Mixed for ProTayToe 3

Fight Or Flight

"So what?! I didn't feel like going back in time again! That made me sick!!"

Past: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa
Present: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/full-moon-freeway
Good: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/stardust-good

The anticipated Act 3 of Half-Moon Highway. I came back to it today, after a number of months, and put the last few touches needed for the loop to feel natural. For some reason, there are uploads of the song that loop to a different place and leave out the drum phrase right before where it loops as well. In addition, unlike Palmtree Bad, this one doesn't loop naturally with the loader as part of it, either. 
So a big part of postponing it was caused by looping stuff.

Edit: updated the refrain to include the "I've Had" vocals. Also added slide notes to that pattern so the pitch bend she sings goes up by one more semi-tone.

Fun fact about the intro: that high "thonnah" lead playing the vamp is made of two parts. One of them was originally the Pinball Zone guitar. If memory serves, it was changed to the Honky-Tonk Piano patch, I think, by an accidental "Init song with this position" at some point. 
However, it just sounded so good; when I came back to the project after a long time, I never considered it might not be purposeful until I actually looked at the SF Player and thought "that's not right..."
After switching it over to what I remembered it being, I was like "wow that other thing it was set to sounds SO much better."

Half Moon Highway (Bad Future)

Touhou 17.5 - Vs. Marisa (Arrange)

They really should've waited to remaster the first couple of Mario games instead of putting them on SNES, I would've loved to see these games on newer hardware. Same with Mario 64, they never shoulda ported that to the DS and just made a whole new co op mario game instead

SMB2 Cave Theme in NSMB DS Style [Cover]

The final world brings the greatest of challenges.

Credits:

The Spriters Resource:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermariomaker2/

Custom SNES volcano background resource from SMW Central:
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=27315

I hope you guys enjoy this one!

Super Mario Maker 2 - SMW Volcano (Day)

original song by glacesu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StjDzscdLu4&t=2s&ab_channel=SonicHoshi
go play the demo here https://glacesu.itch.io/sonic-hoshi

Sonic Hoshi - Metal Sonic (Arrange)

Happy Halloween!

This was quite possibly the most difficult and convoluted song I've ever covered. Jake Kaufman really does go unhinged mode when writing these tracks.

Shovel Knight - La Danse Macabre (Lich Yard) [SNES; Mega Man X-style]

Rockman & Forte - Museum [YM2612 + 2A03]

Under Summer Skies [SNES SPC700]

Original by project-Delta
Full version: https://youtu.be/RanHozVFM4g

Air Man Ga Taosenai (FM Arrange Demo)

Woo boy, this one's a doozy.

This is the second attempt at an MSX/SCC+ cover, that I started last night and finished minutes before uploading this lol. It's rare that a cover I finish so quickly is one I'm so proud of, but it believe it, cuz it happened.

The first attempt was around September of 2021, where I was making a pretty promising attempt with TriloTracker, a program that runs on the MSX computer itself (I had to emulate with openMSX), and is honestly really cool. It's quite powerful, and it's shockingly usable, though not at all intuitive or straightforward, you have to read the manual quite a lot to know how to use it.

Apart from the fact it only lets you navigate the UI with the keyboard, it also has no options, at least as far as I could tell, for automatically modulating a wavetable synth. If I wanted the bass to have a bit of clang, I would have to, by hand, draw up dozens of individual waveforms to switch between later, manually, with nothing but the goddamn arrow keys. Suffice to say, it really wasn't the best solution, so I put it down, and didn't return to the idea for ages.

In the years since, I've discovered Furnace, and watched it get so good that it's now my primary chiptune tracker, and one of its biggest draws for me was the allure of being able to make MSX/SCC music with a bloody mouse as well as a keyboard lol. Which made drawing up waveforms much easier, and Furnace's own feature like the "Synthesister" were really cool to play around with.

Idk why it's called that, cuz it's not actually a synthesister, and is actually more of an effects/LFO tool that you apply to waveforms and instruments that you've already made or imported. Using it is how I got a slight clang to the bass without having to draw shitloads of waveforms (that is, apart from the bass solo towards the end, that was done with two layered and detuned sounds).

It's also how I got the chords to have a slight modulation to them, which is meant to mimic the slight FM operator detune that the original version has, as well as give them a bit more life.

I had a lot of fun screwing around with the MSX/SCC, it's certainly a combo I'll be returning to in the future, especially since Furnace makes it easier than its ever been to squeeze out its full potential. The ease of which it lets you design complex sounds on an otherwise simple chip is insane, I actually can't believe I made it sound like this haha

Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it! ^^

[MSX\SCC+] - Bosconian (X68K): "Blast Power !"

(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)

Battle theme for the fight against Habanero, one of the bosses for "Clover: The Chefs Adventure"
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Commission for the lovely GrandGuppy and their Super Paper Mario/Mario and Luigi RPG inspired game concept!
Find them here: twitter.com/GrandGuppyFish
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Thats me... on twitter??!! : twitter.com/tohomoko

Clover: The Chefs Adventure - [Red-Hot Habanero]

Gimmick! - Aporia (FM Version)

Sonic 3 - Chrome Gadget (YM2151 Arrange)

CLOVER - VOID-EX

16-bit metalcore ayy lmao

Featured in Gorbichev's Revenge.

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=34906&pid=842042&st=0&#entry842042

VGM: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jxkyws038si3lam/gorbi_tag.vgz

A Certain Big Blue Bastard (Gorbichev's Revenge)

"I'm born to be wild, and totally rad. THIS IS WHO I AM, DUDE!!" Manic said mockingly to Shadow, as they embarked on their quest in the past, for the next chaos emerald.

Credit goes to:
The Spriters Resource
https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/9943/
https://www.spriters-resource.com/genesis_32x_scd/sonic1brothertroublehack/sheet/98537/https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/27196/
and this guy:
https://www.deviantart.com/lucarioshirona/art/Shadow-SASASR-Motocycle-Sprite-181620030
and also this guy:
https://www.deviantart.com/asuharamoon/art/Improved-Gardow-s-Shadow-The-Hedgehog-Sprite-Sheet-653181841

Sonic 3 - Ice Cap Zone (Past)

After lots of deliberation, I have decided to restart the OTHER soundtrack and convert it to a SNES/SPC700 style. I have come to the conclusion that the YM2612 is nowhere near enough for the level of audio expression that this project requires. Here's a sneek peek at one of our updated songs to kick off your April!

OTHER - Vehemence SNES (April Fool's 2020)

Hey whoasers, I said I thought I wouldn't do another one of these again, turns out I was lying, unbeknownst to myself :OOOOOO

But yeah, I'm very proud of this one. It's one of those covers that just sounds right to me in every way. And I love the way it sounds.

One reason why I decided to cover this was because I noticed how many covers of this song got the pitchbends halfway through it incorrect. They came close, but were never entirely accurate. I think I got them as accurate as could possibly be, I strive to get the little details like that as close as possible to the original.

And I've got at least two more in the pipeline. One of which being a cover of a Tim Follin song, and another being a cover of a chiptune song that's original to SoundCloud. o_O

But yeas, as always, I hope you enjoy this!

Made with the Roland SC-VA VST in FL Studio 20.