Space Quest III played on KORG EX-8000

[@MakeSomething]

This is how you make a 45 year old man very happy.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

You’re welcome! I trust you too played the crap out of these games back then too? 😂😎🤓

[@billysherman2702]

This 50 year old man as well. I feel like I'm 15 again.

[@chst7215]

This is like birthday and christmas as a 6 year old - im 39 now ... wow those memorys. Games will never feel that why again with such a simple grafic.

[@mikemurphy8714]

@1:29 I love that breakdown so much. Then goes into a reggae breakdown, then back to fast. Just beautiful

[@diznanl]

I feel like I'm at a Space Quest rock concert. STAGE DIVE!!

[@PCUSER486]

Excellent work! Hands down 👇 💯

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Roger Wilco says thanks! 😁

[@EspenKraft]

Nice one Anders! I don't have any big connection to the original or game, but I like the punch in the sounds and the inventive arrangement and it just smells old PC games, in all the right ways. ;-)

[@Marcel1979K]

Sierra Adventures .... my heart is pumping just saying this company name :D

[@Cuzjudd]

😁

[@minionslayer]

This is nostalgic, yet I wasn't even there to experience it.

[@fooboomoo]

I never got far in the game, but always loved the music.

[@kiko1935]

I love the ex8000/dw8000. Very phat sounding for a digital analog hybrid. The Novation Peak before the peak existed

[@billysherman2702]

I so needed to hear this right now!

[@TofersCarTales]

THIS. IS. AWESOME. My favorite Sierra game and my new favorite musical arrangement of said game. Incredible work and the visuals were just perfect.

[@deven2008]

This is my favorite version of space quest 3 music, Good work!

[@jatriska]

I FRICKEN LOVE Space Quest!! Agh. So many good memories from this. Awesome song.

[@EricDarrell]

This is so awesome! Love it.

[@gordon2402]

Goosebumps 🤪👍🏻 Absolutly perfekt Perfekt game back in the days And my favorite soundtrack 🎹🎶

[@remelin75]

Space Quest III is one of my all time favorite Sierra games next to "Heroes Quest" aka "Quest for Glory". The first Space Quest games were nice to but the third one was amazing. This one I managed to solve without hints from computer magazines and it was still a nice challenge. The Sierra games at the time were the reason I learned English pretty fast as I had to look up every word in my tiny dictionary. Space Quest III felt so enormously big and adventurous. I wonder how many hours I spent playing this game until I managed to finish it. I remember how it blew my mind finding "Astro Chicken" an arcade game inside the game. It was so very large another game fit inside it. So nice to see and hear the music again. The nostalgia is flowing in my veins right now. Thank you Anders for bringing it all back.

[@_greenleader]

Legendary sound

[@Roger__Wilco]

This sounds a whole lot better than I remember it.

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Haha, I bet!

[@marcosventura8157]

I Really like your version, the tempo and rhythmic changes are so cool and have a little reggae/caribbean feeling, and this kind of "phil collins" drums give it a lot of energy.

[@gmirwin]

This was the only Space Quest game I played. I never got terribly far in the game, but I still had fun playing it. Great job!

[@nneeerrrd]

Brilliant!

[@SMK1985]

Awesome. Dude you just took me back to the 80s for abit #Nostalgia

[@expedition74]

impressive

[@PeteVagabond]

I've always loved that soundtrack, it's so good!

[@VinceRiviera]

First Space Quest game I played on my friend's computer back in the day. Loved everything about it, especially the soundtrack. First of course on beeper, later Adlib blew our minds. :) this is of course next level stuff, and you did it really well - keep up the good work!

[@LumaControl]

Awesome! Can you do an orchestral synth version of police quest II next? ;)

[@RobertForslund]

Awesome! Such a great game, and a fantastic soundtrack! 😁 Good job my fellow neighbor in the west (Sweden here)! 😄👍

[@rylar717]

I do remember King's Quest and Chex's Quest :-) but not Space Quest. I enjoy the melody of this song and how it goes to show just about any retro game theme can be modernized to be restored in a way that folks today can understand. Thank you Anders the Best is Yet to be!

[@sepixsound]

wonderful!

[@jbh2]

Fantastic work!

[@XavierRadix]

Just pure awesomeness!

[@PiddeBas]

Sounds amazing!

[@InsaneWayne355]

Awesome!

[@glorfification]

That's great, very well done! I like the "reggae" bit in the middle. I played the game back in the early 90's, I always liked the introduction! (The quick run through of the entire game is very clever!)

[@CandyAppleBlue]

Very nice, Anders, this puts a big smile on our faces! As always outstanding work. :)

[@earnestwolfson6557]

Amazing work!!!

