Age of Empires MIDI Soundtrack - Roland SC-88

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MIDI music of the Age of Empires and The Rise of Rome expansion played on the Roland SC-88.
The CD soundtrack is superior. Recorded from MIDI files.
As a bonus: both openings recorded using Yamaha SW-1000XG.
Music by David and Stephen Rippy.
1997 - 1998 Ensemble Studios, Microsoft.
00:00 - Title
00:57 - Sick Sate Rittim
03:56 - Fretless Salsa
06:42 - Polyrhythmic Pong
09:38 - String Attack!
12:33 - Medieval Melody
15:41 - The Old One Sleeps
18:45 - Slow and Spacious
21:39 - Wally
24:29 - Rain
27:38 - Lost
28:24 - Won
The Rise of Rome
28:48 - Title
29:36 - Tango Alpha Bravo
32:40 - Polyester Jammy
35:00 - Hyman's Wrath
37:49 - Slow and Spacious
40:44 - Mean (Ain't No Hip-Hop In Tha House Mix)
44:04 - Medeival Melody (sic)
47:12 - Sh'Washa
50:13 - Crawly
53:36 - Fretless Salsa
56:21 - Bigelow's Bungalow
59:26 - Lost
1:00:00 - Won
Bonus
1:00:45 - Title
1:01:39 - Title The Rise of Rome

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@tph12 Год назад

There is one track missing, I think? "Cave" ("Wonder of the World" in the DE version). The very first one you used to hear, when you started a new game.

@sfurta Год назад

Hi, already discussed here. CD audio only.

@P4purri 5 лет назад

I'm listening to this at work, I do not know if it happens to someone, but I concentrate a lot, like in the game hahahaha

@Matt-rd5oy 4 года назад

SAME lmao

@DavidGonzalez-jw2re 4 года назад

Me to I'm a carpenter got it on my headphones man love it

@p1k4x 4 года назад

Rogan?

@ballisticthreat 4 года назад

Same here. I also listen to other game soundtracks when working. My favorites are Dying Light, Skyrim and Time Commando.

@GarfieldRex 3 года назад

X2 👌

@kevingon.segundoa.enf.1571 7 лет назад

Erectus

@onurbesttirrapte 6 лет назад

abudagus

@GovernorBroadsideDS 6 лет назад

Roggan?

@thrillaspirit 5 лет назад

Lieutenant Toy Freddy Ready March

@Zacarriss 5 лет назад

Homus

@arquebusierx 5 лет назад

😩

@marco_evertus 6 лет назад

10/10 transported back to 1998

@jorcyd 4 года назад

Good ol'e 200 MHz Pentium MMX days

@nguyenvannhan2127 Год назад

this sound track is too epic to be forgotten.. so deep, so dramatic, so vigorous, so mysterious..

@generalruntime657 7 лет назад

Not sure what sound card I had when I played this as a kid, but this sounds a lot closer to what I remember than the other soundtracks uploaded to RU-vid. Cheers.

@RennieAsh 7 лет назад

There were 2 different MIDI soundbanks, the default Microsoft one and that came with Creative Soundblasters, not sure if you could get that MIDI soundbank elsewhere.

@juniorsilvabroadcast 6 лет назад

Windows uses Roland SoundCanvas.

@LobarRobotic 5 лет назад

Yeah this one sounds the closest to mine. Apart from my Windows 95 Soundblaster 16 - that was simple computerized sounds that didn't sound like actual sound effects/instruments!

@rovert94 5 лет назад

I believe it used CD audio primarily so probably the Sound Canvas of the time. SC-88?

@GooseMcBruce 4 года назад

Age of Empires had 2 different soundtracks depending on whether you had the CD in, the one you find on most AOE soundtrack vids is the CD version

@natMcil 6 лет назад

SHHH WOOOHH

@focusgaming5425 5 лет назад

How how, how how

@Dr170 4 года назад

Roggan? Wololo

@nestorenriqueleiva 4 года назад

Tun ti ti tuk (house) Tu tu tik (barn or granary)

@TZAR_POTATO 4 года назад

SHHHH HA!

