Playlist containing all my works primarily focusing on FM Synth chiptune - Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, PC SoundBlaster/AdLib, Arcade Yamaha FM and more

FM Works

A playlist containing most of my works made using various Desktop MIDI modules from the 90s and onwards.

DTM Works

A playlist containing my original works - ordered oldest to newest.

Original Works

For Dormiveglia. Check out their socials:
https://twitter.com/DormivegliaGame
https://www.patreon.com/dormiveglia
Play the demo https://darkonius-mavakar.itch.io/dormiveglia-demo

TIMELESS UPRISE

I got a MU128
so I made a track using a few of its features
most of this only uses base-level XG patches, I can't wait to try out more of the exclusive patches
Special thanks to Jace for helping me set up SOL, so I could have this as a proper MIDI file

Natura Hideout (MU128)

I have SoundCloud Pro now, I'm going to slowly upload my entire back catalogue, I'm in the process of building up my new portfolio too and it's going to be fer that too.

Anyway, fun music, was inspired by The Legendary Axe (on the PC-Engine) when writing the first half, and by Rise of the Triad (really any of Lee Jackson's music).

Downloads

Perilous Boscage (SC55)

...It's been 3 years already, what the heck?

Hey y'all! I hope you're enjoying Deltarune Chapter 2... I certainly did.
I won't bore you with my thoughts (yet), however, if you haven't played it, pause the video, go get Deltarune here (it's free, although it only has the first two chapters), then come back. You won't regret it, I promise. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/DELTARUNE/

...Okay, I'll say one thing: I have more remixes planned out. Also more things in general planned out. Look forward to them, I think you'll enjoy 'em. For now, though, enjoy this, uh, trance-ish take on A Cyber's World? 

Special thanks to HyperCole64 for letting me borrow the image - I forgot to screenshot or record footage when I played through, but that's fine, I'm working on fixing that now (I recorded a 2 hour or so session with Chapter 1, for no reason other than for fun). Check out his Twitter, and go give him a follow! https://twitter.com/HyperCole64

SOCIALS!
[STREAM]/[BUY] MY LATEST SINGLE ➤ https://ffm.to/1ayndpw
Website/Portfolio ➤ https://melonadem.com/
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A Cyber's World? (MELON MIX) - Deltarune Chapter 2

A few days ago I held a poll on Twitter on which song to remix next - Pandora Palace ended up winning. Queen's legit THE BEST PART OF CHAPTER 2, bar none.

Anyway; go get DELTARUNE here. You won't regret it, I promise. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/DELTARUNE/

SOCIALS!
[STREAM]/[BUY] MY LATEST SINGLE ➤ https://ffm.to/1ayndpw
Website/Portfolio ➤ https://melonadem.com/
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Pandora Palace (ARCADE 16-BIT 'MIX) - Deltarune Chapter 2

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL FOR 2000 FOLLOWERS!!!!

The long-awaited sequel to Ravage Man, I suppose. This time it's way closer to running on an actual SNES - sequenced with limits in mind!

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Sakura Woman (MM&B)

Made for LumpyTouch's animation; go watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0OTiNX3xw
INSTRUMENTAL VERSION [!!!]: https://soundcloud.com/melonadem/are-you-a-big-shot-son-instrumental

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Lyrics:
THINK YOU’RE A [Big Shot], Son?
Don’t be a [Deadbeat]! BE [Number 1]!
WHEN WILL YOU [Hit it b1g], like me?,
[Be a Big Sh0t], SON! It’s your [DESTINY!]
ALWAYS AFFIRMING THAT YOU'LL [get there],
BY CALLING [Everyone] - uh, Are you aware?
[You're acting s1lly], as if you forgot:
[Now's your chance to be a big shot!]

[My son] IS ON THE PHONE WITH A [Mysterious P3rson],
SUDDENLY YOUR [Click-through Rate] is rapidly  [Ris1ng];
[Sale] after [Sale], YOUR TIME SPENT [Advertising]
[oooooOOOOOO] ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?

ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?

YOU'VE GOT [No T1me], YOU'RE PLAYING [my Game],
[WOW YOU'RE] [The Best], YOU'VE GOT SOME FAME;
Your [Fr1ends] have left - YOU'RE a [Big Sh0t] [NOW!]
YOU'RE [All About:] SALES AND [Hyperlink Blocked], [Wow!]
[Best Salesman since 1997]
[Number 1 rated], WITHOUT [[ANY]] QUESTION,
RIDIN' MY TRAIL OF [Sale] AND [Success],
AND EVERY SINGLE [Trend] THAT I'LL OBSESS.

MY SON WAS ON THE PHONE WITH [The Mysterious P3rson],
Suddenly, HIS [Sales] HAVE DROPPED [Beyond Recognition!]
WHAT GOT YOU [The G1ory Days] HAS LEFT YOU IN SHAMBLES,
[oooooOOOOOO] ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?

ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?
ARE YOU A [Big Shot], SON?

