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My first and only soundtrack for the Super Nintendo (SNES) back in 1995. The sound sources were recorded from a Turtle Beach - Maui sound card. My studio gear at that time consisted in that sound card, a Sound Blaster (the Maui had to be attached to an existing sound card), a pair of speakers and a Roland PC-200 keyboard (which I still have).

The sound chip (APU) was created by Sony and designed by Ken Kutaragi, who was also the designer of the Playstation. The chip was in fact a complete autonomous computer with its own CPU (sort of 6502 with additional instructions), memory (64k), and DSP which produced 8 channels of audio and also some cool effects. The APU communicated with the main console processor using 4 registers, and some kind of communication protocol was used to upload the code and sounds from the game cartridge to the APU during the game. The 64k had to be shared with the sound driver, sound sequence data, samples for the music & fx. Also some memory was required to process the commonly used reverberation effect (if necessary).

The development system for the console was a huge, grey rectangular box that communicated with the PC via a SCSI port and MIDI. My unit didn't work very well... and I had to spend some time every morning switching it on and off a random number of times until it booted correctly. The development tools were very rudimentary (compared to today's standards) and all written to run on MS-DOS only.

The soundtrack is recorded from the "Audio Overload" multi-sound chip emulator. I hope to be able to record the soundtrack from a real machine in the future.

Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (Super Nintendo, 1995)

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Videogames Soundtracks

Video Game Covers

Console Works

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I composed this short tune using only Super PSG VSTI by AlyJames (http://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabsuperpsg.html), which emulates the SN76489 sound chip found in the Sega Master System, Game Gear and Genesis / Mega Drive consoles.

I used several instances for the different instruments and drums, but no other plugins or effects, except a bit of U-he Satin love for mastering.

I didn't even use a 10% of what the plugin is capable of, only because I wanted to stay mostly faithful to the factory specs of the sound chip.

Update! Recently I uploaded a video on my YouTube channel showing the Cubase project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mhSQBbkIs

Verbosity (SPSG Test, 2014)

Gas Station Pizza

Only the 3 Tone channels of the PSG, but listen to the sound ;)
Just a quick test.. a Proof of concept... you have the ROM so you can verify it plays on the Genesis :) ahaha, it opens up interesting things to do considering we have the FM on top...
VGM + ROM >> http://www.alyjameslab.com/vgm/SPSG_TIMER_TEST.zip

PSG Only - Timer FX Mod Test! (SPSG VST -- Link to VGM & ROM in infos :))

This song here is kind of inspired by guys on soundcloud like Urban Flow, Monostory, and all those other awesome mo-fo's on Soundcloud that make rad hip hip loops the way hip hop is supposed to sound (in my opinion) My brother had an app with some beats on it so I took it, sampled it, and threw it into VGMM. Next thing you know Groovemaster303 and I have created this, I'll shut up and let the music speak for itself, but man we had a blast with this! Enjoy! 

Urban Chill (Featuring Groovemaster303).MP3

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad!

Portal inspired me to create this track. 

Download: http://ephixa.com/track/turret-error

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Turret Error - Ephixa [Portal 2 Electro Dubstep Remix]

Metal masters was a Game Boy port of the Atari ST and Amiga 500 game with the same name. It took years to produce because it went through several graphic changes and there were other games developed in between (mainly Asterix for the Game Boy and NES). It was released only in the USA, years later.

The game had only one track, but 3 versions of it with different starts.
I remember composing it close to the time when I programmed the sound driver and soundtrack of Asterix for the NES. At that time we were all working at the back of a swim-suit shop (long story). How to forget that! This was a short time before we founded Bit Managers and we were still known as New Frontier.

The long driving sound at the start is synchronized with the intro of the game, in which a pilot walks slowly and takes a lift up to the robot.
The "explosion" part sounds when a big arm is attached to the robot, and the subsequent noises and glitches previous to the melody (0:29) where inspired by something I listened in a Terminator 2 remix at the time (I think).
The random blips and notes came actually from setting one channel of the sound driver to play a random ROM address, and tweaked it until I found the sweet spot. I thought it was cool at the time.
The track intro and drums make use of the limited stereo capabilities of the console, so listening with headphones is recommended!

Recorded from AJGB, my own GB emulator ^^

Originally I composed another track for the game long time before, which can be found here along other details:

https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/vintage-8-bit-metal-masters

Metal Masters - Metal Beat (Game Boy, 1993)

Recorded tracks from Classic Doom.

Original music by Robert "Bobby" Prince.

Containment Area - Analogue mix

Gate to Limbo

Hangar

Hell Keep

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Duke Nukem Total Meltdown Re-Imagined - Echo and the Harewoman WIP

04 Gerudo Valley

An orchestral medley of some of the music from the original Metal Gear soundtrack. It features the intro and various in-game music.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 5, Spitfire Albion, Great British Brass, British Woods & Percussion, Cinesamples CineBrass, CineBrass Pro, HollyWoodwinds, VOXOs, CineOrch & CineSnare
Project Sam Symphobia II, Orchestral Tools Orchestral String Runs & Symphonic sphere
8dio Requiem Pro & Liberis, SoundIron Mars, Vienna Symphonic Orchestral Cube Pro & Horizon Series, Various Private Orchestral Libraries

Metal Gear Medley Orchestra

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Magic & Skill Spells Sound Effects

Soundtrack for an unreleased Game Boy Color game, composed in the year 2000. It was one of my latests soundtracks for Game Boy Color. Unfortunately the game was never published, though it was one of the most amazing racing games ever made for the console!

