In tracks such as "Mountains" and "Crisis", some instruments are buried in the mix, barely audible. And little effort, it seems, was put in to re-balance the orchestration. Instruments lack the clarity of the Proteus 2's original sounds, where the only true deficiency was in the french horns. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound half as good as the PSX originals. Unlike the PSX Vandal Hearts - an accomplishment in virtual orchestration utilizing the sounds of the Emu Proteus 2 - the Saturn version is a straightforward conversion of the tracks to whatever MIDI the Saturn uses. My thanks to UVList from who I grabbed the photo of the cover. I have not been able to find information about who converted the original tracks, nor about who wrote the new ones. The names are generally "SEQ38_03" and indeed it goes up from "SEQ38_03" to "SEQ47_03", the only outliers being "SEQ38_02" and "SEQ48_01". As I had thought, it does indeed include a number of new pieces of music, unfortunately untitled, as they were never officially released. So, someone uploaded the Sega Saturn version of the Vandal Hearts soundtrack to Zophar's Domain.
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