Lightning Strikes... the PC-Engine?! (Thunder Force IV Chiptune Cover)

[Arkhan]

I respect your opinion, but the thing about your drums is that they probably sound better in Atlantean than they sound in other soundtracks, I imagine they were made with Atlantean in mind...
To help illustrate my point, imagine that I took the drums from Xanadu 2 and put them in Bloody wolf... I think the Xanadu 2 drums are A LOT better than those from Bloody Wolf, but they'd get drowned in Bloody Wolf's music because it's a lot louder and more 'hype' (for lack of a better word) than Xanadu 2's PSG songs, you know what I'm saying?

I know what you're saying.  I just can't help if other people take my drums and use them when they do their own tunes, lol.

It's probably easier to just borrow mine instead of trying to make their own.

They don't sound too bad overall in other certain tunes, either.   I like how they sound with the Shadow of the Beast tune I made awhile back:
http://www.aetherbyte.com/downloadables/sotb.mp3


but for some songs, no, they're going to sound odd.

[ParanoiaDragon]

;)Sweet, now go all Fighting Run on us, & add in some bass guitar with the drums!

[fragmare]

Even threw in a few "rim hit" sounds and a couple cymbal hits... starting to get the hang of this PSG percussion thing. 

[Arkhan]

Even threw in a few "rim hit" sounds and a couple cymbal hits... starting to get the hang of this PSG percussion thing. 

more like rim job amirite

huehuehue

lol.

[fragmare]

Even threw in a few "rim hit" sounds and a couple cymbal hits... starting to get the hang of this PSG percussion thing. 

more like rim job amirite

huehuehue

lol.

[Arkhan]

Even threw in a few "rim hit" sounds and a couple cymbal hits... starting to get the hang of this PSG percussion thing. 

more like rim job amirite

huehuehue

lol.

[Michirin9801]

They don't sound too bad overall in other certain tunes, either.   I like how they sound with the Shadow of the Beast tune I made awhile back:
http://www.aetherbyte.com/downloadables/sotb.mp3


but for some songs, no, they're going to sound odd.

Yeah they're not bad in that one, but the lead could use a little detuning/phasing

But what I haven't looked at, is whether that means that *all* the values should be 1-less compared to what you hear in DefleMask.

Umm, I think not... The thing is that the 1F frequency I was using for the hi-hats sounds identical to the 1E frequency, only quieter, and I was using it precisely because it was quieter, if I want similar results to that I can just use the 1E frequency and make it quieter on the volume macro, the other frequencies/notes shouldn't be affected by that...

[Arkhan]

Yeah they're not bad in that one, but the lead could use a little detuning/phasing

This was during my obsessive "chirpy" phase.

You should hear Insanity's music.  All the leads are chirp city.   I was like THESE SOUND f*ckING COOOOOOOL

and used them for literally everything.    lol.

Something about the pipeorgany/chirpy crap excited me.

It still does.

[fragmare]

Bit of an update on this one.  Finally got around to making the youtube video of it, synced up with the intro.  I changed some volumes/waveforms/instruments and I think it sounds a bit more grindy now.  Even more so than before.  I needed to increase the contrast between the two leads and that seemed to do the trick. 

I also added the "slowdown" effect present in the original tune with very strategic use of the 09xx command in Deflemask... NO idea why they did this in the original tune.  I'm not sure if it was intentional or slight slowdown from the Genesis CPU... but either way, this cover's timing now matches note-for-note with the original (and also, the intro scene in the youtube video).

Enjoy! 

P.S., and there's definitely more "chug-chug" in one of the leads, thanks to some funky arpeggio tinkering.  Messing around with the PSG drums really helped me get more of a feel for how the arp feature works.

[Michirin9801]

Bit of an update on this one.  Finally got around to making the youtube video of it, synced up with the intro.  I changed some volumes/waveforms/instruments and I think it sounds a bit more grindy now.  Even more so than before.  I needed to increase the contrast between the two leads and that seemed to do the trick. 

I also added the "slowdown" effect present in the original tune with very strategic use of the 09xx command in Deflemask... NO idea why they did this in the original tune.  I'm not sure if it was intentional or slight slowdown from the Genesis CPU... but either way, this cover's timing now matches note-for-note with the original (and also, the intro scene in the youtube video).

Enjoy! 

Umm... Link plz?

[fragmare]

Bit of an update on this one.  Finally got around to making the youtube video of it, synced up with the intro.  I changed some volumes/waveforms/instruments and I think it sounds a bit more grindy now.  Even more so than before.  I needed to increase the contrast between the two leads and that seemed to do the trick. 

I also added the "slowdown" effect present in the original tune with very strategic use of the 09xx command in Deflemask... NO idea why they did this in the original tune.  I'm not sure if it was intentional or slight slowdown from the Genesis CPU... but either way, this cover's timing now matches note-for-note with the original (and also, the intro scene in the youtube video).

Enjoy! 

Umm... Link plz?

Sorry, I updated the original post.  Here's the video:

[esteban]

Das gut.

[Michirin9801]

Sounds quite a bit better now ^^

[fragmare]

Get rekt. 


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[elmer]

That's an amazing sound that you've created there ... those guitars are fantastic! 

It all sounds a bit "too gritty" for my personal taste right now ... but it's absolutely incredible to hear that sound coming out of a PCE. 

Great job!