Duke Nukem 3D - Soundtrack - Roland SC-88
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Duke Nukem 3D (1996) Soundtrack played on Roland Sound Canvas SC-88. Native mode.
Music credits go to:
Lee Jackson and Robert C. Prince
Duke 3D was developed by 3D Realms.
Episode 1:
0:00:00 - E01L00 - Grabbag
0:01:05 - E01L01 - Stalker
0:03:50 - E01L02 - Taking The Death Toll
0:07:52 - E01L03 - The City Streets
0:14:53 - E01L04 - Water World
0:20:42 - E01L05 - Sneaky Snake
0:26:35 - E01L06 - The Call Of Death
0:32:51 - E01L07 - Ah, Geez! (multiplayer level)
Episode 2:
0:34:56 - E02L01 - Future Military Conquests
0:38:18 - E02L02 - Space Storm
0:43:40 - E02L03 - Gut Wrencher
0:47:41 - E02L04 - RoboCreeping
0:50:07 - E02L05 - Stalag-3D
0:53:15 - E02L06 - Pissed!
0:58:26 - E02L07 - Aliens, Say Your Prayers!
1:01:44 - E02L08 - Plasma
1:04:11 - E02L09 - Alfred H
1:07:22 - E02L10 - Gloomy
1:09:56 - E02L11 - In Tents
Episode 3:
1:12:43 - E03L01 - In Hiding
1:16:51 - E03L02 - Going After The Fat Commander
1:21:00 - E03L03 - Taking Names
1:26:25 - E03L04 - Subway
1:33:00 - E03L05 - Invader
1:37:44 - E03L06 - Gotham
1:40:25 - E03L07 - 233.778 Celsius
1:47:10 - E03L08 - Lord of L.A.
1:53:34 - E03L09 - Urban Jungle
1:56:16 - E03L10 - Spook
2:00:27 - E03L11 - Whomp
Atomic Edition Episode 4:
2:04:10 - E04L00 - Briefing Room
2:05:00 - E04L01 - Missing? Impossible
2:07:58 - E04L02 - Preparation D
2:12:17 - E04L03 - Baked Goods
2:14:29 - E04L04 - Calypso Facto
2:17:38 - E04L05 - Lemon Chill
2:21:12 - E04L06 - Pissed Office Box
2:26:12 - E04L07 - Warehaus
2:29:30 - E04L08 - Layers of Dust
2:33:03 - E04L09 - Floghorn
2:36:40 - E04L10 - Departure
2:40:01 - E04L11 - Restricted Area 
Игры
Man this brings back some serious memories. We take our tech for granted today and generations forward don't even THINK about audio quality lol I was a young boy back in those days and my father raised me around this stuff. He'd let me build old computers out of spare parts that he had no use for anymore and I remember the thrill that I felt the first time I got a computer I built to actually turn on! I remember shouting "IT'S ALIVE!" lol Remember those old 60lbs tube monitors that you would strain your eyes on playing Doom 3D on late at night? Man I miss those days so much. Even now with a Nvidia 3080 OC and a nice flat screen, it still doesn't hit the same as it did back then. I honored to have grown up when I did.
One thing I liked so much about synthesizers is that the sound stays consistent throughout the whole score.
Duke 3D is the kind of game I can always get back into and have a lot of fun replaying it.
That's how you recognize it is a classic
The Reverb FX really makes it. It adds a lot of depth that many of the other MIDI solutions are missing.
KRAFTWERK2K6 damn its good
Rockin!!!
Tha Yamaha 88 matches up pretty well tbh
I kinda feel some of the composers might’ve abused the reverb and delay a little too much back then.
I used "chaos midi 8-12mb" midibank with my X-FI card. sounds were much better back then than a poor common midi sounds.
after 25years this still ROCKS. stalker! gotham!
As if it will ever stop rocking! 😎🤘
the best of this fuckin OST )
I used to listen to this in game music more than I actually played the damn game when I was 11.
Lee Jackson and Bobby Prince were really the lords of midi music, and I love it.
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 To me, only Lee Jackson's pieces have some depth and are of enough quality to be nice to listen to. Bobby Prince's tracks are OK during gameplay and often have catching tune but otherwise are very simple and after a while pretty boring and repetitive.
