Hello, I am Stéphane Picq, composer of the DUNE game OST in 1992, with Philippe Ulrich for the album. Thanks to DOS Nostalgia for this upload! * NEW* Dune Spice Opera 2024 Remaster is now available for download in 96/24 Hi-res Audio Digital Album! BONUS GAME OST dual soundcards (AdlibGold-RolandMT32) included! Modern tools allowed significant improvement of stereo field, as expanded frequency spectrum and unprecedented dynamic response.
Bonjour Stephane, j'ai ecouté pas mal de version du spice opera dispo sur le mec, et le coté retro des SoundBlaster et OPL3 parle toute de suite a ma mémoire ! la version 2024 est sympa, mais non je prefere l'ancienne !
We loved this music SO MUCH STEPHANE PICQ , more people need to hear this haunting mastery you made. Can we get it on Spotify or add to posts on instagram ? ❤❤❤❤
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That classic sounds are driving me in a far away place. So atmospheric. So simple and yet so effective. Something that modern music scores in games can't do it for me. Maybe I am snob, or maybe it's that oldschool graphics/music however dated they look today, can somehow drive our imagination.
If you love this album, try listening the OST for the Privateer and for the Borderlands. Both are available on youtube. Both have the same incredibly high level of refinement.
There is something more to this that most oldschool music doesn't have, though. The Adlib Gold's surround sound module really adds another layer of depth and reverb in the sound that I think might be unique to this soundtrack. (The AdLib Gold itself was sadly a flop.)
I think when you didn't have all the modern bells and whistles, zillions of channels and layers of instruments, you had to come up with clear ideas and melodies. Nowadays it's more of churning generics and hiding behind bombastic formless "epic" productions which nobody won't remember a day later. Not saying there is no great stuff anymore though.
"Big thanks to the original uploader." You're welcome. :) It's still on my to-do list to re-capture these at 24-bit/48kHz, and make the WAV files available afterward.
do 16 bit & will sound better = less jitter. Don't do some crazy $hit like record at 48 then resample to something else not evenly divisible = sounds jaggy & $hit.
For the seven years old me of that time, this game... both the graphic design and soundtrack were almost like seeing and hearing my favourite book. Couldn't stop whistling the tunes, ended up shaping my childhood in ways I could never had imagined. Thanks for uploading this, the quality of this particular recording is unmatched by the other videos i've found :)
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Tamás Polgar, I am just sad it will all be lost or no one would bother to find it a decade from now. Much like the makers Westwood :( Were humans made to forget things in the end?
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The material world is temporary, everything is lost here. The material beauty you're trying to cling to, including this music, is merely a glimpse of God's perfection. Strive towards Him and you'll get not only this, but all the happiness in your forthcoming lives. Hare Krshna.
@@niceanddestroyed Gotta disagree with you there. This version has a lot more subtle little nuances and the availability of more sound channels gives it much more of an eerie, alien sound. It's a joy to listen to with headphones. I understand personal preference is personal preference, though. The soundtrack is masterfully crafted either way.
@@DaVince21 I might have listen too quickly to give the right opinion. Still, I am not very fan of the reverb of the Adlib Gold. My personal preference might be also due to that human constant problem : when you listen to a music that you will like a lot, only this version will be the good one to your ears..
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I still remember that time: I just had bought a soundblaster and connected big Stereo-Boxes to it and then I started that game...It blew my mind. Btw I once got hold of the remastered midi-files in even better quality. There the sound was even better...
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They are not samples, but OPL3 synth fm sounds... The remastered "Dune Spice Opera" album features also dual-sound card (adlib Gold - MT 32) dynamic rendering of the full OST in hi-res Audio 96/24, spectrally enhanced with wider stereo, expanded sound spectrum, boosted dynamics, the best vesrion of this!
It really is better than the Roland MT-32 version...which is incredible. *Typically*, if the MT-32 version is available, it'll be the best version of it available. But now in this case ...
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Beautiful, thank you. This game had such a wonderful soundtrack. The new-agey compositions mixed with spacey synth tones fits Dune's dreamy, psychedelic and spiritual take on sci-fi well.
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"Dune Variation" has to be my favorite, there is something the adlib version captures very well. The original audio CD by exxos (dune spice opera) is also very good, but these bring back the memories fo the game very well.
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I've always clicked off old game videos and skipped over small music creators that make this type of music on UA-cam but I see why now, maybe been in the 90s YOUR pc and YOUR soundcard combo really made gaming unique to you, and these songs rock
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@@StephanePicqDune Never expected a reply from the artist himself, although I see now that you reached out to everyone anyway! I got your album, it sounds gorgeous.
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Everything from SoundBlaster / Creative, Ensoniq, & Realtek is krap. Analog Devices have the best sound quality for audio playback, but synth stuff I don't know... with soft synth / emulators it's a non-issue = go with AD1981B or AD1984 or similar =)
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This is a masterpiece about the soundtrack of games, His electric mystycal evocative details about mistery and power is really wonderful, With the game itself important and so great from one of the most beautiful book ever written, Dune. Childhood piece.
