![]() Provided you have a high-quality FM or wavetable/SoundFont synthesizer, the MIDIs sound very good. Mistakes aside, I think SEGA did a pretty good job of converting the Mega Drive soundtrack to PC FM and General MIDI formats. Such issues can be fixed with a MIDI sequencer, but it is pretty sloppy that the MIDIs ended up like that in the final product. The cut notes were possibly introduced by a conversion tool the composers used, as the affected notes happen to be ones that repeat the preceding note. I decided to look through all the MIDIs with a sequencer, and I found several other cases of notes that appear to be mistakenly truncated in the GM version (in the FM version, some cut notes are fully intact while others are missing entirely), although these are less obvious during playback. Thank you from GameBanana 3 Team Sonic Racing - Mods & Resources by the TSR Modding Community. But every month we have large bills Please consider unblocking us. I also noticed a cut note in the lead from Flying Battery Zone Act 1. Team Sonic Racing TSR Mods & Resources Ads keep us online. In the Act 1 boss theme, three of the sustained notes in the opening chords are cut short. Unfortunately, I noticed some oversights in the General MIDI version of the soundtrack (and to a lesser degree, in the FM Synthesizer version). The General MIDI version of the soundtrack makes use of GM and GS features to add enhancements to the songs, such as full instrument panning (instead of just center and hard left/right), additional percussion like cymbals, and different drum kits (if the MIDI synthesizer has GS-compatible drum kits). With the Fat Man patches, some of the FM instruments are similar to the ones heard on Mega Drive, such as the lead synth in the Robotnik/Act 2 Boss theme. Yamaha OP元 GM emulator VSTi with the Fat Man patches works well for the FM Synthesizer version of the soundtrack, while Yamaha S-YXG50 (in GS mode) and Roland Sound Canvas VA are good for the General MIDI version, although SCVA is not free.įor the most part, these official MIDI arrangements are faithful to the Mega Drive songs. I am using Falcosoft SoundFont MIDI Player to listen to the MIDIs. I have been a longtime fan of Sonic & Knuckles Collection (I still have the original CD), and I am glad to have all the MIDIs perfectly extracted for general listening. Correction regarding the description: Tracks 1 through 56 are the FM Synthesizer versions, while 57 and beyond (to 112) are the General MIDI/wavetable synthesizer versions.
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