Author: KanawhaCountyWX
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SPC2IT, or, A New Way To Corrupt SNES Video Game Music
Warning: technicl nerdyness ahead. Brace yourself… I love music from older video games. I especially love music from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) which used a custom Sony designed sound chip that was really advenced for its day. bASICALLY, YOU CAN DEFINE A SET OF SAMPLES (A NOTE ON A PIANO, A DRUM HIT,…
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Windows 95: It’s Just One Of Those Days
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VMWare + Windows 95 + single-channel soundcard emulation = a very bad time Recorded at some point last year.
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A6 Based Jingle (Yamaha Multitrack Demo)
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I was messing around on the keyboard earlier today and came up with this little jingle based on an A6 chord. Ideally this’d eventually become this ambient synthy thing, but this was just a 5-track MIDI recorder demo on my YPG225 keyboard. Thoughts?
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We’re Sleeping on Jungle Love’s Funky Bassline
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Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band has a surprisingly good bassline. Extracted using the Moises app on my phone.
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Duran Duran and Streets of Rage
I noticed that the drum track from one of the songs in the Streets of Rage soundtrack lined up perfectly with the Duran Duran song "Come Undone." This is the result.
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Melotron Samples Go A Long Way
So this was the first thing I experamented with using Melotron samples on. For those who don’t know, the Melotron was a 60s era analog tape based sampling device, its the instrument that gave The Beatles’ "Strawberry Fields Forever" that distinct sound. I had also just adjusted my audio interfaces’ latency compensation so there was…
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Linn LM1 Drum Test
I found MIDI soundfont with samples ripped from the Linn LM1, a classic 80s drum machine. So I decided to put it to the test with my synth, and I decided to use some different synth sounds. I’d prefer a Linndrum soundfont since I prefer the sounds of the Linndrum to the LM1, but beggers…
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There Are So Many Things Wrong Here
First I started laughing because the audio processing on this TTS voice in an emergency alert made it have a bassline, then the voice gave up. This was for a missing child alert for someone named Xzavieanna, and Festival Kal (the voice of DASDEC EAS encoder/decoder units) didn’t even try to pronounce it and just…
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SGM V2.01 MIDI SounfFont Demo (Android MIDI Followup)
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Here’s that same grouping of MIDI files from my previous post, but ran through my SoundFont of choice, SGM V2.01. Synthecised using CoolSoft Virtual MIDI Synth on Windows 11. Screen recorded with OBS