@Daren_PNW 3 года назад

Look at you chat, er, comment, section getting your SFX on. xD

@graiionnk.8261 5 лет назад

Roland has a pretty unique signature sound when it comes to MIDI and signal processing, it makes me feel too much nostalgia, and I born late in the 90’s.

@Silencer333 11 месяцев назад

same i was born in 97 and have much appreciation for the music and the games of aoe and even aoe2

@nestorenriqueleiva 4 года назад

Rogan? Sums Tabadacus? Awiters (TADA TADA) Aioioio aioioio wololo wololo IIAAAOOOOOOOO...

@anmerpozzo 3 года назад

*clink* *CLINK* *CLANG* uuoohhh!

@nestorenriqueleiva 3 года назад

@@anmerpozzo (TUM TUM, CJJJJCK) (FFFFIIIIUUUU TUK TUK TUK TUK) (PUM) (FFFFIIIIUUUU TUK TUK TUK TUK) (PUM) (FFFFIIIIUUUU TUK TUK TUK TUK) (PUM) OOOHHH... EEEIIII... UUGGGHHH... AAAAHHHHH... IIAAAOOOOOO...

@RennieAsh 19 дней назад

@@anmerpozzowitt-titt-tink! Jingle jingle Yeurgh! Thoomf! Clatter clatt-tatter

@jemert96 3 года назад

Wow. Never knew there was actual bass in this soundtrack, damnn

@rommix0 2 года назад

Oh yes. What's even better is the Sound Canvas (particularly the SC-88) has a digital filter that can be manipulated. It's very nice and bassy.

@juniorsilvabroadcast 8 месяцев назад

I'm impressed by the low-frequency presence on SC-88. Extremely cool sound

@RennieAsh 19 дней назад

It's quite refined and not annoying like some midi banks

@remib4487 3 года назад

so much rage in me that i've never heard the entire "lost" music

@sculpy2758 13 дней назад

Yesssssssss!!! THERE IT IS! "Medieval Melody"! 12:37 I haven't heard this song in 27 years. This was the soundtrack to the beginning of my addiction to vidya games, playing the AoE demo on my dad's beat-up thinkpad work laptop whenever I could. Damn, I thought I would never find this soundtrack again. All i've seen for years are a bunch of AoE soundtracks I've never heard before. These original midi songs are so much more memorable than all the other ones around.

@CrossbowManD 3 года назад

Oh wow, I wish there was a larger interest in midi instruments. Something about it is so intriguing and always gets my attention.

@pjsretrogamesmusicandwrass5795 3 года назад

Me too... I would love to see a whole film score just full of midi but orchestrated succinctly

@ghostbombl8034 3 года назад

Midi is huge in the electronic world.Prety much most electronic producers really on heavy midi for midi modules to midi virtual plug-ins.

@Thirsty_Fox 2 года назад

@@ghostbombl8034 What's more is MIDI is used for sampling instruments. Tons of "instrumental" music is made using MIDI controls of pre-recorded instrument samples. Some of the pianos sound indistinguishable from playing the real thing.

@andreim2761 3 года назад

This is a flawless recording and audio mastering , really loving the dynamic sound of it, spacious, powerful and punchy, while crisp, bright and smooth. What's more fascinating is that the power pool reserve and depth are maintained when all instruments kick in, sounds don't muffle or drain eachother out. Verry impressive, I'm beginning to understand my dad's obsession with vintage oldschool audio, analogic magnetophone reel to reel players, cassette decks and do on. Hard to find a sound with this attitude. 00:57 Sick Sate Rittim sounds incredible, especially at 2:29 onward Thank you for this !

@100push-upsguy6 Год назад

What do you think about the new defintive soundtrack?

@andreim2761 Год назад

@@100push-upsguy6 Some tracks are fantastic, other not half bad. I like it overall, the orchestra gives it a noble touch.

