I'm surprised it took me this long to do a cover of this theme, it's always been one of my favorites from any Mega Man game. The "G" must stand for gravitas...

Mega Man: The Wily Wars - Buster Rod-G [VRC6]

A couple of days late, but just in time for Skyward Sword HD. Wanted to try something slightly different with the theme.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfwxXz6q6g

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - Lumpy Pumpkin (Arrangement)

I finished Sonic Adventure about a week or two ago now and one of the things I really liked about my time with it was, of course, the music. It's probably my favourite OST in the series, the amount of genres it houses is varied and every song in it is catchy and memorable as all get-out.

After listening to this song over and over again for a while, I got the urge to make a Genesis cover of it. Problem is that, because it's just a WAV on a Disc, I can't channel split it. Plus, every MIDI I could find had very obvious and annoying inaccuracies in them, so I didn't want to use them for that reason. So I just took a FLAC of the original song, put it into FL Studio and used some EQ settings to try and separate the instruments best I could. In doing so, I actually managed to brute-force the notes by ear way easier than I thought I would.

This means that this is my first successful attempt at covering a song that I couldn't channel split, and considering what I had to work with, I'm surprised it came out sounding as good and as accurate as it did.

I'm not a Sonic fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I played this game quite a lot when I was young, and I played it again recently out of curiosity. While it wasn't amazing, I appreciate it for what it is, it's fun enough, but not something I'd recommend to people unless they're nostalgic for the game, or interested in exploring a piece of gaming history.

Either way, the OST slaps, lmao

[YM2612 \ SN76489] Sonic Adventure - Skydeck A Go! Go! ...for Sky Deck

Lots of talking going on in the Direct, so this was a bit difficult to do. This should be fairly close.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqodpi2-zVQ

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - The Archipelago (Arrangement)

Testing out a new VST! Alsoooo writer's block. :V What better way to deal with it than game remixing?

DynaBlade - Area 2

Have You Ever

SHOW THE STUFF

The name slipstream comes from my love for motorsports. Another one of many synthwave tracks I have written over the past few months. 

Slipstream

Uhh, so about that content dump I mentioned. I'm doing it now. Yeah. Here's my Mole Knight VRC7 thing.

Shovel Knight - An Underlying Problem [2A03+VRC7]

Well looky here, I'm doing things. That's a relief.
This is going to be hard to explain when it's finished during the next year isn't it. Ah well.

Also (you guessed it) fun times on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGEuXvPCgclIAQuIj3l0xTQ

Flower Mountain Zone

Happy New Year my dear friends! Many of you have requested that I cover the song Good Weather from the game Gimmick!, and as ye have asked, so shall ye receive! Much love to you all.

The main synths are all Native Instruments FM8, which is itself a nearly-perfect simulation of the venerable Yamaha DX7 from 1983. Even the "steel drums" are from the DX7!

Gimmick! - Good Weather (80s Synth Remake)

i don't really use this anymore lol (they/them)

my new account is @valfrey

Shovel Knight - An Underlying Problem [2A03+VRC7]

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