Tyrian - MIDI (Roland SC-55) Game Soundtrack - MS-DOS, 1995

Note : reupload as the first song had wrong instruments with my old crappy cheap USB/MIDI cable.
This new recording was made with a Roland UM-One mk2 USB/MIDI Interface.
Old wrong version here : • Video
MIDI Soundtrack from video game "Tyrian" recorded from a genuine Roland SC-55 mkII device set to General MIDI mode, using the Tyrian Jukebox available in the game setup program.
Musics written by Alexander Brandon (AB) and Andras Molnár (AM).
The soundtrack was written for the OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesis of adLib/Soundblaster, using an audio engine written by Andras Molnár.
General Midi version is only a conversion. AdLib/Soundblaster FM version is far better.
00:11 Asteroid Dance Part 2 (AB)
02:00 Asteroid Dance Part 1 (AB)
03:56 Buy/Sell Music (AB)
05:00 CAMANIS (AB)
07:00 CAMANISE (AB)
07:21 Deli Shop Quartet (AB)
09:10 Deli Shop Quartet No. 2 (AB)
09:27 Ending Number 1 (AB)
10:05 Ending Number 2 (AB)
13:07 End Of Level (AB)
13:14 Game Over Solo (AB)
13:28 Gryphons of the West (AB)
14:30 Somebody pick up the Gryphone (AB)
15:16 Gyges, Will You Please Help Me? (AB)
16:29 I Speak Gygese (AB)
17:15 Halloween Ramble (AB)
19:21 Tunneling Trolls (AB)
20:49 Tyrian, The Level (AB)
22:12 The MusicMan (AM)
22:19 The Navigator (AB)
22:57 Come Back to Me, Savara (AB)
24:27 Come Back again to Savara (AB)
25:04 Space Journey 1 (AB)
26:41 Space Journey 2 (AB)
29:44 The final edge (AB)
31:05 START5 (AB)
32:12 Parlance (AB)
32:52 Torm - The Gathering (AB)
34:27 TRANSON (AB)
35:59 Tyrian: The Song (AB)
37:49 ZANAC3 (AB)
37:52 ZANACS (AB)
38:57 Return Me To Savara (AB)
40:11 High Score Table (AM)
40:22 One Mustn't Fall (AM)
41:47 Sarah's Song (AM)
43:06 A Field For Mag (AM)
44:10 Rock Garden (AM) (original version : C64 intro from Mechanicus by Markus Müller)
46:28 Quest For Peace (AM)
47:55 Composition In Q (AM)
48:55 BEER (AM)
Release :
Game developed by Eclipse Software.
First release published by Epic MegaGames in 1995 for PC MS-DOS. Tyrian 2000 enhanced re-release published in 1999 by XSIV Games.
Note : track order and titles are the ones used in the Tyrian Jukebox.

[@jaakkopontinen]

This was not one of the reasons my childhood got messed up! Love it.

[@TheLambdaTeam]

*Cleared enemy platforms!!!*

[@GregWidener]

DATA ACQUIRED! Thanks for uploading this!

[@jaakkopontinen]

:D Data Acquired!

[@ShamblerDK]

From back when Epic Games was associated with something good.

[@superchroma]

In their defense, Unreal engine is pretty good.

[@StevenMcFlyJunior]

when Epic was EPIC

[@TheNefariousFox]

Makes me want to buy a roland just to play Tyrian like this... I remember when I found the jukebox and just sat there with a pair of headphones staring into the screen for like half an hour without realizing it. This is one of those game soundtracks you remember... It's so important to making the game story, and really provides that extra feel to the whole play. I wonder about chaining some midi and throwing the juke right into something like Ableton, and Reason, and going bonkers on it... (Hell, FL might even be worth the try)

[@MikeDawson1]

I bought a Roland just to play Doom with, am not disappointed - you should do it

[@yosefyonin6824]

many thanks for the upload, midi and sound blaster sound so much better than the common adlib

[@ranmaster27]

Thank you soo much for uploading this!

[@miracleflame]

One does very very rarely see so much love put in a video about "a game" in such unique artistic way, right? Yeah, I see and hear what you did there. ;) Thank you.

[@sindobrandnew]

Never had a chance hear it with midi device and it is so epic. Thank you sir.

[@CaptPatrick01]

Sounds like the kind of stuff Stewboy would compose.

[@0tf850]

But Molnar didn't write Rock Garden. Markus Müller wrote it for the title screen of Mechanicus for the Commodore 64. I figure Andreas used it as a demo for his audio engine.

[@barbarianbros]

Thanks, precision added to the tracklist

[@0tf850]

@@barbarianbros cheers!

[@AlexCBrandon]

The things I learn about scores I (mostly) wrote when I was 20… !!!

[@0tf850]

Beautiful!!

[@Nikku4211]

20:49 I remember hearing a port of this song using downsampled versions of the SC-55 samples that sounded similar to this (but with no reverb or chorus) way back in 2013.

[@barbarianbros]

If you play the game in Dosbox, with the game set to use General MIDI, it plays music through the system soft synth. On Windows it uses the Microsoft GS Synth, which is based on the SC-55 samples (heavily compressed), with limited hardware effect emulation (reverb, chorus, panning)...

[@jensonslogl9275]

Hi, thanks so much for converting. May I suggest that you also upload some selected songs individually, and separately? It will produce a lot more visibility, for each song. I can offer to help if you don't have time.

[@jeocuneyt]

The soundtracks of this game.. by far doesn't have any other match for my personal experience.. maybe due the memories of old times that gives it the upper hand against others..

[@cultosombrio8952]

20:49

[@JohnnyWednesday]

Some people were born to get the most out of GM

[@Tyrian3k]

Adlib/Soundblaster is much better? Well, this version definitely doesn't have any nostalgia to it, but I really like it. It's far from bad and actually sounds pretty close to what it's supposed to. Definitely beats using an MT-32/Munt to play Tyrian's soundtrack.

[@barbarianbros]

As Tyrian doesn't support MT32 but only GeneralMIDI it would sounds very bad with a MT-32 or Munt. Otherwise I would already have uploaded the MT32 version of the soundtrack.

[@SeñorDossierOficial]

Epic sound ;v

[@e8root]

Roland SC-55 is pretty good MIDI device for DOS games. Some instruments are perfect but unfortunately some instruments do not fit all that well eg. 24:28 or 26:47 ... It is exactly the same issue I find with many sound fonts (.sf2 files) which all which I heard always have this issue. Same for any other MIDI device I heard with these DOS games except Sound Blaster 128PCI with 2MB preset somehow always sound good... albeit its samples are pretty low fidelity.

[@chintimin]

Oh this is WEIRD

[@dhedarkhcustard]

Why did you let Satan change the songs. That glitch between each song is terrifying.

[@jeocuneyt]

@15:16

[@desarrollou71x72]

Epic Games always does Epic Games...

[@josephfrye7342]

now where can i get those tracks in midi form.

[@josephfrye7342]

any other download link.

[@barbarianbros]

Don't know... I used the built-in jukebox you can access in the install program (install game, set soundcard, play music)

[@hackerx7329]

Really late to the party but here is the odd news. You would have to capture and dump the midi data. The Dos version had a MIDI output mode but the music wasn't stored in MIDI format. It was converted on the fly in software. The later open source version of Tyrian was based on a different release of the source code and doesn't have the code to do that. I also found in some searches that Foobar2000 can open the LDS files with at least some degree of accuracy so you might be able to use it to convert them to midi.

[@VEC7ORlt]

Nah, original adlib sounds miles better, as if its been written speacially for it (which it was!). That little box of wonders could improve a lot of things, but this aint it.