Genesis: Time Trax Soundtrack
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2013
- 60hz
00:01 / Music 00
03:50 / Music 01
08:09 / Music 02
12:14 / Music 03
15:25 / Music 04
21:46 / Music 05
50hz
21:59 / Music 00
26:33 / Music 01
31:41 / Music 02
36:33 / Music 03
40:19 / Music 04
47:55 / Music 05
![Tim Follin - “Time Trax (PAL MD/Genesis)” Full Soundtrack [Improved Oscilloscope View]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cb8bEGqQWVA/mqdefault.jpg)
Just thought I'd appear and say thank you to everyone saying nice things about this!! FYI regarding the playback speed - yes I composed at 50hz but I was always conscious that it'd be heard at 60hz in the US so I let things be a little slower than I'd have liked on PAL. I think the ideal speed is probably somewhere half way between the two! Also someone mentioned how the 'high energy' stuff I did like this went away when I moved away from chip music - I totally agree! I always preferred doing the chip stuff and wish I'd had more chance to write for that FM chip. The problem used to be that there was no reason to write chip music once the consoles went away and there was certainly no reason to write chip-sounding music, but things are different these days - chip-sounding stuff is everywhere now, my kids listen to it and I keep telling them that I used to write stuff like that, but they don't care!! Brats. Maybe I just need to train them up and get them composing... ;)
If you wanted to compose chiptunes, there is still software available online to create songs! Things like DefleMask and TFM music maker can be used to emulate the FM sounds the Genesis/Mega Drive makes. I have used these before to make small songs, and DefleMask is easy to pick up and works really well.
You're a legend among VGM connoisseurs Tim
Thank you for your work. You've influenced a lot of people. I'm going to be writing my own game soundtrack in the next coming years and you can bet I'll be looking at your work for inspiration.
p.s.: Teach your kids like you taught us, just do what you enjoy and they'll take notice.
Holy smokes it's you! I am such a fan of your work Mr. Follin! your music was the best exploitation of consoles' sound chips that I've ever heard, I sometimes listen to your music while drawing!
😂😂 your kids like chiptune sounding stuff but don't realise their old man is the greatest chiptuner to walk the earth 😂😂
Timeless Trax
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0:39 - my face when i'm listening to this
Stanky face
Molten beyond recognition
I fucking love the Genesis sound chip, but I didn't even know it was capable of this, but that's how I feel about any sound chip Tim Follin got a hold of.
+Brie Russell go listen to the ThunderForce IV OST, it's flipping amazeballs. As great as the soundchip is, it's terrible with Voice samples, which always sound muffled, scratchy, as if the characters are drowning in electricity.lol
*****
Oh yeah, that's one of my favorite Genesis soundtracks, great game too.
I think the Genesis is very underrated when it comes to music.
+Donatello97 this is actually fault of the programmers, not the sound chip. Because most games rely on certain types of data transfer, and faulty assumptions caused by programmers and manuals of the system, programmers often close the sound processor for these data transfers. This already gives a lot of the time of transferring voice samples to the sound chip, and bad sound processor code gives away even more of the quality. The sound chip in itself is capable of ~26kHz audio flawlessly.
+TheRetroSnake The thing is, with the YM2612, or any FM synth system, you need to spend time turning all those knobs and experiment, in order to construct nice sounding instruments. In the US, developers were often given a shitty sound engine called GEMS, which allowed converting MIDI for use with the Genesis. The problem is, GEMS has terrible instruments for the replacement of MIDI instruments. This was responsible for the "farty" Genesis music some people speak of.
za909returns I am not talking strictly music here, but rather PCM audio. Z80 and 68k are too slow to effectively use in game for great quality PCM audio, and cartridge space is an issue too, which often meant crappy PCM was the product. But for example Sonic The Next Level, a hack of Sonic 1, basically said fuck with the SEGA manuals and with some trickery was able to produce really high quality PCM, even on real hardware, showing that Genesis has indeed power, if given to right people.
I want Follin to make music for at least one modern game.
+ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚContradiction, look it up
+thronecode I only see ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ
kdreamland That's it, exactly!
He did, sort of. Ford Racing 3 on PS2 had music composed by him. From what I've heard of that OST, it was okay at best in my opinion, but certainly not his best.
He probably sees boxes with hexadecimal character codes because he never installed any international fonts.
wow, this music is quite incredible.
wipes the floor with the SNES version, and thats a rarity.
+Stewart Fullerton Agreed. The Genesis really shines with that dark and dirty synth stuff
That's because the SNES version didn't have Tim Follin involved. The opposite effect happened with Spiderman and X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, with the SNES version having its soundtrack handled by Follin.
Not a rarity at all. The Mega Drive sound was way better than SNES in many fields (heavy metal, techno, industrial, etc.)
Nitrate900 Agreed. The SNES only really shines in its orchestral symphonics, such as your standard RPG music (or anything by Nintendo like DKC or Yoshi's Island). They put a limiter on the soundchip so it didn't clip or something, and as a result -- what it outputs sounds a lot more tame than the Megadrive, although files ripped directly from the SNES are gorgeous in their full form. Buuuuut I still prefer the SEGA because FM synthesis, so there 💁.
The composer of Boogerman did better with the Genesis soundcard over the SNES version
I'm so glad Tim could watch people rediscover his amazing work and give it the praise it deserves, time thankfully was kind to him in this regard
Music 04 in 50hz is everything I've ever wanted from a game soundtrack.
reminds me a bit of the bar section in streets of rage 2
+Sunder At 50Hz it sounds so LEWD! Omg
It's pretty good.
hi
00 and 04 are gorgeous, the others are just Follin standard stuff, but already awesome!
Music 01 is madness. Follin is just on a different level. He just goes bonkers on everything. It's not even fair.
OKAY I'M ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH THIS SOUNDTRACK THAT I'VE SOMEHOW NEVER HEARD BEFORE
That's Tim Follin for ya ;)
You should look for his other pieces, you won't be disappointed
MundoComic I think I might well have to
Dan Root Tim Follin is probably the best composer in video game industry. I have never heard a single track of his that sucks. I'm a fan of Squaresoft's composers (Uematsu, Mitsuda, Shimomura, even Jeremy Soule debuted in Squaresoft), but they always have one or more tracks that I don't like. Not Tim Follin. From Ghouls and Ghosts (a Commodore 64 can create a better ambient than Chrono Trigger), to Solstice (8 seconds of usual fantasy theme, 3 minutes of awesome prog rock that ate 1/10 of NES cartridge), to Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast (immaculate ambience tracks).
budakbaong siah I'm totally going to listen to more of his stuff!
+Dan Root Well, 7 months have passed. I think you've had quite the time to hear some of Tim Follin's full of 'tube tunes. So, Dan, what do you think?
I see the appeal of the 60Hz versions but Follin obviously composed this for 50Hz and it definitely sounds more natural and all around better that way. In my opinion anyway.
Agreed!
Temporal Mix Productions Agreed. But @ 60Hz, you could admit that it is some good workout music.
Temporal Mix Productions Now if only someone would do an audio hack on the rom so I can play this on my NTSC Genesis with its originally intended 50 Hz soundtrack! *fingers crossed*
Music 00, Music 01, Music 02: Better in 60 Hz
Music 03, Music 04, Music 05: Better in 50 Hz
It's only my opinion.
I personally really like 04 in 60hz, sounds pretty SORish to me.
This soundtrack sounds like a a brilliant space rock/progressive album from the 80's! Amazing soundtrack.
12:16 [C O M P L E T E L Y E R E C T E D]
Music 0 on 60hz makes me feel like I'm living every possible future at once.
This thing at 50 Hz is addicting as hell. I keep coming back here every day to listen, and I don't even know this game.
It's a crime for this game to not be released. The music in this game rocks!!! 🤘
Noah Rentsch totally fucking agree there!! 👊😎
You can still play it if you really want to.
OMG, THIS SOUNDTRACK IS AMAZING. IT"S LIKE A PROG ROCK ORGY COMING OUT OF THE GENESIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
**EDIT** This was Tim Folin? No fucking wonder it's amazing.
I want to say that his brother Geoff Follin helped compose most of what we love. Tim was the guy that helped program it, mostly.
Not on this one, all Tim.
Geoff did over 50% of Plok however, and composed some games himself like Spot, Terminator 2, Wolverine, Incredible Crash Dummies, Sly Spy (C64), the list goes on.
Damn, the quality of how well these songs were made gives Thunder Force IV a run for its money.
Indeed, if Tim Follin made more FM stuff (and he wished that to happen) he'd probably blow up the sound chip
imagine tim follin meets thunder force
Thanks for sharing! Looks and sounds awesome.
I was totally enthralled by that story.
Turns out that this game is actually a licensed title based on a sci-fi show from around the same time period. It's about a cop from 200 years in the future trying to find 100 escaped prisoners who went 200 years into the past.
Music 02 at 60 Hz is hilarious and awesome. The synth-shredding is out of control! Follin is so awesome
I wish, with all of my heart, that Music 05 were a full track. It starts off AMAZINGLY.
same
holy fuck this is good
both speeds sound absolutely amazing, that's just how good tim follin is
Holy hell, that first song had me hooked. It's astounding.
Music 05: Hey look, it's the Beach track from Plok~
You know you have an excellent soundtrack when even your Game Over jingle is enjoyable to hear. Follin took what would have been the Genesis release of yet another TV show tie-in game and turned it into something magical. Maybe in 2193, someone can go back in time to two decades ago and convince the developers to release it. :P
Thank you so much for uploading this for us.
Soundtracks like this make you realize that the Megadrive sound chip really was pearls before swine. Incredible potential that most people were too untalented to make full use of. Only a few people like Tim Follin, Yuzo Koshiro and Hitoshi Sakimoto really brought it to its full potential. FM synth usually sounds like shit but in the right hands it's amazing.
i dont think "untalented" is the correct word to use here.
I don't think it was a lack of talent, so much as the fact that a majority of games developed for the genesis were made by game studios who were churning out multiple titles for the two major platforms of the era (SNES and Genesis) and would generally resort to using standardized composition packages like GEMS for handling game music on the Genesis. And because GEMS was total garbage that was made to simplify the composition process, you had tons of games coming out that sounded awful when compared against the SNES.
Not to mention, alot of composers of the time probably hated the fact that the Genesis didn't have quite the amount of range as the SNES, so they hardly ever bothered to learn how to make it work to their advantage (unlike Japanese developers who had the advantage of having worked with Yamaha FM chips for almost a decade prior, and knew it's strengths and weaknesses). So you combine those two factors, and it's easy to see why the Genesis gets a bad rap for having inferior sound. It was a lack of people who cared to actually push it to the limit.
And of course, British composers like Follins had years of experience with computer soundchips and knew just how to get it working for them. But you're not wrong, there's a large swath of Genesis games that sound terrible, but I think the blame is mostly on the console war of the era and how most developers slagged off the FM and PSG chip capabilities.
That's exactly it. It was fairly easy to make mediocre sounding music for the Genesis / Mega Drive, using the mediocre tools that were provided And that's what most developers did - probabliy without knowing any better.
But many of the Japanese, British and European developers already had years of experience with the low level technical nature of making great music for more primitive computers, and dealing with the constraints of their limited sound chips. A combination of programming and art.
Bringing that wealth of knowledge, technical skills and exprience to this comparitively advanced hardware, they had a great deal of freedom with what they could achieve. Combine that with genuine musical talent, and an understanding of what the hardware was actually capable of, and you have a select few masters, able take full advantage of the sound capabilities of this console. They were the ones who created the best music for it, and showed us its true potential.
Yes only those three people made good music for Genesis. Well, aside from:
-Yoshino Nagumo (Dangerous Seed)
-Noriyuki Iwadare (Steel Empire, Gleylancer, Gynoug, Langrisser)
-Nobuyuki Aoshima & other M.A. staff (Alisia Dragoon)
-Kozou Nakamura & other Konami staff (TMNT: Hyperstone Heist)
-Michiru Yamane & other Konami staff (Castlevania: Bloodlines, Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster, Contra Hard Corps)
-Motoaki Furukawa & other Konami staff (Sunset Riders)
-Toshiharu Yamanishi & other Technosoft staff (Thunder Force IV)
-Naosuke Arai & Tomomi Ōtani (Herzog Zwei)
-Motoaki Takenouchi (Shining Force II, Jewel Master, Landstalker)
-Kazuo Okabayashi (Chiki Chiki Boys)
-Norio Hanzawa (Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy, Alien Soldier)
-Hiroto Kanno (Decap Attack)
-Chris Huelsbeck (Mega Turrican)
-Matt Furniss (Second Samurai, Bubble & Squeak, Mortal Kombat)
-Masato Nakamura (Sonic 1 & 2)
-Michael Jackson (Tracks incl. Launch Base Zone and Ice Cap Zone in Sonic 3)
-Sachio Ogawa & Tatsuyuki Maeda (Most of the rest of Sonic 3 + S&K)-Howard Drossin (S&K title theme and mid-boss theme)
And many others...
Good Lord Tim Follin was the master of 8/16bit chiptune
If yall love this tim guy so much why dont you marry him
The wedding is this Saturday, you comin'?
@@BubblewrapHighway yes
Tim Follin is a god.
Everytime i hear song 5 i get so sad because there's such an Incredible buildup to one of the best songs on the genesis but then it abruptly ends and goddamnit
The hellllllllllllllllllll bro it's my destiny to finish music 05.
Song 4 is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard Omg
music 03 has such a powerful start to it holy shit
This music is awesome Tim. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Music 03 is a fricken banger!
I know it's supposed to be played at 50Hz, but the title theme sounds great at 60Hz.
I used to think 50hz was the appropriate speed for this, but after hearing the title theme a few times i feel the 60hz one is more exciting
If you drop the speed to 0.9x at 60Hz, or raise the speed to 1.1x at 50Hz, I believe you'd get more of what Tim Follin was envisioning when composing this piece.
As per Tim's own comment on this video, he had to slow the tempo down on the 50Hz PAL version more than he would have liked, because of the speed hike with 60Hz NTSC. He also went on to say that the ideal tempo is somewhere in-between, and since both 60Hz @ 0.9x and 50Hz @ 1.1x sound nearly identical, they might be closer to what he had originally wanted.
the 60hz version isn't faster due to the higher number... it's just MORE BLAST PROCESSING
Hello me
This album just taught me how to dance.
Excellent music for doing my programming work, even here in the far future of 2020.
How does it feel man, we're nearly out of this covid thing
No DAC or PCM are used in this soundtrack. Perfect.
***** || It does? Wow, I thought DAC was a PCM-like sound.
***** || So DAC is only for converting the sound signals to it can be heard on a TV???
+VertX, I know you're getting technical, but I think what +craftrod means is that there were no samples used. Of course there's no "DAC/No DAC" dichotomy in digital music
What you are referring to is a separate DAC that the software itself can control to play 8-bit PCM audio. The "other" DAC is just to get the summed the output from the entire chip and convert that to analog. It's like ok... you have written your handwritten letter, but if there is no postman to take it, it would be useless.
alysdexia Irrelevant. His message is clear and coherent with or without that error.
Im a Genesis fan that played a lot of it in my childhood, That Soundtrack is truly Amazing, finally some good recomendation from UA-cam.
I really want a long mix of the first 60hz track. Hell all of these could use long mixs, they're all really good.
I ended up here from the GDQ music playlist and oh goodness this is so good
who r the nut jobs who gave this a thumbs down
A SNES kiddy
CyberRonin Most likely
From the land down under
What a banging soundtrack. What a pity this was never officially released.
This dude really made strings instrument on a genesis
うほっ！センスいい！メガドラでこんなサウンド作れるんや。
AMAZING
Yep, drums are all FM! If you open it in a player that allows channel muting, you can see that they've even shared a single track for kick+hihat and snare+hihat sounds. I've never seen that in genesis music before.
I think the 60hz version actually sounds better for the Genesis console. It fits that style of Genesis games better just by that ever-so-slight increase of energy into the tune. Especially given how the genesis is seen more as an "authetic arcade experience" console.