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Incidentally I listened to this with my old stereo headset, but then it crapped out yesterday, and I still have an unused terratec 5.1 usb soundcard and a medusa nx 5.1 headphone laying around that I didn't use because it clamps so hard on my head. Man am I glad that stereo headset died. In the time I didn't use it, I had it hanging on the edge of a desk, and over the span of a year, the clamping force weakened just enough for it to sit perfectly over my ears. This is glorious to listen to with surround sound. Glorious! I have no idea if the soundcard just does some magic to turn the stereo sound from this video into full surround, but I can clearly hear it all around me. Thank you so much for uploading this. Man these sweet FM sounds take me back. Way back. Much appreciated man.
devjock My homecinema surround receiver puts this out in surround sound, too. I just set it to Dolby Surround Pro Logic, so no upmixing is done. Seems this soundtrack had matrix encoded surround sound, which is what Dolby Surround Pro Logic relies upon.
The guy who built my AMD 386 DX 33 (math co-processor) laughed at me when I returned nearly the same day for the SoundBlaster kit. I fell asleep at my desk studying to this for AGES. Straight A's for 3 years. The baby loved it too. The other one was The Sims shopping music. And our benchmark tester was Wolfenstein. ahh, those were the days, when we actually thought we had a chance. suck it #GamerGate
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This was the first CD-ROM game I ever got. I had a Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 sound card, (some Soundblaster Pro clone I think) unfortunately I never was able to finish the game, I got stuck in the adventure halfway
Y I never play video games that lock U down into 'levels' U can't move pass without unlocking whatever. It's my game, I am the user, & what I say goes. I want 2 C what there is, not have 2 constantly 'work' 4 it.
From this music I kind of like almost all versions. The Amiga one, the original Adlib one and this here. Oh and of course the Spice Opera Soundtrack from the movie or something. Gotta check out the Sega CD one.
@@strictlynineties The CD version still used MT-32, Adlib, etc., but (at least some editions) came with a second audio CD (playable on a regular CD player) with Spice Opera.
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Yo, mate, you got the timestamp for 'Wake Up' wrong in the description. It should be 9:12, not 9:52. Only bugging you cuz it's my favourite song in the game. Thanks for this upload, though! Miss this old game.
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The dark tone of this soundtrack is as brilliant as the whole Dune series by Frank Herbert. It just reflects the mood perfectly, even though this first PC game wasn't that great but at least based on a very interesting concept and had a cool style
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Very good soundtrack. It is good to hear soundtrack that can use full potential of Adlib Gold sound card with underrated YMF262 OPL3 chip. I hate most MS-DOS soundtracks because they using generic General MIDI which does not do justice to OPL chips, especially OPL3. Also great music have japanese games using PMD sound driver which was written special for OPL and it is not based on MIDI. Too bad that is no PMD documentation in english.
Yes I also do hate exactly the same thing. I had an AWE32 so some games which had support for it (32 voice wavetable sound) did sound great, but others (which supported only SB regular) did sound like a complete shit. I remember so many of my friends turned off music in Doom or Duke Nukem 3D, coz it was indeed a shit on FM, but I liked it because it was good on AWE32. But then again, there were a few games , including this one, which had a music programmed for OPL3 (most likely for a professional FM synth but downrated to the capabilities of these Adlib/Gold/SB cards) and they did sound great even on a cheap soundcard. Unfortunately a few people did understand that.
This happened at certain point, when the games started supporting midi modules. Before, when the adlib was the target, they used the FM chips more properly altering parameters in real time to achieve creative results, as the wizards of previous 8 bit glory (ie. SID) did. After midi modules came, they (programmers, music composers?) became lazy, they just made a midi for mt32 and later sc55 and treated everything below the same "play as best as you can" thing. So the FM chips would then be "initialized" with pre-programmed "instruments" and that was it. In Japan i think the PC98 started coming with the Yamaha chips in 1985 sparking their own scene of dedicated composers there.
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This is great music, although Dune 2000 really nails it, with it's high budget classical music, which really fits. I don't know who composed it and who performed it, but they really did a good job.
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@@StephanePicqDune I might buy. you really the one that made spice opera? Have you got any advise for a starting digital musician / soundtrack maker? How do we deal with AI now?
Sign of the Worm is my favourite track! my favourite rendition of it is from AdLib standard (not Gold) from DOSBox. You can hear it here, right at the beginning: ua-cam.com/video/FjHon6yg-r8/v-deo.html
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Decades ago, a game reviewer infested me with his opinion, that: Dune? Uhm... Well... How to say it nice... Then I never gave a try to game, not even to pirate it. This will never change already (especially when I'm not player now.) But the music is wonderful.
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If I remember correctly the Legend of Kyrandia games specifically supported it. Also a lot of other Westwood games but without special features. Descent had some OPL3 features. Jagged Alliance had midi emulation on Adlib Gold. There should be a list on Mobygames.
Are there more common soundcards that would play this soundtrack exactly like this (ie would a OPL3-chip be able to do it?) or do you get 100% only with an Adlib Gold?