@@Paar86 thats how i feel about the soundtrack as well, for some reason bobby's tracks feel kinda underwhelming and feel more ambient in a way, which is strange considering he made good tracks in doom, despite alot of his music was taken from the popular metal bands playing at that time, he still had plenty of good tracks that wernt ripped off from them,
Someone needs to press this one vinyl. I love this soundtrack.
3d realms/gearbox could make millions on doing this alone. Pair it with a Tshirt and some signed goodies by the original devs and you have literal gold. i'd buy it
More people should know how important this game is to history. hauahua
@R. Abdala True!!
Always wanted one of these as a kid! I had an AWE64 which was still very good but my Dad's friend had a SC-88 and I remember playing Duke Nukem, Blood, Doom etc on it and was just amazed at the quality of the sound! I have no use for one now but I really want to pick one up some day just to make happy the younger me.
+fossilfern The Yamaha DX50 was very good and cheap, and the Gravis Ultrasound was good but expensive
+fossilfern A MIDI driver plus the cheap (and antique) Voice Crystal GM 4MB sound slots nicely between the sound of a GUS and an SC-55. It's a distant relative to the official GUS bank though few sounds are shared.
What a coincidence! Mt friend's Dad who is a sound engineer, producer and singer owned 4 sound Canvas modules plus a Yamaha MU50. Back in the early 90s
my friend's Dad owned a Roland SC-55 plus an SD-35 which is basically an SC-7 with a built in floppy disk drive. As a child I often used to be allowed to take
the SD-35 home and borrow it to use with my Yamaha PSS-790 and Casio CT-700 keyboards and in the end my friend's Dad let me keep the SD-35 so growing up
I had the luxury of being able to play back midi files using my very own Roland Sound Canvas module. Back at the studio was an SC-55 and I was often invited
over there to do some song cover backing tracks with my friend Lisa until Lisa's Dad sold the SC-55 in 1996 to buy an SC-88vl. The SC-88vl was also amazing
especially for 1996 although I preferred some of the sounds on the SC-55 like the clean guitar, trombone and fretless bass ( many of the SC-55's sounds are
based on the Roland U series modules ), I certainly really liked the SC-55 because back in the 90s it was more widely used. Then in 1998 the SC-88vl was sold
to buy an SC-88 Pro which seemed a little ahead of it's time but it started becoming more widely used but in 2005 my friend's Dad decided to sell is sound
modules and hardware after buying Reason and knew I would like them so he sold them to me and I bought them with some compensation money from
when I broke my arm at respite in 2003. Very recently I bought a Roland SC-8850 and at the wekend I'm hoping to place a bid on a Korg 05R/W but I'm
also going to buy another SC-55 next time one is listed in my country.
It's not too late to buy a Sound Canvas module if you want one, I would reccomend getting an SC-88 Pro if you can because it has all the SC-88 sounds
in addition to another map of new sounds including higher quality pianos, strings and saxophones. The SC-88 Pro is still usable for modern music
productions, some producers still use it.
Now you see how beautiful MIDI standard is. You can attach whatever instrument you want and you always have beautiful sounds (depending on instrument of course).
I use Yamaha XG compatible as these patches stored in WAD files (as I remember) are in General Midi. I ripped them all (30 files) ;-)
Great soundtrack!! Duke Nukem 3D is my favourite shooter ever.
Yeah, going godmode with all weapons feels like you're the (original) Terminator 😅
One good thing about modern technology is you can have modern source ports of 90s FPS games, and an SC-88 soundfont. I still swear by software rendering at 320 x 200 though, these old games just weren't meant for HD.
Doesn't work, i tested, its shit, only sc-55 font works
Could you explain
This sounds way better than I remember it, thanks for uploading.
Probably because you used different midi
sounds gorgeous, thanks for the upload
"Stalker" sounds ridiculously good, specially drums. You either go SC-55 or go home.
it was composed on an sc88 though? minus bobby's stuff.