Though I completely see why Follin says it's meant to be heard in 50hz. The tempo that these songs have in 50hz is by far more reminiscent of the typical style of music on Amiga & Commodore games of the time (as well as his own typical style of composition). It just makes sense, seeing as how he was more used to composing for those platforms. :p
50Hz fits more.
Ho-lee-shit. This is from the same guy who did the OST for Plok? This is by far Genesis music at its sexiest.
Rashad Moore Yup Tim Follin.
He also did Silver Surfer for the NES
And Solstice!
Don't forget Ghouls n Ghosts! (Amiga)
L.E.D. Storm on ZX Spectrum is also a masterpiece!
My My this is still Amazing! It never gets old. 50hz all the way!
I just love that bass line in track 03 and 04!!!
Marvelous doesn't even begin to describe this. But hey, the same can be said for a lot of Tim Follin's work!
Tim follin... His music.. makes the game!!! Love it!!
A-tier soundtrack
(Why did i forgor to comment)
I think the most impressive thing about this soundtrack is how Tim managed to get such good sounds out of the Genesis' sounchip and mix them so well. Almost every game on the console has music with sounds that are either very mellow or very harsh, but rarely anything inbetween. It was kind of a signature thing about Genesis music and music on FM chips in general, and I really dislike it. This soundtrack doesn't do that. The sounds here are so full, and only harsh or mellow when intended to be.
Oh yeah and also the composition and arrangement rocks!
Seriously? Almost every game in the Genesis? That is one DISGUSTING overestimation if I’ve ever seen one, there is a plethora of Genesis games that make brilliant use of its 2 excellent sound chips and really show what the system can do.
@@sweetpataterz8738 I wasn't as careful with wording two years ago as I am now. It would be more accurate to say "A vast majority of the games on the console whose soundtracks I've heard" rather than "Almost every game on the console". It was an uninformed generalization and I'm sorry about that. My point is that this soundtrack is unique in how well it utilizes the FM sound hardware in the Genesis. FM synthesis is notoriously difficult to "tame", so to speak, especially with such limited hardware as that of the Genesis. Tim did a very good job carefully designing the sounds in this soundtrack, so it sounds very unlike a typical Genesis game. To me that's a good thing, since I personally don't like the "Genesis" sound, or that of any computer/console whose primary sound chip was FM for that matter, for the reasons I explained in the original comment.
That's not to say that Genesis games had bad soundtracks, no more than any other system. For example, some of my favorite songs from video games are in the Sonic 2 and 3 soundtracks. But the sound design in those soundtracks is distinctly harsh throughout. That's simply not the case for the Time Trax soundtrack.
If you have any examples of other Genesis soundtracks whose sound design is as distinctly "un-Genesis-like" as this, I'd love to hear them.
@@OllAxe I’d also like to apologize for coming across as rude as I did in my reply. I don’t mean you specifically when say this; of course people are entitled to their own opinions but it annoys me to no end whenever I see people (mainly Super Nintendo diehards who refuse to lay the console wars to rest) brush off the entire Sega Genesis sound library without ever giving it a fair shake. I’m tired of it which is why I sound so aggravated in my reply. The Sega Genesis easily has my favorite sound of any cartridge-based home console, I seriously can’t get enough of it it’s heaven to my ears so I don’t think I can honestly provide any examples of “un-Genesis-like” music. In all honesty, I don’t really hear what sets Time Trax apart from other soundtracks on the system, it has that distinct Genesis synth and twang that I embrace with open arms.
@@sweetpataterz8738 I think what makes it "un-Genesis-like" isn't that it lacks the typical sounds that the Genesis is good at. The soundtrack relies heavily on instruments like electric guitars, bells and organs, which are very easy to make with FM synthesis, but it combines those sounds with a wide variety of mellow and natural sounds that I haven't heard very often on FM systems like the Genesis. So it for sure has the twang, but it's not all twang. The soundtrack feels like it's crafted with clear intent in every detail, like all of Tim's soundtracks.
@@OllAxe I think we may just have to agree to disagree on this one, I can definitely recognize Follin’s style here but it still has that iconic Genesis flavor just like all his other work on other home consoles has their unique sound. If it’s the more mellow sound you like, I may recommend the Ristar soundtrack. Some of the music there is real melodic and beautiful, I’d recommend specifically 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, and 5-2 (I can only remember the level order for Ristar, not the specific track names :P )
42:15 S-...Sans?