+DOS Nostalgia The AWE32s that have a real OPL3 sound pretty close to the original effect if I'm dos you load a tsr that enables chorus and reverb effects. It's quite a bit more accurate than the Dosbox emulation
@@Deathrape2001 You are totally a moron and/or troll. Nobody here said anything about restricting people's access to the music. Everyone's free to listen to it here or on mp3. The question was about how to play it on original hardware or similar.
The entire Amiga soundtrack is less than 12 minutes long, and the 2 tunes that it shares with the original version, it simplifies. The samples sound nice, but that's really about it.
@@dosnostalgic Agreed. Plus, Amiga version was actually adapted from the CD version (Exxos, A Spice Opera) by someone else. The DOS version was adapted and recreated by the original composer (Stéphane Picq).
To increase confusion further, the OPL3 chip has actual surround outputs (total of 2 lefts and 2 rights) but none of the sound cards back then ever implemented more than stereo output so nothing knows how to use it
@@big0bad0brad "To increase confusion further, the OPL3 chip has actual surround outputs (total of 2 lefts and 2 rights) but none of the sound cards back then ever implemented more than stereo output so nothing knows how to use it" Double/cloned stereo is not surround.
I'm not sure if you're saying something I said was wrong, because I assure you I was not wrong on that. I'm not talking about the surround sound module - that does not use the surround outputs. Nothing back then did. Such a sound card didn't exist until 2018. The OPL3 really does have 4 *independent* outputs.
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this game should have had the better user interface like all other westwood's games dunes, if so, it would have been the one of the good dos games, that is how to save and load game easily, how to control music volume and etc.
Are you planning to make same for Dune 2? Also add OST to the description or name or tags, because often search is "OST"(original soundtrack abbreviated)
arseniy Dune 2 was in a package called "roughly 80 percent of all Adlib music" I downloaded not to long ago posted IIRC on Twitter by @dosnostalgic . The file is named cta-adlib.zip .
I just meant that one can find Dune 2 soundtrack just about everywhere. Download as well as streaming. If that's that file you want, I've been mirroring it ever since the original host went down: dosnostalgia.com/files/cta-adlib.zip
Personally, I find the MT-32 version superior. It's nice to hear all this FM Synth but even the extra oscillators of the Gold can't do horns or woodwinds.
That was kind of the weirdly cool about it. When I was studying, it put me in a zone. Then came Sound Blaster and whatnot. It was ridiculous and after the Pentium number thing, we realized it applied to all levels of IT. After Krull... through Dragon's Lair.. interesting shoutouts in the .. OK Piano nerd. AYB and dragons blah blah.. munch
Personally I think this music was made for a FM synth (not sample based synth like MT-32) in the first place. Otherwise how can it contain so many details just in Adlib/Gold version. A few games have so much detailed soundtrack for this level of soundcards, most of them just prefer to emulate General MIDI and it _does_ sound terrible and boring. I understand that because during 90s, I had an AWE32 sound card, so I understood why a lot of people hated Doom soundtrack while I did enjoy it. This soundtrack will sound great however even if you play Dune in DosBOX (quite faithfully reproducing how it would sound on a regular SoundBlaster).
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Idk. When you put 10+ hours into a game, I'd say quantity matters as well. Personally, I just can't like the Amiga renditions because they sound so wrong to me. Lots of instruments and effects are missing entirely from the rearrangements, not to mention some of my favorite tunes aren't even present. Ecolove is a very nice track unique to the Amiga version though, and I do like it a lot.
But still AMIGA version was so good to be released on CD as a soundtrack and it was sold separately. The only sound card on PC that gave me similar joy to AMIGA in that times was GRAVIS ULTRASOUND it was real masterpiece. I'll try to find it on UA-cam.
+Rav Lee Where are you getting this? The soundtrack version is a proper studio album recorded with professional synthesizers, not something recorded off the Amiga. It has 13 tracks, the 9 that are based on the original game have all the instruments that are missing from the Amiga version.
Back in '94 i played this game just because of the music. The graphics are great too, very stylish. The gameplay itself is more or less mediocre, the trick is to not advance too fast, everytime you get new areas to mine spice, you have to mine every spice out of it before you advance to the next areas. Otherwise the Emperor will press the spice out of you until you're going bankrupt.
Totally disagree on your comment on the game play, which is great by many ways, especially on its originality. It is just more open to imagination and less simply war game than Dune II for instance. The game is 1992.
@@Fre1maurer > excuses ? I didn't know we were in a court. The argument you gave to call the game play mediocre do not seem that convincing either. Still, your comment seems to be a nowadays view on it (even if you say it is not), which can't be accurate to judge this kind of gameplay the way you do (very common on YT). About the excuses, try to make a game that great yourself with the amount of time had Cryo (as they had to beat the Westwood version to release it first), and then you can put yourself of a judge in a court.
@@niceanddestroyed I would say, if a game can be easily won just by playing it with slow progress, because that reduces the aggressive behaviour of the opponents to a non threatening level, that can be called a fundamental flaw. It's like building sand sacks in Command & Conquer 1.
