This was my contribution to “POWER! GS”, which I composed on 2024-02-14. Please check out the rest of the album at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs, there's some amazing stuff in it! There's also a full download there, including the MIDI files.

This is a recording from my Roland SC-7 and represents what I heard while composing this. The version on the album is a bit different, because it was recorded on a Roland SC-55mkII and was mastered. I've uploaded that too at https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/beyond-the-stars! My comments from the liner notes:

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The recording in this album is from a Roland SC-55mkII, but I actually wrote this song for my Roland SC-7. The SC-7 is the SC-55's obscure General MIDI-only little sibling: smaller and less featureful, but generally sounding very, very similar.

Actually, it has some GS-ish features; this song uses the reverb, chorus, TR-808 drums, and adjustable low-pass filter. I couldn't test on an SC-55 myself, but I hoped whatever I wrote for the SC-7 would transfer well, and thankfully it did! Interestingly, the piano tone is a bit different, but the rest seems to be identical.

If I'm somehow not the only one out there who still cares about this tiny beige box, you're in luck: I included SC-7 SysExes alongside the GS ones in the final MIDI file, just for you. <3

I wrote three different songs for this collab, but somehow it was only this one, written in a few hours on the day of the deadline, that I was happy enough with to submit.

The seed of this song was just me playing around with ninth chords. I love that wide and ambiguous sound! I didn't have a clear mood in mind while writing it, but the sparkly high-pitched arpeggio reminded me of Space Cadet 3D Pinball, and slow melancholy flute parts always make me think of JRPGs and the feeling of adventure, so I tried to come up with a title evoking those themes.

Programmed with Sekaiju. SysEx generated with SoundPalette.

beyond the stars (POWER! GS) (SC-7 version)

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