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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.
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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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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: 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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@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.
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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 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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@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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