@@Fre1maurer i am not sure you played it when it went out, because the game wasn't that easy as you said (on the contrary). Even if you play it knowing it by heart, it is about 4 hours of game in the best case which is the average time in those years for computer games knowing the solution (which was really complicated to get without the web at that time). About your "agressivity" part, I don't understand what it has to do with the game, it has more to do with your way of seeing video games, and taking this game as a pure war game or a conquer game, which is not. It is a mix of several genres, which makes it unique. Your last comment says it all : you know that one or two years in that period is massive in improving things in video games (quality of the creation part, game play, technical parts, etc.). You are comparing a game of 1995 (C&Q) with a game of 1992, which is a little bit dishonest. Context and history are always essential when doing this, and you have also to compare the sizes of development teams (Japanese and US games had generally a lot bigger teams and means at that time than French ones). To end with this, a video game isn't only about gameplay, it is also about the special world created in it and the ambiance. In 1992, not so many video games had this kind of strong unique identity. Dune II seems very common comparing to this one. Anyway, qualifying the game play as mediocre is also dishonest. If you are talking pure game play, I am not even sure you are right. If you are talking game play as the whole experience, you are definitely wrong. The success of the game speaks for itself.
Hello, I am Stéphane Picq, composer of the DUNE game OST in 1992, with Philippe Ulrich for the album.
Thanks to DOS Nostalgia for this upload!
* NEW* Dune Spice Opera 2024 Remaster is now available for download in 96/24 Hi-res Audio Digital Album!
BONUS GAME OST dual soundcards (AdlibGold-RolandMT32) included!
Modern tools allowed significant improvement of stereo field, as expanded frequency spectrum and unprecedented dynamic response.
I was waiting for this for years!
Instant purchase, thank you for the great music!
Bonjour Stephane, j'ai ecouté pas mal de version du spice opera dispo sur le mec, et le coté retro des SoundBlaster et OPL3 parle toute de suite a ma mémoire ! la version 2024 est sympa, mais non je prefere l'ancienne !
I still listen to your OST from Atlantis the Lost Tales, its beautiful, greetings from Portugal. God bless you.
We loved this music SO MUCH STEPHANE PICQ , more people need to hear this haunting mastery you made. Can we get it on Spotify or add to posts on instagram ? ❤❤❤❤
Chani's eyes is my favorite. Very pretty song,.
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Holy crap, Stéphane Picq managed to pull a Tabla drum sound out of Adlib... what a genious.
wonder that too, interesting how he did it
Hans Zimmer himself would be proud. Fantastic score, you could have played this during the movie and I would have been just as impressed.
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Chani's eyes is the track on the intro I believe, where you fly over endless dunes. LOVE THIS ONE.
Yea thats how look Chanii in modern Dune we got flopp person...
That classic sounds are driving me in a far away place. So atmospheric. So simple and yet so effective. Something that modern music scores in games can't do it for me. Maybe I am snob, or maybe it's that oldschool graphics/music however dated they look today, can somehow drive our imagination.
If you love this album, try listening the OST for the Privateer and for the Borderlands. Both are available on youtube. Both have the same incredibly high level of refinement.
There is something more to this that most oldschool music doesn't have, though. The Adlib Gold's surround sound module really adds another layer of depth and reverb in the sound that I think might be unique to this soundtrack. (The AdLib Gold itself was sadly a flop.)
I think when you didn't have all the modern bells and whistles, zillions of channels and layers of instruments, you had to come up with clear ideas and melodies. Nowadays it's more of churning generics and hiding behind bombastic formless "epic" productions which nobody won't remember a day later. Not saying there is no great stuff anymore though.
I own the studio album version of this - Dune: Spice Opera. Too bad it doesn't contain the Sietch theme...
I have the same feeling... hmm
"Big thanks to the original uploader."
You're welcome. :) It's still on my to-do list to re-capture these at 24-bit/48kHz, and make the WAV files available afterward.
+Cloudschatze Please do, these tracks are amazing. Thank you!
+Cloudschatze V0G0NS 4EVER!
You could re-capture them in lossless format, if you know how to make electronic boards. I wish I had time to do it with an Arduino.
I'm still upset that you cut off Arrakis.M32 early >:(
do 16 bit & will sound better = less jitter. Don't do some crazy $hit like record at 48 then resample to something else not evenly divisible = sounds jaggy & $hit.
For the seven years old me of that time, this game... both the graphic design and soundtrack were almost like seeing and hearing my favourite book. Couldn't stop whistling the tunes, ended up shaping my childhood in ways I could never had imagined. Thanks for uploading this, the quality of this particular recording is unmatched by the other videos i've found :)
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@@StephanePicqDune I didn't even know it was getting remastered! Going to grab a copy for sure, thanks!
Finished Children of Dune while listening to this. I played the game when I was a child, always loved the music. Thank you :)
Chani's Eyes
I love her! (*_*) Her eyes make me horny (-_-)
Tamás Polgar, I am just sad it will all be lost or no one would bother to find it a decade from now. Much like the makers Westwood :(
Were humans made to forget things in the end?
