Changing instruments used in MIDI files

[GlebyGlobster]

Hi. I'm creating my first map pack, and i'm not too skilled with composing music or just midi files in general. i have a specific song i want to use in a level, but it doesn't use the doom instruments. is there any steps i could take to fix this? thank you in advance.

[plums]

What do you mean it doesn't use the Doom instruments? Is it a midi file? Are you playing it through Windows' MIDI, OPL emulation, a soundfont, something else?

It would help if you posted the song in question.

[KCLaz]

58 minutes ago, GlebyGlobster said:

i have a specific song i want to use in a level

 

I'm guessing this would be a .mid file, yes?

 

58 minutes ago, GlebyGlobster said:

it doesn't use the doom instruments.

 

if it IS a .mid file, it's likely that your system's soundfonts just sound (slightly) different. I know you were able to change this on Win9x, as well as on modern systems. Here's a link to a StackExchange post about changing your midi wavetable (the set of instruments) on Windows 10. I hope that helps a bit! 

 

 

[Herr Dethnout]

1 hour ago, GlebyGlobster said:

i have a specific song i want to use in a level, but it doesn't use the doom instruments.

What you mean with this?

I think that you need to explain better that. :/

[GlebyGlobster]

hi. i apologize for the inconvenience. last time i tried to add a midi it sounded all weird and out of place. my bad, it fixed itself. don't know why it did that