Archive created by -=MIRSOFT=-
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*** Archive info ***
Archiver: Mirsoft
Type: Converted
Format: MID (GM)
Original Composer: Dave Lowe, Johann Strauss, Richard Wagner, Mussorgsky, Greig
Sequencer: Dave Lowe, George Hooper, Mirsoft
Num of tunes: 17
Complete: 100%

*** Game info ***
Name: Frontier First Encounters
Platform: PC
Year: 1995
Genre: Mix
Publisher: Gametek
Developer: Gametek

*** Additional info ***
Half of the tunes in game was used from game "Frontier - Elite 2", which was 
predecessor of Frontier: First Encounters. That game had only MT32 music and 
these tracks were adapted for the other Midi cards very badly. I tried the 
original FFE game at various Midi cards, from General Midi to AWE32, and all 
sounded wrong more or less.

Fortunately, George Hopper re-arranged the Midi tracks a bit, and released them
at his great FFE site: http://www.hooplah.com/encounters/music.htm. I included 
these in the archive and made also some changes to the tunes by myself, to avoid 
endless snares and weird samples in some songs (especially the Elite 2 ones). 
The result is what you can see here - it sure sounds better than original tunes, 
but it's still not the right cake sometimes.

I included original HMPs from the game for comparison.

Btw., for Elite 2 tunes (tracks 10-17), you should probably try the Frontier - 
Elite 2.ZIP archive; they are converted from Roland MT32 to General Midi using 
MT2GM tool and some sound better imho.