The material world is temporary, everything is lost here. The material beauty you're trying to cling to, including this music, is merely a glimpse of God's perfection. Strive towards Him and you'll get not only this, but all the happiness in your forthcoming lives. Hare Krshna.
Thank you Tamás Polgar, indeed you are right
Shoosh, religious weirdos, get away from my Dune.
This music is absolutely stunning. Makes me sad the AdLib Gold didn't really go anywhere.
Awkwardly less good to me than the original Adlib version. The effects do not bring much, and some of the sounds are less crafted.
@@niceanddestroyed Gotta disagree with you there. This version has a lot more subtle little nuances and the availability of more sound channels gives it much more of an eerie, alien sound. It's a joy to listen to with headphones.
I understand personal preference is personal preference, though. The soundtrack is masterfully crafted either way.
@@DaVince21 I might have listen too quickly to give the right opinion. Still, I am not very fan of the reverb of the Adlib Gold. My personal preference might be also due to that human constant problem : when you listen to a music that you will like a lot, only this version will be the good one to your ears..
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Of all versions of this OST (including Spice Opera CD) - this here is the best, by far.
Normal adlib is better in my opinion.
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I still remember that time: I just had bought a soundblaster and connected big Stereo-Boxes to it and then I started that game...It blew my mind. Btw I once got hold of the remastered midi-files in even better quality. There the sound was even better...
Oh yes. I love Dune's soundtrack. Thanks for uploading it for us to download too!
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There's something very aerial in the rendering of Spice Opera with this specific set of samples.
They are not samples, but OPL3 synth fm sounds...
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This is the best game sound track ever programmed for Adlib/SoundBlaster. Much better than the Roland version. High five to the sound designers 5/5
The MT32 is also geat on this game. Adds another point of view on this masterpiece.
It really is better than the Roland MT-32 version...which is incredible. *Typically*, if the MT-32 version is available, it'll be the best version of it available. But now in this case ...
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Beautiful, thank you.
This game had such a wonderful soundtrack. The new-agey compositions mixed with spacey synth tones fits Dune's dreamy, psychedelic and spiritual take on sci-fi well.
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There's something incredible about the old sound card scores, the eerie wub sounds always do it for me :D Frank Klepacki did some great stuff too!
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This is still pretty fresh a quarter century later. Thumbs up!
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This is one of the greatest soundtracks from the OPL/Adlib era ;-)
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"Dune Variation" has to be my favorite, there is something the adlib version captures very well.
The original audio CD by exxos (dune spice opera) is also very good, but these bring back the memories fo the game very well.
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@@StephanePicqDune wow, I'm honored by your reply. Thank you for creating this phenomenal sound track. Picking up the remaster for sure ;-)
I've always clicked off old game videos and skipped over small music creators that make this type of music on UA-cam but I see why now, maybe been in the 90s YOUR pc and YOUR soundcard combo really made gaming unique to you, and these songs rock
Putting this on full blast on good speakers still gives me an amazing experience. Loving this.
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@@StephanePicqDune Never expected a reply from the artist himself, although I see now that you reached out to everyone anyway! I got your album, it sounds gorgeous.
such a great game. so many memories :-)
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Wow. This sounds a lot better than it did when I played it on my Sound Blaster 2.0. Tempted to look for an Adlib Gold now.
+Code1D10T Q!
Everything from SoundBlaster / Creative, Ensoniq, & Realtek is krap. Analog Devices have the best sound quality for audio playback, but synth stuff I don't know... with soft synth / emulators it's a non-issue = go with AD1981B or AD1984 or similar =)
I like to imagine you found one cheaply and don't know it's basically worth it's weight in gold now.
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This is a masterpiece about the soundtrack of games,
His electric mystycal evocative details about mistery and power is really wonderful,
With the game itself important and so great from one of the most beautiful book ever written, Dune.
Childhood piece.
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Since LGR featured it last year in one of his videos, I fell totally in love with the soundtrack. Despite not having a retro-relationship to it.
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This will not be forgotten.
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Listening to this again in 2020 after talking about Cryo all morning, and it's still very beautiful.
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Incidentally I listened to this with my old stereo headset, but then it crapped out yesterday, and I still have an unused terratec 5.1 usb soundcard and a medusa nx 5.1 headphone laying around that I didn't use because it clamps so hard on my head. Man am I glad that stereo headset died. In the time I didn't use it, I had it hanging on the edge of a desk, and over the span of a year, the clamping force weakened just enough for it to sit perfectly over my ears.
This is glorious to listen to with surround sound. Glorious! I have no idea if the soundcard just does some magic to turn the stereo sound from this video into full surround, but I can clearly hear it all around me. Thank you so much for uploading this. Man these sweet FM sounds take me back. Way back. Much appreciated man.
devjock My homecinema surround receiver puts this out in surround sound, too. I just set it to Dolby Surround Pro Logic, so no upmixing is done. Seems this soundtrack had matrix encoded surround sound, which is what Dolby Surround Pro Logic relies upon.
The guy who built my AMD 386 DX 33 (math co-processor) laughed at me when I returned nearly the same day for the SoundBlaster kit. I fell asleep at my desk studying to this for AGES. Straight A's for 3 years. The baby loved it too.
