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System Shock - Interactive Music Pack

REQUIRES ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION! SEE BELOW!

This is a Wwise Mms music pack featuring the soundtrack from the original System Shock. It uses a soundfount based on the Roland SSC-1, which is almost identical to the hardware the soundtrack was originally composed on.

This is not merely a set of looping compositions derived from the System Shock MIDIs, but is instead a true adaptation of the game's interactive music system. System Shock featured a groundbreaking soundtrack which was constructed on-the-fly from a set of MIDI tracks which ran concurrently but could be enabled or disabled depending on what was happening in-game. While the musical needs of XCOM are different, and therefore require those tracks to be used differently, this pack attempts to emulate the spirit of the original system.

The video above was put together fairly quickly, but demonstrates both the music's tone and a small number of Wwise Mms's features.

In order to use this pack you must:

• Subscribe to the mod
  
• Download one of these .bat files, for either vanilla[www.hallmonitor.ca] or WotC[www.hallmonitor.ca] . You can have both versions installed simultaneously if you follow this process for both files.
  
• Place it in your Steam installation folder (i.e. C:\Program Files\Steam\)
  
• Run it.

The bat file creates links to the required sound banks in your XCom folders. This allows me to push updates to the banks and need only be done once for this pack. If you don't follow this step then the pack will produce silence.


Will this work with Mac/Linux?
It should, but probably not as-is (and obviously not with a .bat file). If one person contacts me for each platform I can sort this out, so give me a shout and we should be able to get it going without too much difficulty.

Will you make a version of this for use with regular MMS?
Nope. I built Wwise Mms specifically because I needed it to make this.

There are too many people to thank for this. Of course there is Greg LoPiccolo for the amazing soundtrack, Wenchy for SSPLAYER[wenchy.net] which allowed me to extract the individual tracks as MIDIs and Robojumper whose MMS made this possible. However, there are also the makers of Foobar 2000, foo_mid, SoX, Audacity, Wwise, all of the soundfonts I have used and of course XCom 2 and System Shock themselves. Then there are the members of the http://hydrogenaud.io/ and SystemShock.org forums who were helpful in sorting various aspects of this thing out. Lastly, I can't forget my girlfriend who tolerated this whole project, which really took quite a lot longer than I said it would.

This pack is very much built on the shoulders of giants.

You can find the Wwise project, here [www.hallmonitor.ca] as an example.