solomani on 31/1/2015 at 06:30
Hi all,
I am trying to find a clean version (vocals only) of this snippet from SS1 intro:
"-SHODAN: I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning."
I have tried a few different things in Audacity to isolate the vocals but no luck. Wondering if someone already had it by chance and could share?
Thanks in advance!
C0rtexReaver on 7/2/2015 at 18:22
The SS1 data files are just renamed .ZIP files and the original audio would be in those. I'm sure you can figure it out.
-CR
ZylonBane on 7/2/2015 at 20:41
Quote Posted by C0rtexReaver
The SS1 data files are just renamed .ZIP files and the original audio would be in those.
This post manages to be both wrong and irrelevant. SS1 data files are RES files, which are a proprietary Looking Glass format. SS2 data files are ZIP files.
Whether it's possible to get clean audio from the opening cutscene depends on whether the music is baked into the video file, or if it's a MIDI file that's being played in sync with the video. I have no idea which is the case.
solomani on 10/2/2015 at 05:45
Yeah, I learned the hardware after ripping the voices that they are not zips ;)
The original voice is embedded in the sound file. So I can get the voice easy enough (intro is available on youtube anyway) but not as a separate file. I'll have to remake it as close as possible to the original.
After listening to the rips the sound quality is not the best. Are there better versions somewhere by chance? Higher quality?
Too much too ask? ;)
ZylonBane on 10/2/2015 at 16:57
To determine whether the music is embedded in the intro video file, just make a copy of your SS1 install, delete all the MIDI music files, then play the intro.
Al_B on 10/2/2015 at 20:11
You can also just disable the midi device in cyb.cfg (set midi_card to -1). As you've found though, the music and voice are embedded in the file as a video. I don't personally know of a higher quality recording or one without the music, unfortunately.
ZylonBane on 10/2/2015 at 20:48
Nuts.
Well, since we have the music file by itself, I wonder if there's any free software that could subtract one audio file from another. Yes, it would take some experimentation to find a MIDI device that matches the one they used for the video.
Pyrian on 10/2/2015 at 23:34
Audacity can subtract sound like that, but unless the samples can be lined up perfectly, it won't really work. :p As ZB says, you'd need the exact same MIDI output, but it's almost certainly compressed in the video, so you'd need to then put it through the exact same compression algorithm...
solomani on 11/2/2015 at 01:06
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Audacity can subtract sound like that, but unless the samples can be lined up perfectly, it won't really work. :p As ZB says, you'd need the exact same MIDI output, but it's almost certainly compressed in the video, so you'd need to then put it through the exact same compression algorithm...
I actually tried that with audacity and garage band - no good. Seems the audio quality just isn't good enough. Though I am no expert.
ZylonBane on 11/2/2015 at 01:38
You'd need a program that does some actual DSP work on the signal, not just a dumb sample-level subtraction.