The other one was The Sims shopping music. And our benchmark tester was Wolfenstein. ahh, those were the days, when we actually thought we had a chance. suck it #GamerGate
I love this game.
Great sound quality. Thank you!
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Too!
Variation is beautiful.
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Never heard the DOS version till now as am more an Amiga sort of guy, must admit I really enjoyed this excellent share BIG like and a full watch
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This sounds amazing! Thanks
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LGR fucking brought me here
22:17 wow this sounds incredible on the adlib gold
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This was the first CD-ROM game I ever got. I had a Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 sound card, (some Soundblaster Pro clone I think) unfortunately I never was able to finish the game, I got stuck in the adventure halfway
Y I never play video games that lock U down into 'levels' U can't move pass without unlocking whatever. It's my game, I am the user, & what I say goes. I want 2 C what there is, not have 2 constantly 'work' 4 it.
From this music I kind of like almost all versions. The Amiga one, the original Adlib one and this here. Oh and of course the Spice Opera Soundtrack from the movie or something. Gotta check out the Sega CD one.
"Spice Opera" is not the soundtrack to any movie. It's just reimagined versions of the game's soundtrack.
OMA2k I think Spice Opera is from the CD version of the computer game
@@strictlynineties The CD version still used MT-32, Adlib, etc., but (at least some editions) came with a second audio CD (playable on a regular CD player) with Spice Opera.
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Sounds great! The soundtrack won't get any better than this, unless someone remasters it (hopefully).
Well, there is the album version "Spice Opera," but I don't really enjoy most of the arrangements.
@@dosnostalgic Yes, I've listened to that. It's okay, has a different vibe, more distant and dreamy.
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I used to be terrified of the emperor shaddam with his storm-troopers.
"Welcome to our siege, uhm...." could he be the one ? "
Yo, mate, you got the timestamp for 'Wake Up' wrong in the description. It should be 9:12, not 9:52.
Only bugging you cuz it's my favourite song in the game. Thanks for this upload, though! Miss this old game.
+Halide Thanks! Corrected.
Stephan Picq is my God
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@@StephanePicqDune where can we listen to it?
The dark tone of this soundtrack is as brilliant as the whole Dune series by Frank Herbert. It just reflects the mood perfectly, even though this first PC game wasn't that great but at least based on a very interesting concept and had a cool style
They have countless imitators later on in the RTS genre.
The first game wasn't an RTS, however.
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Very good soundtrack. It is good to hear soundtrack that can use full potential of Adlib Gold sound card with underrated YMF262 OPL3 chip. I hate most MS-DOS soundtracks because they using generic General MIDI which does not do justice to OPL chips, especially OPL3. Also great music have japanese games using PMD sound driver which was written special for OPL and it is not based on MIDI. Too bad that is no PMD documentation in english.
Yes I also do hate exactly the same thing. I had an AWE32 so some games which had support for it (32 voice wavetable sound) did sound great, but others (which supported only SB regular) did sound like a complete shit. I remember so many of my friends turned off music in Doom or Duke Nukem 3D, coz it was indeed a shit on FM, but I liked it because it was good on AWE32. But then again, there were a few games , including this one, which had a music programmed for OPL3 (most likely for a professional FM synth but downrated to the capabilities of these Adlib/Gold/SB cards) and they did sound great even on a cheap soundcard. Unfortunately a few people did understand that.
This happened at certain point, when the games started supporting midi modules. Before, when the adlib was the target, they used the FM chips more properly altering parameters in real time to achieve creative results, as the wizards of previous 8 bit glory (ie. SID) did. After midi modules came, they (programmers, music composers?) became lazy, they just made a midi for mt32 and later sc55 and treated everything below the same "play as best as you can" thing. So the FM chips would then be "initialized" with pre-programmed "instruments" and that was it. In Japan i think the PC98 started coming with the Yamaha chips in 1985 sparking their own scene of dedicated composers there.
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2 beautiful ty
Spice
Must flow
Stephane Picq FTW !! \o/
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Here for Chani - mostly.
This is great music, although Dune 2000 really nails it, with it's high budget classical music, which really fits. I don't know who composed it and who performed it, but they really did a good job.
Aha, I see on your video of the Dune 2000 Soundtrack(s) that it's done by Frank Klepacki. He's a hero.
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I've heard the normal spice opera tracs, this version has a special quality. and just listen to that : 9:50 ^_^
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@@StephanePicqDune I might buy.
you really the one that made spice opera?
Have you got any advise for a starting digital musician / soundtrack maker?
How do we deal with AI now?
Perhaps this card would have sold better with the surround module built in.
I love this soundtrack, with the exception of "Sign of the Worm." Something about it just sounds off, in any version of it I have heard.
Sign of the Worm is my favourite track! my favourite rendition of it is from AdLib standard (not Gold) from DOSBox. You can hear it here, right at the beginning: ua-cam.com/video/FjHon6yg-r8/v-deo.html
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S P I C E
this adlib music game miss me a lot...
