Not to sound disrespectful, but MIDI tracks don't quite add up to something as clean sounding (if you will) as a high quality recreated soundtrack or a direct (but flawed) rip from the film.
With a proper sequencer/composition synth you can take a MIDI file, do the proper programming, and spit out something that sounds very much like a real song. It's just a preprogrammed series of notes that are interpreted by an application, in that case, the hardware of a synthesizer.
Neither MIDI currently online is accurate anyway (South Island Theme and Land of Darkness theme) since they're missing key instruments anyway or blatantly ignore particular notes.
But yes, this is a recurring topic throughout the years, but one where people never really get the initiative to actually do something about it, and I don't mean pander to Sega or whoever to release the soundtrack. I very much doubt the songs exist cleanly and officially at this point. Best bet is for fans, especially those good with MIDI composition and possibly something like Fruity Loops to take a crack as close to a 1:1 organization of the soudtrack.
All I can say is that the OVA DVD release does have a generic theme from the movie in clear quality for many of the menus. But as Trunks pointed out, the company that did them has been burned down so many times that it likely doesn't exist there anymore either.
Now that the team of musicians behind Sonic After The Sequel has finished the soundtrack, perhaps one of them would be up for attempting to do this? I'm not sure if mine has the free time to be able to tackle it herself.
I found my own sequence of the South Island theme. I need to find an old memory card reader I should have lying around here somewhere, then I can at least get it posted online (or cleaned up a tad if need be). I'll work on doing that tomorrow.
Look-a-like was not released. It was poorly reconstructed by fans. I'd love to have this OST though.
I know the ADR director for the english dub, but that was back at Monster Island Studios, and that company has been burned to the ground three times now. There's no way the recordings still exist.
You mean this one?
I don't quite remember this full version being in the film itself. Are you absolutely sure? :/
This post has been edited by Indigo Rush: 16 June 2013 - 10:33 PM
Yes, the "extended" version is a fan edit. You can hear it snap where the sections were pasted together every now and then. I remember talking with Tweaker about it a few years back when just chatting about music and being somewhat disappointed a proper full version doesn't exist. Not like it's a TERRIBLE attempt (you can do far worse hack jobs in Audacity), but it has some compositional choices in its arrangement that are questionable.
Putting it in a not so snobbish way, it lacks flow.
Think I snagged a "remix" track I found from somewhere that seemed like the artist restored a good portion of South Island before it goes on and does its own thing. I don't think that's what anyone here is looking for but it was the highest quality I have ever heard South Island.
EDIT: Welp it was the first thing I found typing in South Island Remix. I don't think this is what anyone was looking for though.
This post has been edited by Tiller: 17 June 2013 - 10:30 AM
Here's my South Island MIDI, fixed up very slightly. If anyone else is good with transcribing, feel free to take a stab at the techno percussion.
I sequenced this years ago when I was on Windows XP, and the MIDI program I used back then is incompatible with 7. I'm still running a trial version of Mixcraft which does everything but save your work, and I just haven't had a real need to upgrade yet.
If this link isn't working, or if anyone else wants to host the file or whatever, let me know.
This post has been edited by Ch1pper: 17 June 2013 - 11:12 AM
Neither MIDI currently online is accurate anyway (South Island Theme and Land of Darkness theme) since they're missing key instruments anyway or blatantly ignore particular notes.
But yes, this is a recurring topic throughout the years, but one where people never really get the initiative to actually do something about it, and I don't mean pander to Sega or whoever to release the soundtrack. I very much doubt the songs exist cleanly and officially at this point. Best bet is for fans, especially those good with MIDI composition and possibly something like Fruity Loops to take a crack as close to a 1:1 organization of the soudtrack.
All I can say is that the OVA DVD release does have a generic theme from the movie in clear quality for many of the menus. But as Trunks pointed out, the company that did them has been burned down so many times that it likely doesn't exist there anymore either.
You say there is a generic theme in the menus for the DVD. Do you mean just one track or different tracks in different parts of the menus? If so, maybe someone could rip it from the DVD?
I could see if my composer is willing to recreate Land of Darkness / Land of the Sky in her spare time. She often takes side requests from me since we're good at collaborating on things; We would just need a fairly accurate MIDI instrumentation first.
It's far from perfect, but I took a stab at it years ago. I'm almost entirely certain the strings track is wrong in spots.
Neither MIDI currently online is accurate anyway (South Island Theme and Land of Darkness theme) since they're missing key instruments anyway or blatantly ignore particular notes.
But yes, this is a recurring topic throughout the years, but one where people never really get the initiative to actually do something about it, and I don't mean pander to Sega or whoever to release the soundtrack. I very much doubt the songs exist cleanly and officially at this point. Best bet is for fans, especially those good with MIDI composition and possibly something like Fruity Loops to take a crack as close to a 1:1 organization of the soudtrack.
All I can say is that the OVA DVD release does have a generic theme from the movie in clear quality for many of the menus. But as Trunks pointed out, the company that did them has been burned down so many times that it likely doesn't exist there anymore either.
You say there is a generic theme in the menus for the DVD. Do you mean just one track or different tracks in different parts of the menus? If so, maybe someone could rip it from the DVD?
It's that one theme from when they're just panning the camera around that city outside the Presidential Palace near the beginning of the first half. It's either that theme or a part of Look-a-Like.
It's that one theme from when they're just panning the camera around that city outside the Presidential Palace near the beginning of the first half. It's either that theme or a part of Look-a-Like.
I'll check.
EDIT:
Main menu plays the start of Look-A-Like.
"Scene Index" plays the music from the part when they are going to the President like Gene said.
"Language Selection" plays another part of Look-A-Like ("I was born...").
"Special Features" once again plays the music from the part when they are going to the President.
"A.D.V. Previews" plays the same music as "Language Selection".
And that is it.
This post has been edited by JaxTH: 17 June 2013 - 06:35 PM
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Paradigm, on 15 June 2013 - 10:02 PM, said:
