This is probably the closest to what mine sounded like. I was young at the time, my dad did the pc building, I had no idea there would be so many differences in one games soundtrack based on soundfonts! Its a shame, everyones individual take on the soundtrack is basically lost to time
Also, the composers of MIDIs use different hardware and synths, so there's no real way to know how a MIDI is supposed to sound the way the composer intended.
This was one of the soundtracks that actually sounds decent with the Creative AWE32/64 sample ROM. I feel that more synth-heavy games do better with the AWE general MIDI sample set - the synth brass sounds pretty neat, the guitars on the other hand sound a little muddy and the French Horn sounds silly. Overall they did pretty well considering the AWE general MIDI ROM was only 1 MB in size so it could fit on low-cost ROM chips in the 90s. It handles music intended for the Roland Sound Canvas decently enough considering it has a much smaller sample size and can't take advantage of sysex commands. I used to use reverb and chorus effects on my old AWE32 to get postprocessing effects more similar to a Roland Sound Canvas or a Yamaha XG MIDI card. Creative/E-MU released a soundfont called 1MGM.SF2 back in the 90s that is nothing but the stock AWE samples in soundfont form for their later Live! series cards which is worth checking out if you like the lo-fi "Advanced Wave Effects" sounds.
@@Coolman6564 So a "spline" is a curve defined by a polygon, and "reticulate" means "to divide", or "to make a network". So "reticulating splines" means... well... It doesn't mean anything. It just sounds tech-y.
***** I was actually hoping you would say emulation... being quite young I never experienced such things for real anyway... so were you actually playing the game while emulating, or was it some sort of rip? I am very interested in trying to get AWE synth music for when I play the game, but DosBOX does not do AWE emulation unfortunately.
Tommy59375 I used a program called BassMIDI to override the default windows soundfont with an AWE style general MIDI soundfont. You should try it. Only works for Windows programs though, not DOS. I have the Windows 95 version of SimCity 2000, and I recorded these songs simply by loading the MIDI files in the install directory to a media player.
+AndrosynthNuclear Thank you so much.. I actually got it to work with DOSBox, by setting music outputs to "General MIDI" when installing the program which usually would just use the Windows 7 synth, but now will go through BassMIDI. Now I can play with AWE for games that don't support GUS.
if only you could here how bad my AWE64 plays that now... sounded good 2 days ago... now it messes up all the midi samples to a garbled mess unless its only using OPL3 chip
The DOS version actually has its own set of midi files tailored to Soundblasters including the AWE32. It uses quite a different set of instruments.
I used to play it on an AWE32. It was great.
9:40 is the best
yes! perfect music for city building in the 90s ;-)
My favourite song :D
Sounds like welcome to tally hall
Some one is a fan of the Subway Song
yes.
This is probably the closest to what mine sounded like. I was young at the time, my dad did the pc building, I had no idea there would be so many differences in one games soundtrack based on soundfonts! Its a shame, everyones individual take on the soundtrack is basically lost to time
We are all living in Sim City.
Also, the composers of MIDIs use different hardware and synths, so there's no real way to know how a MIDI is supposed to sound the way the composer intended.
Simcopter one reporting heavy traffic.
6:00 Virtual Village is my go-to tune.
This was one of the soundtracks that actually sounds decent with the Creative AWE32/64 sample ROM. I feel that more synth-heavy games do better with the AWE general MIDI sample set - the synth brass sounds pretty neat, the guitars on the other hand sound a little muddy and the French Horn sounds silly. Overall they did pretty well considering the AWE general MIDI ROM was only 1 MB in size so it could fit on low-cost ROM chips in the 90s. It handles music intended for the Roland Sound Canvas decently enough considering it has a much smaller sample size and can't take advantage of sysex commands.
I used to use reverb and chorus effects on my old AWE32 to get postprocessing effects more similar to a Roland Sound Canvas or a Yamaha XG MIDI card. Creative/E-MU released a soundfont called 1MGM.SF2 back in the 90s that is nothing but the stock AWE samples in soundfont form for their later Live! series cards which is worth checking out if you like the lo-fi "Advanced Wave Effects" sounds.
My PC back then. Built it myself, once I replaced the Ad Lib sound card with AWE64, the sound is ... wow
Reticulating splines.
I STILL don't know what that means
@@Coolman6564 So a "spline" is a curve defined by a polygon, and "reticulate" means "to divide", or "to make a network". So "reticulating splines" means... well... It doesn't mean anything. It just sounds tech-y.
ZZZZT
music makes me remembering good days.
My favorite track was always 13:08
Me too 😎
best game i ever played
Yep, this is what it sounded like.
I had to listen to this through a crappy PC speaker in my youth /sadface
When I was little I always anxiously tried to skip/toggle the song at 16:38 before 16:42 kicked in.
the first one is very funky and epic
i hated building subway in this game... stupid confusing interfase
13:08 自分用
Did you record this from a real card or through emulation?
+Tommy59375 Emulation, unfortunately. I do have a SimCity 2000 theme song video on my channel that was recorded from an authentic AWE64 however
*****
I was actually hoping you would say emulation... being quite young I never experienced such things for real anyway... so were you actually playing the game while emulating, or was it some sort of rip? I am very interested in trying to get AWE synth music for when I play the game, but DosBOX does not do AWE emulation unfortunately.
Tommy59375 I used a program called BassMIDI to override the default windows soundfont with an AWE style general MIDI soundfont. You should try it. Only works for Windows programs though, not DOS. I have the Windows 95 version of SimCity 2000, and I recorded these songs simply by loading the MIDI files in the install directory to a media player.
+AndrosynthNuclear
Thank you so much.. I actually got it to work with DOSBox, by setting music outputs to "General MIDI" when installing the program which usually would just use the Windows 7 synth, but now will go through BassMIDI. Now I can play with AWE for games that don't support GUS.
+AndrosynthNuclear
But one more question, where did you get this "AWE style" soundfont? Is it simply the default one from the card?
16:50 best
AWE serires are really large sounds. at that time due time lack of money I bought soundblaster Value series instead.
FUTURAMA 3000 :D
very similar to the mac version
if only you could here how bad my AWE64 plays that now... sounded good 2 days ago... now it messes up all the midi samples to a garbled mess unless its only using OPL3 chip