MT32 and General MIDI

[Demon of Elru]

Do these games support the Roland MT-32 and the SC-55 for gen MIDI?

[Seamus]

No, but there are four settings for music.
Remix: Andrew Hulshult's remix soundtrack. Good stuff.
Original: The midi soundtrack recorded off of a real SC-55 so no emulation or sound font is required
General Midi: Windows soundfont. Always kinda crap as usual.
And finally FM Synth with some patch options, though for some reason, pc has fewer options for it than ps5 does. Probably a bug with the version control.

[spiric0m]

Originally posted by Seamus:

No, but there are four settings for music.
Remix: Andrew Hulshult's remix soundtrack. Good stuff.
Original: The midi soundtrack recorded off of a real SC-55 so no emulation or sound font is required
General Midi: Windows soundfont. Always kinda crap as usual.
And finally FM Synth with some patch options, though for some reason, pc has fewer options for it than ps5 does. Probably a bug with the version control.

Haven't bothered with the new port much, but I'm curious - how does it handle user-made wads if it doesn't have a proper soundfront?

[Seamus]

As well as any general midi stuff does through windows default soundfont. Functions but doesn't sound the greatest.

[AWMonopolyMan]

Originally posted by Seamus:

No, but there are four settings for music.
Remix: Andrew Hulshult's remix soundtrack. Good stuff.
Original: The midi soundtrack recorded off of a real SC-55 so no emulation or sound font is required
General Midi: Windows soundfont. Always kinda crap as usual.
And finally FM Synth with some patch options, though for some reason, pc has fewer options for it than ps5 does. Probably a bug with the version control.

Wait, how many options does it have? (The FM Synth)

[Seamus]

Two on pc. PS5 has more including two different OPL options as show in the digital foundry video talking about the ps5 version.

[AWMonopolyMan]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Two on pc. PS5 has more including two different OPL options as show in the digital foundry video talking about the ps5 version.

I have it on PS4 and Switch and I only see FM Synth (Original and DMX), in addition to MIDI Synth, the original and Remix (with the fallbacks being the aformentioned 2 FM Synth options and Midi Synth option).

[Seamus]

Ah, scratch that. I rechecked the video. Original is OPL2. DMX is OPL3. Could have sworn those were options alongside the original and dmx options when they were doing the back to back comparisons of the music under each patch set.

[AWMonopolyMan]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Ah, scratch that. I rechecked the video. Original is OPL2. DMX is OPL3. Could have sworn those were options alongside the original and dmx options when they were doing the back to back comparisons of the music under each patch set.

Yeah, it’s the specific sound hardware used for those options, which I actually never knew about, so the more I learn.

[Phoenix]

I do wish there was an option to choose the system mixer. I'm running an XG-GS Softsynth using Loopmidi that works great with GZDoom, but I realize 99.999% of machines out there don't even have any native midi capability anymore, software or otherwise, so I can live with the SC-55 even though I prefer the sound of the XG-GS synth set.

What I do not like is the improper looping. The tracks were written to loop without a pause. I wish they'd change that behavior back.

[Demon of Elru]

Thanks for the info. Too bad I would have liked to use my SC-55.

[AWMonopolyMan]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Two on pc. PS5 has more including two different OPL options as show in the digital foundry video talking about the ps5 version.

Speaking of the PS5 version real quick, am I missing something? Since I seemingly cannot activate Sound related mods for the PS4 versions of Doom + Doom 2 (at least).