Game:

Diablo (1996)

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So I've been playing with modular synth emulation and decided to do something a little different. Diablo 1 was an incredible game. All of the diablos since never managed to capture such an amazing atmosphere as the first game. Matt Uelman's Tristram theme embodies this incredible atmosphere to a T. This is a more minimalistic remix and essentially is just a fun test of what I've learned over the past week or two playing with VCV rack.

Original music:    • Diablo 1 & 2 Soundtrack - Tristram Theme  

I used an anonymous midi made for piano few years ago for this called tristram.mid. I did modify it pretty significantly. Thanks someone for writing this midi! It inspired me to do this.

CC 15 is shown, which is what controls whether the delay for the guitar is on or off

Channel 1: Guitar
Channel 2: Reedy type lead
Channel 3: Bass
Channel 4: Whistle type lead

I used an LFO connected to a very low set VCA to generate a bit of vibrato in channel 2 and 4. All patches are polyphonic. Envelopes are controlled by CC throughout.

Reaper is used for the midi output to an internal routing virtual midi device called LoopMidi. This is then used to pass midi data over to VCV rack which processes it and sends the output to the audio interface where you hear it via flexASIO, which I like because it doesn't take exclusive control over anything.

Anyway, I hope you like it.