X-Wing Mission Soundtrack

[@MadMac5]

This music is forever associated with the phrase "RED LEADER! INCOMING MISSILE!!!" followed swiftly by a loud "KA-CHUNK" as it wiped out my shields.

[@sparrowlt]

oh the nightmares

[@TheLambdaTeam]

The start of this song has a distinct "it's quiet...maybe TOO quiet!!!" feeling in it

[@WesMordine]

Famous last words. 😅

[@Garcia-iq2qq]

They shiuld include the X wing game of 1993, Rogue Squadron (The 1998, 2001 and 2003 games) and Tie Fighter game of 1994 Soundtrack into Star Wars Squadrons Soundtracks. What fo you think about it?

[@Garcia-iq2qq]

Pappy Hare of Star Fox 64 quote.

[@MadMac5]

For this franchise, I'd go more with "I dunno... I've got a BAD feeling about this..." ;)

[@bichoorojo]

OMG thx you so much!!! this brings some tears to my eyes, i want a time machine to live my childhood again inside of the cockpit of my Xwing :)

[@Pseudo2000]

Good news, I never forgot about this... This evening I've finally come up with a way to account for the program changes (instruments changing on channels during the track due to the 16 channel limit of General Midi) and record a complete session which I can actually use correctly in Ableton live. That was supposed to be the simple explanation but if it's a bit technical basically I don't have to record a live sessions with OKish sounding soundfonts any more, I can dump the raw mini into my application of choice without all the instruments being mixed up and use some really good quality, realistic sounding VST plug ins. Give me a few weeks to play some missions and figure out be best times to trigger the mission/music events so each section flows nicely into each other and edit all in Ableton. I'm going to try my best to give this the full orchestral sound it deserves. ...also, I never thought I'd get 11,463 views, thanks all.

[@Pseudo2000]

...also I'll do TIE Fighter as well.

[@coolbeans4u]

+Pseudo98 Outstanding. Looking forward to hearing it!

[@trinalmage9446]

+Pseudo98 yeeee

[@coolbeans4u]

Any updates? :-)

[@hfarthingt]

Any updates?

[@sandcrawler200]

I loved this game SO MUCH! They dot make games like this anymore. Kind of sad.

[@robertfinley681]

This comment didn't age well but for the right reasons.

[@atigerclaw]

We're just missing the fighter appear and capital ship appear jingles. Never forget that blood-freezing theme of an ISD coming out of hyperspace. "Dun dundununun... DUN DUNNNN DUN DUN DUNNNNN..."

[@atigerclaw]

Oh, look what just popped up in my feed after seven years.

[@Pseudo2000]

Hi all, thanks for the likes and chatter, sorry for neglecting the comments and requests for so long, I haven't looked to see if anyone else has uploaded anything similar but I'm up for doing some other missions and putting a little more effort into mastering the resulting audio so look out for something in the next few weeks. Thanks to everyone for the feedback.

[@coolbeans4u]

+Pseudo98 No, thank you! Can't explain how deliriously happy this makes me.

[@coolbeans4u]

+Pseudo98 Also appreciate it's been a few years, but any plans to record a version without the cracks and pops? If not, might take a crack at it myself ::-)

[@Pseudo2000]

+Neil Bryson Yes, always been planning to come back to this and doing a more complete recording in better quality and with other in game iMUSE (training mission, etc), unfortunately life got in the way. Think I'm going to bite the bullet, record the midi output, drop it in Ableton and sort the instrument changes on the channels by hand so I can use a really good set of instruments and master all whole thing. Soundfonts are nice but I know it could sound so much better :) I'll have a crack at it this month.

[@Pseudo2000]

I'm back on the case! Check the most recent comment.

[@brettyoung4825]

aah. MIDI greatness. Bathing in nostalgia

[@seanimusprime9849]

7:00 victory babyyyy, I play this every time I reck some imps in ties in squadrons. Sucks to not have shields I guess lolz

[@neo84hun]

Whoa! Thanks for recording & sharing this!

[@DannyEastes]

1:27 NICE SHOT!

