My very first PC-Engine chiptune! SOR1 St1! (well the first half anyway)

[fragmare]

EDIT: Finished

Full Chiptune Mix (6 channels, 22Khz samples): https://soundcloud.com/user-716572978/streets-of-rage-fighting-in-the-street-turbografx-16-chiptune-cover

Decided to start screwing around in Deflemask and ended up making (the first half anyway) of my very first Turbografx-16 chiptune!  From scratch.  Keep in mind I didn't even know what a tracker looked like until about a week ago lol    It's a cover of Fighting In The Street from Steets of Rage 1.  Feedback welcome 

https://soundcloud.com/user-716572978/sor1-fits-mednafen-output01

[Black Tiger]

Wow, this one sounds much better than that last SoR track and it's nice hearing that soft sort of "FM-like" sound from deflemask, instead of the usual PSG-sounding stuff.

[elmer]

That sounds really, really good! 

It's wonderful to hear such excellent results coming from someone that just dived into deflemask a week-or-so ago. 

As a programmer-type, I really have to pray that you're being careful with your sample usage, though! 

[Necromancer]

Sounds good to me.  Keep up the good work!

[touko]

Wow, if arkhan ask, "who needs a tracker", this is the answer . 
BTW good tune fragmare ..

[Gredler]

Fantastic! Is this just straight exported from Deflemask?

[esteban]

I enjoyed the tease.

MOAR.


NOW.

[Michirin9801]

Pretty awesome! I'm always glad to hear more people getting into PC engine music ^^
Keep it up mate, you're on the right path! ;3

[spenoza]

Is this for your upcoming beat em up?   ; )

[fragmare]

Thanks, everybody!    Working on the second half of the song now.  I must say, I think I picked one hell of a "learner" track to cover.  Yuzo was a madman.

Wow, this one sounds much better than that last SoR track and it's nice hearing that soft sort of "FM-like" sound from deflemask, instead of the usual PSG-sounding stuff.

I really tried to get all the FM-ey pitch bends and resonating sounds close to the original.  I'm still probably going to tweak a few instruments/waveforms before it's over, I'm sure.

That sounds really, really good! 

It's wonderful to hear such excellent results coming from someone that just dived into deflemask a week-or-so ago. 

As a programmer-type, I really have to pray that you're being careful with your sample usage, though! 

Thanks!  There are exactly 3 samples being played on channel 6, all ripped straight outta SOR1... the kick, snareclap and cymbal crash.  Everything else is PSG 

Fantastic! Is this just straight exported from Deflemask?

No, this is -soundrecord'ed straight from Mednafen (which is pretty damn close to how the real machine sounds) and volume adjusted a little louder.  The PC-Engine is, in fact, really boogeying down. 

[Arkhan]

Wow, if arkhan ask, "who needs a tracker", this is the answer . 
BTW good tune fragmare ..

Ah, I'm sure Fragmare could handle the MML and stuff.   He can handle f*ckin' photoshop.   a DAW wouldn't scare him, I don't think. 

lol.

This sounds better than the other track for sure.    The leads especially.

[fragmare]

Ah damn, I caught a timing bug with a couple notes in the synth-trumpets, but i fixed them and fine tuned a couple other instruments as well.  New track is uploaded at the same link.  I'm trying to get everything perfect before I move on to the second half of the song, because the second half is almost like a completely different song, but using mostly the same instruments/waveforms.

Updated Track: https://soundcloud.com/user-716572978/sor1-fits-mednafen-output01

Also, here are the HES and DMF files in case anybody is interested... as before, if you play the HES file in Mednafen, crank it.  Some channels are mixed quieter compared to others, so it will sound right.

HES file: https://www.sendspace.com/file/mrcbq6
DMF file: https://www.sendspace.com/file/r3w93j

Ah, I'm sure Fragmare could handle the MML and stuff.   He can handle f*ckin' photoshop.   a DAW wouldn't scare him, I don't think. 

lol.

This sounds better than the other track for sure.    The leads especially.

Lol... thanks?  Photoshop isn't really that complex, once you know the layout, imo.  I dunno about a DAW, but to get things to sound right for this SOR1 tune, I ripped the audio from the Genesis ROM to WAV on a per-channel basis.  Then I'd fire up Sound Forge and load up the resulting WAV files and zoom way in to see what kind of volume envolopes, pitch bends and (if you zoom in super close) the individual repeating waveforms themselves.  Then, since Deflemask lets you basically draw your own HuC6280 volume envelopes and waveforms, I simply put my pixeling skills to use and literally drew what I saw from SoundForge.  Pretty enlightening. 

[Arkhan]

Yeah...

Photoshop to me is "f*ckin buttons everywhere".    A DAW is pretty similar in that regard.   Once you know what they be, it's like shit this is easy.

also, lol, Soundforge.  Hell yeah.  You're the only other person I know to use it still.   do you use WinAmp too?

[fragmare]

Yeah...

Photoshop to me is "f*ckin buttons everywhere".    A DAW is pretty similar in that regard.   Once you know what they be, it's like shit this is easy.

also, lol, Soundforge.  Hell yeah.  You're the only other person I know to use it still.   do you use WinAmp too?

Hahah yea I do!  In fact, I used oldschool WinAmp 2.95 with ChipAmp installed to rip the original channel tracks out of SOR1! 

[Arkhan]

Yeah...

Photoshop to me is "f*ckin buttons everywhere".    A DAW is pretty similar in that regard.   Once you know what they be, it's like shit this is easy.

also, lol, Soundforge.  Hell yeah.  You're the only other person I know to use it still.   do you use WinAmp too?

Hahah yea I do!  In fact, I used oldschool WinAmp 2.95 with ChipAmp installed to rip the original channel tracks out of SOR1! 

awwww yeah.

I've still yet to find a media player to beat WinAmp.