@RennieAsh 19 дней назад

@@100push-upsguy6some tracks seem to drown in reverb but others seem quite well done

@user-xo9ig8kc3u 2 года назад

This version has so much more weight & 'punch' than the other versions, I knew I was missing something before.

@qdwang-main 7 лет назад

This is even better than the remastered definitive edition of aoe1

@juniorsilvabroadcast 6 лет назад

It's kinda similar. But that one is the original version. The remastered is remixed

@suntechh 4 года назад

way better**

@CallofDutyBlackOps28 3 года назад

Fun part is that the midi music uses stock sounds/effects

@Bulhakas 3 года назад

Even better? The DE remastered soundtrack is crap.

@CallofDutyBlackOps28 3 года назад

@@Bulhakas he never said the remaster was good.

@marnixmaximus3053 3 года назад

I used to be so blown away by this game. My first introduction to rts and history. The graphics looked so nice to my young eye. It was probably there and then I became a gamer that loves history, even though I didn't understand jack of the game (yet).

@sculpy2758 13 дней назад

The graphics STILL look nice. Well-drawn 2D sprites never get dated.

@DiehardMechWarrior 6 лет назад

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS IT SOUNDS BETTER THAN MY CHILDHOOD!

@GovernorBroadsideDS 7 лет назад

The 1 person who disliked probably doesn't know what good AoE was.

@GovernorBroadsideDS 6 лет назад

Make it 3

@Gendercultist 6 лет назад

the game itself is kinda ehh, but I love the music for it so I won't complain about it lol

@tuff_lover 4 года назад

They're multiplying, my lord!

@TheDolphinTuna 3 года назад

It is a mathematical certainty that a RU-vid video will receive dislikes on it. Somebody might have pressed the wrong button. Somebody may dislike every video they see just for kicks. Somebody might really, really hate MIDI files and not want them recommended to them in the future. Bottom line, no point in overanalyzing the mind of someone who dislikes a harmless video. It’s just a mainstay of the website.

@p1k4x 7 лет назад

Rogan?

@wave_mds 6 лет назад

Eba-tonni.

@Sacrengard 6 лет назад

wololo

@robertjuh 6 лет назад

hommos

@GovernorBroadsideDS 6 лет назад

Oklahoma?

@TheDolphinTuna 6 лет назад

Oomatah

@FizzyMcSoda 6 лет назад

47:12 Sh'Washa I remember always starting to head into the Iron Age at this point, and starting to research many technologies. Feels like so long ago now.

@vietstudios2624 Год назад

This should be implemented in definitive edition

@fayt_an 2 года назад

Обожал эту игру в детстве, да и щас люблю, в первую часть я играл больше чем во-вторую , и я очень любил музыку из этой прекрасной игры, спасибо за саундтрек

@JulijanBone666 4 года назад

37:49 - Slow and Spacious hands down the best AoE soundtrack!

@joesligo1516 Год назад

This is my stripper song

@Disionable Год назад

@@joesligo1516 I'm seriously curious: In exact way is it a stripper song to you? What does stripper song even mean?

@SheyESO Год назад

Lol

@electrominded8372 3 года назад

Brings back so many memories

@usa_bruce4295 2 месяца назад

Im going to comment cause I lost this and have been looking for it for nine whole days! Its my favorite thing on youtube or top 20

@pineapplebob06 6 лет назад

MIDI at its finest love mid 90s games music

@ViktorKruger99 4 года назад

Could someone inject this soundtrack into my veins!

@nestorenriqueleiva 4 года назад

Ayoyohow, Ayoyohow, wololo, wololo, ayoyohow, wololo, ayoyohow, wololo, wololo, Ayow.

@gabrielcalcagni3983 Месяц назад

Hello man, that's bring me to me at my ancients eras 1998.. Sometimes I play some random map in my old CPU. This is great!!

@xeenslayer 7 лет назад

YES!! This is exactly how it should all sound like! For some reason after transferring my aoe midi files over to newer OSs (which can't play the game), they all sound likr crap in any media player. This is gold! Thanks for sharing!