Listen to THAT!!!! it's arguably probably better sounding than some if not most modern games. I wish I had grew up in the MS-DOS era of games :(
45:00 beam me up, Scotty! I think this is the level that was designed after the Starship Enterprise! You see it on the automap and there is the “Captains Really Ready Room” with a bunch of porn screens and mags, LOL!
Thank you for this.
58:27 : Best music of this game !
Blooon bi-bouwww de-deeeeeng a-shashashasha
This one and Departure were the shiz!
@@johannkuhne1501departure is fucking amazing
Thanks for upload this. Roland SC-88 is the best converter for old General MIDI tracks.
+Blaze Rhodon That's by no coincidence; most of these old general MIDI tracks were composed on a SC-55 or an SC-88
@Django Fett I meant synthesizer, now I know that there was many different MIDI synthesizers but most MIDI tracks were written for Roland SC-55 and SC-88 Pro. However today you can easily convert old MIDI files with MIDIPlayer 2 using BassMIDI soundfont with similar sounding like Roland SC-88 Pro.
really nice , apreciable quality sound, sc-88 rulez
Aliens Say your Prayers sounds great on this device
This sounds better then sc-55. I wish someone would make an sc-88 music pack for EDuke32
You could just load a sound font using bass midi or virtual synth.
True, if only I could find one; I've looked everywhere lol
SpenceDaFence ikr
If I find one I'll be sure to post it here.
@@no.mids.brando6458 8 years late, but here it goes. Google "HiDef (my 4GiB Roland SC-88Pro SoundFont)"
Why can't PC built in midi sound this good? Considering this is what it's based on.
+Funboringness Winn try that one next.
+Funboringness Hehe, thanks for your support ;)
It uses the MIDI general but it sounds nowhere near as good as the SC-55 or even MT-32.
InfernoDukem : It uses the SC-55 instruments, but samples are badly compressed, and
the hardware effects (chorus, reverb....) are not implemented. So it
plays the 'flat' samples in low quality.
+Arachnosoft - Maxime Abbey Arachno is my go-to soundfont of choice. Absolutely gorgeous sound. Wish I'd found it before more recently.
Bobby Prince's style is different than Lee Jackson's, you could easily tell which MIDI was made by who just by listening.
I love E1L3 and E3L3 musics
i love that after learning Law and order (bobby being a lawyer) he knew how to make music similar to peoples music so close to them, without making it actually plagerized.
Yep, Bobby Prince was more serious with predictable and reliable patterns, Lee Jackson was more eccentric and complex.
Next up: deep learning based synthesizers "performing" the good old MIDI tracks with optional variations, from improvisations to a complete style change. Oh yes.
Challenge accepted. Hear from me next year.
I used to play a range of Dos games over my Roland G800 back in the day... it was amazing. A while ago I purchased a MT-32 because I was so curious what that would be like. That was amazing too in a whole other way.
I love plasma so much.
Let's Rock!
This is one of those strange cases for me when it sounds SO much better on Sound Canvas than regular FM synthesis... yet since I've been introduced to these tunes on the SB16 I kinda like them better when they sound worse ;)
Excellent.
I am dying of joy :)
And that sounds realy nice)
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sounds amazing
holy fuck
Sounds awesome! Duke Nukem 3D definitely had one the best soundtracks in the 90's. Could you come up with Jagged Alliance (1994) theme?
Yes, here you are ruclips.net/video/ikaCPBVT0e8/видео.html
this sounds amazing
This is so cool
1:04:09 what a great mysterious track!
Damn this ost looking good! Right frum 1997
I remember when I had a Soumdblaster AWE 64 it had so much bass, I could never recreate it.. I don't know if it was an error, it was insane I tried so much stuff to get that back.... It was so weird
I was limisted to AdLib to externalised to my Korg X5.
It wasn't optimised for it and I had to fuck around to re level most of the voices.
Every single version of the game (including Megaton Edition and the 20th Anaversary World Tour Edition) used the Roland SC-88 version of the Grabbag
Good
Someone should arrange this for orchestra and have the San Francisco Symphony play it. The sad thing is. If you tell them that all the tech bro hipsters in their city will pay to see it... The SF Symphony will be all about it...
GREAT MUSICIANS! BEST OF THE BEST FROM THE GAMES!
