Releasing my first MIDI — free to use in your projects!



► DOWNLOAD: Google Drive Archive


▌ FEATURES

Style: Middle Eastern flavor · Futuristic · Storytelling arc
Length: 4 minutes
Key: Phrygian Dominant in F
Genre: Progressive electronic


▌ THE STORY BEHIND IT

Making my first MIDI track, I wanted to do something inventive right out of the gate. This one won't fit classic Doom — but for creative projects it's exactly the right vibe. I picture it somewhere in a final battle of a megawad.

I ran into a ton of technical headaches along the way — the track has over 40 instruments that I had to elegantly swap between each other (General MIDI only supports 16 channels, after all). The main challenge was pulling off sound design and emulating real modular synthesis using nothing but MIDI editing tools, which I abused mercilessly.

The arrangement was inspired by DBP39, so it'll sit naturally in detailed maps with a Middle Eastern theme.

I work as a film composer and have been making advanced electronic music for years — and that's exactly the style I wanted to bring into MIDI format. For my usual work this is a pretty standard track; for Doom it's something new. If I keep going in this format I won't be making arrangements this complex again — they're a nightmare to adapt across different soundfonts.

Arranged in Ableton Live 12, recorded via LoopMIDI into Reaper, played back through Virtual MIDI Synth.


▌ TECHNICAL INFO & HOW TO USE

The track is timbrally and instrumentally very diverse, so perfectly balancing it across all soundfonts is technically impossible — but I did everything I could. For the original intended sound, use Timbres of Heaven.

The archive contains 2 MIDI files:
- Timbres of Heaven edition — more voices (50)
- Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth edition — fewer layers (32), for maximum compatibility

Also included — 4 rendered audio files:
- Two mastered versions (Timbres of Heaven and Microsoft GS) for best sound quality
- Two raw versions for better blending with other MIDI tracks — use these if you're worried about compatibility across soundfonts

All versions are trimmed to loop cleanly. The archive also includes the soundfonts that sound decent with this MIDI.

I strongly recommend bundling Timbres of Heaven directly into your wad.


▌ RIGHTS

You can use this track in any of your projects however you like — I'll be genuinely happy if you find a use for it. Please credit me as the author so other people can find me for collaborations.

If you want to claim it for an ambitious project, hit me up in DMs. I'm open to adapting it to your specific soundfont.

Thanks for listening! Feel free to share what the track makes you feel. I'd ask you not to be too brutal with the criticism — I'd rather not take emotional damage and lose motivation to keep working in this format.

AFAIK they've already been working on gzdoom for years anyway so this development means gzdoom has now detransitioned. However, the allegedly based German chud lost interest in his project after the posse left. OTOH, all the people complaining about their awesome.wad being broken with the latest gzdoom release won't have to worry about that happening any time soon.

GoG, Steam, Epic, Microsoft store

Come on, try harder, everyone. I'll take even, let's say... 3 out of 4.

In a very rough spot in my life and I'm playing this now. Thank you guys for letting me occupy myself with these great maps

Jesus. Lolcowworld.

Finally gotten around to completing Episode 3 (for my YouTube channel) a fantastic reimagining of E1-E3, there's some missing textures in E3M4 & 5 but this was one of the most fun Doom Wads I've played in a long time!

We got lucking with Doom 2016 and Eternal. Maybe it would be better to stop there. I just can't see good FPS in these "diverse" times in game development.

Bought out? New ownership? I thought skulltag closed years ago.

There's butt guns here, i see... Ok, i'm sold! Hope to do something for It this time, it's again for Boom compatible right?

Absolutely! Of which only Cyberdemon(s) are present in every Fun level including "Panic" (The Lost Levels).

Scoreboard
switchblade - 1 point

Q2. Which online stores offer the 2020 Doom 64 remaster for the PC?

Cyberdemon, mancubus, arachnotron and nightmare imp.

i only know how to dry apples
cool

Amazing! You guys have been consistently making primo stuff.

For the first time, salted vomer (selena) fish was brought to our store. I dried it and got a vobla for beer!

Mayonnaise is the second bread!

Good god, they need to censor that thing STAT.

Since I've played Doom 64 earlier this year, I've decided, impromptu and out-of-the-blue to bring the quiz game back and focus on Doom 64, before I forget everything about the game.

It may be difficult to come up with an unlimited supply of questions on just this one game, so this round will be limited to 21 answered questions.

The normal rules apply - please do not look up the answer, one answer per round per participant unless instructed otherwise, no more than two points in a row by the same player. Consult the first post of the thread for details.

Q1. List all the monsters that may be found in the 'Fun' levels of Doom 64.

I like white bread with mayonnaise and cheese
Edit:
And coffee with hot water

i'm still around. i'm still kicking. much to yall's chagrin.