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[FirebrandX]

Hey Kaiser,

Originally I made a digital-to-digital recording of all the Doom music tracks using the PS2's digital optical output, but I got curious about possibly having a midi set much like we've been doing for Doom 64. I found a thread from last year on Doom world where you were talking with 'nat' and his efforts to crack the sound system. What was the final outcome of that?

I can use psound to extract the notes bit-for-bit, and we can even easily make a sound font file from them. The main thing is extracting the midi event instructions.

[Kaiser]

It's very possible. The MIDI format is very much the same except of course the actual PCM data is different (uses DPCM data that's stored in the .LCD files). However because I am kinda overwhelmed with work and of course, Doom64EX, I won't be able to find the time to work on a conversion tool right at this time. But I do want to work on one sometime in the future.

[FirebrandX]

Cool. As I said, we don't even need the LCD files; just the midi data converted is all. From there, I can make a soundfont file in exactly the same way the one EX uses for Doom 64.

[Kaiser]

I am sure it's going to be a pain to make one manually. I'd rather have the tool dump out a soundfont. There's always a bunch of little things that are easily overlooked such as presets, instrument settings, fade in, decay, etc.

[Kaiser]

I've made a tool to extract the WAV data from the .LCD files though it will be a while before I convert the .WMD file to a sound font file. The instrument data is a bit different from the N64 version. MIDI data is exactly the same though.

[Kaiser]

Currently working on a tool (during whatever free time I have available) to spit out a soundfont/midi files from DOOMSND.WMD and .LCD files. Format is pretty simple and not really different from the N64 versions. Values for attack/decay time are different (256 is equivalent to 1.0 so I will need to figure this out with the other values).

I'll provide more info once I can.

[fenderc01]

No rush here, just wondering if there has been any progress on this project.

[Kaiser]

No rush here, just wondering if there has been any progress on this project.

Hey, sorry for the delay.

I stopped due to lack of interest, but I haven't abandoned it yet. Just been busy with other things.

[fenderc01]

No problem. I'm excited to see what you have.

[Kaiser]

I don't have much really. I haven't released any tools yet but I do have some docs/notes. Not TOO different from Doom64's sound library though.

[fenderc01]

I stopped due to lack of interest, but I haven't abandoned it yet. Just been busy with other things.

There are people over at this forum that are interested:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/1110774
It is for the PSX Doom TC