tohopes | Beneath a Steel Sky - Roland LA music - St. James Club ("As cool as you") @tohopes | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 16 hours ago
The music of Beneath a Steel Sky, as played by the game running in ScummVM connected to a Roland CM-64 via a USB MIDI interface.

The CM-64, like the MT-32, CM-32L, and LAPC-I, is one of Roland's "Linear Arithmetic" synthesizers, which produce musical tones by combining PCM samples with synthesized waveforms. These devices, marketed to amateur musicians and players of computer games, were less expensive, less powerful relatives of Roland's D-50 Linear Arithmetic synthesizer which was used by professional musicians in the late 80s and 90s.

These videos include a photo of the LA32 synthesis chip in my CM-64 which produced the sound recorded in the videos. The date code printed on it indicates that it was produced in the 13th week of 1989.

I don't know whether official titles exist for the tracks, so I've named most of them after the areas of the game in which they are used.

This playlist (Beneath a Steel Sky - Roland LA music):
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXHw_ipV81iMUdWaOVrCuhqE6xzJm6b8

from Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
gog.com/game/beneath_a_steel_sky
Music: Dave Cummins
Game Developer: Revolution Software