ARE YOU A [BIG SHOT], SON?

written like a few months ago within an hour or so probably
a hardware jam at its finest, good enough for quick jams

Battle of the Bits

beneath

For Dormiveglia (again). This song has been "finished" and public for a while, but I decided to give it a fresh coat of paint to make it stand shoulder-to-shoulder with TIMELESS UPRISE.

Check out our socials:
https://twitter.com/DormivegliaGame
https://www.patreon.com/dormiveglia (download the track here + see a bunch of other progress)
Play the demo: https://darkonius-mavakar.itch.io/dormiveglia-demo

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URGENT AWAKENING

People were hella asking for it - here you go.
Made for LumpyTouch's animation; go watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0OTiNX3xw

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ARE YOU A [BIG SHOT], SON? (Instrumental)

i lied once again (happy new year to those of you where it is 2022 already)
had an urge, uses mostly stuff from xmen - children of the atom (i threw in an extra cymbal sound from my own library)

KNOCK YOU DOWN !! (CPS2 QSOUND)

BREAKING FREE OF YEARS-OLD CHAINS, HOLDING YOU BACK...

NOW MARK YOUR ESCAPE!! GOOD LUCK!!

JAILBREAK

SAVE IT !!!

YOU ARE ON A DIFFUSE MISSION TO STOP THE EXPLOSIVE TRAIN FROM BLOWING UP THE "STARSYLVANIA" CITY. YOU HAVE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE TRAIN IS DETONATE. GOOD LUCK!!

Art by myself, I might release it standalone later. Heavily inspired by Yousuke Yasui's works (check their music out, if you haven't already! It's great stuff), as well as late 80s-90s KONAMI arcade music.

WICKED EXPRESS

did in 2 hours for this comp https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/7115/MainScreen/Level+Music+33+-+S2

Bones Visits The Jungle

yeah
made in like an hour or two i dont remember

Culmination Of Soul

one hour songa
sort of arcade-y tunage for some sort of hypothetical shooting practice song

Shooting Practice

😎😎😎

https://dormivegliagame.com/
https://www.patreon.com/dormiveglia
https://youtu.be/R9G76qtMUhs
https://twitter.com/DormivegliaGame
https://darkonius-mavakar.itch.io/dormiveglia-demo

Download (the demo)

Dormiveglia Trailer Theme

it's not really grounds if it's a VR environment is it? eh whatever. she is training and readying for the next operation

Training Grounds

Made for the 2 Hour Album Challenge, Volume 21

Made with FL Studio 21

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2151-NX

IM BACK!!!!!!! B)

we've started development on the full game - here's one of the tracks that you'll hear early on in the game (but not in the demo!!!)

https://dormivegliagame.com/

UNBOUNDED HORIZONS

(aka YM2151 + SegaPCM)

inspired by the many works of Yousuke Yasui, AM4N, and the sound of many Capcom CPS2/Qsound soundtracks. (you should check these people/soundtracks out when you can, they're  all great)

https://www.melonadem.com/

ENIGMATIC NEBULA (FM Original)

You've heard it with the Sonic Superstars gameplay footage (probably) 

Decided to take my own spin after seeing folks like AM4N and Zenkusa share their own takes among many others!

https://www.melonadem.com/

Tropical Tangle Zone, Act 1

inspired by early 2000s Nintendo tracks and also CrossCode

Stalagmite Settlement

"These trees look so old... it's like nothing has passed through for centuries... which is odd. Just a couple of years ago, they told us of civilizations thriving here! Of children playing by the pond, which is now dried up, or by the well, which has no pail and there is seemingly no bottom... What happened here?"

Wilted Woods

Written for the monthly Button Masher Discord compo - where the theme was to write a coffee shop song for the SNES! Lots of cool entries were made, I hope the others post them on their social media!

Most of the samples are self-sampled sources, from various synths and VSTs I own - the radio chatter in the BG here comes from me sampling some Romanian radio, talking about football (soccer) scores - heavily manipulated to sound even more otherwordly!

IMU Café

Created for the POWER! SuperDIGI compilation album, this is track 7 on the album there.

Full album is listenable here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5loM9Vcbo

At the time of writing, I had just recently put my rack back together after a super long time of it being taken apart. I just wanted to write a more simple tune that doesn't need to worry about so much mixing work being done, as I was also on a (very tight) time limit with the deadline and life getting in the way - so I opted for my Alesis and SC-55 modules, as I figured these two would blend together well - I ended up being far more correct about that than I had anticipated.

I used a lot of pitch and harmonic shift tricks on the 55 in particular - the two assignable CC's (16 and 17) were assigned to ±24 semitones (+24 on one, -24 on the other), this got me some really pretty lo-fi sounds and some punchy drums. The Alesis module provides a lot of the sounds that aren't typical for the SC-55, to provide some timbral variety.

I was super inspired by Mitsuda's Chrono Trigger score while writing this, way more than I'd normally be.

Ancients Of The Dawn

short version here: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/trial+by+error.mp3/61762/

Trial by Error

Made for ThatArtisan, check his stuff out! https://thatartisan.carrd.co/

This was an absolute treat to work on, super happy to have been given the opportunity!

