Rousing Roland Sound Recorded (November 5, 2011)

ChrisReid

ChrisReid

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Mau1wurf1977 recently recorded a series of videos that show off the beautiful Roland MT-32 audio of the original Wing Commander. The authentic MT-32 hardware that played the WC1 music in its highest quality has always been a little hard to come by, and only recently have attempts to emulate it started to pan out. If you're one of the majority of players that only used a SoundBlaster, give these YouTubes a listen!



I have several Roland MIDI modules and recorded all the tunes from Wing Commander in the highest quality possible.
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Original update published on November 5, 2011
 
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Wow, this news bit came out on my birthday! Sorry to bring an old thread back to life but I did a search for Roland to see if this wasn't already posted somewhere else. However since the topic fits:

Crawling around on YouTube I discovered a comparison video for Sound Blaster vs Roland MT-32 for the Wing Commander 2 intro. Uploaded by one Dilandau3000.

Makes me want to play WC 1 and 2 all over again. I almost feel cheated using Sound Blaster emulation in DOSBOX.
 
The various soundtracks use the Roland, so people have probably heard it... but it's pretty jarring when you compared them directly, too!

MT-32s are readily available, too, for less than a hundred bucks... if you want a great Wing Commander experience, they're worth the money!
 
Munt the emulator for mt32 has reached v1.1 and has made huge strides in accuracy. They have an external QT based program that can be patched into either winmidi, alsa or coremidi. compiling can be tricky and requires cmake.

https://github.com/munt/munt

With that and working with whatever midi system installed on your OS you can hook that up to dosbox.

Either that or you can use taewoongs build of dosbox which uses a slightly older code but still very good.

For OSX I have asked the author of boxer to update to the latest munt sources which he did and is in the git. But as of now need to be compiled. However the munt code in the last stable build is also very good.
 
The copy of dosbox that is build into Dfend is a normal .74 build. So not by default. But Dfend has the option to us any dosbox install. Just go to one of the option menus and tell it where the install is and it will use it. You can also use multiple installs if you want. Taewoong's build is highly recommend and with Dfend; you can turn on and manage some of the extra CVS features with ease.
 
Red Baron said:
And to think how sought-after Kilrathi Saga was just for its digital music. This sounds MUCH better.
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The music was a real bonus to me back when I bought KS. To this day I still like to sit in the Victory's rec room and listen to the jazz. Roland sound is like night vs day to a Soundblaster. A capable and intuitive MT-32 emulation is highly desired.
 
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