Does anyone know what tools Bobby Prince used to make music for doom

[MoreMending]

I must know what kind of legendary application this musical genius used to make the masterpieces used in the hit games DOOM (1993) and DOOM II (1994)

I want to make funny doom music

Edited September 14, 2022 by MoreMending

[Gregor]

Roland SC-55

[MoreMending]

thank you

[Herr Dethnout]

Well, the music is just midi, so you can use one of the thousands of midis editors on internet (Personal favorite: Domino)

About the software used, probably a propetary, one in order to make the music into .MUS format after searching 2 secs on google, he used Sequencer Plus Gold and later converted to .MUS(a outaded format since Doom can play plain midis without format wizardry) lol

Also, keep in mind that he used a Roland SC-55mkII (along with a Ensoniq EPS) when composing the ost, so he made it with that module hardware in mind (There's thousands of soundfonts with more or less accuracy or you can use SCVA vst too although is not accurate)

btw, you can watch this post made by Lee Jackson (Ignore my shameless thread self promotion) about the music of Shadow Warrior, although is not related to Bobby Prince, it can give you a idea of what software vgm composers used in the 90's

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2543015

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[Murdoch]

  On 9/14/2022 at 12:14 AM, Gregor said:

Roland SC-55

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Sounds about right. Perhaps @leejacksonaudio might have something else to add?

[Herr Dethnout]

Just remembered that he has a inactive blog and he talked about his music software in the 90's 

[Zothique]

You can use something open-source like TuxGuitar to make "heavy metal" MIDI music a-la Doom if you know how to read guitar tab worth a shit.

 

I've got to admit, though, I've always wondered how they made music for these games back in the day... 

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[Murdoch]

  On 9/14/2022 at 1:26 AM, Zothique said:

You can use something open-source like TuxGuitar to make "heavy metal" MIDI music a-la Doom if you know how to read guitar tab worth a shit.

 

I've got to admit, though, I've always wondered how they made music for these games back in the day... 

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Am sure Lee will be able to provide much insight when he hopefully sees this thread.

[Herr Dethnout]

  On 9/14/2022 at 1:26 AM, Zothique said:

You can use something open-source like TuxGuitar to make "heavy metal" MIDI music a-la Doom if you know how to read guitar tab worth a shit.

 

I've got to admit, though, I've always wondered how they made music for these games back in the day... 

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You can see the links I shared above. Lee and Prince explained that they used mostly Cakewalk (In the case of Lee still using to this day) during his time composing for games along with the Roland's MIDI Modules. They used other software as they explained too. 

In the thread above he give a lot of info about his gear and Shadow Warrior OST.

[leejacksonaudio]

Bobby was a Cakewalk genius. He programmed macros in Cakewalk's CAL programming language which I still use to this day. I don't know what he used before he fell into the Cakewalk camp, but at the time I knew him, he was a Cakewalk user.

[PsychEyeball]

If you just want to create MIDI music, you don't need to buy a Roland SC-55 mkII or anything fancy. Just download either Sekaiju or Cakewalk by Bandlab. You can make music using the primitive Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth bundled with every Windows install or soundfonts.

 

But yeah, Cakewalk has been a house name for a long time in music making. Remember seeing an old copy of Cakewalk Home Studio installed on my uncle's computer way, way back and that was my first gateway into composing. Good times. It feels that in the 90s, if you were dabbling in MIDI, you either would use Cakewalk or Cubase.