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[Maxor127]

I grew up playing the floppy version, but now I'm trying to play the CD version on Dosbox, but the speech is too quiet and gets drowned out by the music. Is there a way to adjust that? I use D-Fend Reloaded, and I've messed with the volume sliders, but it didn't help. I want the speech to be louder but the music to stay the same volume.

I've tried ScummVM. The speech is a lot better, but the music doesn't sound emulated as good.

Actually, after messing with the sound options in Dosbox, I'm thinking the music through MT-32 emulation may be too loud.

*Edit* Finally fixed it after messing with settings for a few hours and googling for solutions. It seems I needed to uncheck "Use Mixer" or in otherwords, sbmixer=false, which doesn't make sense to me, but oh well.

[Scatty]

Originally Posted by Maxor127

It seems I needed to uncheck "Use Mixer" or in otherwords, sbmixer=false, which doesn't make sense to me, but oh well.

It actually makes perfect sense. Back in the days of Ms-Dos sound cards used drivers to load and a program to adjust the volume of the various outputs of the card in Dos, which worked for each game but also could be adjusted additionally in games that supported their own volume adjustment, which often resulted in a very complex chaos of volume settings needed to be adjusted.
Now I guess DosBox has a hidden mixer volume setting that's ran when the program start, virtually emulating "a soundcard" for compatibility reasons with games. Which is causing Legend of Kyrandia to produce the quiet sound.

One additional important note - if you're using the Roland MT-32 music setting, without having an actual MT-32 hardware module being attached, or without a special emulation program running, the music will not sound like real MT-32 music was meant to sound at all. It would at best sound a bit different from a General MIDI setting and probably a bit messed up and strange at times, since DosBox doesn't emulate MT-32 by itself. Same goes for Roland Sound Canvas setting (supported in Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate).