Changing music

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Does this also go for dissassemblies? From what I understand, it looks like each song and all that have to be actually coded into the game instead of say, finding a midi, or mod or what ever, and "importing" it.

 

If you want to "import" MIDI or MOD files, you can convert them to the XM format and then use XM2SMPS or XM3SMPS.

 

One question - How in the hell do you convert to XM?

 

If you want to convert MOD/IT/S3M to XM, you can use MOD2XM.
but if you want to convert a MIDI to XM, use ModPlugTracker.

 

Bah, I could never get QX to work.

Also, I keep getting a MSCOMC2.ocx error, when I clearly have it in my system32, system AND the folder with xm3smps in it, and it still won't work. Anyone able to help with this?

 

One quetion - how do you get xm music into Sonic 2 (if possible)

 

For a simple way, you can port over the Sonic 1 sound driver over to S2, which would allow you to put songs from S1 in.

 

I worked on doing that all day yesterday with no luck

 

I think there is a converter that lets you convert music provided they are in the right format, just let me check.

Here it is

 

ModPlug tracker does a terrible job of MIDI to XM conversion. I used to have a much better tool years ago. I'll see if I can dig it up.

 

Surprisingly, you can get ModPlug Tracker to import almost all MIDIs perfectly if you change the MIDI's tempo to 120 with "MIDI Orchestrator Plus" (doesn't work with any other MIDI editors, for whatever weird reason).

 

Bit of a bump, but thanks to Tweaker I found the tool. It's called GMid2Mod.
http://www.sonicresearch.org/util_archive/MID2MOD.rar
Eduardo Knuckles tested the XMs with xm3smps and they worked fine.

Some midis I converted with it
http://jmuz.net/ghz.xm
http://jmuz.net/sa_dc_12.xm

 

I remember nineko specifically telling me they would not work well due to how they're internally structured. If they do work, they must be horribly structured in-game, and nowhere near as accurate as it could (or should) be.

 

Well ModPlug fails at quantizing the notes well. So it's a choice between either a bad internal structure or just sounding like it has a fluctuating tempo I guess. Eduardo seemed pretty pleased with the results though but I haven't tried it out myself just yet.

 

Could someone explain why I'm getting a 404 on the link?

 

Oops sorry, fixed. Not sure what happened there.

 

The problem is that gmid2mod pretty much randomizes the instrument placement. You can have, say, a snare drum, a guitar, and a trumpet followed by another guitar on the same channel. It also uses a much larger amount of channels than it should need. I mean, come on! Do you really need 16 channels plus a tempo of 250/1 for green hill zone?

MID2XM is a much better option, though it takes a while to configure it to output things how you'd want them for xm3smps.