I was wondering how old console (i.e. snes) soundtracks that are sold on CD are recorded; as far as i know the composers would create the song on pc/mac and then hand it over to "programmers" that would then render it in a suitable format for the system. Point is that samples and format they were composed into and different and certainly sound different than what would be included in the game, so recording from the PC/mac midis (or mods or whathever format the composer used) would bring out a different sound than that on Real Hardware. Talking about Real hardware it would be possible to record them from real hardware but it doesn't seem such an "efficient" way or high quality enough... Also in case of old hardware i doubt there was a good enough way of emulation for recordings. Anyone has any idea about this? Or maybe picture of ome special exotic dedicated hardware they might have used? karsten
i've always wondered this, got a few ST's as fla/wav/pcm. (dumped from my cd's) i would think either a development machine of some kind (with a tracker/raw sampler running in background) OR the studio decks have the relative/custom hardware integrated? (the console audio controllers/midi banks) maybe even studio tone banks like a roland or yamaha shelf stacker? i've noticed NO better quality over original game music playback (when played from the option/config menu) or as a cd (or 1/1 image convert) ... good thread, would like to know what the score is there, searches turn up zilch...probably crap search terms?! ... hope an answer lands on this thread at some point. :smile-new:
I have a few old chip tune CD soundtracks. The really old ones are just recorded direct from the actual machines, especially arcade stuff by Sega. My Technosoft Elemental Master disc sounds like a Mega Drive but at a cleaner sample rate. Maybe they do use sound emulation or because there's no need to worry about memory restrictions (the reason why many games have muffled sound) they just use uncompressed samples? I really don't know but it is an interesting topic.
I haven't checked around but I do have Sonic CD soundtrack which is from the Sega CD game. And Super MNario 64 sound track. Lastly, Majora Mask sound track as well, the re-issue from Club Nintendo last year and not the original (and stupidly expensive) issue.
I wonder if any user here has some weird hardware related to this topic, there might be some external devices like this homemade one: http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/snes_apu/snes_apu_en.php
^^ good find, thanks for posting link! :smile-new: [edit] did a search on the yamaha audio controller for the megadrive... ^^ looks to be software for creating ST's via chip emulation? and this, looks to be hardware... ^^ old, and two of the videos are visible... :smile-new:
