Thanks for the upload Rolf! This was one of the most inspired tracks I ever composed. I remember exactly where I was (location) and with whom... and what substances I was enjoying at the time (coffee, chocolate, and tobacco)
Thanks, Rolf R Bakke, for the upload, I try to keep track of my fans and it's always awesome to see my chipmusic in oscilloscope view. I have replied to many posts here over time. My last replies didn't show up at the right "place" (technical UA-cam error I guess), but it's great to see the responses from everyone! :-)
Jeroen Tel This is when we behold your magic at our very eyes, in the form of waveforms at dawn of electronic music. For some reason, seeing the wave stretches ans compresses as its pitch shifts always lightens me. Makes me curious how its frequency domain will look like.
This song reminds me of Follin for some reason.. :) That in itself is a good thing cause the Follins had perhaps the best sound routine at the time... it ate CPU but man what sounds.
Absolutely gorgeous! Seeing the 3 channels independently and all with the waves phase-aligned its pure class. PWM Galore! I spent hours watching "shows" like this, and if today I have a strong passion with synthesizers it's mainly thanks to these.
It's called "guru meditation"... something everybody needs more of in this chaotic crazy world of ours! When composing the original intro melody of this tune I was heavily sedated by coffee, chocolate, and tobacco. And of course the ever-inspiring god of music... whoever he is, I owe him one! :-) (That's the most hippie reply I could ever post to any video). :P
It's satisfying because you can see a complicated composition broken down into simple mathematical shapes, you get an idea of how the physics of sound works, you can see correlations between octave and wavelength, learn how different gemoetries sound in different combinations, etc... In short it's like a form of synaesthesia.
I always remember I read the c64 Book: "... you can generate music with 3 or 4 sorts of waves...". I think WTF, that doesnt work! But now you can see it! Thats great!
I think what probably makes this so good a tune is that the instruments used in the intro have a very clean sound to them.. and the section at around 2:10 almost sounds like Jeroen's style of an arrangement was based on music from medieval England.
I don't think I can say enough nice things about this piece, its in my top #3 faves from my long time friend. That intro is so moving. I've heard it done in so many different ways, from symphonies, to PC covers, and IMO the C64 will always sound the best. The main portion of the song sounds very heavily classically influenced which I love, but still that JT hard rock style which really propels what is already classical genius into a masterpiece. The part around 2:06 really breaks it up well with a nice Folk-styled intermission, then some nice atmosphere to bring it back. Love you brother !! \m/
:) what reverb. ain't no reverb unit on a SID chip. Look up the C64 SID chip, and it's capabilities, and be even more amazed at what it can do. A closer look at the oscilloscope graphics may give you a few hints as to what is actually happening that creates the sound you are hearing.
A repeated version of the same thing (with some variations) with a delay, and some pitch modulation, as far as I can tell. But hey, I'm just a drummer. :P
Jeroen Tel Yeah Rednomad, it was a simulated "reverb" making use of a softer version of the main lead sound with the other 2 channels... with a delay... :-) The closest I could get to get to a "reverb" on the Commodore 64 SID chip.
Omg this is top.. I've listened to the full music back there when I was a child, playing hours with Supremacy and often letting the whole track just go and then repeat, repeat, repeat.. once my mother was pretty angry because I was late from lunch despite several warnings, just because of this track. LoL. So amazing hearing these tunes on a modern, great hi-fi. And believe me the SID's sound is a jaw-dropping experience on a decent audiophile hi-fi. Just look at the spectrogram (e.g. in Foobar2000). LoL. This is a true masterpiece of SID programming. Thank you for the upload, I'm in love again (and still) :))
JEROEN TEL IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hearing this makes me picture the ending to a video game where the hero, after defeating the final boss, ascends to godhood. There's the death of the final opponent until 0:33. Then, everything resets to zero, progressively dimming into a blinding light, surrounding the protagonist, zooming in from the edges of the universe until they are alone against the white background - until 1:06. At that moment, a beat starts to radiate from them - their heartbeat, which is now the very beat of time itself. They move their hands and clench their palms ; and thus, light runs from their hand to the infinite. They smile and repeat the experience, creating a rainbow of all EM frequencies from radio to gamma ; in this instant, in one beat of their heart, matter has been recreated, stars have lived and died, planets have been created and obliterated. The intensity of the waves grow until 1:21. Then, they transform. They start to move ; and in their flying around the dimensions of time and space, realities collide and diverge, in what seems to them like hundredths of a second. They lose their human limbs, their human skin, their human face, their human bodies and brains. They are a focused consciousness existing and surviving from nothing, and flying around alone in nothing, observing all that they create just by existing and moving. This lasts up to 2:06. Just as the tune changes, the single point of consciousness they form spreads infinitely in all directions and populates every bit of empty space there is as well as any particle of matter. They transcend the time they have redefined and now exist everywhere, in everything, in infinite forms, watching all at once. This transformation is over at 2:15. Now that their ascension is complete, they can only watch ; as, like the encore at 2:20 and on tells us, another brave hero will come and challenge their position to take their place and create another universe, repeating the everlasting cycle of Supremacy. 3:47 : Roll credits.
