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New Pico-8 Tunes!

Added 2020-10-14 14:56:59 +0000 UTC

July 26/21 update - Added a whole new cart of tunes, called CozyTunes. More information below!

Attached to this post are carts filled with music and other interesting bits. These are for you to use, remix, learn, etc. They may eventually make it into the public forums, but for now, these are for $5+ Patrons only.

Currently, there are THREE carts (more descriptions below). You can preview all the songs in the video above – timing cues are best used in YouTube. I'm terrible with titles, so suggestions are appreciated. In the meantime, I've "tagged" them with some ideas. As I write more of these, I'll include them here and update this post.

Hope you enjoy!

Nine Tunes

These are similar to what you’d hear in Pico-8 Tunes Vol. 1 & 2 - a wide range of styles to suit different games. They are very short, usually using only using 6-8 SFX. Any less, and it’s too repetitive, and more and they take up too much space. They are also mostly limited to two channels. This is so I can squish as many into a cart as possible, but also accommodate games that use lots of sound effects.

Pattern 00: Village, Explore, Cute (0:00)
Pattern 10: Military, March (0:40)
Pattern 15: Epic, Battle, Space (1:30)
Pattern 25: Church, Holy, Death (2:06)
Pattern 29: Waiting, Puzzle, Time (2:50)
Pattern 37: Boss, Tense (3:26)
Pattern 43: Peace, Sky, Work (3:57)
Pattern 51: Core, Evil, Pulsing (4:58)
Pattern 53: Dance, Funky (5:41)

Ambiences

These are more environmental ambiences than music – little explorations in sound design and Pico-8’s instrument editor.

Pattern 00: Planetary Power Generator (6:16)
Pattern 01: Helicopter (6:42)
Pattern 02: Beach (7:07)
Pattern 03: Hive Mind (7:33)
Pattern 04: Idle Sports Car (7:59)
Pattern 05: Camp Fire (8:25)
Pattern 06: Glitch Festival (8:53)

CozyTunes

Another cart of nine tunes with a variety of styles. They’re “cozy” because they mostly use the less harsh sounding instruments, and they all use one set of custom instruments. This cart features the use of the detune filter + INST 0, so even though they’re all limited to 2-channels, you can expect to hear much more harmony.