@xeenslayer 6 лет назад

Not orchestra-like at all like this version, very flat overall, some channels can't be heard or sound totally different. Basically bad.

@xeenslayer 6 лет назад

Oh yup I did - agree with you 100% there.

@Daniel.J.Rinander 5 лет назад

Hey! You stole my comment! ^.^

@Zack_Wester 2 года назад

age of empires soundtrack was in a fileformat callled .midi midi files are best described as a the sheet music meaning your computer had to read the note and play whit there instrument. sadly microsoft removed there okey still not good midi sound databse somewhere after XP. and replaced it whit a super basic and crap 3MB midi sound data base or something.

@Fyrapan90 11 месяцев назад

This brings back a lot of memories, man I loved my childhood despite of being bullied in school I could always escape into playing this game and others like this which brought me endless joy. Forever will love it! 😊

@dominicperez3777 7 лет назад

Omas!

@BurnRoddy 6 лет назад

Roggen?

@paolodebord 6 лет назад

Soms...

@musicfan1558 6 лет назад

Olemar

@itsnouse-yourswillbeastill2562 6 лет назад

HOGES!

@MrHungXoan 6 лет назад

ZUKANTA!

@midimusicforever 4 года назад

WOLOLO! These songs are all mine now.

@electrominded8372 3 года назад

Priest converting butt****!

@TheMIBWORKSHOP 2 года назад

*baby crying intesified*

@Matthew-yc2qr 6 лет назад

Medieval melody sounds great

@nicolassantillana6590 4 года назад

Beautiful!! Thanks for this content!! 😁👍🏼

@bendervelosoc.r.f8456 2 года назад

going back to childhood with this 😀

@largadeugnt Год назад

Working home and found this gem to use as background tracks. Thank you!

@user-tb4kc5uv1p Год назад

28:48 1:01:39 The picture in the expansion title is the Parthenon

@astridberwouts8432 7 лет назад

Wololo!

@DomVelando 6 лет назад

Berenbos hiyooooo

@AnthonyEdwards-vj3uz Год назад

When Hyman's Wrath plays I just imagine my wheel upgraded villagers running around at 15 miles an hour.

@paradise3008 3 года назад

Hace muchos años puse un cd en un equipo de musica y sonaba esta bestialldad, ..paso el tiempo y se fundio mi cd, nunca mas escuche este hermoso sonido, siempre encontraba los mp3 o wav pero no sonaba como yo recordaba, ahora que escucho esto...GRACIASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@bcj842 Год назад

I learned the word “Scenario” from this game. Now I know if anyone asks where I first heard the word “Scenario”, I can say… “Why, I first learned the word Scenario while playing Age of Empires as a young boy.”

@Daniel.J.Rinander Год назад

Same for me!

@dl0.0lb 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the upload - Sounds just like I remember it!

@IngenieurIII069 Год назад

thanks for this masterpiece

@sfan997 2 месяца назад

2024 still listen to this music❤ Will never forget also when they develop technology that people will live 200 years I will be in 2224 and will hear this music 😂😂😂

@ZantineVonKauffen 2 месяца назад

Buying a CD copy of the game best decision ever. Although the first AoE game I played was AoE2, gifted to me in 2003

@KurtKombajn-p9y Месяц назад

for me the best one is polyester jammy, i took me back in time in a instance when i hear it

@astrahcat1212 10 месяцев назад

Amazing thank you!

@dragonlord4643 4 года назад

someone else here who loves "Rain" as much as i do?

@laureanoochoa3183 7 месяцев назад

Obra de arte!! Este juego es una maravilla.

@juniorsilvabroadcast 6 лет назад

I think Microsoft released the CD music remix using some type of Tone Generator. It's so similar to that one.

@Poemwriter_Angelo 3 года назад

16:40 i really want to hear an electric guitar rif cover from this part.

@BruceLeeLegend92 5 лет назад

WHAT A SOUND!!

