SIGIL II - The MIDI Soundtrack [2023]

[@francescomignogna4623]

As happened with Sigil 1, playing Doom Sigil 2 with your beautiful soundtrack, I felt the same emotions as the first Doom, 30 years ago. Thank you

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

Exactly what I wanna hear. ;)

[@iBlewupthemoon98]

Great! Now I can listen to these bangers without the constant sound of Cyberdemon hooves.

[@Counter-Chicken]

They're backup percussion

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

Did you by any chance catch what the percussion is doing at 16:59? ;)

[@iBlewupthemoon98]

​@@JamesPaddockMusic lol I did. Can't even escape them while just listening to the midi.

[@lagunamakesthings]

i love how in the e6m9 song you can hear the drums from the doom 2 intermission. or maybe im just going insane but im pretty sure those are the doom 2 drums

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

Good spot. :)

[@LazarheaD]

Just like the first SIGIL, you have outdone yourself.

[@Mr.Showbiz]

We makin it out the E1M8 death exit room with this one! You smashed it once again Jimmy, amazing tunes

[@DarkstarArchangel]

Must be amazing to be working with a great legend like Romero!

[@the_dark_one6052]

Marvellous midi magic as always. Cathedral Rock intro Slayer's South of Heaven inspired?

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

A lil bit, yeah. :)

[@Caseofgames]

@@JamesPaddockMusicI’ll be honest, I thought it was inspired by Cast Down.

[@JoeyBullet222]

Sleep of reason, Cathedral rock, Fractures, Hexaphobia are my favorites....very well done as usual Jimmy. ☆☆☆☆☆

[@josecitojoseson]

I was riding my bike today listening to this video and I just felt like the coolest guy in the world, thank you very much john romero, u did it again u son of a gun

[@Seekay37]

Cant stop listening to E6M9, its so good. Phenomenal work all around!

[@RiveriaTV]

it's like the perfect son between rise of the triad and doom

[@mortiis2032]

Hey James! Just wanted to pop by and thank you for the amazing soundtrack! I played this back in December and loved it! I bought the soundtrack the day you made it available and I've been loving it since! Thanks for what you do, your MIDIs are incredible!

[@retroonur]

E6M7 and E6M9 rocks too hard that I can't stop listening them. You rock Jimmy !! Godly work done !

[@Piotr_Winter]

I love those mid 80's early 90's Thrash era style.

[@cyberdemonic260]

I finished playing Sigil 2 yesterday and honestly your music made the entire experience so much better. Also I do like how "Walls of the Minotaur" syncs up with the CyberDemon's footsteps a bit

[@gOd_s_serVant]

Can't stop listening to Nightmare Overture! The part 2:36 - 2:51 got stuck in my head for 3 days.

[@Nikki-2981]

Hexaphobia is absolutely amazing. Hell, the whole album is amazing! Some of the best MIDI I've ever heard!

[@EternalGruntSetsu]

Great work ! My favorite is Sleep of Reason (E6M2) so good

[@ToaGatanuva]

Love the sombreness of e6m2

[@TheChainOfGame]

Another set of clean bangers! Fantastic work!

[@Cyberdemon1542]

E6M5 is phenomenal.

[@wishiwascooler]

This whole thing is amazing but Cathedral Rock is a fucking banger. Thank you, sir!

[@duncetheman]

Absolute bangers all around, well done

[@tibersulla2305]

21:25 had to stop for a while for the midi headbang (mouse included), proper stuff good sir.

[@QuakeDude73]

Getting this to the top comment

[@eulogp9888]

Sleep of Reason would have been amazing for Duke Nukem 3D's Lunar Apocalypse episode. It also has Map05 song vibes from classic D2.

[@auspex42]

I have yet to try the new Sigil, but the ost is awesome! I can't even single out something specific, it just rocks as a whole. E6M9 keeps reminding me of good old Rise of the Triad. [sheds a nostalgic tear]

[@Elmodfuka]

Wow man. AWESOME Music. There's a several tracks I love but the last one... uhhh! FIRE

[@Nwk2468]

Loved hearing these bangers on the new levels! Are there any plans to release individual videos for each track?

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

Nah, I think just this one video suffices. You can hear the songs on repeat if you grab the album off of Bandcamp, though!

[@LgGreen10]

E6M3 is a straight up banger. Nice job 👍

[@Don.Doken04]

I feel the fact that this isn't on Spotify is a crime.

[@ThePhobosAmphitheater]

Kickass soundtrack man! I haven’t played Sigil II yet, but I’m so looking forward to hearing these in-game. I’ve already played The Impenetrable Dark like three times over now. It makes me think of Star Wars: Dark Forces and ‘Mist Ache’ from ROTT at the same time

[@vtapiavoid]

this is sooo awesome!! it should be in Spotify!!

[@QuakeDude73]

Final impact is definitely up there with BFG division and the only thing they fear is you

[@Vitz_atelier]

Great work as expected from you

[@ParadigmZwei]

I hope to dear christ Romero brings you back for Hellion. I don't know how you do it but you somehow have a perfect sense for what a map 1 track should sound like. I know it was for the previous SIGIL but Hate Machine is one of my favourite Doom tracks.

[@denifnaf5874]

I hope Hellion uses doom 2 enemies

[@rieskaruisku]

How did Hexaphobia come to life so to speak? I get really heavy (no puns intended) Dio/Tony Martin era Black Sabbath vibes from it. The grooves in Hexaphobia just hits perfectly. Absolute banger.

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

I listened to a bit of Soundgarden for inspiration. :) The triplet sections in particular came from "Somewhere" off of Badmotorfinger.

[@diezelleprozo6047]

came here from That Trav Guy and instantly gravitated towards Sleep of reason, it's sooo good... i think it would make a good banger.

[@JCBassCovers]

You've knocked it out of the park yet again.

[@agustin_anibal]

Damn! What a great OST, man! Truly awesome to hear when killing demons

[@denifnaf5874]

Cathedral rock sounds like the remix of an unused doom song

[@denifnaf5874]

Great callback

[@GOLDFINGER-24k]

Absolutely fantastic

[@protostar5946]

Stellar soundtrack! Any plans to release them as *individual videos,* like with Sigil 1's OST? I would like to have the option to have the OST on Shuffle Mode and maybe even download them for offline listening. :)

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

No plans to upload them again as individual videos, but the album is *name your price* on Bandcamp, so you can grab everything as a separate audio file there. jamespaddock.bandcamp.com/album/sigil-ii-the-midi-soundtrack

[@quin2920]

Hell yeah the second time a DOOM soundtrack has done a South of Heaven rip

[@bowserknight]

Any chance we can also get all these songs individually, not in one big video? just asking, still love all this music even if I had my issues with the maps. Wasn't that tragic tho. With this music in the background, you just get such a 90s / 2000s vibe

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

The tracks are uploaded separately on my Bandcamp, if that helps? jamespaddock.bandcamp.com/album/sigil-ii-the-midi-soundtrack

[@mr.shibulal1814]

Amazing!!

[@SGT.Sroom-ji1pb]

Geez! Nightmare Overture is underrated! Easily my favorite metal song... as someone who only listens to game OSTs

[@MCBGamer]

I don't think it has been pointed out, but I assume you took some inspiration from Blood on E6M8's wind up? All of the tracks are really good, but Final Impact and Walls of the Minotaur especially are awesome!

[@gernotresch2348]

Very nice soundtrack, a huge addition to the wad…

[@Duchovicius]

"Sleep of reason" sounds similar to Unreal 1 ost 😊

[@dontstealmehmilk492]

Is it me or does walls of the Minotaur give me Shawn’s got the shotgun vibes? Edit: the part with the bells in the background on Cathedral Rock is too good🔥🔥🔥

[@dongn405]

FUCK YEAH BABY

[@SUB1KOIRA]

Romero's big mistake was to include the BETTER soundtracks for Sigil and Sigil II in the free versions, lol.

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

Sound more like a Duke 3D sound track at times.

[@BasalPandora543]

Mi favorita es E6M5

[@alfredkopysov3550]

Только ваша музыка и вытягивает Sigil 2

[@themisterdellou]

Original soundfont is bad

[@MtPain27]

Shush

[@themisterdellou]

@@MtPain27 the original soundfont always sounded terrible. I always turn off the soundtrack in doom 1&2 to play the same soundtrack in the background, but with normal quality. compare at least e1m8 in the game with regular e1m8. The soundtrack of Sigil 2 with a different soundfont is much better, I just don't understand why James uploads his tracks in compressed midi quality

[@JamesPaddockMusic]

​@@themisterdellou These MIDI tracks (like all of my tracks written for Doom maps) were made with the default General MIDI Wavetable Synth in mind - this sound is still the standard in all PCs. That's generally the only way you CAN write midi compositions and guarantee a consistent sound across platforms. I tried writing with specific soundfonts in mind and found it pretty miserable. Applying a soundfont en masse to a carefully-written midi track basically destroys the intended mix and timbre of the original composition. I realised this myself a few years back and that's why I haven't gone through the (arguably very long-winded and laborious) process of finding soundfonts that **don't** make the original midis sound like a hive of angry bees in an echo chamber (or worse) before prepping them for upload to KZbin. Even finding soundfonts that are supposed to emulate the GM Wavetable Synth 1:1 is difficult, because they tend not to emulate it all that precisely. Now that I've hit upon a soundfont that works well to emulate the GM sound (thanks Doomkid!) I can finally present the tracks the way that I've always heard them, and that they are intended to **be** heard. Going forward, that's how I'm gonna be uploading all my MIDI works to this channel.

[@Kolibri92]

Not a single other soundfont out there plays MIDI as clear as this, one of the reasons to love it. But your opinion and taste in other soundfonts is respected.

[@GHHF666]

​@@JamesPaddockMusic I know exavtly what you are saying. A few years ago, I spent a lot of time trying to create a personal sf2 out of dozens of free and one payware soundfont (which I regretted buying as it sounded awful despite having great samples here and there). My main reference was the original Doom soundtrack and my old SC-55 card (replaced by a SC-88 module with the UM-One cable later). The same song can sound vastly different if samples or volumes between them are way off. And even if a sample sounded objectively better, it sometimes still failed to work for Doom or in combination with other samples... I do not know how many attempts I needed, but ended up with two sf2 in the end. One pretty close to original SC-55, and one still close in general, but with better quality samples and volumes, which are far less "aggressive" sounding. There are still some samples which I never got to fit exactly right with every song, but I still prefer it even over my SC-88 now, as it sounds a bit more alive and clearer. Your soundtrack is one of the best midi arrangements I have come across in quite some time, and I am happy you are writing them with the Roland samples in mind. Maybe its nostalgia, but the old Sound Canvas cards and modules will always have a special place in my heart and loading up my sf2 with your songs tells me that the time spent working on it was well worth it.

[@c0zm0s_]

E6M6 is actually badass, that intro melts me every time! Could we can collab sometime? I've always wanted to use DOOMs soundscape!

[@fatboymachinegun]

Good job, dude!

[@MancubianCandidate]

Nooooice!