Kirby's Friendship Fantasy - Dedede's Warning

definitely on an earthbound kick right now as you can tell lol

[2A03] Buy Somethin' Will Ya! - EarthBound

Kirby's Friendship Fantasy - Fizzy Floats

Kirby's Friendship Fantasy - Final Boss (Phase 1)

DOWNLOAD a MIDI: http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Brawing_Up_Daiginjou.mid

("Brawing Up" is a title that I'd like to know the etymology behind. Is it supposed to be "Brawling?" It's a memorable title for this reason alone.)
Heard this tune in an AVGN ytpmv a couple years back. Finally committed to doing my own cover. I think it sounds pretty $wædʒ.

The first step was I wrote it for Solo Piano in MuseScore. Since the method for reference wasn't quite as 1:1 as it'd be working in just FL, though, the melody's structure ended up messing with me. I ended up un-syncopating the bass, then from there added extraneous notes to the melody and a fifth beat to the 1st section's last bar. I couldn't even tell I'd made that mistake until like a month later (this week) when I imported the sequence into FL.
Also, the 2nd run of the B section is my recollection of the melody from before I started making the cover. Because even though it's mistaken I love that "C-B partial, leap to A-C partial" phrase to death.

For the 1st section I took inspiration from pipca's recent mm9 "Castle of Evil" SS cover and gave the harm-hi a panning LFO. Can't recall if I added a Mar2-lo before or after that, but I gave that a panning LFO as well. To give it more of a mystical effect though I made it a slower speed. 
When I added the oboe for the 2nd section's accompaniment, I had the idea of doubling up the Harm-hi with it. That ended up fleshing out the 1st part's melody a lot. Later, when I added the church organ, its release time had a profound effect on how the marimba's echoing sounded, which was a nice li'l happenstance.

Originally, the bass and accompanying Acc-lo both had amplifiers put on them, but eventually I wanted to see what it'd sound like with vanilla Sponge and no effects outside the realm of what you'd hear in the game, and at this point I no longer need them anyway. Still, I wonder what that'd be like now that the full mix is done. I have yet to see.

Battle Mania Daiginjou "Brawing Up" (SuperSponge Cover)

hornet chaser more like hornet racer ahahaha

Wanted to use some SNES samples that I don't use very often, since I felt I was relying too much on the tried-and-true sample bases lately. I've also been wanting to find something interesting to do with Hornet Man's theme, and Super Mario Kart seemed like a good fit.

Mega Man 9 - Hornet Man [SNES; Super Mario Kart-style]

I took inspiration from the Chrono series and Final Fantasy XII for this.

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

Little Dude

Made a Crash cover of this back in like April or w/e when I made those SRB2 covers. Never actually posted it because I didn't like how it was shaping up well enough. But then yesterday I remembered it existed and went to change it into a Wario cover.

S&K Mini-Boss (Wario Land 4 Cover)

DJ Max - Jazz Miracles

Duel with Meta Knight [Famitracker 2A03]

Way more accurate to NARH's sound, but I can't bring myself to replace the original mp3.

And the inverse: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/mr-franky-twist

Kirby's Friendship Fantasy - Final Boss (Phase 1)

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