I intended on having this completed two weeks ago but I caught the flu and it kicked my ass. Mostly better now though! Benefits of working in an ER and having people cough all over you I suppose.
Anyways fun arrangement. I couldn't just cover one track from jojo right? I feel like I've signed a contract selling my soul to jojo and its fanbase lol. I've only just started actually watching the anime. I want to understand the memes!
2020-03-01 19:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post
NOTE: Opens only in 0CC-Famitracker due to having both VRC6 and N163 expansion sound. Vanilla FT doesn't support this, and also N163 functions differently so the slap bass preset made by VinylCheese doesn't work in vanilla either.
I may add thoughts here later since I have a lot of them, generally speaking. For now, please enjoy this FTM and I apologize for putting it here a day later than I had planned. I'm gonna get some sleep now. Job hours are pretty rough this week :(
2020-01-24 15:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Just wanted to warn you guys about volume when trying to open the NSF file. The NSF player I use doesn't seem to properly support N163 expansion sound, so the slap bass waveform sounds ear-piercingly terrible when played back. I haven't taken the time to see if this works with other programs that can run NSF files, but I provided the file here just in case anyone wants to experiment. Just...be careful is all, lol
2020-01-24 15:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostHappy holidays! This is my favorite track from the game. :)
For a minute I was considering whether or not I should cover the first or second version of this theme. I then realized that the second one is just the first one with more stuff (for the most part). I tried making pcm cheer samples, but they sounded god awful so I instead added some more noise channel percussion to keep it sounding alive.
Also Lumena-Tan should've waited one more day so that we could upload our Marn...
2019-12-31 10:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere's something weird about that Earthbound "instrument" that's used for the melody in this. I can't seem to create anything even close to it using VRC6 channels, so I instead just created pcm samples in the beginning.
The end result sounds a bit messy and muddy or whatever, but it was still fun to make! Fun fact: I worked on most of this on a 16-hour flight to Thailand about a month ago. :)
2019-12-31 10:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's something I made for the KFAD collab project: a slightly glitchy arrangement of Amalgam from Undertale. I may upload this to my channel at some point, but I might make some changes to it first since it will no longer represent MissingNo.
2019-12-31 10:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostI'm baffled that my channel has reached 20,000 subs, but even more astounded by my 37 patrons. I'm so appreciative of all of you, and I wish I could only get these arrangements done quicker while maintaining the same quality.
Aside from my channel, I have a couple of covers planned that will be part of collab projects. I can't say too much about them, but expect a couple more covers by the end of the year that will not be on my youtube channel. :)
You know when you listen to your own track so many times that you can't really tell if it sounds good or not? I guess it's kind of a bad habit of mine. Not that I necessarily need to take more breaks, but I just need to focus more on getting work done and adding my own embellishments rather than trying to perfect what I've already finished. There comes a point where you spend too much time on something and any adjustments you make can actually make it sound worse. But you don't know if that's...
2019-10-07 00:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy with how this came out! I think the expression in the melodies came out nicely, and I even got to use 2-channel reverb a couple times! I worked on this for about 5-6 hours for the past 5 days and I'm a bit burnt lol
My only issue is that the triangle bass might be just a weeee bit too loud, but adjusting that would mean SLIGHTLY adjusting the volume of every other instrument throughout the whole track. And by an increment less than 1, which would take hours and hours of comple...
2019-09-12 01:53:26 +0000 UTC View PostMy next cover is going to be from a franchise I haven't tackled yet!
I plan on uploading my stuff to Soundcloud and keeping it updated soon. Also gonna compile the downloads in google docs or something. Soon. Once I figure out a good way to separate the files and keep the ftms available for patrons only.
Thanks for sticking around! :)
2019-09-02 20:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Toby the fox has an interesting habit of picking weird quarter-tone key signatures like F 'three-quarter-tone-sharp' minor (Rude Buster) and in this case C 'three-quarter-tone-sharp' minor. In other words, the entirety of Asgore and Bergentrückung is between C# minor and D minor. Unlike with my Rude Buster cover, I made fine pitch adjustments within Famitracker to try and emulate this. The problem is that the size of the pitch increments (in units called "cents") fluctuates, becoming smaller...
2019-08-15 11:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostOur goal of $50/month has been reached! Thank you all so much!
Though this is the first "goal" I've set for this Patreon page, it'll probably be the only one for now. It was an arbitrary number to begin with, and I thought "hey you know this would be kinda cool". So, where from here? Well, any and all support is appreciated, and I feel absolutely indebted to my largest contributors. I urge anyone, patron or otherwise, to make suggestions for improving my channel and my music. Though I r...
2019-06-30 12:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a lot of fun to work on, and I like how it came out!
I have a bit of a secret/confession: I'm not all that crazy about Lyn Inaizumi's voice in some Persona tracks, and I find English lyrics to sound a bit awkward at times. This may not be a popular opinion, but it's one of the things that motivates me to make these chiptune arrangements. Lotus Juice on the other hand is sometimes too good to leave out though!
2019-06-21 11:21:21 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't know until recently that famitracker (and NES/famicom music) has this weird quirk that causes small rhythmic inconsistencies. This song has a lot of emphasis on the consistent beat, so it was definitely a noticeable issue here. There are ways to work around it by keeping the tempo fixed at 150 BPM and only changing the speed setting, which doesn't give you a whole lot of options for tempo range. I worked around this by adjusting the engine speed, which gives me a bit more freed...
2019-06-04 13:56:49 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a lot of things that work just fine in an orchestrated piece that may not translate well into chiptune. I definitely ran into some difficulty with that here, but I like how this came out overall. I just don't know if I'm as satisfied as I would like to be, considering how long this took!
Don't get me wrong. Fighting this boss is by far a more grueling process lmao
2019-05-10 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is another arrangement I've been wanting to do for a while! I thought it would sound cool in 2A03 8-Bit, and I guess it does? I've decided that I don't really enjoy working within the confines of 2A03 limits nearly as much as I've enjoyed making VRC6 arrangements lately. So definitely except mostly the latter from here on, but I'll still be making 2A03 arrangements here and there. :)
I considered making a DMC sample of "SUPER SMASH BROTHERS MELEEEEEEE" for the end of this but decid...
2019-05-02 11:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostI've been wanting to cover this for almost 2 years now. Feels good to finally get it done :)
I considered having segments where the two versions of this theme overlapped as sort of a mashup, but I also kinda wanted to keep the Black 2 version as calm as it is. It serves as a relaxing break from the funky percussion and melodies in the White 2 version.
Did I say how much I like BW2's soundtrack? Because I like it. A lot.
2019-03-19 11:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostI think this might be the longest I've spent on a cover to date lol. Probably somewhere around 24-28 hours total. Unlike with my Pull The Trigger cover, I actually used the DPCM channel for the Lotus Juice lyrics and didn't overlay samples in post-editing! I'm proud of myself for not cheating this time. :)
I'm probably going to hold off on doing more tracks from Persona Q2 at this point - sorry for those who want more. I've covered the tracks I like most, and it's time to move on to oth...
2019-03-07 11:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post