@AdamEichholz 6 лет назад

Oh man, now THIS is how I remember it on my old PC with garbage speakers

@michal4736 5 лет назад

Memories and nostalgy erruption :O dayum!

@nestorenriqueleiva 5 лет назад

WOLOLO, WOLOLO, AYOYOHOW AYOYOHOW, WOLOLO, WOLOLO.

@TheCrowzZz 3 года назад

The best game of strategy of all times? I think so

@DarthPferd Год назад

Gold... Pure gold

@Amoth_oth_ras_shash 5 лет назад

geeting home , geeting the home work done and down to a teeth....hearing this tune boot up and imagening all sorts of crap around the scenarios one made...and then when learned enough english imagening shit about the personas in the campains. Good times , when one still thought the world of adults was filled with sane people taking responsible decisions ^^

@Mew178 7 лет назад

HOLY SHIT AM I GLAD I SUBBED TO YOU.

@neokonline_ 3 года назад

awesome! This sounds like how it did on my old PC!

@Adefesio94 2 года назад

I learned a lot about music with the games I used to play. I could say I become a musician thank you to videogames!

@cinusforever 4 года назад

It's weirdly calming

@arikgwie5172 2 года назад

Magnificient! This is my favourite game until now. First played it when I was 14 years old, it was around 1998. I was still in class two junior high school. I remember installed it on Intel Pentium II PC with OS Windows 95, and showed how great this game to my parents, also how terrible I played. I mean, that time I still a newbie in RTS game. Thus I played the skirmish, showed to my parents, and in about 5 minutes or so, the enemy came and destroyed everything... well... but after I learned the strategy and able to win the scenarios, I fall in love with this game. Until now, I have AOE 1,2, and 3

@Magemo7 Год назад

I was terrorised when I saw santa pop saying "wololo" and a villager disapear in the fog ... yeah, the ennemy red priest had just converted one of my units ...

@charlygarcia3290 Год назад

¡Excelent! 👏👏👏

@peterjoyfilms 7 лет назад

Sounds good on ur system

@gleinadys 3 года назад

Me encantaba mucho el sonido del midi cuando no ponia el CD, buenos tiempos alla por 1998 =D

@rafaelgarcia-el4qg 2 года назад

son ideas mía o existió otra versión de este soundtrack

@PabloArielDalinger 4 года назад

I love this!

@williamolsen2349 11 месяцев назад

Ya made me pull out the fearless salsa lookmwhat cha did - willy 0

@Crockett987 7 лет назад

King!

@indo3052 8 месяцев назад

Nice

@amoqueca Год назад

It's insane how I remember 90% of this OST lmao play this during 2001-2002

@indo3052 8 месяцев назад

I thought i was the only one lol

@amoqueca 8 месяцев назад

lol@@indo3052

@duffthimblespork 3 года назад

Six-year-old me was 1337-hax0r for figuring out that I could get the "alternate soundtrack" to play by opening the CD tray then launching the game (or maybe it was the other way around. It's been a while)

@anmerpozzo 3 года назад

I used to do this with a Play Station Mortal Kombat Trilogy CD. lol

@joseb.7168 6 лет назад

esta música te hace sentir en la edad de piedra o en la época de las piramides o zigurats

@DarthPferd Год назад

Muy misteriosa. Para mi el mejor Age.

@joseb.7168 Год назад

@@DarthPferd maravillosa melodía el DEFINITIVO EDICIÓN debió quedar así juntando está y la de Roma.

@GooseMcBruce 5 лет назад

the battle: AoE medieval melody or RoR medieval melody

@borngamer1706 9 месяцев назад

Came here to get the daily dose

@RMJ1984 2 года назад

Wow, these tracks actually have bass now. This is sick! :O

@jemert96 Год назад

Always played this game on my homework pc with monitor speakers, this sounds soooo much better

@RMJ1984 Год назад

@@jemert96 It legit sounds like the songs were remastered or something!.

