Can I make the music sound better?

[bennybanz]

The music sounds like it's in a different MIDI soundfont than the original or something. The quality is really low and you can't even tell that it's supposed to be guitar. Does the fact that I'm running Windows 10 on a MacBook through BootCamp have anything to do with this? I'd really like to have the original MIDI soundtrack.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

windows 10 on a macboock?

[bennybanz]

Originally posted by SEWER HOOVY:

windows 10 on a macboock?

Yes, through a pre-installed program called Bootcamp. It's actually relatively easy.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

anyway did you compare the soundquality to original? anyway if you want hiquality stuff id go for source port and try it, gzdoom might work
verify the gameintegrity files coulddo the trick too.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEkNVq1ct0 heres good comparsion what it should soundlike, if source port does not fix it then it mightbe your system, im not expert here

[Phobos]

If you're using a sourceport, it's pretty easy, best and easiest way to play with soundfonts is to install VirtualMidiSynth on your computer, the tool lets you choose a "default" soundfont for midi playback that you previously downloaded.

If the tool is running, all applications using midi playbacks will use the soundfont you selected in VirtualMidiSynth instead of the default Windows one.

There's other solutions (Timidity etc), but trust me, this is clearly the easiest thing to do, and unlike Timidity for Zdoom you can use this tool for other games / applications if you want.

[bennybanz]

Originally posted by Evilman:

If you're using a sourceport, it's pretty easy, best and easiest way to play with soundfonts is to install VirtualMidiSynth on your computer, the tool lets you choose a "default" soundfont for midi playback that you previously downloaded.

If the tool is running, all applications using midi playbacks will use the soundfont you selected in VirtualMidiSynth instead of the default Windows one.

There's other solutions (Timidity etc), but trust me, this is clearly the easiest thing to do, and unlike Timidity for Zdoom you can use this tool for other games / applications if you want.

I was looking for a program that changes the default soundfont, thank you so much.

[Captain n00by]

Probably the default "Sound Blaster" setting. Sound Blaster (sans AWE) actually had the worst sound, despite being the most wide-spread PC sound card at the time. Gravis and, especially, Roland sound a lot better. Infact Roland is how Doom was supposed to be experienced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0Ob4PlCDU

This was some expensive sound gear for the time, mind.

[Captain n00by]

Some more sound card comparisons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFYWJ7dbz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TsL0HyVq4g

[Hamburghini 400 GT]

Go to the base folder and open DEFAULT.CFG and MOUSE.CFG in notepad, then change the values of "snd_channels" and "snd_musicdevice" both to 8 in both documents, then save and close.

I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for but its closer to how I remember it. Other numbers are probably more different settings, so you experiment.

[Zydomus]

Yeah, pretty much do what Evilman said.. install VirtualMIDISynth and (optionally) the Coolsoft MIDIMapper along with it, and then set the default device to VirtualMIDISynth for everything both in; and out of the game if possible.

It'll not only make it sound like the original, but it'll make it sound much better than the devices it was recorded on for it's time.

And if you really want the most realistic sounding music that is VERY close to how the originally ripped audio itself had even sounded.. then I would make sure to download the SGM-V2.01 soundfont and use it as the main soundfont for VirtualMIDISynth.

VMS should work for anything using MIDI related files, and of course, you would obviously need to use a soundfont in order to use VMS with Doom either way.


I would also definitely recommend installing both doommus.pk3 and doom2mus.pk3 from this website: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=24423 (Make sure to install each .pk3 seperately depending on the game, and just as you would with any other Doom related file, ofc.)

Basically, those two .pk3 files are the digitally remastered versions of the original music from both Doom, and Doom 2 alone. almost nothing I know of was changed from the original soundtrack that I know of besides the overall instrumental quality, of course.

But yeah, if you want the best quality.. download those few things. and trust me, you most likely will not regret it.

[Windows 95™]

How do I change the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ music on the game?

[longgoneby]

Originally posted by BennyKix:

The music sounds like it's in a different MIDI soundfont than the original or something. The quality is really low and you can't even tell that it's supposed to be guitar. Does the fact that I'm running Windows 10 on a MacBook through BootCamp have anything to do with this? I'd really like to have the original MIDI soundtrack.

crispy doom my man

[WaniseA]

Doom 1 (Sound Canvas SC-155)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mafzm25iat6w11d/doom_sc155_ogg.zip?dl=0

Doom 2 (SC-155)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdt8lvfww8oydq2/doom2_sc155_ogg.zip?dl=0

Sound Canvas SC-D70 soundtrack
http://sc-d70.retrohost.net/