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One of the best games of the 90's. The best soundtrack. Oh, God, bring back that time! Now everything is so bad with games and music.
back in the days it was the creativity, today its only the big money cash grab.
@@rallyscoot yes, just sometimes we can see something like Skyrim and feel the magic.
I love you
shocked when i heard this .... its not a patch on the Amiga version.
This is it.
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Oooohhhh, the rare soundtrack thst sounded richer than an mt32
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Decades ago, a game reviewer infested me with his opinion, that: Dune? Uhm... Well... How to say it nice...
Then I never gave a try to game, not even to pirate it.
This will never change already (especially when I'm not player now.)
But the music is wonderful.
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Can you tell me about other games that made good use of the Adlib Gold card?
+Alianger Unfortunately no. Very few games supported it in the first place, and I'm not a hardware historian.
It shall remain a mystery.
Can't find anything but Dune on youtube.
If I remember correctly the Legend of Kyrandia games specifically supported it. Also a lot of other Westwood games but without special features. Descent had some OPL3 features. Jagged Alliance had midi emulation on Adlib Gold. There should be a list on Mobygames.
Download Link is broken, can you please update it? I think this is the best version, some tracks even better than the Spirce Opera version
Sorry about that. Everything should work now.
super maintenant j ai envie d'y jouer :/
What's stopping you? 🤔
Are there more common soundcards that would play this soundtrack exactly like this (ie would a OPL3-chip be able to do it?) or do you get 100% only with an Adlib Gold?
Not the surround module (so you'll be missing the chorus effect), but any OPL3 card or a decent clone should be able to do this.
DOS Nostalgia Ok, I've got plenty OPL3-cards. I guess the surround module is very rare. I had never even heard about it.
+DOS Nostalgia The AWE32s that have a real OPL3 sound pretty close to the original effect if I'm dos you load a tsr that enables chorus and reverb effects. It's quite a bit more accurate than the Dosbox emulation
@@Deathrape2001 think about ppl who actually want to play it on retro pc's, not emulated
@@Deathrape2001 You are totally a moron and/or troll. Nobody here said anything about restricting people's access to the music. Everyone's free to listen to it here or on mp3. The question was about how to play it on original hardware or similar.
Amiga version kills it.
The entire Amiga soundtrack is less than 12 minutes long, and the 2 tunes that it shares with the original version, it simplifies. The samples sound nice, but that's really about it.
@@dosnostalgic Agreed. Plus, Amiga version was actually adapted from the CD version (Exxos, A Spice Opera) by someone else. The DOS version was adapted and recreated by the original composer (Stéphane Picq).
mute Dune Trailer. Play 12:55 in seperate window. Infinite improvement
The adlib "surround sound module" is it really a "reverb and/or chorus" module?
Pretty much
To increase confusion further, the OPL3 chip has actual surround outputs (total of 2 lefts and 2 rights) but none of the sound cards back then ever implemented more than stereo output so nothing knows how to use it
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"To increase confusion further, the OPL3 chip has actual surround outputs (total of 2 lefts and 2 rights) but none of the sound cards back then ever implemented more than stereo output so nothing knows how to use it"
Double/cloned stereo is not surround.
I'm not sure if you're saying something I said was wrong, because I assure you I was not wrong on that. I'm not talking about the surround sound module - that does not use the surround outputs. Nothing back then did. Such a sound card didn't exist until 2018. The OPL3 really does have 4 *independent* outputs.
Quality of the reverb is not really great (but understandable for the time).
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I really hoped that the directors of Dune (2021) will use some of the tunes here to create the atmosphere. Nope :-(
Same.
Although Villeneuve used the same style of Ornithopters in his film though. He probably played the game when he was a kid.
If only we can remastered Dune into high definition for today's gamers....too bad Virgin Games is completely bankrupt 20 years ago.
AdLib Gold
driver for win xp or win 9x?
this game should have had the better user interface like all other westwood's games dunes, if so, it would have been the one of the good dos games, that is how to save and load game easily, how to control music volume and etc.
Are you planning to make same for Dune 2?
Also add OST to the description or name or tags, because often search is "OST"(original soundtrack abbreviated)
No, Dune 2 soundtrack is available elsewhere. Thanks for the suggestion.
DOS Nostalgia
Thanks
arseniy Dune 2 was in a package called "roughly 80 percent of all Adlib music" I downloaded not to long ago posted IIRC on Twitter by @dosnostalgic . The file is named cta-adlib.zip .
I just meant that one can find Dune 2 soundtrack just about everywhere. Download as well as streaming. If that's that file you want, I've been mirroring it ever since the original host went down: dosnostalgia.com/files/cta-adlib.zip
armorgeddon
So how do I listen to .ADL files?
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i hear this shit to coding games , best motivation
what is adlib gold? i heard only adlib normal music. anyone can tell me the difference?
rulerss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_Inc.#AdLib_Gold_1000
tnx. i read that adlib gold was very strong but noone buyed it cause of stupid creative sb pro. thats too bad :(
@@rulerss thats the same that almost everyone buys nvidia now days instead of AMD.
Personally, I find the MT-32 version superior. It's nice to hear all this FM Synth but even the extra oscillators of the Gold can't do horns or woodwinds.
