A sort of 80s flavour cover of this track from DKC2. I should do some DKC3 stuff too, but I'm not as familiar with that game. Also this is the second chill SNES cover in a row. Uh, whoops?

Also hey, I remembered to upload to YouTube! It's only been a year since the last time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-LRz9RPinA

Tools used:
FL Studio
Emu ESI-2000
Roland XV-5080
Synth1
Arturia DX7 V
A lot of samples

Mining Melancholy (Donkey Kong Country 2)

You can purchase the album here: https://karlbmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sonicesque-flashfield

Track 4 from Sonicesque: Flashfield, the fifth album of original, Sonic-inspired music by Karl Brueggemann.

Moon Factory Zone

Dragon Train was composed during a time when I was still recovering from a depressive period of burnout that had essentially killed my creative drive for two months on end.
This was initially conceptualised in my head as my own take on a Falcom-style 90's era RPG boss theme with a prominent rhythmic drive, but initially I was paralysed by great trepidation and the idea that this might be way past what I was capable of.

And yet I was finally able to realise this with some motivation from friends and the DTM Central community, though it wasn't without its issues: midi hardware would struggle to synchronise correctly, I had to record parts during a heat wave, and some bugs in my DAW had suddenly messed with parameters of certain tracks without me knowing how to effectively fix them.

Still, I'm very happy with how this arrangement turned out and it was a great test drive for some of my custom drum kits, as well as some custom Roland XV patches I commissioned from a good friend.
I hope listeners will find some genuine joy in this, as it is most certainly a labour of love.

Gear used:
Roland SC-8850
Roland XV-5050 with patches from SRX-06 Complete Orchestra and custom synth leads from @studiostriver .
BOSS DR-660
Korg Triton Rack
Yamaha MU128

Part of the larger community album "POWER! SuperDIGI", which may be listened to here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5loM9Vcbo

Tracklist assembled by @harumkt and album uploaded by @speedyfm

Mixed by @manibrandr-soundworks and mastered by @harumkt

My Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/alicegrimaude

Dragon Train (DTM MIDI Central Mix)

from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Michiru Yamane)

Savaged regime study
Guitar solo adapted from various teramae works

CLOCK TOWER「YM2612+SN76489 arrange」

This track was made for DTM MIDI Central compilation album POWER! GS, managed and organized by @melonadem & @harumi-makoto

Check out the album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs

Composed / Arranged by I. "ASIKWUSpulse" Wüst
Rendered on Roland SOUNDCanvas SC-88Pro / Mixed by @moviemovies1
Cover-art / Mastered by @melonadem
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I got an nice idea of just going for a huge pop-
orchestra sound sprinkled up with funk.

The first thing that came to me was the piano-riff
with the octave bass in the intro, that does an ascending chord figure with the bass and the string-ensemble - for that real heavy feel you get from ballads.

That felt from the beginning as the to-go foundation
for the chorus as well, topped with a whailing lead
for more of that mighty ballad feel, but at the same
time embracing the funky feel brought by the
swingin' rhythm.

The rest is just tinkering with jazzy chords and licks,
gluing the piece together smoothly into a somewhat
radix-reminescent sound (radix is a popular musician
in the tracker scene).

This took 4 days in total to make, day 1 & 2 for
composing, day 3 for the finishing touches, a week
off, then a 4th day for a final playback check before
submission.

The track features a lot of configuration exclusive to
the GS MIDI-synthesizers such as pitch-modification
to individual drum-sounds in the same MIDI-channel
without the use of pitch-bend, detailed modification
of the internal system-effects, instrument-layers by
rerouting MIDI-channel reception, etc.

Hope you will enjoy it!

Jump The Jumper (SC-88 MIDI)

This track was made for DTM MIDI Central compilation album POWER! GS, managed and organized by @melonadem & @harumi-makoto

Check out the album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs

Composed / Arranged by I. "ASIKWUSpulse" Wüst
Rendered on Roland SOUNDCanvas SC-88Pro / Mixed by @moviemovies1
Cover-art / Mastered by @melonadem
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This one is more exploring in sound than full in sound,
compared to Jump the Jumper. Just another vibe in
other words.

Color Combination (SC-88 MIDI)

I Want To Kero-Explain

Sunspill

my contribution to the indie compilation album, "Melolignia2"

https://plustek.bandcamp.com/album/melolignia2

Overdrive Mode

Song I made for an unfinished game jam a couple years back.

Snowy Days

art by calder https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/68238189

EDIT (6/26/2021): reharmonization patch

When Mother Was There (FM)

Songwriter (since as far back as I can remember), drummer (since 2006) and tracker-musician (since 2013).
▪️Not a frequent uploader.
▪️I may not answer all comments I get, but I do read all of them (and compliments do mean much and I do answer them the most!)