[@KitSunZoro]

That game came out the year after my birth. Sounds like a fun game, kinda advance for being so old. I believe most PC games were ASCII back then.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

You’d have to go back further for games to be all text. Graphics came in the early 80s more or less. The first Larry game (Softporn) was text based, but all the Space Quest games were graphic from the get go. You should definitely play it. It’s all on abandonware sites and you can get MUNT with Roland MT-32 ROMs so you have the original musical experience too without the expensive hardware. :)

[@KitSunZoro]

@@AndersEngerJensen I do remember Zork was a text based game in the late 70s. But I believe back in 1987 or later you had those really big portable PCs that were purely dos based.

[@benh.635]

Awesome arrangements! This is THE soundtrack that got me interested in synthesizers and I was really hoping you'd do an arrangement of the songs. :D

[@blueflame5719]

SQ3 var det første spillet jeg runna, så det ligger godt i barndoms minnene. Spilte igjennom det sist i fjor. Min Sierra favoritt. Musikken er helt fantastisk. Nå venter jeg bare på din versjon av Dune 2.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Det er gøy å høre. :) Du får sjekke ut Planet X3 soundtracket jeg lagde til The 8-Bit Guy... kzbin.info/aero/PLWtrQe3WXMYa5-N_H6EDtv3o7_u8bnuws

[@blueflame5719]

@@AndersEngerJensen Ja, har egentlig hørt de. De er så ekstremt Dune 2 inspirerte. Når jeg hører de, så er det som å høre på soundtracket til Dune 3 fra 1993, som aldri kom, hehe. Fulgt deg og 8bit guy i noen år nå. Dere er kjempe flinke.

[@badkluster]

Daaaaamn

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Brilliant rendition and fun playthrough too! (Even though you "cheated" on Astro Chicken and got sick from the Big Belcher combo)😆 Lovely stuff👍

[@versedbridge4007]

Why did I just find this?

[@garrettspencer3887]

hey u got my support

[@BlueHouseSoundStudio]

Very cool Anders! I love the 8000

[@genghisbunny]

Love this. Didn't ever play through the third game, but love the music. Great job on this one.

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

Superlative as usual.

[@HaggisAhoy]

Wonder what the next 8-bit guy video will be about.. heh =)

[@TheStickCollector]

Nice

[@toomuchtoofast4533]

How do you like the ex-8000? I have the little ex-800, but was curious. Good channel man!

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Thanks :) The 8000 and 800 are two different beasts so hard to compare, but much more beef and possibilities in the 8000 models. Although, the Poly/EX 800 does pack some nice sounds when used properly with effects and processing. Espen Kraft now owns my 800 as I traded it for some other gear earlier. :)

[@Spiegelgeist]

Awesome stuff as always! Have a great weekend! :) P.S. Have you ever heard of the song "Begin" from the "Cosmic Psycho" soundtrack? If not, you should check it out, bet you could do something awesome with it! :)

[@pedazodeboludo]

Is any of the melody captured from the game itself? IIRC this had MT32 and a Casio keyboard as the only “MIDI” outputs... or is the Korg remappable to MT32 like the Sound Canvas? Thanks! Edit: Ah... ScummVM allows you to select a General Midi output, handling the mapping... is that what you did? ;)

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Hi. No, I just took the MIDI-files from Quest Studios (www.midimusicadventures.com/queststudios/) which have done pretty mych what I would have done too: Recording multitrack MIDI from my 486 and Roland MPU-IPC-T MIDI interface from the game as one is playing along. But I didn’t have time to do that, so Quest Studios’ files were much easier to grab. However, I only used them for reference, because they are recorded out of sync with the normal tempo map and measures. This is obviously because when you press record on your sequencer, you need to know when and also have the right tempo dialed in, and since all games send sys ex data in the beginning to the MT-32, and then start the music later, it’s impossible to get things lined up measure by measure. Tempo changes during the songs would also be missing. You could only have this if you had the original song files from the composers, but they all used sequencers before the advent of SMF (Standard MIDI File) so everything is proprietary and even if you could extract the files from the SCIDHUV system from Sierra, you’d need a converter. So I always play everything by hand in these cases, bit by bit and just listen to soloed parts to make sure I get it right. I also need to be playing it slightly differently as some sounds have a different response than the original MT-32 sounds do. :)

[@PauloConstantino167]

Hey Anders I saw your work with 8bit guy and I want to know if you want to become my 8 bit friend as well ?

[@DaraM73]

Hilarious or ironic? Either way, cheered up the musical lobe of my brain.