+Mezkal Muzings Personally I think MT-32 version is terrible. Realistic instruments or not. Everything sounds so tiny and it's putting me to sleep.
That was kind of the weirdly cool about it. When I was studying, it put me in a zone. Then came Sound Blaster and whatnot. It was ridiculous and after the Pentium number thing, we realized it applied to all levels of IT. After Krull... through Dragon's Lair..
interesting shoutouts in the .. OK Piano nerd.
AYB and dragons blah blah.. munch
Personally I think this music was made for a FM synth (not sample based synth like MT-32) in the first place. Otherwise how can it contain so many details just in Adlib/Gold version. A few games have so much detailed soundtrack for this level of soundcards, most of them just prefer to emulate General MIDI and it _does_ sound terrible and boring. I understand that because during 90s, I had an AWE32 sound card, so I understood why a lot of people hated Doom soundtrack while I did enjoy it. This soundtrack will sound great however even if you play Dune in DosBOX (quite faithfully reproducing how it would sound on a regular SoundBlaster).
pazhosch Well put. Never thought about that before. Thank you. :)
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Hata hata.
I remember meeting the Gods and the Devil in the golden age. We were mere spirits and the devil was a dust elemental. A twister in soul form.
It sounded so much better on a Amiga.
That's a point of view that some will defend but the Amiga has only 3 tracks for the whole game.
I know this is cheesy to say: one Harkonnen disliked the video.
This game and music got me into my lifetime facination with hot tanned women, thank you Dune.
:-)
AMIGA version was the best.
Too bad Amiga version only had 3 songs.
Not quantity but quality metters
Idk. When you put 10+ hours into a game, I'd say quantity matters as well. Personally, I just can't like the Amiga renditions because they sound so wrong to me. Lots of instruments and effects are missing entirely from the rearrangements, not to mention some of my favorite tunes aren't even present. Ecolove is a very nice track unique to the Amiga version though, and I do like it a lot.
But still AMIGA version was so good to be released on CD as a soundtrack and it was sold separately. The only sound card on PC that gave me similar joy to AMIGA in that times was GRAVIS ULTRASOUND it was real masterpiece. I'll try to find it on UA-cam.
+Rav Lee Where are you getting this? The soundtrack version is a proper studio album recorded with professional synthesizers, not something recorded off the Amiga. It has 13 tracks, the 9 that are based on the original game have all the instruments that are missing from the Amiga version.
The Amiga soundtrack is so much better.
Unfortunately the Amiga soundtrack is also less than 12 minutes long.
Dosbox really butcher the music :\
Wait, does DOSBox even support the AdLib Gold at all?
Back in '94 i played this game just because of the music. The graphics are great too, very stylish. The gameplay itself is more or less mediocre, the trick is to not advance too fast, everytime you get new areas to mine spice, you have to mine every spice out of it before you advance to the next areas. Otherwise the Emperor will press the spice out of you until you're going bankrupt.
Totally disagree on your comment on the game play, which is great by many ways, especially on its originality. It is just more open to imagination and less simply war game than Dune II for instance. The game is 1992.
@@niceanddestroyed >The game is 1992.
That is no excuse for the fundamental flaws of its game mechanics.
@@Fre1maurer > excuses ? I didn't know we were in a court. The argument you gave to call the game play mediocre do not seem that convincing either. Still, your comment seems to be a nowadays view on it (even if you say it is not), which can't be accurate to judge this kind of gameplay the way you do (very common on YT). About the excuses, try to make a game that great yourself with the amount of time had Cryo (as they had to beat the Westwood version to release it first), and then you can put yourself of a judge in a court.
@@niceanddestroyed I would say, if a game can be easily won just by playing it with slow progress, because that reduces the aggressive behaviour of the opponents to a non threatening level, that can be called a fundamental flaw. It's like building sand sacks in Command & Conquer 1.
@@Fre1maurer i am not sure you played it when it went out, because the game wasn't that easy as you said (on the contrary). Even if you play it knowing it by heart, it is about 4 hours of game in the best case which is the average time in those years for computer games knowing the solution (which was really complicated to get without the web at that time). About your "agressivity" part, I don't understand what it has to do with the game, it has more to do with your way of seeing video games, and taking this game as a pure war game or a conquer game, which is not. It is a mix of several genres, which makes it unique. Your last comment says it all : you know that one or two years in that period is massive in improving things in video games (quality of the creation part, game play, technical parts, etc.). You are comparing a game of 1995 (C&Q) with a game of 1992, which is a little bit dishonest. Context and history are always essential when doing this, and you have also to compare the sizes of development teams (Japanese and US games had generally a lot bigger teams and means at that time than French ones). To end with this, a video game isn't only about gameplay, it is also about the special world created in it and the ambiance. In 1992, not so many video games had this kind of strong unique identity. Dune II seems very common comparing to this one. Anyway, qualifying the game play as mediocre is also dishonest. If you are talking pure game play, I am not even sure you are right. If you are talking game play as the whole experience, you are definitely wrong. The success of the game speaks for itself.