Gabriel Knight Soundtrack, Sound Blaster AWE32 - NintendoComplete
58The music from Sierra's 1993 adventure game, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, recorded directly from the line-out of a Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA card.
As much as I know how people love their Roland expansions, I never had one of those when I played this, and while they sound great, they don't strike the nostalgic chord in me. When I first played this, we had a Sound Blaster 16 so I heard all of it in its OPL rendering, and then my dad brought home the AWE, and this is what I was introduced to. Let me tell you, in the age where the FM based SB16 still was the standard, this was pretty jaw dropping for "midi" music. I still love the Adlib style music, but I haven't encountered ANY recording of this game through my favorite card, so I decided to make one. I believe I have all of the midi tracks in the game recorded here - the video provides a description for each track at the bottom left.
Sorry for the noise in the recording. I couldn't remove much of it without trashing the recording, so the hissing you occasionally here in the quiet parts is nothing more than a result of AWE 32 cards' notorious susceptibility to interference. They all sound like it - there's really not much to be done.
Anyways, I hope you like it. Robert Holmes' soundtrack is beyond epic, and hasn't aged a bit. It still sounds as fresh as it did 23 years ago when the game was originally published.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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