I'm confused about the music in the 2013 steam release

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I am a huge fan of FF7 and played it when I was a kid, and played it again when I was a teenager. I played originally on the PS1, then played on the PC re-release as a teen and replaced the horrid midi tracks with the original PS1 versions. I also have been listening to the soundtrack ever since, especially One Winged Angel and Cid's Theme which I have listened to repeatedly.
I downloaded the steam version recently and have been playing it for a while. When I was listening to Cid's theme today after certain things happened involving a certain diamond weapon, I noticed something peculiar. It sounded too good. I looked up the original versions and found out that, indeed, the version I was hearing through my computer was much higher quality than the version on the original PS1. I figured that the audio must have been remastered for the Steam release.

And then I found the music petition thread and a bunch of people complaining about the butchered MIDI soundtrack. And this has me very confused, because I've worked with midi and synthesizers a lot in the past and the versions I am hearing out in game and in my FF7 folder are done with a higher quality digital performer than the original PSX versions, which were obviously compiled from midi files as well, just with a different digital performer. (of course the original PC release had an absolutely abysmal set)

Are my ears playing tricks on me (and the several friends of mine that agree with me)?
My computer has both a "midi" folder and an "ogg" folder, but the game is playing music out of the "ogg" folder - is it possible that my computer is using a different version of the soundtrack than everyone else?
Is there an opinion war going on here and I'm only seeing one side of it?

One exception is the "One Winged Angel" theme for the final battle, which sounds better on the PSX version. The pieces I thought sounded the most improved on the steam version are Cid's theme, Vincent's theme (The Nightmare Begins) and the Ancient Forest theme.

[76561198053826948]

Certain songs sound better in the rerelease, most sound worse.

[Croaker]

Haven't played much of the re-release but it sounds quite fine to me

[Merleck]

Agreed, so far the songs have been good quality on my playthrough.

[Ruka イオ]

I do happen to have a midi/ogg version of it with the vocals and midi mixed together

[Professor Hardknocks]

A lot of commentary from the peanut gallery but no answer to the question about the music.

Interesting.

[76561198053826948]

Those were for the original 1998 release, when more people had cards that supported soundfonts. After all, this is just an optimized version of that port.

[wrexsol]

The short version of the story is that your PC has different MIDI instruments installed on its sound card than what was packaged in with the game back in the day (I hear it was some Yamaha thing that sounded pretty awesome). Something in the game is saying 'use these instruments if you can't find these other ones' which reverts to PC MIDI defaults. It's essentially playing with an incomplete set.

You get used to it.

[Mavadelo]

agree with wrex, you either get used to it or download the original music files (available widely on the netz) or sign that petition and wait for square to fix it (if they do) or you download the new files and still sign the petition so the noobs that don't know/dare to change anything in their gamefoders can use the original soundtrack as well (thats what I did)

[Ruka イオ]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F5EF50623D27AF2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GBtd582q0&list=SP8F5EF50623D27AF2&index=1