munt VS csid

The Roland SC-55/SCC-1 one would probably be an authentic sounding choice for GM/GS game soundtracks after the early 90s, since a lot of the soundtracks were actually composed with it. Doom (and its sequel), Duke Nukem 3D, Descent, the Warcraft games (though the WC2 composer(s?) used an SC-88 as well) just off the top of my head.

Or Masquerade 55, if you want higher fidelity but with SC-55 replacement in mind.

Space Quest III predates General MIDI altogether. I assume that the original soundtrack was composed for the Roland MT-32 and that the ones you are listening to have been remade into GM by fans, or maybe it was added in a later version. It would be nice if this player contained an MT-32 emulator since so many Sierra (and other) game soundtracks were composed for it specifically. Such a thing already exists: https://github.com/munt/munt

A little tip: Ultima Underworld has an awesome soundtrack that adds immeasurably to the game’s atmosphere. For the best audio quality, I suggest emulating an MT-32 with a handy little program called MUNT.

In 2022, I'd probably use DOSbox' MUNT MT-32 emulation, but some people would call it blasphemy.

I was just going to ask how it compares to https://github.com/munt/munt but then I realized it uses Munt under the hood :-)

I have a physical SID chip and I was looking at implementations of players and ... was shocked at how complicated they are. I guess it makes sense though: SID files are tiny because they are in effect full C64 native programs that generate music. It would be hard to do otherwise on that platform.

I wrote a simple program that transformed basic (60hz, no PCM-style hacks) SID programs to like sequence of byte instructions for the SID chip so that I could replay without emulating and the file sizes are massive compared to the original!

Here is an awesome single file SID player written in C,

https://github.com/mlund/csid/blob/master/csid.c