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Might and Magic IV+ V: Clouds​+​Darkside of Xeen (World of Xeen) Official Soundtrack (Macintosh)

by Tim Tully, Gregory Alper, Paul Lehrman, Takeshi Abo (阿保 剛)

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Destructa Wow, this is my favorite computer game of all time! (Guess where my profile pic is from!) It's so exciting to see all the different soundtrack versions here. It had to be a lot of work and research putting all of these together and connecting with the composers and developers. While my travels on Xeen were always accompanied by the Sound Blaster, I'd have to agree the Mac version sounds great, maybe the best of all the options. My sincere appreciation!
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about

Official soundtrack, produced in partnership with the original composers.

The Roland MT-32 is the original mother version of the soundtrack for Might and Magic IV, present in the original PC MS-DOS version of the game. The music was later recorded by an unknown employee at Presage for the Macintosh version of the game seemingly from a Roland MT-32.

The music has been extracted and edited from the digital 22kHz mono .AIFF files present in the final version of the game. (The original 44kHz recordings have been lost.)

Bonus material:
(#1) Detailed archival tracklist.

The archival soundtrack series contains all known music from said title, including 1 second jingles, unused music, beta versions, and more.

Soundtrack and any bonus materials may not be re-distributed elsewhere withouth the express permission of Xeen Music.

*****THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD OF XEEN***
Gary Arnold, says, "I'm the developer for the Mac version of World of Xeen. The original DOS music was MIDI music played through the horrible MIDI software synths available at the time. MIDI wasn't a big thing on the Mac, so Presage's audio guys played the Xeen MIDI files through a real MIDI synth and captured the output. The Mac Xeen music is actually large streamed SND files. It's not just your imagination that it sounds better...it actually IS better. BTW, some of the files converted incorrectly but were included as invisible easter egg files on the original CD, if you still have it..."

Review by David Molnar:
"The hidden 'Industrial World of Xeen' folder is a nice touch."

Review by Illuminatus Primus:
"Worlds of Xeen Hidden Sound Files! Yup, they exist on the CD. Invis-ed folder right at the root of the CD. It's called "The Industrial World of Xeen". I'm under the impression that they're supposed to be "industrial" re-mixes of some of the themes, but apparently Presage's (or whoever is responsible, they're standard Mac SND files...) idea of industrial is to hook the themes up to a static generator. At first I thought I was having sound problems, but after playing a few, I came to the conclusion that they were done so badly that it's almost not worth listening to them. Make your own choices."

credits

released April 5, 2022

Produced and published by Xeen Music (2022-04-05)
Updated with "The Industrial World of Xeen" (2022-11-25)

*****Might and Magic IV*****
Composed by Tim Tully, Gregory Alper, Paul Lehrman
Compositions ©1993 Tim Tully, Andrew Harrington

*****Might and Magic V*****
Composed by Tim Tully, Gregory Alper, Takeshi Abo
Compositions ©1993 Tim Tully, Andrew Harrington, except:
"Dungeon 2", "Outdoors Day 1", "Outdoors Day 4 Lava 1", "Outdoors Day 4 Lava 1 revised", ©1993 Gregory Alper
"Sci-Fi Theme 5,9,17", ©1993 Andrew Harrington

****The Industrial World of Xeen*****
Composed by Tim Tully, Gregory Alper
Compositions ©1993 Tim Tully, Andrew Harrington
"Remixed" by Gary Arnold

All recordings edited by Andrew Harrington for the soundtrack presentation.

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Xeen Music works with artists to create 101% complete archival game OSTs, having them recorded with the authentic sound equipment. We dig into every "ancient" source possible to include unused music, jingles, and every last note so nothing is lost to time. Attempt is made to credit each composer and gain necessary rights. Your support will help ensure these releases do not cease. Thank you. ... more

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