Track 4 has wicked Paul Hardcastle vibes!
omg sounds Amazing and nice compositions from a Great Composer.
I really like music 00 in 60hz, is rockin af
43:20 i hear some pictionary sneaking in here...
+Famulator Yea there is a slight hint of Pictionary right there, I guess he really liked the way it sounded :) Its funny how some small jingles like that just resonates with you
This is in a different league to the SNES version’s soundtrack!
My absolute favorite work of Tim Follin, in both 60hz and 50hz
The. FECK. ExclaMAtion mark. This SLAPS.
This is such a cool soundtrack, shame the game never came out. Still, Tim Follins never disappoints and this soundtrack has quickly become one of my new favs!
Music 03 = Lost PANTERA track 12:14! lol
すげーオシャレ
The 50hz version of track 04 would be nice hold music for a call center to use.
Listening to this at 0.875x on the 60Hz versions of the music seems perfect.
Unfortunately, YT only comes as close as 0.75x, which is too slow.
Instructions for doing 0.875x here:
Setting custom speed requires going to browser's Javascript console while on this video's page and issuing this command (valid arguments are .0625 to 16):
$('video').playbackRate = .875
Did anyone notice how Tim the madman leitmotifed the Pictonary moving your piece song into the fourth song in this game?
It sounds good too!
Just incredible !
i had to admit, the entire 50hz ost is the best.
Nah, 60hz master race!
Охрененно! Лучшая музыка, которую я когда-либо слышал!
Best music I've ever heard!
Do we REALLY have it better now? This would've just been an average release in the early 90s. Now you have to truly hunt for anything that sounds as good as this.
There's plenty of garbage from that time period, too. Some of it even survives to this day.
@@BubblewrapHighway Action 52 NES soundtrack, lmao
It is both a blessing and a shame that the comparatively limitless potential of today's cheap sound and memory chips has created a situation in which the chiptune/tracker sound is kept around purely as a style choice. To use Genesis or NES style sound in a new game for example, would be a self-imposed limitation in all practical cases today. The farther we get from the early home computer and console days, the more chiptune becomes kind of a weird niche genre.
I'm seventeen but grew up with games such as terraria, cave story, shovel-knight, undertale and even Mega Man 9. The chiptune aesthetic has been carried onward by a ton of indie developers and THOSE games will inspire, and have inspired the chiptune artists of today.
This one is also awesome soundtrack, thanks Brother.
this is dope
21:59 is where the magic happens.
The sound driver it's amazing, the drums are made purely by FM synth, all OST don't use the DAC from the YM2612 and the SN76489 (PSG)
43:39 That Pictionary NES reference
beautiful vibes ✨
me and the boys shaking it to Music 03 up in the club
i'm sure you have been to the club
@@KingLich451 i have and they mostly played Music 03
Given Follin lives in England, where the mains frequency is 50Hz, it's likely he composed all these at 50Hz.
Fantastic soundtrack!
3:50 is just a work of art. ❤
Thanks !! ^^
BLAST PROCESSING INTENSIFIES.
Flamethrower.
The title track uses 6 FM voices without PSG and samples. Even the drums are 100% FM.
Actually I think he even used only 5 channels
Until now I thought that Tiny Toons Buster's Hidden Treasure and Batman & Robin were the only ones that did not use these extra channels and only the FM chip without DAC/PCM samples, until I discovered this incredible soundtrack by master Follin.
12:14
My favorite
I wish he could have composed more on the genesis/mega drive because this is godlike👍🏾✨ ( Also how did he compose such good quality music on G.E.M.S? I’m literally out of words on how amazing this is. )
this is not G.E.M.S. he was using a driver his colleague's made
this has just blown my mind
I know Tim Follin said this trax is not meant to be heard at 60hz... but it's still damn good! 50hz version rather drags now.
50hz sounds way too slow, 60hz is insanely good.
Holy hell, this soundtrack is fucking flame. Thanks Game Sack for cluing me in!
60Hz the best!!
Awesome guitar Lead !
NICE