But all the stuff from the 80's exists now plus stuff form the 90's and 00's and 10's. You also get a ton of new 80's inspired things, especially lately! Anyways not trying to be a downer, if you can time travel that would be sweet. Just that right now kind of rocks as well. :)
This is f* awesome !!! I still have my Gen1 C64, fully functional. Supremacy took quite some months from my life ... omg ... hearing its music again ... and this oscilloscope... hooo-ly-shit :D Pls try these as well !!! (See replies)
Thanks for the upload Rolf! This was one of the most inspired tracks I ever composed. I remember exactly where I was (location) and with whom... and what substances I was enjoying at the time (coffee, chocolate, and tobacco)
Chocolate is a powerful substance! :)
Jeroen Tel such a beautiful song.
Jeroen Tel Must have been some good coffee then...
My favourite game on C64 and this tune was a big part of it. You sir are a legend!
Hi Jeroen! What do you think of being able to see the individual waveforms that you crafted into a musical masterpiece?
"The C64 has limitations."
Music composers: I don't care.
Music composers : Limits? Never Heard of them.
Thanks, Rolf R Bakke, for the upload, I try to keep track of my fans and it's always awesome to see my chipmusic in oscilloscope view.
I have replied to many posts here over time. My last replies didn't show up at the right "place" (technical UA-cam error I guess), but it's great to see the responses from everyone! :-)
UA-cam comments system is a mess... :)
Jeroen Tel
This is when we behold your magic at our very eyes, in the form of waveforms at dawn of electronic music. For some reason, seeing the wave stretches ans compresses as its pitch shifts always lightens me. Makes me curious how its frequency domain will look like.
One of the best of your works, mr. Tel
You are a legend, literally the Beethoven of C64 music!
This song reminds me of Follin for some reason.. :) That in itself is a good thing cause the Follins had perhaps the best sound routine at the time... it ate CPU but man what sounds.
If I was a professional wrestler this would certainly be my intro music.
I have not heard this music for over 25 years. I have tears in my eyes. The best game I've played, the best music to play that I've heard ...
andee997 What game?
Supremacy (on the legendary Commodore 64).
"I have tears in my eyes" no you don't.
Absolutely gorgeous! Seeing the 3 channels independently and all with the waves phase-aligned its pure class. PWM Galore!
I spent hours watching "shows" like this, and if today I have a strong passion with synthesizers it's mainly thanks to these.
This is actually pretty satisfying to watch and i don't know why.
+WhaiJay I feel the same way :D
It's called "guru meditation"... something everybody needs more of in this chaotic crazy world of ours! When composing the original intro melody of this tune I was heavily sedated by coffee, chocolate, and tobacco. And of course the ever-inspiring god of music... whoever he is, I owe him one! :-)
(That's the most hippie reply I could ever post to any video). :P
It's satisfying because you can see a complicated composition broken down into simple mathematical shapes, you get an idea of how the physics of sound works, you can see correlations between octave and wavelength, learn how different gemoetries sound in different combinations, etc... In short it's like a form of synaesthesia.
Because the first minute is entirely PWM and AM square waves! It's unbelievable!
I always remember I read the c64 Book: "... you can generate music with 3 or 4 sorts of waves...". I think WTF, that doesnt work! But now you can see it! Thats great!
I think what probably makes this so good a tune is that the instruments used in the intro have a very clean sound to them.. and the section at around 2:10 almost sounds like Jeroen's style of an arrangement was based on music from medieval England.
these videos are cool, knowing the music coming out of the system is twice as old as me, maybe.
Same here
Not sure why, but I always listen to this while programming and designing instruction sets for Redstone computers
Minecraft = technically 8-bit
8-bit Music goes perfect with it my friend
@@cubygamez3036 Not technically, it just isn't. Nice music though
Absolute masterpiece.
Just great. Loved it since I was a small boy.
Great you got to say that to me on Social Media. Loved composing it for ya! =)
That one was a banger!
I don't think I can say enough nice things about this piece, its in my top #3 faves from my long time friend. That intro is so moving. I've heard it done in so many different ways, from symphonies, to PC covers, and IMO the C64 will always sound the best. The main portion of the song sounds very heavily classically influenced which I love, but still that JT hard rock style which really propels what is already classical genius into a masterpiece. The part around 2:06 really breaks it up well with a nice Folk-styled intermission, then some nice atmosphere to bring it back. Love you brother !! \m/
I remember this! We admired the magic impression of the prelude. Wonderful.
I love the reverb.
:) what reverb. ain't no reverb unit on a SID chip. Look up the C64 SID chip, and it's capabilities, and be even more amazed at what it can do.
A closer look at the oscilloscope graphics may give you a few hints as to what is actually happening that creates the sound you are hearing.
drumphil00 It isn't really "reverb", but it's the triangle waves at the beginning, which add to the square wave, making it sound like reverb.
