Harmony: Now with more harmony!

[Jimmy]

Jimmy has been hard at work over the last few months composing a new original MIDI soundtrack for Thomas van der Velden's amazing independent ZDoom-based game project Harmony (with Thomas's permission). Today he has released the unofficial Harmony MIDI pack, a selection of fourteen brand-new tracks composed specifically for replacing the game's somewhat unvaried soundtrack. The pack comes with a WAD file that modifies the game's MAPINFO lump to allow the game to be played with the new MIDIs.

Download the pack here. You will need Harmony v1.1 (the IWAD version that ZDoom recognizes) to run it.

[Phml]

Great news.

You didn't include a .txt in the pack, so I was wondering if you would allow reuse of these MIDIs in other wads.

[Arch-Valentine]

Excuse me for being retarded but I get this when trying to load up the music wad am I doing something wrong?

"Script error, "HarmonyMIDIPack.wad:MAPINFO" line 28:
gameinfo: Unknown top level keyword"

[Julian]

Very nice midi collection.

[hervoheebo]

For a second I thought this news item was related to that fad of a flash game... thank god

[Gez]

Arch-Valentine said:

Excuse me for being retarded but I get this when trying to load up the music wad am I doing something wrong?

"Script error, "HarmonyMIDIPack.wad:MAPINFO" line 28:
gameinfo: Unknown top level keyword"

How old is your ZDoom? The gameinfo block in MAPINFO has been around for a while.

[Arch-Valentine]

Yeah, I made the mistake of trying the music wad with the Harmony.exe. Seems to work fine with just using Zdoom. My bad :(

[Jimmy]

Phml said:

Great news.

You didn't include a .txt in the pack, so I was wondering if you would allow reuse of these MIDIs in other wads.

Thanks. By all means go ahead. :)

(Incidentally, I've added some copyright info to the MIDIs themselves, forbidding the alteration and redistribution of them without prior consent, but this is mainly to stop people potentially claiming them as their own. Reuse in WADs, however, is perfectly fine. :P)

[Scuba Steve]

This really needs to be implemented to work properly with the harmony exe.

[Jimmy]

Okay, I uploaded what should hopefully be an EXE-compatible version of the WAD.

http://jimmy.phenomer.net/wad-files/HarmonyMIDIPack.wad

Still, the Harmony EXE is an outdated version of ZDoom and I find it a lot easier to load it as an IWAD with the ZDoom EXE instead.

[zap610]

Some of these songs are really fucking great. I can't stop listening to them.

[KwadDamyj]

Somehow I find this considerably more fitting than the original songs, partly due to the retro factor of using MIDIs.

Good stuff!

[SyntherAugustus]

The midis make this a lot more enjoyable to play.

[Guest]

Jimmy... you are a music machine.

[Jimmy]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, everyone. :) Highly appreciated.

Just posting a small update.

http://jimmy.phenomer.net/wad-files/HarmonyMIDIPack.wad (WAD File)
http://jimmy.phenomer.net/music-files/HarmonyMIDIPack.zip (Complete zip)

[Jimmy]

Bump.

This is in /incoming now. And a final update has been made:
http://jimmy.phenomer.net/music-files/HarmonyMIDIPack.zip

Also check out the MP3s on YouTube.

:D

[40oz]

very nice!

[Jimmy]

Up on /idgames. :D

Enjoy!