Master of Orion CM-32L OST - Colony Invasion Successful (Extra Reverb)
Channel: mt32vault
Date: 2023-05-16

Music from Master of Orion, played on a MUNT-emulated Roland CM-32L (Later version of the MT-32). Compositions by David Govett.

Front panel controls configured for reverb setting 8/10.

This game soundtrack was very difficult to acquire. The game manages patch assignments on the synth dynamically, so it's impossible to record any one piece and actually play it back later.
It's possible to "record" an entire gameplay session, and fast-forward through the MIDI events before the piece you want to playback, but you need to be careful with that, because some MIDI Sysex commands need time to process, and if you don't give the synth enough time it'll glitch out on subsequent commands - the game itself actually does this from time-to-time.

The native game music format has been dumped, but does not (always) playback correctly using third-party playback utilities (Probably because of the patch management being done by the game)

I wish to direct special thanks to the following for making this game-rip possible:
The Mido library for Python - https://mido.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The DOS PX XMIDI player - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=37630
XMI dump from MUSIC.LBX - http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=6435


Master of Orion Super-CM-32L OST - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfcsYP5T4-Ezqrluq_F-oCa0epgYAyxI
Master of Orion Super-CM-32L OST (Extra Reverb) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfcsYP5T4-GxYYMR7mCl-cd3dYy1GLxv