The SC88 grabbag is the credits version basically.
the roland sc-88 will always be top teir
SC-88 Pro? 🥺
7:52
Yo, great shit. I was wondering, is it possible for you to upload SC88 recordings of the DN3D ost that loop at least once? I could make a SC88 music pack for EDuke32 and Rednukem that loops seamlessly with that.
I'd love it if this was made into a music pack for use with eDuke32.
Shame you can't get this midi to work neither in the DOS version or Eduke version (like you can get the Soundblaster version). ☹️
Reminds me of the exact sound card I had at the time. With subtle differences. I think I had the 32X then or had just upgraded it lol
Oh no wang, you tiny grasshopper
Hi, can I get a download link to all these tracks? I wanna use them in EDuke32, so they need to be named properly and has to loop perfectly. FLAC or OGG format preferably.
sc55.duke4.net/games.php#doom
Duke is there too.
Main theme is very similar to Lee Jackson's Grabbag version. I'm guessing that's what he used?
This right here proves that Duke Forever in 2002, even if behind the times in a technical sense, would have still been a smash hit
1996, Duke 3d comes out, the same year that Quake comes out. At the exact moment Quake hit the shelves, Duke 3d is rendered obsolete--the same exact year it came out. Frankly Duke looks like shit compared to Full-3D Environment Quake, yet here we all are talking about how much we love Duke and its soundtrack, and how much we miss playing that old game. And rightfully so, the game was memorable and awesome
We don't buy Duke for the Graphics, we buy Duke for the over the top action and ridiculous characters. We buy Duke for the kickass music. We buy Duke for Duke
WRONG. Duke Nukem 3d was really popular also. I remember all the BBS sites running Duke tournaments and stuff.
In retrospect, I consider Duke 3D much better game than Quake, even though it's still 2.5D engine. Still, nothing tops Doom.
Quake is a really grim and depressing game. The only weapon that’s actually fun is the nail gun and ammo for that is like hen’s teeth.
The idea that some art become obsolete because something more high-tech comes out is the definition of stupidity. Never heard of ION FURY? DUSK? AMID EVIL? Duke Nukem Forever was going to be bad by the way, because too much influenced by the ultra boring Half-Life. PHANTOM FURY will be Duke Forever done right.
And BLOOD is still one of the best FPS of all time: build engine - 1997.
The one downvote must be from the Creative Labs CEO ^^
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Does anyone know where one can get a Roland SCP-55 PCMCIA device for old laptops, or at least something with similar MPU-401 functionality? It's not directly related to this, but with my laptop having no midi port and only a 9 pin serial port, I'm not sure how else I'm going to get general midi working. ^^; Sound Blaster emulation's okay, but I crave more.
Will you do the Marathon soundtrack on Roland too?
Fuck yes
Holy fuck this sounds good.
0:38:20 better check the oven...
lol all kidding aside, this sounds really good for just DOS...
PowerLeef It's because the SC-88 was one of the best MIDI soundfonts to use. It sounds almost like a CD quality track in a way
That's the beauty of MIDI, it sounds as good as your patches. Unfortunately very few had actual good MIDI synthesizers, and with Windows, the Microsoft wavebanks are very poor, to a point where the music becomes laughable.
Amazing!
Anyone dares to dislike?
I might be doing this on the backend but I use a Pioneer Receiver with Kenwood speakers to produce awesome sound this sounds great cranked up on it the way I have it setup just using the standard audio chip on this motherboard as a driver got a Gateway that has a much better chip in it media center pc can tell the difference.
Full version GS Grabbag in sc88 please
Wicked, I wish I knew how to do this when I was a Kid.....🔫😎✨ 1:50
This has so much blade runner in it.
Fat Commander and one other I can't recall (both use Synth Bass 2) have a glitch. On the SC-8850 these tracks use "Bubble Bass" instead of the normal GM patch. It actually sounds neat but no device had the bubble bass patch at the time this was released. I don't know if the SC-88Pro has the patch or reacts in any odd way. This might be the same reason the bass does not play on the MU-80 in GS mode.
