I knew I should’ve paid extra and gotten the Sound Blaster!
saturn8601 6 hours ago [-]
Thats Ad Lib type music no?
tadfisher 4 hours ago [-]
Sound Blaster is an Ad Lib (Yamaha OPL2) that mixes in a PCM stream
amatecha 5 hours ago [-]
Ah man, hell no :( The music in DOOM was such a huge influence on me. I had the Macintosh version which IIRC had the .mid files alongside the game, so I hung onto those and listened to them outside of the game quite frequently. I was just a kid at the time, and later on when I discovered bands like Pantera, Slayer, Judas Priest etc. I suddenly "got" all the references (not previously having known they were references/iterations on those bands' songs)! Great memories. RIP \m/
It's amazing how much better all these sound to me in OPL2.
When CD-ROM soundtracks because the norm it really ruined a lot of game music for me, because all that chip music perhaps inspired by guitar and orchestral music just ended up being replaced with actual guitar and orchestral music, and then games just ended up sounding like movies and it's like what even is the point?
From my side I remember painstakingly transposing Led Zeppelin into an 8 bit tracker when I was a kid and being thrilled at how much more exciting the 3-channel square wave interpration sounded, and pretty much from that point on my guitar just became something to noodle out a riff prior to inputting to the computer.
gryson 9 minutes ago [-]
Huh? Those are the original MIDI versions of the music, which is how Bobby Prince composed them on a Roland SC-55. There is no more authentic sound.
I doubt anyone in 1993 thought the OPL2 version of the music sounded better. General MIDI was mind-blowing in comparison.
bombcar 7 hours ago [-]
NEDM, Prince.
The sound of Doom was a big part of why it was so immersive, and everyone focuses on the mobs and gunshots (there's some pretty cool positional audio for the time), but the music really played a big part of the whole atmosphere.
gnarbarian 5 hours ago [-]
he had great taste in metal. most of the tracks were adapted (now classic) speed/thrash metal.
nailer 5 hours ago [-]
Yep. The Doom 1 demo theme is Painkiller by Judas Priest
Shame. E1M8 (Sign of Evil) is still a great metal tune
xnx 3 hours ago [-]
Today I learned that he also did (all of?) the sound effects for Doom.
RIP (and tear)
MikeShah 4 hours ago [-]
I've been teaching my students for years about sound and music, and I always showcase Bobby Prince's work. Here's a fun clip of him playing in the early days: https://youtu.be/9w3yoIOK-9U?is=alZLs2OSL8pJ7JEQ
ChrisArchitect 10 hours ago [-]
RIP Legend.
Neat that just last month the Library of Congress added the Doom soundtrack to its registry too
Pulled out my guitar to play the Duke Nukem theme and At Doom's Gate (...uh, minus those runs...)
bitwize 6 hours ago [-]
Hell put in a special petition to heaven to at least borrow him for a bit—not to torture him, mind, but to retain him to score their official soundtrack.
momoraul 6 hours ago [-]
At Doom's Gate has been stuck in my head for decades. RIP.
One of my favorite videos (and songs) sang by Bobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3yoIOK-9U (Eat Your Vegetables)
RIP. You will be missed Bobby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UgvFSV2xxI
When CD-ROM soundtracks because the norm it really ruined a lot of game music for me, because all that chip music perhaps inspired by guitar and orchestral music just ended up being replaced with actual guitar and orchestral music, and then games just ended up sounding like movies and it's like what even is the point?
From my side I remember painstakingly transposing Led Zeppelin into an 8 bit tracker when I was a kid and being thrilled at how much more exciting the 3-channel square wave interpration sounded, and pretty much from that point on my guitar just became something to noodle out a riff prior to inputting to the computer.
I doubt anyone in 1993 thought the OPL2 version of the music sounded better. General MIDI was mind-blowing in comparison.
The sound of Doom was a big part of why it was so immersive, and everyone focuses on the mobs and gunshots (there's some pretty cool positional audio for the time), but the music really played a big part of the whole atmosphere.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0L7zm6afBEtrNKo6C6Gj08
RIP (and tear)
Neat that just last month the Library of Congress added the Doom soundtrack to its registry too
https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-in...
F.
Such a good composer for all of those games I can remember those songs still.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qVn6C6uiFo0
A Visit to id Software (November 1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpEBUV_g9vU
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600671)