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I rarely post any of my music online as I just mess about with stuff for my own amusement and I have extremely low self-confidence. Basically I think my music is shit.
Anyway here's something I uploaded about half a decade ago where I tried to make 80s/90s Japanese arcade game music even though I no bugger all about making Japanese video game music.
I did it with the Korg M1 plugin to try to get that old sound chip vibe, and didn't use much dynamics processing because those chips didn't, also I'm horrendous at mixing.
Anyway it is what it is, so enjoy, or something.
No visuals even though it's on YouTube. I put it up there because SoundCloud was and probably still is a pain to use with a screen reader, at least on iOS.
https://youtu.be/m8Z7OSkQUtA
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Trying To Do Japanese Video Game Music

Just my attempt at retro Japanese video game music.I used Korg's Wabestation VST for all tracks.
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Andre Louis
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Very nice. Could see how a funky pulse-wave sound or something, might go on top of that as well.
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Andre Louis
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Years ago @arfy and I tried to do the same thing using our then Roland Juno-G with some custom sounds. I later ported that to Impact Soundworks Super Audio cart and came out with this: https://youtu.be/04EQRfMBoP4

Collaboration: Temporary Understanding (Feat. Arfy) (Super Audio Cart Version)

In which I resurrected an old MIDI file made with my then Roland Juno-G and converted it to use sounds exclusively from Impact Soundworks Super Audio Cart Li...
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Kara Goldfinch
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy Awesome. There's some Arfy Arpeggios in there, and I love all the sonic sound effects.
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Andre Louis
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@arfy Yeah, we did some fun collabs back in the day. Need to get back to that. Really stretches you musically.
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Andre Louis
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@arfy Well although we cross DAW boundaries, nothing stopping that happening. WE can do the stem thing. Happy to do that
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Kara Goldfinch
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy Yeah that'd be cool.
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Andre Louis
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@arfy The year might be 2012. @arfy, @cordova5029, Derek C and myself wrote a little collaborative album called 'In The Key of Dropbox.' You couldn't possibly guess how we did it haha
Anyway, I still listen and enjoy it to this day. There are text files that go along with every song, you can see who did what. Still super proud of this honestly.
http://3.onj.me/In_the_Key_of_Dropbox.zip
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Andre Louis
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@arfy @cordova5029 The idea was that each of us four would start a track, the other three would add to it. It would then get written somehow, some way. We did that but enjoyed it so much that we added two bonus tracks after the fact.
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy you know? I think these midis still exist too.
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Andre Louis
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@cordova5029 @arfy Of course they do. No thinking about it. We don't delete stuff.
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Xantastic
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy I didn't think they'd gotten deleted I just couldn't remember if they were just in the regular ms folder, of if they were in a nother folder. hell I could probably make an in the key of dropbox folder in ms folder. therye' just int eh root. It probably doens't matter that much though :D
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Kara Goldfinch
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy @cordova5029 I'm listening to this now. It's really is awesome. Honestly I think it's time for an In the Key of Dropbox volume 2.
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Andre Louis
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@arfy @cordova5029 You have to check the text files out as you listen. You really learn a lot about the process. I often forget who did what, but re-reading those is quite an interesting experience. Some amusing parts when things get changed or added sometimes.
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Kara Goldfinch
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy @cordova5029 Yeah I read those as well.
Interesting to think what's changed in 10 years. I remember the days of Hypersonic and all that. what's Bandstand?
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Xantastic
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy the only really really good patches in bandstand were a couple of drum kits, a rhodes, and a pan. The rest was utter shite!
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Andre Louis
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@cordova5029 @arfy Some of the drum kits live on in Kontakt factory library to this day, as does the upright bass (which is one of the better ones I have) and that all-important steel pan. Bandstand had it first.
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy I figured you'd mention that some of thsoe sounds live on in the kontakt factory library
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Kara Goldfinch
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@cordova5029 @FreakyFwoof @arfy and Hypersonic lives on sort of as XPand 2, although I think Steinberg have done another version of it, or was it Halion? Can't remember.
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Andre Louis
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@cordova5029 @arfy You're right, and also Structure. I did a re-render of 'Tell Me About It' a couple of years ago, and I used the same drum kit and Steel Pan that you hear in the original, along with the same bass, but this time from Structure not Hypersonic. Spent a couple days on it and it came out sounding like this:

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@FreakyFwoof @arfy and the right percussion.
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Andre Louis
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@cordova5029 @arfy Too much of the sound in that one was important enough that faking it would have been noticeable. It was really important to me to get it as close as possible.
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy because some things can be remixed with totally new new sounds, and it's totally fine. I remember you had to convince my autistic ass about that sometimes. I'd tell you, you could get these drums back by doing this and this patch back by doing this. lol. Some you did put back, but others, ended up sounding cooler in their remastered form.
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Andre Louis
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@cordova5029 @arfy Right, so there's a school of thought that 'if you're gonna reboot something, it should be all-new sounds.' I don't come from that school of thought myself. My thinking is, if you need something that's very distinctive and has a part to play in your remake, and if you have access to the sound and you like it enough to care, you should use it.
Sometimes the maxim of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' is one of the most important tenets to live by, and many don't.
People ask me of course 'well then why remix something you made previously at all?'
Easy. I may want to resurrect the piece using new/old sounds, so I have it in a form that I can play it in, these days. When it's only MIDI, I can't use it in the same way, so a remix not only brings it a new lease of life, but makes it accessible all over again and to me for preservation and musical understanding, that's very important.
I love spending time getting the right blend.
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James Scholes
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@FreakyFwoof @arfy Hmm. I’m thinking of a track of yours, that I think Arfy may have been involved in. Kind of ethereal, lots of arpeggios (I think?), maybe something to do with kiwis or someone called Chantel (probably the wrong spelling). Used quite often as a radio bed.
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Andre Louis
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@jscholes @arfy Not in any of my folders, I reckon Arfy will have a link for you when he awakens on the other side of the world as he is.
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Matthew Campbell
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@FreakyFwoof Lol, that sounds awesome. I feel like that came right out of one of the old Mario games.
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victor tsaran
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@FreakyFwoof Good stuff Kara! I am no expert on Japanese gaming music, so it sounded like Eurodisco to me! :) Anyway, sounded prettyclean and happy to me! :)
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