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Thank you!

Thanks g40rc3, I’m so glad you enjoyed!

Thank you! To me the tune seems to be sort of saying “we’re choosing to be positive anyway, in spite of everything,” if that makes sense at all. I’m glad you enjoyed!

@@sevencastleforest That makes perfect sense. I was thinking about it purely in terms of an environment or level theme so I read the contrast between the structure of the leads and the moodier harmonies differently, but I absolutely think you achieved what you described. I just wasn't thinking about it in narrative terms.

Thanks, glad you like the tune! And yeah I got the majority of my instruments from Button Masher when he was first giving me lessons. They're from his module for his album Tracker Vision, then he helped me build a "starter kit" module from that. For his own part, BM says he got many of his instruments from Shnabubula. In practice I only end up using like ten percent of these instruments LOL but it's great having all the options there.

@@sevencastleforest i see i see. i think i can see that now. buttonmasher has quite a ... style. not sure how to describe it.

Thank you so much Brian!!

Thank you so much! This is maybe one of the more straightforward pieces I've made in terms of the arrangement. I kept thinking about adding more trickery but the melody didn't really call for much more embellishment as I kept listening to it. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much 🙏

Thank you! In this case I had the benefit of working with a nice modern tracker tool in an interface familiar to me, and borrowing instrument sounds from other demo songs made in Furnace. I definitely made an effort to avoid some of the harsh or overly metallic sounds that people associate with Genesis FM synth, while trying to preserve the air of malice in this piece. Thanks for listening!

Thanks Burst, I'm so glad you enjoyed this piece!

Thank you so much! I tried to present the Genesis sound in the best light I could, and I think it was a good learning experience!

Thank you! It was fun taking some of the techniques I've learned working on NES/Game Boy/etc and utilizing them in a Genesis piece.

Thanks for the kind words Hungry! The game is a really neat mix of point-and-click adventure with scary horror moments. You might enjoy it if you try it! However it was never originally released in the US so I'm not sure what hackery would be required to play it on original hardware in English.

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you liked it!

Thank you so much! It always means a lot to me hearing such nice things from you 👍

@@sevencastleforest awwww dw~ i feel your musical prowess and knowledge is very much above average (in the best way)

Thank you so much, Brian! Glad you enjoyed it 🖤

Thanks, it is nsfpresenter by nununoisy which you can find for free online here: github.com/nununoisy/nsf-presenter-rs It's also a fantastic tool for analyzing and learning about classic NES music, like you could run the Mega Man 2 music through it to see exactly what they're doing, if you wanted.

@@sevencastleforestill check it out!

To my knowledge there’s no technical reason why they couldn’t have used the Triangle channel. Lots of other VRC6 tracks by modern chiptune composers use it. I’m not aware of any interviews explaining why either. Konami may have just wanted to really showcase the Sawtooth channel in their fancy chip since they were adding into the cartridge at additional manufacturing expense.

@@sevencastleforestThanks for the super fast reply! The part about wanting to showcase the shiny new VRC6 chip sounds about right. Since the triangle channel is left out there’s none of the famous high frequency overtone from the DAC. I could see them specifically NOT wanting that sound present to showcase a new chipset. Even if that means sacrificing a channel.

Thank you! In this case I was trying to capture the feeling of the original MSX tune as closely as I could, then I realized I wanted to spice things up with some drums and a bit more structure. It’s still a simple piece in some ways but I really like it. I always use it for a cozy vibe at the start of my Twitch streams.

Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I love those rapid arpeggios too. A trick mostly pioneered by Martin Galway and others working on the Commodore 64, and it became one of the most distinctively “chiptune” sounds…

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it so much ❤

Glad you enjoyed! Yeah I love the NES wrestling soundtracks (a lot of them arranged by David Wise at Rare) as well as the Goonies 2 music by Konami. Thanks so much for listening to my stuff!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think that bit you're talking about in pulse 2 around the 29 seconds mark is where I'm doing a rapid arpeggiated chord sound, one of the neat techniques that Western composers like the Follin Brothers and Alberto Jose Gonzalez brought to chiptune. But yeah the oscilloscope is a feature built into Furnace, this incredible tracker software I'm using, made by tildearrow.

​@@sevencastleforest The Solstice title screen theme is actually the first place I encountered it, definitely one of the coolest sounds anyone got out of the nes soundchip.

Thank you!

@@sevencastleforest you've earned it~

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you so much! That was definitely the hardest part to get right. It's using the Game Boy wavetable channel (which lets the composer draw their own waveform) to make a Triangle wave, then playing it at a very high pitch appropriate for a flute sound.

Thanks for listening and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much!

@@sevencastleforest You're welcome. :)

Thank you!

Oh no worries about missing the stream at all! And in this case I had started this piece a few weeks ago and then noodled with it periodically in between other projects, so the stream was mostly about deconstructing and analyzing the song ❤️

Thanks! I contemplated adding a loud buzzing sound to make it more accurate to the Vectrex experience, but ultimately decided against it 😁

Thanks Burst, I’m so glad you liked it! ❤️

Thank you so much!! 🙏

Thank you so much!

Thanks haha it was fun to replicate those sounds in Furnace! Glad you enjoyed!

You'll be the first to know!

Glad you enjoyed the tune!

Thank you so much! 🙏

Thank you so much!! I’m glad it turned out well 😅 and I think once I figured out the intro, the rest of the tune came much easier.

@@sevencastleforest You're welcome. :)

Thank you so much!!

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, I'm very glad it felt that way ❤

@@sevencastleforest ♥ well done

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the kind words! I'm proud of this one.

Thanks! Yeah I only discovered Faxanadu a couple years ago and it quickly became one of my favorite games.

Thanks, that's a great compliment! I'm glad it sounded impressive.