Most probably the low cost USB/MIDI converters are the problem. I have noticed several very unusual symptoms during recording of both soundtracks. Incorrect or missing instruments are just two of them. The fact is the Yamaha MU-80 is more sensitive, unfortunately I have noticed the missing bass when the recording was already uploaded.
Would getting a Roland MIDI/USB cable for an SC-D70 fix the issue?
What about freeway? I can't seem to get the music back
Hi friend who is better SC88 or SC55 for playing old DOS games in Midi? Thank you
Question. When using a MT32, will the results be the same?
Where can I find each of these songs separately? I don't mind splitting them myself, but downloading them would be more convenient right now.
Isn’t this what the old Megaton version used for its OST?
Man that red light district track is creepy
well since i got ultimate doom it did have episode 4 i am looking forward for duke nukem 3d atomic edition episode 4.
Preparation D " no way I'm eating this shit" XD
Wasn't it made with an SC-55? This is so interesting to me.
No by 1996 Lee Jackson bought a Roland SC-88. But before that Lee Jackson used various computer
sound card synthesizers when he composed the music for Rise of the triad. He even made his own
custom soundbank for Adlib Sound Blaster which is based on the Creative Music Synth patches.
Any JV 1080 version?
Needs a new screen, that one let the crystals escape.
I remember it just like this, even though I know it way worse.
can you convert this in .ogg files?
it sounds so much better then on an sc55. Did you modified something?
SpaceMarineITA Hi, no. It was recorded directly from running game.
+SpaceMarineITA *late ass response. Just listenin' to nostalgia.* The SC-88 has twice the ROM (8MB) of the SC-55 Mk-II and many of the default GM patches are modified or replaced with the new waves. Each newer model adds non-GM patches. The SC-88 Pro has 40(?)MB and many more patches still are replaced. IMO the quality of many patches went down but it was possible to switch back. This model did introduce a lot of new features and some pretty sweet ethnic and pad sounds. The SC-8850 has 64MB and sounds good but unbalanced in classic games. The SC-8820 lacks the 8850's new pianos and stereo strings...not that they were good anyway (compared to pro Roland gear).
For classic gaming I would stick to the SC-55 MkII. It has a few more voices and an improved ROM (4MB vs 3MB) over the SC-55 or SC-50. Most importantly it is the General MIDI that almost all game developers wrote their GM tracks on. Duke Nukem 3D is one of a very few games that used something newer.
But admit it: For DOS games it's FM, AWE or bust. That's what most had. XP #Dork
How hard would it be to find a SC55-88 ?
MultiGuy Not too hard. They appear on eBay somewhat regularly. I recommend the SC-55 Mk-II if you're going for the 'pure' sound DOS musicians used. The SC-88 and newer have modified ROMS even in compatible mode and different effects. Unfortunately you should expect to pay as much as $200 after shipping to get one. Alternatively the MU-80, MU-100 and MU-128 from Yamaha will all provide you pretty much the exact same sound as a DB50XG would.
Wasn't the Mark2 also 18-bit and had better DACs?
01:01:44 Xplasma
Why while playing Doom I heard flutes instead of percussion?
+ゴンザレスアレハンドロ Make sure channel 10 is not in percussion mode or using bank 127. Just reset the Sound Canvas. (I am late, I know!)
Hi there. I own a Roland SC-88, however I noticed when I played back the Grabbag music for myself, i noticed that the overdriven guitars had a bit of a more, how do I say it, halo-y effect? I have no idea how to describe it. However yours sound different. Here's a video of my recording: ruclips.net/video/9QrCgHmSxUE/видео.html
Hi, interesting. I also noticed different instrument on channels A04 and A05. Can you check its name? Try to reset the module to GS, maybe some advanced midi file changed some settings. "INST EDIT" + "INSTRUMENT ->" pressed together. Confirm with ALL.
Sorry for the late reply, I ended up getting this fixed. Thanks for the help.
Make shadow warrior shareware soundtrack with sc-88
Gotham sounds a little messed up. I think the patch is supposed to be a Sawtooth, not synth strings.
Nope, it is supposed to have a synth brass drone patch. The sawtooth you mention that is played on the MIDI file normally without extra modification is extra patches meant for the OPL FM Synth.
