Touhou 8 IN - Full OST (Windows MIDI Version)

Описание: Track list:
1. 0:00 - Title screen theme - Eternal Night Vignette ~ Eastern Night
2. 2:23 - Stage 1 theme - Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes
3. 6:48 - Wriggle's theme - Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect
4. 9:02 - Stage 2 theme - Song of the Night Sparrow ~ Night Bird
5. 14:12 - Mystia's theme - Deaf to All but the Song
6. 17:00 - Stage 3 theme - Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World
7. 19:57 - Keine's theme - Plain Asia
8. 23:28 - Stage 4 theme - Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night
9. 26:35 - Reimu's theme - Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle
10. 32:24 - Marisa's theme - Love-Colored Master Spark
11. 36:38 - Stage 5 theme - Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome-Kagome
12. 42:24 - Reisen's theme - Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon
13. 46:29 - Stage 6 theme - Voyage 1969
14. 49:25 - Eirin's theme - Gensokyo Millennium ~ History of the Moon
15. 55:40 - Kaguya's theme - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
16. 1:00:50 - Eirin & Kaguya's final spell theme - Voyage 1970
17. 1:02:39 - Extra stage theme - Extend Ash ~ Person of Hourai
18. 1:08:04 - Mokou's theme - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
19. 1:14:05 - Ending theme - Evening Primrose
20. 1:16:50 - Credits theme - Eternal Dream ~ Mystical Maple
21. 1:19:51 - Last word theme - Eastern Youkai Beauty

If you go down the rabbit hole of early Windows-era Touhou music (highly recommend, since it's chock full of bangers), you might've heard it said that what you hear in the games is not the way the soundtrack was originally intended to be heard. ZUN actually first composed Touhou 6, 7, and 8's music using a certain MIDI module, the Roland SC-88Pro. Later on, he got a fancier new synthesizer, the Roland Edirol SD-90, and before releasing the games, re-recorded their music (with a few adjustments) - and those are the versions you know and love.

The in-game WAVs are great, and the "true" MIDI versions sound pretty nice in their own way, but I'm more intrigued by the ugly duckling sibling of those 2, the MIDIs played with the default Windows MIDI or "Doom" soundfont. Some may say it's wrong just on principle to listen to it this way, or wrong because they sound hideous, but this soundfont has always had a naive nostalgic charm to me. Reminds me of simpler times playing fun old PC and GameMaker games.

What you hear in this video is what you hear if you go into Touhou 6, 7, or 8's options menu and select the "MIDI" option - that's right, you can play the whole game with these simplistic versions! (The option exists in TH9 also, but oddly it's not selectable.) I had an odd issue on Windows 10 with disappearing drumbeats, so I recorded on Windows 7 instead, where they play just fine. I would've provided the actual MIDI files to download, but I can't seem to find them anywhere in the game files, at least not unencrypted.

Didn't realize until too late that apparently somebody else (Soulblade950) already uploaded pretty much this same thing over a decade ago - oops. Still, hopefully this video's useful for you, maybe if you want to hear the full uninterrupted OST, or if you like this recording's sound quality better, or if you're interested to learn about the few changes ZUN made between these original MIDIs and the final WAVs, often changing the song's key. I wonder why he did, maybe to give them a more sinister vibe?

Imperishable Night, another classic soundtrack. I like how it mixes the dark, menacing atmosphere of EoSD with the bright, mystical piano lines of PCB. And there's a lot of songs here, with 2 different stage 4 and stage 6 bosses, and 2 different last word super-tough spell themes. These MIDI versions do sound a bit wonky sometimes, such as the ultra-heavy slammin' drums in both of the stage 2 themes, or the watered-down chords at the start of Evening Primrose. But regardless, there's a lot of cool-sounding stuff here, hope you enjoy it, even if only as an odd diversion from the usual.

Normal WAV versions of the songs:
   • 東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night [RE-EXTENDED]  

The "true" MIDI versions of the songs on Roland SC-88Pro:
   • SC-88Pro - 東方永夜抄 ～ Imperishable Night OST ...  

Playlist of all my game soundtrack rip videos:
   • Soundtrack Rips  

Google Drive archive with my video thumbnails, music MP3s and other stuff:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Audio recorded 2023-06-09
Video produced 2023-06-12 to 2023-06-15, uploaded 2023-06-18

Assets used:
Album art edited from Touhou Wiki
Background and character portraits from The Spriters Resource, provided by gabrielwoj
Music recorded in-game by me
Screenshots taken in-game by me, except for final screenshot (last word) from Touhou Wiki

Programs used:
Audacity - Audio editing
Inkscape - Thumbnail and video layout
Magix Vegas - Video editing
Paint.net - Thumbnail and video graphics