Great to see another amazing track from you! Although it takes a while, the results demonstrate the time committed. Hats off to you!

you did fantastically with this one ! it maintains the playfulness of the original while having a little bit of an edge <3

This is honestly quite underrated. Good job!

sounds amazing!! a bit like something out of kirby or smash at certian parts too which i love

The Upload

As of this track, I'll be changing my upload schedule to every 4 days as a means of improving my chances with the viewing algorithm and overall marketing. If it proves fruitless, I'll try a different schedule.

All composed, arranged, produced, and performed/programmed by me.

Parallel Earth Gods

That moment when you found out half of Prism Relic Act 1 is a water level.

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Arrangement by NicoCW
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Background by a lot of people
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Prism Relic Act 1 (Underwater) - Sonic Hysteria OST

Hello, I was always iffy about arranging this track because the melody sounded too fast for an orchestra. My basic self from earlier usually just hands off fast melodies to the violins or some kind of keys instruments and they would just carry the whole thing. That felt wrong for this particular orchestration and wouldn't add much from the original. So my biggest challenge in this arrangement was to preserve the melody in its original form, while being able to hand it off to nearly all the instrument families of the orchestra. It wouldn't be too ridiculous sounding for any section, including brass to have a burst of speed and dexterity right?

In this last year, my master class professor has basically been the Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack. The team of composers have arranged 10+ versions of the iconic battle theme, tweaked into many different styles to suit the different locations and contexts of the battles that take place. I kept this in mind and imagined in the full Deltarune game, perhaps there would be many variations of the battle theme. I wasn't going to do 10+ versions of this, so I only explored each of my ideas for a couple measures, then moved on to the next idea. The final track may sound decently cohesive, but the way I utilize the instruments changes from section to section. For example, in one section I may want the piano to support with the syncopated rhythm, and in other places I want it to play like it's baroque period Bach, and have other instruments follow suit or even fight it off.

My orchestral libraries have been able to handle roughly 80% of all articulations, but doing the fast melody while still leaving room for expression really challenged me here. I've always been lazy with the woodwind and brass side, so here I forced myself to utilize samples from 2-3 other libraries for brass and woodwinds, to make them discernable at such high mph, making more use of solo instruments for clarity. I settled at 133 bpm speed for the song (vs 140 in the original track) that I felt is a realistic speed for an orchestra to play that doesn't sound like it's tripping over itself.

The inherent silliness of the arrangement adds to the comedy of the battles that at many times feel more like slapstick hijinks, or even tender character moments. I wanted the instruments to feel like they're goofing off, with none of the intensity of the boss battle tracks I've previously done.

Deltarune Orchestrated will be available on iTunes/Spotify upon completion of the album.

MP3 and FLAC available for Patrons. ► https://www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement by Jeremiah Sun
Original Theme by toby fox

DELTARUNE Chapter 01 is currently free to download on PC and the Nintendo Switch!

Deltarune Orchestrated

DELTARUNE Orchestrated - Rude Buster

this track was NOT inspired by Michiru Yamane's "Top Floor" from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
this track was NOT inspired by Jake Kaufman's "Final Palace" from Double Dragon Neon
this track was NOT inspired by the bridge from Tyler, the Creator's "I THINK" (IGOR, 2017)
this track was NOT inspired by Yoko Shimomura's "Blazing Castle" from Legend of Mana

there's also one other manabu song this track wasn't inspired by but its slipped my mind. (Not that it'd matter since it's not inspired by it anyways)

[WIP] TOP FLOOR

Gentle Booty (Trauma Center + YaBoyJDub) (MASHUP)

I had a nightmare about you last night.

SOURCES:
Radiohead - No Surprises
The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell

Inspired by Ringo.

Radiohell

Happy Deltarune Chapter 2 day!!! It's a pure coincidence that I had this track finished today. Once you see this video, I'll be loading up chapter 2 for the first time and see how the new music is!

