Music Volume On Ufo Defense

[Talon81]

I think the Title and Topic says it all:

I am on XP running Collectors Edition and (I assume) due to the DOS voices patch my music volume is low. How do I adjust it without adjusting the sound volume. In order to hear the music, my sound effects are blaring.

Thanks

[Valken]

I think the Title and Topic says it all:

I am on XP running Collectors Edition and (I assume) due to the DOS voices patch my music volume is low. How do I adjust it without adjusting the sound volume. In order to hear the music, my sound effects are blaring.

Thanks

 

I assume you're on Windows XP (if not, it is similar) but you can right click on the speaker icon on your task tray on the bottom right, and select open volume control.

 

You want to select your SW Synth volume to the same as your master volume. That plays back the midi music.

 

If you have a special sound card or wave table installed, then you need to find the volume control for wave table, mpu401 or similar and set that level.

 

Give it a try and see how it goes.

 

Or you can LOWER the WAVE sound so it does not play louder than your music, but note this is a global setting across all of windows so be aware you may need to readjust it again if you want to use other programs with sounds.

[Talon81]

Yeah, I had figured my synthesizer scroll should adjust the midi volume but it did not. As it turns out, with the DOS Voices patch I am using to get the cool alien death screams, somehow it makes it so that you cannot individually adjust music to sound effects in that manner. So, I just adjusted the volume on all of the midi files today.

 

Thank you for the response though.

[EtherImp]

That's because the patch responsible for Alien Death screams also changes the music files to a different format.

 

I believe this is reversable. Try this:

 

-Reinstall X-Com

-Reinstall patch, but DO NOT extract the ".MID" files to the SOUND Directory. Only install the SAMPLE3.CAT"

 

I believe the MID files are responsible for the game music and the SAMPLE3.CAT is what contains the alien death screams.

 

If I am correct, this means you could replace the alien death screams, but still manage to keep the OLD MIDI files, which allows you to adjust their volume by changing the "Synth" output in your volume controls.

 

Let me know if this works, btw. I still need to test it myself.

 

 

Edit:

 

I just tried doing what I described above (more or less).. I took the old .MID files from another install of UFO on a different harddrive and copied them over the "patched" .MID files from the newer install (with the alien voice patch).

 

Doesn't seem to have fixed it.

Edited May 20, 2009 by EtherImp