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Intergo

CrossCode ~ The Ultimate Arrange

Sapphire Ridge

Introducing 'Till Sunrise', a digital fusion/bitpop/chip tune music album that takes you on a journey through diverse moods and genres. With over 2–3 years of work, this album, for me at least, encapsulates the experience of spending a night until sunrise, whether alone with your thoughts, with your best friend or with other loved ones.

Each track is a unique creation, bringing a different vibe to the album while maintaining an overarching theme of nighttime exploration. From high-energy dance beats to soothing melodies and introspective moments, I think 'Till Sunrise' offers a dynamic musical experience that caters to a variety of moods and emotions.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the soundscape and let 'Till Sunrise' be your guide through the night :)

Thank you all for listening and sticking around <3

Covert art by: ChipsGoWOAh
twitter.com/ChipsGoWOAH

Sunrise

One Last Time

Luminary

Demo version of "Decker" from my 2022 album, Incline. This was before Vinnie Colaiuta or Ric Fierabracci recorded drums and bass respectively.

Decker - Demo

Voice Spectral

HPT 030 - Track 01

VIDEOBALL is a sport everyone can play. VIDEOBALL is simple enough for a loud party. VIDEOBALL is deep enough for a quiet party. VIDEOBALL combines our favorite elements of arcade shooting games, modern first-person shooters, and modern real-time strategy games with the depth of soccer, basketball, hockey, football, and rugby. In VIDEOBALL you maneuver a player using directional buttons or either of your controller's analog sticks. Press any button or pull any trigger to project a triangle. Only triangles can push balls. Triangles also stun players on impact. Hold any button to charge bigger triangles. Bigger triangles push harder. Push balls into the opposing goal to score points. Hold a button long enough to build a defensive square. Shoot defensive squares to destroy them.

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My entry for Chiptunes=WIN "Spacetunes=WIN" compilation which I'm thrilled to be a part of! The order of magnitude of epic music on this comp is of interstellar gravitational force! Thank you Chiptunes=WIN team and fellow artists for this super cosmic album!!

I wanted to explore a track that had a drum & bass feel to it while giving a sense of outer space which is cold, sterile but wondrous and beautiful. I decided on the use of frequency modulation synthesis as a core part of the instrumentation for its somewhat cold, digital, metallic sound and tone that it's known for.

I achieved this by using software synths such as ALYJAMES LAB's wonderful FMDrive based on the SEGA Genesis/Megadrive YM2612 FM sound chip. I also utilized the emulation of this chip through Deflemask using the Sega Genesis engine to make samples. NES 2A03 chip pulse channel was used via Famitracker. I also used Native Instruments FM8 VST. I pulled some fat bass out of the QuadraSID VST emulating the Commodore 64's MOS Technology 6581 SID (Sound Interface Device)chip. FMDrives Shinobi patch was used for bass as well.

On the flip side of FM, I always like to bring some element of fusion into my tracks so I decided on adding some analog warmth since outer space is freezing cold but also full of extremely hot things like stars! For this, I chose Oberheim OB-X emulation via sonicprojects OP-X PRO-II virtual analog VST for the pad chords derived from the OB's "Drifting Strings" patch. 

On top of that I used my typical method for tracking leads with single cycle waveforms; in this case, PWM and square waves. Other melodic lines and effects via sine and sawtooth waves. The Drums were created using samples from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters and Street Fighter 2 as well as Stagg DH hi-hat samples. 

All of this was sequenced or "tracked" within Renoise V3.1.1 which is my tracker of choice these days when I'm not using Fami/Defle/Schism or other various trackers. Basically this all adds up to an 80s/90s feel with drum & bass and demoscene elements. Hopefully I achieved my goal of creating a outer space themed atmospheric / high-energy, exciting track!

A big thanks to all involved and to everybody that enjoys my song. I highly recommend hopping over to the Bandcamp page (Buy Link)and grabbing this album. It's a seriously great compilation that is a definite stand-out for me from all of Chiptunes=WIN's offerings and for that matter, any other chip compilation <3

Mastering and track ordering by Stemage
Art by FoxxDragon & TinyNeenja

album-get: https://www.chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/album/spacetunes-win
full-review: https://chiptuneswin.com/blog/spacetunes-win-full-review/#more-25669
module-play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEdKOWOOKPM&feature=share

Luminary

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