emkay Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 NES soundchip is pure soulless trash IMO, like cheap general midi songs today or crappy PC Roland music in the time of Amiga. DIRT! I would agree with most NES music. But some tunes weren't "soulless". Particular this Robocop tune, surprised me. Castlevania .... Batman.... Journey to Silius... outstanding stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 One of my "most wanted" adaptions is this tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vso5T1qJNF0 A good "start for a conversion ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IzykgN-Nkg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgoo Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 (edited) That sounds horrible on both. NES soundchip is pure soulless trash IMO, like cheap general midi songs today or crappy PC Roland music in the time of Amiga. DIRT! I would agree with most NES music. But some tunes weren't "soulless". Particular this Robocop tune, surprised me. Castlevania .... Batman.... Journey to Silius... outstanding stuff. C64 sounds like Arpet/Minimoog/MS-10. NES just sounds like cheap non-MIDI synths under $99 from home shopping catalogues ergo rubbish IMO. Depends what kind of music you prefer....cheesy Japanese FM synthpop or early 80s pioneering experimental analogue synth music that lead the world for a decade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPDTRhNd3U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYv4DCqL0c Edited June 17, 2012 by macgoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 C64 sounds like Arpet/Minimoog/MS-10. NES just sounds like cheap non-MIDI synths under $99 from home shopping catalogues ergo rubbish IMO. Depends what kind of music you prefer....cheesy Japanese FM synthpop or early 80s pioneering experimental analogue synth music that lead the world for a decade SID has it's musically qualities. But, I wonder why people put so much into a sound device that has more flaws than goods ... for a synthesizer.... The huge selling amount of C64s doesn't mean SID would lead the world, as in that time people prefered to listen to real music, when playing games on the computer. It's a huge fanbase, that still lives , and possibly held alive due to the SID tunes. POKEY tunes alone really wouldn't.... btw... you like experimental music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fCjpdF69g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 The neverending story.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3LNyJMg-dM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 11, 2012 Author Share Posted August 11, 2012 Throwing some old ideas together... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPXiz9YzWU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Hi emkay, Did you record from a real machine, or else, from which emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 ... and could you also post a .xex file of the tune itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 The tune, not the graphics Phalanx, POKEY remix..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoimL_nMdt8 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Sounds Really Great!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Sounds like an Yamaha Chip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Sounds like an Yamaha Chip ... of the early 90s It's still 50Hz VBI programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Sounds really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaPa Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Impressive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 NES soundchip is pure soulless trash IMO, like cheap general midi songs today or crappy PC Roland music in the time of Amiga. DIRT! I would agree with most NES music. But some tunes weren't "soulless". Particular this Robocop tune, surprised me. Castlevania .... Batman.... Journey to Silius... outstanding stuff. I wasn't too big on NES music either - but Tim Follin changed my mind It's just that amazingly weak sine channel that is a deal breaker for me. the chip I'm interested in playing with at the moment is actually the SNES SPC - that sounds and feels to me like what a successor to the SID would've been 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 the SNES Chip was quite impressive for the time and was it not done by Sony? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) the SNES Chip was quite impressive for the time and was it not done by Sony? Yes the SPC was developed by Sony. @sack-os: I had looked deeply into the SPC700 and AFAIK it is in no way a possible succesor to the SID. The SPC uses samples (which you can manipulate with panning and i think ADSR for volume) and is not able to generate wave forms. It would rather be the successor of the AMIGA's PAULA (but with only 4-bit differential samples) However, this was years ago, so I might remember that wrong. Edited August 20, 2012 by Creature XL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 21, 2012 Author Share Posted August 21, 2012 the SNES Chip was quite impressive for the time and was it not done by Sony? I'd really like to try a conversion of some of those tunes.... just as the Axelay soundtrack, because POKEY has this needed "Brass Section sound" .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG_9S70Xf7A 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 (edited) the SNES Chip was quite impressive for the time and was it not done by Sony? I'd really like to try a conversion of some of those tunes.... just as the Axelay soundtrack, because POKEY has this needed "Brass Section sound" .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG_9S70Xf7A When I first listen this last one from Emkay I was some minutes trying to figure from what C64 game I remember this song. When I finally remember it was Alternative's Count Duckula (sounds very good but try to play the game with the music always ON and you simply get crazy...).Yeah not the same but some parts maybe... Anyone ever tried this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRmn57gP9Q Edited August 22, 2012 by José Pereira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 (edited) That's not a cover of 'Don't go' - it's the theme to the original cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fiPfIjAnA0 If you want to do a cartoon theme cover then it's pretty much got to be 'the mysterious cities of gold' Edited August 22, 2012 by sack-c0s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 Picture and music fitting better ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvX4oucAe8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 A more timing depending tune... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64K_SkFujls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym00 Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 It's just that amazingly weak sine channel that is a deal breaker for me. Don't think it's a deal-breaker (even if it is a triangle rather than sine).. Follin's tunage would say not.. Hell, even JT made it sound like the original with RC3.. And that has fuck all clever shit going on.. Check the source to see it's about the music, not the technical abilities of the machine.. Damn, even the closing part of JT's set at Assembly 2012 reminded my why we love this shit (the first hour was shite though!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 25, 2012 Author Share Posted August 25, 2012 Nomen est Omen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7yP3EwpQZ8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 3 tunes played through the SAP library in Winamp. SAP plays the wave a bit cleaner than the RMT libraries. Which results in cleaner waveshaping, and more correct basses ... as with POKEY itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBCp3jb8g8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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