Does this track sound a lot different than my entire library of music? That's because I'm using a completely new sample library: EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition. I still love all the Cinesamples and 8Dio stuff I've been using, which is much easier to get that rich, luscious feel right out of the box. However a lot of times I want to be much more specific with the kind of articulation I want out of the instruments, so I used this track to practice on EWHO. Each instrument's base level is a lot flatter, and requires a lot more parameters to adjust to get it to sound how I want, but I can see the potential. I created a new project template that has a whopping 275 tracks!!! 40GB of RAM used if I activate every sample lol. Even the reverb I'm using is completely different, and I'm hoping as I improve, my music sounds more and more like a live performance.

My approach to this track is a pre-cursor to another track I want to take the same approach to that I will arrange soon. See if you can guess what it is (one of the Final Fantasies). I didn't read too much into the context of the town before Ralsei's castle, and just wanted to make a track that romanticizes the town from a time when it was thriving, full of activity and celebration. While you walk through the deserted street and hear this music, you get a tinge of sadness, melancholy, and want to reminisce about the happy days.

I made 2 iterations of this track before I settled on what you hear. The first version was a straightforward soft waltz orchestra, where I listened to a ton of waltz examples from Strauss and Tchaikovsky. That probably would have been a more "faithful" arrangement, but I liked the idea of telling a story with the music. Also, I count this as a "do-over" of my The Legend arrangement. Hopefully you'll find this arrangement more dynamic and interesting. It's admittedly a little overboard, as you can pretty much leave the area in 30 seconds and never hear the music again. HAHA.

Deltarune Orchestrated will be available on iTunes/Spotify upon completion of the album.

MP3 and FLAC available for Patrons. ► https://www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement by Jeremiah Sun
Original Theme by toby fox

DELTARUNE Chapter 1&2 is currently free to download on PC and the Nintendo Switch!

DELTARUNE Orchestrated - Empty Town

composition in tides

This dual mix combines Undertale's soundtrack "Stronger Monsters" with Nick Oleksiak's cover.

Music source:

Stronger Monsters OST - http://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/track/stronger-monsters

Cover by Nick Oleksiak -
https://soundcloud.com/epic-rpg-remixes/stronger-monsters-undertale-arrangement?in=epic-rpg-remixes/sets/undertale


Picture source:

Rude Baby Red by okafrags - http://okafrags.tumblr.com/post/136221642437/its-not-an-accident-anymore

Rude Baby Red is a character from the fan-made Undertale tribute game „Undertale Red“.
This fangame and character were both created by game designer and artist taxiderby. You can download the game here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/3x5uw2/hi_i_made_thorough_undertale_tribute_game/
http://taxiderby.tumblr.com/post/135354499621/undertale-red

Undertale Dual Mixes playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD90pe4VKFO8RBQdZnYYXEOgBV4F0cr6R

You can buy the game and/or soundtrack here:
http://undertale.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/391540
http://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/

Also check out Toby Fox's Twitter and Tumblr for fan-artwork and overall good humour:
https://twitter.com/undertale
https://twitter.com/fwugradiation
http://undertale.tumblr.com/

Undertale Stronger Monsters Dual Mix

hope toby fox can finish this game. Playing through chapter 01, I feel like the presentation and pacing is much stronger than Undertale. The soundtrack so far is catchy and memorable just like the original.

The Legend sequence in the opening lends itself to much gravitas. For the arrangement, I focused only on filling out the soundscape more. If there was one criticism I have of toby fox's music style, it's that he can repeat phrases a lot without any variation. This is understandable, as his soundtrack is still very extensive, plus he makes the entire rest of the game too. To make each repetition of the theme flow better, I altered the last measure in each playthrough to transition better to the next phrase.

I didn't use any fancy instruments beyond the normal orchestral set. For the final section, I interpreted it as a quartet, and added the double bass and viola with their own parts to fill out the sound. All in all, the final product has a primarily medieval/classical tone to it. This was a bit challenging to do, as slower music is not my strong suit. I have to really work on the articulations and texturing for long notes so they don't sound too flat with the virtual samples.

MP3 and FLAC available for Patrons. ► https://www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement and fan art by Jeremiah Sun

Original Song composed by toby fox
DELTARUNE Chapter 01 is currently free to download

DELTARUNE Orchestrated - The Legend

[lumena-tan uses two expansion chips as to appear competent]

Rude Buster has this unusual thing where it's ever-so-slightly off pitch from the key of F# minor, so it made arranging this a pain in the butt! Thanks Toby!! For this arrangement I used the N163 chip to complement the arrange with a grittier bass to give it more oomph. Hope you enjoy it!

