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Look what I made! / Re: apple iigs demo music recreation!
« on: March 07, 2023, 23:10:20 »
update 3: big one this time! i decided to download some modules from the fta website, they are the same modules from the modulae demo, xmas demo, and space harrier, originally meant to be a game, but it got unfinished and ended up being a demo as well.
the modules were all converted from soundsmith to s3m by fta themselves. however, they were still that ~semitone lower than the iigs played at. and since schism tracker, which's what i used to do these, doesn't have any finetune feature, i did a workaround that worked:
i loaded the s3m's on fasttracker ii, which has enough support for this format. so i just set the finetune for all samples to +80, to match the iigs sound. then, i dumped the finetuned samples to dedicated folders for each song, so i wouldn't get lost. then, i replaced the original ones with these finetuned ones, and it worked perfectly
however, there was a module that even had a missing sample. xmas_main menu.s3m, i could easily tell what the missing sample was, and fortunately, i already had it dumped from another module.
and yeah, as you can see (or rather, *hear*), i even replicated the panning, for some reason the panning was all messed up on the modules that came from the fta website, i guess they just overlooked that.
i was also thinking of replicating some of the iigs quirks, like the audio skipping that happens sometimes due to the heavy load the demo causes, and, i think the iigs also has a non-linear mixer, 'cos the volumes on the modules sound better on these dumps than what you hear on the iigs.
still, being able to recreate at least the pitch difference is good.
anyways, here you go, give the modules a listen!
the modules were all converted from soundsmith to s3m by fta themselves. however, they were still that ~semitone lower than the iigs played at. and since schism tracker, which's what i used to do these, doesn't have any finetune feature, i did a workaround that worked:
i loaded the s3m's on fasttracker ii, which has enough support for this format. so i just set the finetune for all samples to +80, to match the iigs sound. then, i dumped the finetuned samples to dedicated folders for each song, so i wouldn't get lost. then, i replaced the original ones with these finetuned ones, and it worked perfectly
however, there was a module that even had a missing sample. xmas_main menu.s3m, i could easily tell what the missing sample was, and fortunately, i already had it dumped from another module.
and yeah, as you can see (or rather, *hear*), i even replicated the panning, for some reason the panning was all messed up on the modules that came from the fta website, i guess they just overlooked that.
i was also thinking of replicating some of the iigs quirks, like the audio skipping that happens sometimes due to the heavy load the demo causes, and, i think the iigs also has a non-linear mixer, 'cos the volumes on the modules sound better on these dumps than what you hear on the iigs.
still, being able to recreate at least the pitch difference is good.
anyways, here you go, give the modules a listen!