[@TheLambdaTeam]

Target destroyed!

[@juliandunn]

the I-Muse system was great. X-Wing & TIE Fighter were so ahead of their time. It's too bad the series ultimately lost its way.

[@NYKgjl10]

memories...I use to go to CompUSA and played for hours X-Wing.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Excellent recording. It's actually make me decide to go grab my Pentium 1 PC, and do some direct-from-game music rips from a genuine Sound Blaster Pro (instead of using DOSBox, etc). It works perfectly for Dune 2, so I won't be surprised if it does for X-Wing. :D

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Just an update, after a few years, I've started the process, and have made a few clips. Once it's done, I'll upload the segments in an archive, and post a compilation on here. Thanks for the inspiration, @Psuedo98! :)

[@OptM10]

Thanks Pseudo98, looking forward to the updates!

[@duartecorreia8602]

So, who's here that recognized (and had spine chilling effects) this music in the Last Jedi? ^^

[@FekLeyrTarg]

I did. :)

[@Hokies4evr]

Same here... Was thinking at the time that Williams and Rian Johnson were tweaking some us...

[@FekLeyrTarg]

I think it was about time that someone uploads some music from X-Wing, since there had been only music from TIE Fighter. I think you made a good choice in the soundfonts. My favourites are Chorium and Crisis General MIDI. (on my channel you can hear how they sound). :)

[@Wanda_Maximoff91]

0:39 the Melinium Falcon theme !

[@SamuraiPenguinStudio]

*hears ties enter the fight and several kills in the music jingles* -- -- Ah, the adaptive music instances. Too bad I never here the imposing Star Destroyer Appears! bit. Fight begins at 36 seconds. Sounds like four or five waves of TIEs or Gunboats. Lasting until about the seven minute mark, then the mission is complete until it's time to head back to the ship.

[@WesMordine]

X-Wing Alliance was great, and ended on a cliffhanger. I waited and waited for the Expansion that never was. =(

[@calamitoso0066]

X-wing Alliance ended with the destruction of the second death star.

[@simonsaid321]

@@calamitoso0066 but uncle antan situation is still open for plot development

[@cloreal]

rest in peace, lucasarts, may the reign of disney last days and their death years.

[@Laserschwert1981]

Oh, and MidiYoke is also needed.

[@Laserschwert1981]

Do you think you could actually record this to MIDI instead of directly to audio? I got something like that working for TIE Fighter using MIDIOX and MF2T.EXE (Google will find it), which allows to catch all the MIDI data a game running in DOS-Box plays and record it as a text file (which can then be converted to MIDI using MF2T).

[@MetalHead972]

THX :-D

[@harrietpotter949]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@Selderij]

Could you consider uploading the proving ground and death star tracks?

[@amaurythewarrior]

wait does it mean that i could run the midi sounds from dosbox to other midi devices ?

[@ABhaim]

in retrospective i feel just like you. but i knew, and i think lukasarts felt it too, that space-sims were about to lose their fame so it wasn't a worth-while goal to invest in. (as for me, i discovered Baldur's Gate that year so i looked for more games like that at that time...)

[@ArbyFyrelyte]

Disappointed XvT didn't have the old I-MUSE system, even though the old X-Wing had almost exactly the same cockpit layouts except for the missile lock indicator, replaced by a light in your crosshairs. Did I tell you I created a KZbin account so I could tell you to continue reconstructing these MIDI tracks? DID YOU? Please do so. Or else. c:

[@Rot-5]

GREAT =D

[@gatchaponkei]

Here is your interest!!

[@d_008]

So this isn’t an original John Williams score? I put so many hours into this game as a kid and this soundtrack was stuck in my head all these years. I now only find out that it’s midi based and not an actual orchestra like I had mistakenly assumed all these years

[@Spenceley]

I'm listening to this while I play Battlefront 2. FOR THE REBELLION

[@Universal_exports87]

Those X-Wings look so McQuarie it's not funny.

[@gearsofMEAT]

thanks but Soundblaster is so much better than MIDI

[@TheLambdaTeam]

I have the Soundblaster version if someone needs it!