@marlucius3257 Год назад

Unfortunately, most of these songs are not heard as they were originally emulated, the melodies were heard more natural. here certain instruments are lost and others are replaced. play your game cd on your home stereo and it will reproduce it more faithfully to the original sounds

@quang9708 3 года назад

tuổi thơ dữ dội :))

@nycoshouse 7 лет назад

Yeayyyy !

@Sytheduke 4 года назад

I legitimately dance to Fretless Salsa

@onecaleb9741 6 лет назад

Shh ho

@user-gj2fk1sw1u Год назад

Greatest set of history game's i ever played

@rdc323 5 лет назад

40:44 best

@indo3052 8 месяцев назад

Lol

@gheadwind Год назад

epic

@Cenuzi 4 месяца назад

0:57 + 3:56 My jam

@Wa-ok1ip 7 лет назад

Wow

@hectorchamate2216 11 месяцев назад

40:44 - Mean (Ain't No Hip-Hop In Tha House Mix) this prob. the best part of the whole OST.

@indo3052 8 месяцев назад

Lol

@williamolsen2349 4 месяца назад

When they say your alone to lie for moral but you can post armies killing each other online - Willy 0

@nirv 2 года назад

You guys know these games shipped with an actual CD audio soundtrack AND midis? These are just the midis being played with a Roland. I still strongly believe the actual soundtrack is superior. I just read the description after I wrote this and the uploader use my exact phrasing: the original soundtrack is superior.

@indo3052 8 месяцев назад

Damn, is that netscape navigatpr ? Lol

@nirv 8 месяцев назад

@@indo3052 Maybe.™

@Veranek 7 лет назад

Subbed.

@Malkibaal 5 лет назад

gah in ... directus!

@cesaru3619 4 года назад

the best of the best synth midi module and the best song 35:00 - Hyman's Wrath, when you hear that song you know an army is being crushed.

@Shivasish666 Год назад

Hyman's Wrath is simply incredible! Such insane energy, a furious tempo and a flow that's as smooth and silky as the softest velvet. Soooo damn addictive! Makes my day so much better every single time I listen to it.

@juniorsilvabroadcast 8 месяцев назад

That one is crazily good. the guys behind this OST are legends. and apparently this game music was made using a SC-88 or equivalent MIDI device. It just sounds like it's made for SoundCanvas.

@Mriya6 Год назад

Oh wow, Medieval Melody sounds so different on this compared to what I grew up on as a kid. The chorus is played with some kind of wooden wind instrument, rather than the high pitched flutes I remember (and have heard in other soundtracks)

@n3rdopolis 8 месяцев назад

You must have had a different SoundFont file. Or are you talking about the version from the original version, or the Rise of Rome one? Because there are slight differences between those too

@Mriya6 8 месяцев назад

@@n3rdopolis The one I'm familiar with comes from the Rise of Rome soundtrack, the only version that I know of. I don't believe it was part of the original AOE soundtrack.

@n3rdopolis 8 месяцев назад

@@Mriya6 Yeah, I think there is an older version without Medieval Melody, the Rise of Rome had two Medieval Melody's though, MUSIC5.mid when playing the original campaign, and it was XMUSIC6.mid for the Rome expansion. There are some differences, like the opening drum rhythm

@EnglishAndFilm 2 года назад

yAAAAS!

@johnssonsmixed8303 4 года назад

hohohoho! thats why the sound if fucked up on my pc now, I have the mdid version, compaired this to the CD version, this is how I remebered it

@subspacerh9823 4 месяца назад

Comment Section Analysis: 94% - track quality comments 5% - Obscure AoE references 1% - Erectus

@thrillaspirit 5 лет назад

Arioholu ari arioholu Riminiiii Riminiiii

@johnsteffen7944 5 лет назад

pretty hot.

@Macdim1980 4 года назад

I have for my Macintosh one version with cd audio and the other with the midi music. I have changed the quicktime settings in order to use my Roland Sound Canvas SC88 for the music. I agree, the cd version is superior.

@DavidGonzalez-jw2re 4 года назад

32:40 best 1 for sure