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An orchestral cover of Fairy Queen from Zelda The Wind Waker. 

Used:
FL Studio, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Audio Albion, Loegria, Sable, Mural, BML Woods, BML Brass, Percussion, Harp, Solo Strings, Cinesamples Piano in Blue.

The Legend of Zelda - WW - Fairy Queen Orchestra

Lovely Planet is out now:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/298600/

Listen to the whole soundtrack here:
http://calumbowen.bandcamp.com/album/lovely-planet-original-soundtrack

Get The Whole OST

Lovely Planet - Lovely City

An orchestration of the main theme from Animal Crossing. This was part a series of live streams I've been doing, demonstrating the orchestrating process. Another piece where I forced myself to use Spitfire where possible, though I did have look elsewhere for the choir!

Used:
FL Studio 11, Kontakt, Spitfire BML Sable, Horns, Flutes, Pecussion, Harp, Albion, Loegria, Iceni, Felt Piano, BRSO Woods, EWQL Symphonic Choirs, SoundIron Mercury.

Animal Crossing Theme for Orchestra from live YouTube stream

A cover of one of my favorite Legend of Zelda songs. Enjoy!

Minish Village - The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap COVER

Selected works from 2012-2015, remixed and remastered. This album is a tribute to the video game music that has moved and inspired me. 

To all my listeners, friends, and family. I could not continue producing music without your support. I wholeheartedly thank you.

Thank you to the game composers:
Revo, Jake "Virt" Kaufman, Manami Matsumae, Takashi Kumegawa, Yoshio Hirai, Masashi Kageyama, Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo,Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, David Wise, Eveline Fischer, Robin Beanland, Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi, Fumito Tamayama,Yoko Suzuki, Shigenori Masuko, Brad Buxer, Cirocco Jones, Michael Jackson, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Tomonori Sawada, Jun Senoue,Miyoko Takaoka, Masanori Hikichi, Shinobu Tanaka, Kenta Nagata, Mario Gonzalez & Javier Perez, Nu Romantic Productions (Mark Steven Miller and Jason Scher), Ryo Nagamatsu, Yasunori Shiono, Hirokazu Ando, Jun Ishikawa, Yasunori Mitsuda, Masato Nakamura, Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata, Spencer Nilsen, David J. Young, Mark "Sterling" Crew, Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Kinuyo Yamashita, Koji Kondo, Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano, and Nobuo Uematsu

Special thanks to Brad the GameChops Intern

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Past My Bedtime (Animal Crossing)

Kapp'n Lat'n (New Leaf)

Cover of TLOZ: Minish Cap
Boy, soooo many memories about this game...
And this track always got stuck in my head.

Vector Art by http://kuroi-no-okami.deviantart.com/

The Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap - "Minish Village" Cover

"K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)"
aivi & surasshu
originally composed by Kazumi Totaka
from the game Animal Crossing

aivisura liner notes:

- We love Totaka!
- We worked on this remix in between projects for a year.
- When we lived in separate countries, we played Animal Crossing: New Leaf together all the time, and went to K.K. Slider concerts on Saturdays. We requested "K.K. Cruisin'" every time.
- We started this remix in an attempt to answer the question, "Why is K.K. Cruisin' so great?" After listening to it and studying it, we determined that, for us, the heart of the song was its groove. The same five chords repeat throughout the entire song (five extremely creative chords--Mr. Totaka is always a step ahead of us all), and it never changes in rhythm or energy level. We used that concept as the main inspiration for our arrangement, where instead of ramping up the energy for the chorus like we'd normally do, we pulled back and settled into a comfortable groove. Keeping "still" was a big exercise in confidence for both of us.
- We named our remix after the road trips we'd take together down I-5, between San Francisco and LA. Those trips felt like mini-vacations for us (though we still worked on the road and in our hotel room) and making this song has been a mini-vacation for us, too.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGT5NfBPus

Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)

Original track by: Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo EAD)
Remix / Arrangement by: ClefferNotes

Intro Graphics By: DazzaBound
http://www.youtube.com/dazzabound

Hey everyone, here is an orchestral remix that I created from scratch in Apple Logic Pro X of the well known Able Sisters Theme in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I thought that the theme would sound nice in an orchestral style so I gave it a go, here is how it turned out.

-Libraries Used-
Spitfire Audio: Albion 1
Spitfire Audio: Mural Vol 1
Kontakt Factory Library

Animal Crossing: Able Sisters Theme Orchestra

1pm - Animal Crossing (GameCube)

Original Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi, Shinobu Tanaka - Nintendo EAD

Orchestral Remix By: ClefferNotes

Here is an orchestral rendition that I created in Logic Pro X of one of my favourite tracks from the Animal Crossing title for the GameCube. This took me a while to figure out how to present this track in an orchestra format, but I finally got there and this is how it turned out!