You're right! I went in and made edits to the MIDIs and it sounds better when I remove tracks that have "FM" at the start of their title (and one unnecessary track titled "GUS Bass" in "Stalker").
o kurwa
Whats the level at 4:40 ???
Second.
Much better than the sc-55
In DUKE NUKEM 3D, When I stand still for a while: "what are you waiting for. Crhistmas?" in DUKE NUKEM forever: "what are you waiting for.. Hanukea?" DUKE NUKEM 3: "what are you waiting for... ID?" 😎
I definitley prefer the shitty general MIDI soundtrack (the generic SoundBlaster version), but that's probably only because that's what I'm used to. This doesn't sound like MIDI at all, it really sounds like a studio quality reproduction of the soundtrack played at some gaming concert or something. It's pretty incredible. It's like you take some hard rocking Sega Genesis track then painstakingly convert it to SNES's SPC format for the express purpose of making it sound like a real band is playing instead of something that sounds like beeps and boops.
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I understand that. The difference in quality is what I was getting at. MIDI is MIDI technically, but the difference between MIDI on a PC using "SoundBlaster compatible" harware (or software emulation) compared to this actual MIDI hardware is not something you can say "It's the same thing". It's technically the same.
If I bought sheet music and read the notes out loud, it's technically the same as a composer using an orchestra to play the notes.
That is to say, it's not at all the fucking same.
No, I got you. I didn't word it very well myself to begin with anyway (I do this alot..), calling them different "versions" when they really are one in the same. MIDIs make me think of classical music, where everyone is playing the same sheet music, but it might still sound a little different at each performance. I'd call it different versions, others would say it's still the same song. I wanna call it a potato/potato issue, but I am pretty off about it anyway.
Incedentelly (or not, I forgot I was replying to DN3D and not DooM), from what I've heard the SNES version of DooM really is a different version. Someone with a better ear for it than me said the SNES one has slightly different arrangements and timings on some tracks.
+Borris G (Totally Goatally) You can actually install software synths and wavetables on Windows that are far better than the crappy included one.
Just compare the default "MS Wavetable Synth" so something like the one on some recent soundblaster cards (like an Audigy 2).
You can actually switch mid-playback on most software players.
(Im currently using the SGM V2.01 Wavetable and its like awakening in a totally different world compared to the Microsoft one)
+Borris G (Totally Goatally) I go with the AWE because it is the best I can afford and was common in the era. I just use the 1MB ROM supplemented with the official synthgs 512K so I get the extra drum kits. It sounds like complete shit and therefore perfect. x3
Of course, an AWE/SB32 (mine) will load the 8MB Creative and 4MB Voice Crystal banks.
Exactly. You should have called it OPL or FM or something along those lines. :)
I would like if there was a way to import this music into Duke 3D itself, without splicing the track. Extreme difference of the terribly compressed original midis that are all lifeless and boring.
SC-55 sounds better imo
THE BIGGIE Z Only for some tracks, since this game had two composers, the man who composed DOOM and Lee Jackson. Lee Jackson uses newer tech, but the DOOM composer used SC-55
@@theobserver4214 Oh! I didn't know that! That DOES explain why some tracks have seemed to sound better on one module than the other.
To be honest, it's nowhere near as good as SC-55, at least for this particular soundtrack.
lyrics of stalkerer!
bwabwabwabwabwabawbwa
(background bwabwabwa starts)
p p, phpahm php mhm pm hpm h
phphphph phbphmm mdfkg pjhhm
(background)
dururururuuruuuruururuUruu
duirudruduruururururu
popupapoupapoupaapupa
pupa
pepera
pupa
pupa
pepera
pupa
(background dog bark idk)
pooorororooooroorooroooroo
dukodkokokok
torotorotorottorot, torto
PAM
pupa pua pepera
PAM
pupa pua pepera
BAM
dururururururaradururararara
(background pupapuerarper backoground)
durdurdufuruddu
BAM
purpup, prurpurpru, pup pupr, rpurpoprup,
purpryupr rupurop
Wtf! I dont get it! You mean the second Level, MUSIC = Stalker ?