A thought occurred to me. Does anyone know if classic EQ loaded it's own soundfont into the AWE32? Games like Final Fantasy 7 supported this feature of the card.
And I stumbled across a Sound On Sound article from 1994 about the AWE32:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994...lasterawe.html
Where'd you find the AWE32 SoundFont? I'd like to play around with it in Live
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I've also run across a thread from 2009 with people trying to get the AWE32 sound of Doom working, and weren't having much luck with any SoundFonts
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] They speculated, and from what I've read on the AWE32 they are correct, that the physical card itself has a onboard sounds to pull from, too.
We might have to rely on Mg and his AWE64 for the most accurate results.
**edit** I did find this:
http://my.opera.com/Silverspring/hom...ming%201.5.zip
Supposedly a SoundFont made by someone for playing old games. downloading it now just to see. And it is not the file you are looking for =/
**edit 2** but this might be. Experimenting with Live+Kontakt now.
http://my.opera.com/Silverspring/blo...awe-rom-gm-set
ugh it keeps crashing Live. Fail.
**edit tree** I just had an "oh shit" moment. I just played the Kelethin MIDI file and it sounded very, very good. Admittedly not exactly like the AWE32 clip posted on page 1 (the string pads aren't as lush or prominent, imo), but DAMNED better than the "other soundcard" clip. details to come.
**edit four** ugh DropBox is taking FOREVER to upload this little MP3. fastest it was moving was 12.8KBps but it's been hovering around 1-3KBps... my internet is NOT this slow =/ Patience...
**Final edit of this post I swear**
Here it is:
Kelethin - Dry, no added reverb from me anyway
Apparently OS X has a nice MIDI soundset. I routed audio from it's preview player and into Ableton Live, recorded it and then exported and converted to a 192kbps MP3. The AWE32 pizzicato is more plucky and sharp, the strings are more prominent and lively, the bass is a little weak, so this isn't quite there yet, but I guess a decent step.
**edit 6** I lied, another edit. One thing I noticed while doing this, is that the AWE32 Kelethin posted on page one is the Kelethin.MID while the "craptacular soundcard" version uses the KelethinFull.MID which has some REALLY cheesy sounding solo lines in it, I guess a MIDI clarinet or oboe or something.
**edit 7** post is getting long... but here's the
EQ Theme as performed by the OS X MIDI soundset. I'm listening to Ak'Anon right now
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What troubles me, though, is those cursed xmi files and the seemingly random number of mp3 files as well. It's like some are going to play MIDI, some songs are mp3 and it's somewhat annoying.