A repeated version of the same thing (with some variations) with a delay, and some pitch modulation, as far as I can tell. But hey, I'm just a drummer. :P
That's what I was talking about
Jeroen Tel
Yeah Rednomad, it was a simulated "reverb" making use of a softer version of the main lead sound with the other 2 channels... with a delay... :-)
The closest I could get to get to a "reverb" on the Commodore 64 SID chip.
Già in questa versione originale c'è tutto. Jeroen un genio
Omg this is top.. I've listened to the full music back there when I was a child, playing hours with Supremacy and often letting the whole track just go and then repeat, repeat, repeat.. once my mother was pretty angry because I was late from lunch despite several warnings, just because of this track. LoL. So amazing hearing these tunes on a modern, great hi-fi. And believe me the SID's sound is a jaw-dropping experience on a decent audiophile hi-fi. Just look at the spectrogram (e.g. in Foobar2000). LoL. This is a true masterpiece of SID programming. Thank you for the upload, I'm in love again (and still) :))
So underrated, you hardly ever see this soundtrack or game talked about.
This track is probably on my top 3 at worst top 5 of my favourite Commodore/Amiga tracks! Jeroen Tel rocks!
Thank you, P.D.! =)
what else do you have on that top tier list? :D
@@9at0 lol
Another masterpiece from Jeroen.
__
/ \
_______| |
/________ |
|________ |
|________ |
\___________|
Musical genius + the best retro sound chip = great chiptune
Thanks, wereiucx, also for the nice ASCII Art! :-D
A giant thumbs up for Jeroen the mighty magician himself I see. That's something I've never seen before!
@@JeroenTel Awesome that you reply here! I have great respect for your art! Timeless masterpieces...
@@thofol *bows*
@@JeroenTel I am honored. :-)
JEROEN TEL IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hearing this makes me picture the ending to a video game where the hero, after defeating the final boss, ascends to godhood.
There's the death of the final opponent until 0:33. Then, everything resets to zero, progressively dimming into a blinding light, surrounding the protagonist, zooming in from the edges of the universe until they are alone against the white background - until 1:06.
At that moment, a beat starts to radiate from them - their heartbeat, which is now the very beat of time itself. They move their hands and clench their palms ; and thus, light runs from their hand to the infinite. They smile and repeat the experience, creating a rainbow of all EM frequencies from radio to gamma ; in this instant, in one beat of their heart, matter has been recreated, stars have lived and died, planets have been created and obliterated. The intensity of the waves grow until 1:21.
Then, they transform. They start to move ; and in their flying around the dimensions of time and space, realities collide and diverge, in what seems to them like hundredths of a second. They lose their human limbs, their human skin, their human face, their human bodies and brains. They are a focused consciousness existing and surviving from nothing, and flying around alone in nothing, observing all that they create just by existing and moving. This lasts up to 2:06.
Just as the tune changes, the single point of consciousness they form spreads infinitely in all directions and populates every bit of empty space there is as well as any particle of matter. They transcend the time they have redefined and now exist everywhere, in everything, in infinite forms, watching all at once. This transformation is over at 2:15.
Now that their ascension is complete, they can only watch ; as, like the encore at 2:20 and on tells us, another brave hero will come and challenge their position to take their place and create another universe, repeating the everlasting cycle of Supremacy.
3:47 : Roll credits.
This comment was a voyage hehe, nice upload!
Thanks for making these vids, Rolf! i love them
Watching pulse width modulation is amazing
This has some very baroque characteristics in it. J.S. Bach would be proud of it.
What a nice compliment!
Now THIS is how a C64's chip is meant to be used!
Probably the only instance of 3 channel echo in SID music.
Pretty cool, that's a good oscilloscope too.
Super!!!! macy...
Why does this remind me of Attack of the Killer Queen.
MaSu FTW \m/
id love to mess around with some the samples/what ever you use my favorite part is the change up at 3:00 min
Awesome!
If you ever wanted to complete the sound of your car; top treble,middle, and base
It's finger snappin' good!
PERFECT!!!!!!!!
fckn' great!
Please do the tracks from Myth. I would love to see those.
This is just so fascinating, this is why I would have wanted to live in the 80's.
But all the stuff from the 80's exists now plus stuff form the 90's and 00's and 10's. You also get a ton of new 80's inspired things, especially lately! Anyways not trying to be a downer, if you can time travel that would be sweet. Just that right now kind of rocks as well. :)
Exactly, Jest! :D
so good
suuupremacyyyyyyyy
Ich würde ja gerne mein Lieblingsstück mal so "sehen", wie dieses hier... Kann ich das auch selbst machen??
I came here after hearing Priest play this on their live show
Link please?
This is f* awesome !!! I still have my Gen1 C64, fully functional. Supremacy took quite some months from my life ... omg ... hearing its music again ... and this oscilloscope... hooo-ly-shit :D Pls try these as well !!! (See replies)
POKE 16017,44
SYS 2077
Incredible! :-) Nice to hear that, Vortexextrov! :-)
This wants me to go back to the 80-90's
почему это там прекрасно?
1.50 speed
1.25 ✌️
Achei o toque do elfen lied parecido...
1.25 ✌️
*Repeated nerd-gasms* (Music comma)
LukHash!
Creme de la creme!!!
:)