Re: Really good Apple IIGS sound/music?

[Tony Kavadias]

On 2008-05-10 22:53:20 +1000, limtc <thyechean@gmail.com> said:

> - DiversiTune (everybody favoruites!)
> - Music Construction Set (this one seems to gear more towards
> classical music)
> - Arkanoid II
> - Rastan
> - Zany Golf

You might not want to show your kids this... but I thought the last (3rd)
level of Xenocide was the most original use of the Ensoniq sound system
on the IIGS.  The song was composed using samples that, unlike all the
other tracks used in the game, included mutated voices, smooth ambient
synth pads and a dull melody which haunted the listener (adding to the
intensity of the game).

The soundtrack probably suffered from undersampling of the original waveform
samples (there was a tinning of the sound on good quality speakers), but
apart from those flaws, it was the best (and the darkest) soundtracks I
have ever heard coming out of my IIGS's speakers!

Brian Greenstone's games have always had very good musical direction 
for as long
as I can remember, and continue to impress [me] even in the Macintosh titles
still available at his Pangea Software site (http://www.pangeasoft.net/).


--tonza