere or how do I determine exactly how my desired kind of SFX is called.
Thank You![/list]

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:05 pm

Smewtheye wrote:OK so I'm a partial noob in here. but my question is about specifically the Kyrandia 2 Hand of Fate game. the sound effects in my version are kinda newer than I'm used to from the childhood and tbh I hate them. I'd like to find out how to get the old DOS kinda SFX. is there a data file somewhere or how do I determine exactly how my desired kind of SFX is called.
Thank You!

Currently the non-sampled SFX cannot be selected.

Smewtheye · Post by **Smewtheye** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:31 pm

what do you mean? selected where? within the program settings? what about external import of a synth sfx file into the game directory, you think that's possible?

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:50 pm

Smewtheye wrote:what do you mean? selected where? within the program settings? what about external import of a synth sfx file into the game directory, you think that's possible?

I mean that you cannot use the (most probably) AdLib SFX you remember.

Smewtheye · Post by **Smewtheye** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:08 pm

can they be found and downloaded somewhere? or a whole game version with older sfx?

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:47 pm

Smewtheye wrote:can they be found and downloaded somewhere? or a whole game version with older sfx?

No.

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