Radikal Bikers - complete soundtrack (GBC, ~2000, unreleased)

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My second and last soundtrack for a Smurfs game on the Game Boy, released in 1997, and re-released in 1999 for the Game Boy Color.
Some trivia:
- The main menu theme was the same I composed for the first game on the NES.
- The Rabbit Race theme was composed originally for the first Smurfs game.
- I did a remix of the Mysterious Planet theme, which can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/another-world
- Originally the Ending theme finished in decrescendo, but the developers required it to loop forever. I found inspiration on a theme named Tattoo from one of my favourite composers, Mike Oldfield. Instead of square waves there should have been bagpipes, lots of!

The Smurfs Nightmare - complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 1997)

This is one of the few soundtracks I composed directly for Infogrames. They used it twice, first in "Martian Alert!" and one year later in "Martian Revenge". The games were also named in other countries "Alert!" and "Marvin Strikes Back!"

Note that the names I've set are the originally intended, not the actual stages of the game.

Looney Tunes Collector - Martian Alert! - complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 2000)

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My first and only soundtrack for the Super Nintendo (SNES) back in 1995. The sound sources were recorded from a Turtle Beach - Maui sound card. My studio gear at that time consisted in that sound card, a Sound Blaster (the Maui had to be attached to an existing sound card), a pair of speakers and a Roland PC-200 keyboard (which I still have).

The sound chip (APU) was created by Sony and designed by Ken Kutaragi, who was also the designer of the Playstation. The chip was in fact a complete autonomous computer with its own CPU (sort of 6502 with additional instructions), memory (64k), and DSP which produced 8 channels of audio and also some cool effects. The APU communicated with the main console processor using 4 registers, and some kind of communication protocol was used to upload the code and sounds from the game cartridge to the APU during the game. The 64k had to be shared with the sound driver, sound sequence data, samples for the music & fx. Also some memory was required to process the commonly used reverberation effect (if necessary).

The development system for the console was a huge, grey rectangular box that communicated with the PC via a SCSI port and MIDI. My unit didn't work very well... and I had to spend some time every morning switching it on and off a random number of times until it booted correctly. The development tools were very rudimentary (compared to today's standards) and all written to run on MS-DOS only.

The soundtrack is recorded from the "Audio Overload" multi-sound chip emulator. I hope to be able to record the soundtrack from a real machine in the future.

Don't forget to check the second part of this soundtrack here!
https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/asterix-obelix-snes-part2

Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 1 / 2

My first and only soundtrack for the Super Nintendo (SNES) back in 1995. The sound sources were recorded from a Turtle Beach - Maui sound card. My studio gear at that time consisted in that sound card, a Sound Blaster (the Maui had to be attached to an existing sound card), a pair of speakers and a Roland PC-200 keyboard (which I still have).

The sound chip (APU) was created by Sony and designed by Ken Kutaragi, who was also the designer of the Playstation. The chip was in fact a complete autonomous computer with its own CPU (sort of 6502 with additional instructions), memory (64k), and DSP which produced 8 channels of audio and also some cool effects. The APU communicated with the main console processor using 4 registers, and some kind of communication protocol was used to upload the code and sounds from the game cartridge to the APU during the game. The 64k had to be shared with the sound driver, sound sequence data, samples for the music & fx. Also some memory was required to process the commonly used reverberation effect (if necessary).

The development system for the console was a huge, grey rectangular box that communicated with the PC via a SCSI port and MIDI. My unit didn't work very well... and I had to spend some time every morning switching it on and off a random number of times until it booted correctly. The development tools were very rudimentary (compared to today's standards) and all written to run on MS-DOS only.

The soundtrack is recorded from the "Audio Overload" multi-sound chip emulator. I hope to be able to record the soundtrack from a real machine in the future.

Don't forget to check the first part of this soundtrack here!
https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/asterix-obelix-snes-part1

Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 2 / 2

The third soundtrack in the Turok series for Game Boy, and probably my most experimental work for that console. For this soundtrack I wanted to give one more twist to the GB sound chip, so I upgraded my sound driver with new triangle+noise based drum sounds, wave sequencing and other cool effects. There are lots of subtle stereo effects used in all the soundtrack, so listening with headphones is recommended!

I searched for inspiration in the works of Yuzo Koshiro, who in my book is one of the most brilliant and adventurous game musicians ever.

Turok - Rage Wars - complete soundtrack (Game Boy Color, 2000)

My last soundtrack for the Game Boy, nearly 10 years after the first one (Pop Up / Cool Ball).

Baby Felix Halloween - complete soundtrack (Game Boy Color, 2001)

Hi! I've been working in the video game industry since the late 80's, be it as a graphic artist, musician, programmer, designer, or any weird combination of these. Most of my work is known as musician and specially for 8 bit game consoles. If you ever had a gray brick, probably you already listened some of my music!

I used to sign my earlier works as "Joe McAlby" because my name is just plain boring and ordinary. But then the nickname is also ridiculous... too late to change that I suppose!

I rarely compose music nowadays, so I use this account to share some of my past works, and hopefully new experiments too.

Be my guest, enjoy the music, and leave a message if you like it. It'll be appreciated!

Please note that all music here is copyrighted.

Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 2 / 2

Alberto J. González (McAlby)