Thanks once again for watching and stay tuned for more Animal Crossing orchestral remixes! 

- Libraries Used -
Spitfire Audio: BML Mural Vol 1
Spitfire Audio: Albion 1
Spitfire Audio: Harp
Cinesamples: Piano In Blue
Kontakt Factory Library

Animal Crossing GameCube - 5PM Remix Orchestra

Original Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi, Shinobu Tanaka - Nintendo EAD

Orchestral Remix By: ClefferNotes

Here is an orchestral rendition that I created in Logic Pro X of one of the best tracks in my opinion from Animal Crossing for the GameCube. This took me a while to figure out how to present this track in an orchestra format, but I finally got there and this is how it turned out!

Thanks once again for watching and stay tuned for more Animal Crossing orchestral remixes! 

- Libraries Used -
Spitfire Audio: BML Mural Vol 1
Spitfire Audio: Albion 1
Cinesamples: Piano In Blue
Kontakt Factory Library

Animal Crossing GameCube - 7PM Remix Orchestra

Original Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi, Shinobu Tanaka - Nintendo EAD

Orchestral Remix By: ClefferNotes

Here is an orchestral rendition that I created in Logic Pro X of the 5AM theme from Animal Crossing for the GameCube. This took me a while to figure out how to present this track in an orchestra format, but I finally got there and this is how it turned out!

Thanks once again for watching and stay tuned for more Animal Crossing orchestral remixes! 

- Libraries Used -
Spitfire Audio: BML Mural Vol 1
Spitfire Audio: Albion 1 (Legacy Version)
Spitfire Audio: Albion One
Spitfire Audio: Percussion
Cinesamples: Piano In Blue

Animal Crossing GameCube - 5AM Remix Orchestra

Sets of Orchestrated and Remastered songs from the Animal Crossing franchise I've worked on.

Animal Crossing - Christmas Eve 'Orchestrated'

An orchestration of the ending theme from Super Mario World by Koji Kondo. I posted a shorter version of this a while back, but this has the ending now where I tested out Sample Modeling's Horns & Tuba. So much awesome.


Super Mario World - Ending Orchestra

This is an orchestral cover of the Select Screen from Zelda A Link to the Past. I'd never paid much attention to the Zelda music until recently. I wish I had gotten into it much earlier as there's so many good pieces of music hidden behind 8bit blips and blops. I have a 'making of' video for this piece of music that's coming as soon as I chop it up!

Used: FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Cinematic Strings, Spitfire Harp, Albion & Percussion, Cinesamples CineBrass & Piano in Blue, Project Sam Symphobia 2

Zelda ALTtP - Select Screen

An orchestrated version of Mice on Venus from the Minecraft Soundtrack. Another attempt at using Adagio that just didn't go to plan - CS2 and Albion saved the day.

Used:
Spitfire Albion, Percussion, Harp & Solo Strings, Cinematic Strings 2, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, VOXOs & Piano in Blue, EWQL Symphonic Choirs, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Acoustic Guitar

Minecraft - Mice on Venus Orchestra

An orchestration of the Overworld 2 theme from Super Mario Brothers 3. I kept faithful to the original with a few wiggly improvs here and there. It was a practice in a closer, more intimate orchestral setup. I kept a few detunings and weird things here and there to give it a bit less of a Hollywood feel and more like you've gone to see a crazy orchestra playing some Mario - hopefully that comes across.

Used:
Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings & Percussion, Cinesamples Piano in Blue, CineBrass, CineSnares, VOXOs & HollyWoodwinds, Sample Modelling Tuba & French Horn, Fablesounds Broadway Big Band, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2, Wavefactory Tea Towel Drum

Super Mario Brothers 3 - Overworld 2 Orchestra

An orchestration of Super Ghouls & Ghosts - Haunted Graveyard. Okay, so it's obviously heavily Beetlejuice inspired, but I figured I'd let loose with the Elfman this time.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Harpsichord, Great British Brass, British Woods, Percussion, Cinematic Strings 2, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, CineWinds, HollyWoodwinds & Cinesnares, Sonokinetic Toccata, Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere, Orchestral String Runs, Sample Modelling French Horn & Tuba, BRSO Brass

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Haunted Graveyard Orchestra

This is an orchestration of 1pm from Animal Crossing. Mainly done as I thought the tune was cool and I wanted to experiment with new toys!

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Orchestral Tools Berlin Woodwinds, Spitfire Albion, Solo Strings & Percussion, Cinesamples Piano in Blue & CineBrass, Sample Modelling Tuba & French Horns, Fablesounds Broadway Big Band, My whistley mouth and my cat

Animal Crossing - 1pm Orchestra

Harvest Moon Back To Nature - Town

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