[@GeraldreiDaniel]

did u recreate the MIDI file of the soundtrack or you extracted it and remove the drums.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

I started with the Quest Studios midifile for reference, but as it’s recorded from the game and not ripped from the game data, most people don’t know the actual tempo of the music, nor being able to get the tempo and signature changes, and you never know when the game sends the first downbeat in bar 1... so it’s always off the grid on these recordings. That’s why I always have to recreate them from scratch and by hand. Just like I did with Jones in the fastlane and Duke Nukem 3D. Going back and forth between the original and eithe replay by hand or copying the parts and manually time shift to match the tempo I have to work with. I always use drum samples which I place on the grid and meticulously arrange (kick, snare, claps, toms etc). Hi hat, cymbals, percussion etc are played by hand via midi on my Yamaha XS-7 and other synths I feel can contribute to the song.

[@GeraldreiDaniel]

@@AndersEngerJensen okay so that's why the Melody of the song didn't match the original melody of it because when i heard it, there seems to have a slight issues of the Melody of the game soundtrack, and by the way it is easy to play dums on keyboard with one hand.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

@@GeraldreiDaniel Yeah, all these remakes are adaptations, there's no reason to copy the original 1:1... that's why we have the original for. Any remix or remake should be adding something to the original composition and take it to another level hopefully. In game music, they were often limited by polyphony and how many parts that were available at a time etc, so they had to make compromises. :)

[@juergenbernhard5442]

The few who dislike obvously have never enjoyed the game. Great work!

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Hehe! Thanks! 😎🤩

[@fjfrancois]

Damn in 1994 I had one and I sold it for $100 dlls ☹️

[@cyclonus01]

Is the sound better than the roland?

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Heh… well, that would be up to you to decide wouldn’t it? ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn_FiYeBqrSVebM

[@cyclonus01]

@@AndersEngerJensen hard to tell over video recording bro.. was wondering if you had first hand experience comparing the two?

[@AndersEngerJensen]

@@cyclonus01 You can hear the original MT-32, Adlib and Tandy versions all over KZbin, so making a comparison should be fairly easy. Obviously my version sounds different because I used a completely different synth, and real drum samples etc. But better/worse is highly a subjective matter. 🙂

[@Simon-ui6db]

Makes my tyros sound lame.

[@BarnacleButtock]

Timing is off in many sections :/

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Please explain in detail.

[@BarnacleButtock]

@@AndersEngerJensen The whistle in the intro starts too early and is played too slow. The drum intro starts early as well--the synth sweep doesn't help me hear it more precisely. The second half of the first drum fill also seems off. The first slower section with some time signature changes also seems a little rough. The following section has the offbeat key hits in the bg which sometimes seem to fall off rhythm. The walk up to the second part of the main song in the last section of the video is also a bit fast. The main riff overall also sometimes seems to be more syncopated /choppy than it truly is. I would be interested to know how much was tracked/programmed and how much was played live. The sounds are certainly neat.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

You didn’t read the description, did ya? First of all, it’s an adaptation like all the other game music remixes/remakes I do. Mainly because I don’t want to copy the original 1:1 - where’s the fun in that? We already have the originals. Secondly, most of these are already sloppy in their execution. Whether it’s from the composers or from the fact that the games don’t always play back the midifiles correctly is up for debate, but they are all «off in timing» if you’re scrutinizing. I’m always spending time tidying up the original midifiles and usually end up replaying it by hand because nobody seems to have the actual files - only recorded from the game and then at the wrong tempo. So it’s a lot of work at times. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Everything is played by hand, but aligned and quantized to the grid where needed. The intro is how I felt it should be - it’s all in time with the groove, «freehand» at first, the drums can’t come in later.. that would be off. Trust me, I tried. And yeah, I’m not playing Bob’s parts exactly like he did, because he went straight 16ths where I added a 66% shuffle to the Fester Blatz and Monolith Burger themes. The Fester Blatz is switching between 4/4 and 2/8 (or 5/4 if you will), as the original. There might be a conga part that’s not quantized in the break, but everything is meticulously planned and scrutinized - nothing is left to chance here. I did spend about two weeks finding the right rhythmic feel and arrangement for it.

[@gibbo9089]

@@BarnacleButtock sounds great to me. I think you are knit picking. Let's hear your version to see if you can do better.

[@BarnacleButtock]

@@AndersEngerJensen I had no idea the amount of work from the original files that you put in. It's interesting that there seems to be no consistent speed or tempo for any recording of it--i think it has to do with the programming of the game and how it loads sounds and the different parts of the intro. Nonetheless thank you for explaining more in detail--now I understand why sounds off.