Deltarune - Rude Buster [8-bit; VRC6+N163]

[Now available on YouTube!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqg448VMikg&ab_channel=Grassinio

I recomposed this song in the earlier history of my channel, but I felt I could improve so I wanted to take another crack at it!

Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time is one of my favourite RPG games of all time. In my opinion, Partners in Time was unique from the rest of the M&L series because of how dark it was in contrast to the other games, and I just think the entire M&L RPG series itself is amazing. I never get tired of the unique dialogue different characters like Fawful, Geno, Prince Peasley and so forth have to offer in the amazing stories and I would definitely like to consider touching up on this series again in the future, hopefully!

Credit goes to the Spriters Resource for the sprites used in the thumbnail:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/marioluigipartners/

Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time - Vim Factory (2019 Remix)

(Super Kirby Clash REMIX)Taranza Boss Theme

Apologies for the long wait. I worked on this track for the entire eight months since last my last update and it was stuck in some serious writers block. First, I am not a big fan of the original track. The harsh strings setting the rhythm in the original, the revolving round, and the reuse of the main theme just made everything feel too repetitive. I decided to just not bother with the last section. Second, I decided not to use any gimmicky instruments, and just stick with the traditional orchestra setup. No piano either. By dealing with a softer, at times slower piece, I needed to spend exponentially more time getting each note nuance to sound right, as they would be under much more scrutiny to a listener. I basically took away the usual tricks I use to mask the imperfections of my orchestral samples, and this was such a headache to deal with. On black friday I went online and bought a ridiculous amount of new orchestral libraries that I anticipate will make my life easier in the future (they are not featured in this track).

My two big reference tracks to draw from for this were the Distant Worlds orchestration of Final Fantasy VI Phantom Forest, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Phantom Forest in particular I feel does such a good job of evoking the mood of a mysterious forest, and if you close your eyes, you can kind of picture when each instrument flies in and leaves, are like all the lush vegetation stretching to infinity and animals running around everywhere. Pizzicato strings sound much better for the rhythm, and can be pulled back more to give space for the rest of the instruments. The nutcracker shared a similar instrumentation, and I especially like how groups of instruments would just swell in and then leave. Everywhere is just teeming with life. If you were to explore a dense forest on your own, you can look choose where to turn your head, where to approach, where to focus your attention on, see something completely unique. So to imitate that, which toby fox has also accomplished with the round, is you can in the same way focus your ears on listening to a particular instrument, and they are playing their own melody or motif. I try at times to have either a counter-melody, or just basic riffs and chord progressions that if you were to isolate, could sound good on their own. A lot of times I've mixed them all the way down, to the point where you might not really hear it clearly at all, but the knowledge that they're there is satisfying to me.

I guess another big change I should talk about is the overall melancholic and sorrowful tone in my version that's way more pronounced. The sad strings and bright flutes were basically the two things in toby fox's original that I did enjoy, and just speaking musically, I just didn't like that it got more cheerful when it transitioned to the main theme at the end. To fit the scarlet forest better, he probably should have made the strings a bit more happier and mischievous, but he didn't and so I took them and ran with it in the opposite direction. I altered the notation a bit in my version, expanded the middle, and wrote a new ending that just makes you want to cry. It's great!

Deltarune Orchestrated will be available on iTunes/Spotify upon completion of the album.

MP3 and FLAC available for Patrons. ► https://www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement by Jeremiah Sun

Original Theme by toby fox
DELTARUNE Chapter 01 is currently free to download on PC and the Nintendo Switch

DELTARUNE Orchestrated - Scarlet Forest

King D-Mind [Light MetaS]

Galacta Knight (Aeon Hero) -Rearrangement-

I am a developer as well as a self-taught composer. My style is creating narratives in music through the use of strong melodies and unique instrumentation.

Primary DAW used: Presonus Studio One

DELTARUNE Orchestrated - Rude Buster

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