Candrin's Theme - The Vagrant

Inspired by footage I saw a while ago of Gittarooman

Traveling Forever (NES original)

ORIGINAL by Nick Roselin, please do check it out https://soundcloud.com/epicrpgremixes/a-battle-of-grand-proportions

This is for the GRAND DAD Reboot fangame, made by RED-FIRE. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC15dfiQuRLqhgDl7bnz0gAg

Made using OCC Famitracker

A Battle Of Grand Proportions - Fortran Boss Battle (8-bit Famitracker arr.)

Another Genesis cover using SMPS.
Most of the instruments are original and made with GennyVST. While it is somewhat buggy, it worked nicely here.

Mega Man 9 - Splash Woman (16-bit Genesis arr.)

Made for the SPC Echoes 2 compo on Battle of the Bits, you can find it here: http://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/The+Trial/25308/

Special shoutouts to Haru for covering part of the conversion process while I got very ill.

The Trial

I got started on this out of boredom, but I saw potential in it. 3 livestreams of me working on this song later, and it's complete, but it was not without some annoying issues I dealt with.

Because of the rules for the category (Module file that has to be under 24 kilobytes), I've had a very difficult time cramming it down into that. The final module size was 30kb, and without altering the song some it was not possible to compress it down further than 26.

This is where Pigu helped tremendously. At the cost of some parts being slightly changed, he got it under 24kb.

The version you're hearing is the original 30kb one, but you can hear the other version by clicking this link: http://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Way+Back+From+Sleep/27159/

The photo in the image is by Jonatan Pie, and I took it from Unsplash (I altered it). Check it out here: https://unsplash.com/photos/1hpE3fROU0I

Winter Chip XIII

Way Back From Sleep

I did this in about 2 hours, a bit less.  I had a lot of fun making this, although if I could, I would go back and tweak some stuff. Oh well, I'm not going to cheat, because that's against the point of the 2 Hour Track Challenge.

The song's mood was based on my mood over the past few days; not outright depressed, but stressed. I don't like to talk about my feelings, but I like conveying them as music.

The photo in the thumbnail is by Anton Repponen, he put it on Unsplash, a very cool collection of free-to-use photos that are all high resolution, like this one here. Give it a look if you need photos!

Windy Day

This track was made in 2 hours, a special track for the 2 Hour Album Challenge, hosted by Ben Burnes! You can download it, along with a ton of other tracks, for the low low price of FREE!

The theme for this song was Desert, but even then, one could choose a broad range of options and still be within the theme, so I decided I'd do something with the double harmonic scale (also known as the Byzantine scale)

The photo in the thumbnail is by Prasanth Dasari, they put it on Unsplash. I did some slight modifications here and there.

Smuggler's Town

It's not authentic SNES, but I used MM&B samples only

UPDATE 2: i have pro - download at your heart's desire now i guess

Ravage Man (MM&B style)

Tries to mimic Konami's later arcade setup (YM2151 + K053260), but because Deflemask doesn't support the latter, I used Sega PCM limited to 4 channels.

Haunted Castle - Cross Your Heart (AC Remix)

I did this around the time it came out since I loved it so much but I only got around to uploading it just now lol

CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL TRACK BY THE ULTRA MEGA TALENTED GARRETT WILLIAMSON: https://soundcloud.com/gwilliamson/what-if-im-hurt-again

Garrett Williamson - What If I'm Hurt Again (SNES Remix)

Every sound you hear is from Ben Burnes's sample packs, which you can find here: https://gumroad.com/ben_burnes

Name your price: https://melonadem.bandcamp.com/track/burned-loops

Burned Loops

update: i WILL remix a song or two from chapter 2.
update 2: i did a remix of a chapter 2 song :)
The original song is so good. The game is great as well, and it's also free. Do absolutely give it a shot: https://www.deltarune.com/

Deltarune - Rude Buster (Mel's remix)

It's that one track I did for October's 21 days of VGM, except it's actually a complete song. Wouldja believe that.

This sound module's really cool, I hope to make more use of it in the future.

LIFE OR DEATH (SC8820)

LYRICS SUNG BY PHOEBE TSEN: https://www.instagram.com/hashtagpbtsen/ @phoebetsen
MASTER BY KARL REEF: https://twitter.com/karlreef
GARFIELD GAMEBOY'D COMPLETE and LYRICS TEXT by @lumpytouch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqUDt3K5Mk

LYRICS:
Layers on layers, of moments we’ve shared.
Just like a lasagna, created with care.
The flavors are burning, a new page is turning.
And I hope that you’ll be there in the end,
Good-bye my friend.

Well, here it is! It's quite a different take from the original too, which IMO is a lot more touching than the other version.

If you want to download this song, become a $5 Patreon on Lumpy's page: https://www.patreon.com/LumpyTouch

Links to my other social stuff!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_melonadem
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MelonadeM
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Burning Desire

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