doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Now I adore Midi's, but I cant ever find any good ones. Only ones used with a piano program and I don't like the sound. Doom Midi's however sound amazing. And I cant seem to find a way to find Midi's that sound like they came from Doom. Anyone know a website to find some good Doom like Midi's? 0 Share this post Link to post
Misty Posted October 8, 2017 Every midi can sound differently with soundfonts. Duke Nukem 3D soundtrack could fit in your request, I guess. 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted October 8, 2017 Most of the good ones are made by Doom fans. You could try lifting the ones you like from wads you downloaded. If you release a map with it, be sure to credit the original creator or the wad you got it from. 2 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted October 8, 2017 Best advice I can give: listen to A LOT of midis, because most of them are either extremely primitive or totally non-Doomy. For example, you can download the whole vgmusic.com archive and play 10 midis a day. After a few months you should have some decent stuff picked. As 40oz said, other wads can be good sources as well. 4 Share this post Link to post
doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Nice ideas guys. Theirs 2 WADS I found that have Midi's i want. Zdaemon City and Doom center. You can choose what songs you want as well in those WADS so its really helpful! 0 Share this post Link to post
Tristan Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) Expanding on what 40oz said, PRIMEVAL is one of the Doom community musicians who sticks quite close to the style of the original Doom soundtracks. His Doom wiki page has a list of WADs he's written music for. Mark Klem of Memento Mori/Requiem/etc fame was probably the biggest name back in the 90s, he also did a good number of cool songs, so those are some WADs to look at for sure. Not so close to the Bobby Prince sound I guess, but being involved with so many classic WADs, his work is iconic enough to be thrown in with "oldschool" Doom music, for lack of a better description. By the way, I was assuming by "Doom MIDIs" you specifically meant the original games, but maybe I've misunderstood? 5 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) See if anything I've picked up fits here. Contains originals from Eris Falling, Jimmy, Stewboy, Deadwing and other content from mostly Doom stuff. Get 7-Zip to open the 7z file. Edited October 8, 2017 by Glaice 1 Share this post Link to post
doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Thanks! Ill download it and look around! 0 Share this post Link to post
doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Tried to click it and it said DNS cannot be found and it gives me other links to try. 0 Share this post Link to post
doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Hey man, sorry for being a pest but how would you listen to the files? it comes in a ZDoom data file and it just runs normal Doom 1 and 2. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted October 8, 2017 You can use slade3 to extract midi lumps for easy listening. If they're Mus format, there's a program (can't remember what it's called, damn..) that converts them to midi. I love the plutonia midi pack and exec.wad soundtrack, among many many others. Hell Revealed 2 as well! 1 Share this post Link to post
doomslayer11122 Posted October 8, 2017 Just now, Doomkid said: You can use slade3 to extract midi lumps for easy listening. Thanks for the tip! 0 Share this post Link to post
SOSU Posted October 8, 2017 10 minutes ago, Doomkid said: If they're Mus format, there's a program (can't remember what it's called, damn..) that converts them to midi. slade3 can convert MUS to MIDI if i remember correctly 2 Share this post Link to post
Tristan Posted October 8, 2017 Correct, you can do this by right clicking on a MUS file and it's in the Audio option at the bottom. 1 Share this post Link to post
SOSU Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) Also I recommend remembering the authors name of midis you really like on vgmusic since they do consistent work (Jay Richards comes to mind will all of his great midis) 1 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) The majority of the music in the PK3 archive I linked/uploaded up above is in MIDI format. For those curious, the "Original tracks" subdirectory is a list of content from Laura's MIDI Heaven, which I had the fortune of able to download what I enjoyed before that site vanished. I do plan on expanding the PK3 size to be one of those "One in all" type archives for easy access for mappers. 1 Share this post Link to post
silentzorah Posted October 9, 2017 1 hour ago, SOSU said: Also I recommend remembering the authors name of midis you really like on vgmusic since they do consistent work (Jay Richards comes to mind will all of his great midis) *Reichard 1 Share this post Link to post
therektafire Posted October 9, 2017 In your opinion what is the best midi editor (now daw)? On my phone I have a daw called caustic 3 that I would try to make midis with but the midi export is pretty terrible as I cant seem to find a way to specify what bank each synth should export to so everything except the drum machine exports as piano... 0 Share this post Link to post