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When you take powerful FM synthesis and make it sound like a much less capable PSG... That's when you know you're good at FM synthesis. And yes, this is all FM synthesis.

I made this for the DTMC album "POWER! Frequently Modulated Questions". You can listen to the entire album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbL8Mk3b3ss

Square Memories

The original song was made by João Gilberto and Tom Jobim.

Garota de Ipanema / The Girl From Ipanema (YM2612 Sega Genesis Cover)

FULL PC-9821 VERSION EXPECTED JUNE 15, 2025 IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ORIGINAL SONG’S 30th ANNIVERSARY

REMEMBERING “Queen of Tejano Music” Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1971–1995) on what could have been her 54th birthday, 30 years after her passing…

I Could Fall In Love (PC-9801 Version)
Genre: FM-synth chiptune cover
Composed by Keith Thomas
Arranged by SilSinn9801
Sound drivers used: PMDPPZ 4.8s (Yamaha YM2608/OPNA) + PPZ8 1.08 βrelease 3 (2×Burr-Brown PCM61P/86PCM)

Arrangement started 2025.04.11, finished 2025.05.22
Sound channels used: 6×FM + 3×SSG + 5×ADPCM-A (RSS) + 2× 86PCM (6× PPZ8)


SilSinn9801 a.k.a. SilSinn9821 a.k.a. SilSinn-P a.k.a. Silent Sinner in Scarlet
YouTube: https://youtube.com/SilentSinnerInScarlet
NicoNico: https://nicovideo.jp/user/68029427
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/silent-sinner-in-scarlet
Carrd: https://silsinn9801.carrd.co/ & https://silsinn9821.carrd.co/
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/silsinn9801
Patreon: https://patreon.com/silsinn9801
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/silsinn9821.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://pawoo.net/@SilSinn9801 & https://mstdn.jp/@SilSinn9821
Misskey: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/@silsinn9821 & https://voskey.icalo.net/@silsinn9821
mixi2: https://mixi.social/@SilSinn9821
Twitter: https://x.com/SinnerSilent
DeviantArt: https://silsinn9821.deviantart.com/
Pixiv: https://pixiv.me/silsinn9801 (https://www.pixiv.net/users/39352603)
Pillowfort: https://pillowfort.social/SilSinn9821
Mighty Network: https://doujinet.mn.co/members/19465066

Tools used:
KAJA’s MML compiler MC.EXE 4.8s
C60’s PMDWin.dll 0.52 (paired with ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin) & FMPMD2000 0.31
Wavosaur 1.8.0.0
Audacity 2.3.1
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10

I Could Fall In Love ℗ 1995 EMI Latin

I Could Fall In Love

Selena / I Could Fall In Love (PC-9801 Version)

REMEMBERING “Queen of Tejano Music” Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1971–1995) on what could have been her 54th birthday, 30 years after her passing…

I Could Fall In Love (PC-9821 Version)
Genre: FM-synth chiptune/vocal synthesizer cover
Written & composed by Keith Thomas
Arranged by SilSinn9821
Performed by Hanakuma Chifuyu
Harmonies by Eleanor Forte, Tsurumaki Maki, HALO, & Natsume Itsuki
Sound drivers used: PMDPPZ 4.8s (Yamaha YM2608/OPNA) + PPZ8 1.08 βrelease 3 (2×Burr-Brown PCM61P/86PCM)

Instrumental arrangement started 2025.04.11, finished 2025.05.22.
Vocal tuning started 2025.05.22, finished 2025.05.24.
Project overall finished 2025.05.28.
Sound channels used: 6×FM + 3×SSG + 5×ADPCM-A (RSS) + 2× 86PCM (8× PPZ8)


SilSinn9801 a.k.a. SilSinn9821 a.k.a. SilSinn-P a.k.a. Silent Sinner in Scarlet
YouTube: https://youtube.com/SilentSinnerInScarlet
NicoNico: https://nicovideo.jp/user/68029427
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/silent-sinner-in-scarlet
Carrd: https://silsinn9801.carrd.co/ & https://silsinn9821.carrd.co/
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/silsinn9801
Patreon: https://patreon.com/silsinn9801
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/silsinn9821.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://pawoo.net/@SilSinn9801 & https://mstdn.jp/@SilSinn9821
Misskey: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/@silsinn9821 & https://voskey.icalo.net/@silsinn9821
mixi2: https://mixi.social/@SilSinn9821
Twitter: https://x.com/SinnerSilent
DeviantArt: https://silsinn9821.deviantart.com/
Pixiv: https://pixiv.me/silsinn9801 (https://www.pixiv.net/users/39352603)
Pillowfort: https://pillowfort.social/SilSinn9821
Mighty Network: https://doujinet.mn.co/members/19465066

Tools used:
Synthesizer V Studio Pro 1.11.2 (for the talkloid-like monologue in Spanish)
Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro 2.0.7 (for the sung parts in English)
KAJA’s MML compiler MC.EXE 4.8s
C60’s PMDWin.dll 0.52 (paired with ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin) & FMPMD2000 0.31
Wavosaur 1.8.0.0
Audacity 2.3.1
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10

I Could Fall In Love ℗ 1995 EMI Latin

Selena / I Could Fall In Love (PC-9821 Version, covered by Hanakuma Chifuyu)

Working on a generative music system. Melodies and rhythm generated procedurally, no random processes used, all deterministic and parameterised (ie. able to morph between states). Thanks to Ess for help with the synth engine.

0F_system 4tk 250530

Part of a future project!

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https://nanoray.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/62JS3xgd6kKS7OjzHNSFv1
https://x.com/Nanoraydx


The Land of Topaz

PULVERIZER [demo beat]

Celebrando el 25º aniversario de esta telenovela producida por Televisa

Género: Cóver en chiptune (síntesis FM) con síntesis vocal
Obra original: Carita de ángel (2000)
Letra y composición por María Teresa Bojalil
Interpretada originalmente por Tatiana
Arreglo de cóver por SilSinn9821 (SilSinn-P)
Cóver interpretada por Otomachi Una
Con el apoyo armónico de Tsurumaki Maki, Yumenokessho HALO, ROSA y Hanakuma Chifuyu
Drivers de sonido: PMDPPZ 4.8s (Yamaha YM2608/OPNA) + PPZ8 1.08 βrelease 3 (2×Burr-Brown PCM61P/86PCM)
Arte por KannaKake y Sunny

Fechas de arreglo: 2 al 21 de junio de 2025
Canales de sonido: 6x FM + 3x SSG + 1× PCM (8× PPZ8)

Por YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQINZ08Qsk

KannaKake a.k.a. YukiInRealLife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yukiinreallife/
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kannakake
Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/users/71862206
RedBubble: https://rdbl.co/3hEQnWd
Twitter: https://x.com/KannaKake
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Yukiinreallife

Sunny a.k.a. Sunnyloquacity a.k.a. Sunibot
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sunibot
Carrd: https://suninot.carrd.co/
Neocities: https://sunibot.neocities.org/
StrawPage: https://cosmicangel.straw.page/
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sunnyloquacity.bsky.social
DeviantArt: https://sunnyloquacity.deviantart.com/
Tumblr: https://sunnyloquart.tumblr.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sunibot
Twitter: https://x.com/sunnyloquacity
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@sunnyloquacity

Herramientas empleadas:
Compilador de MML MC.EXE por KAJA (PMD 4.8s); Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro 2.1.0; VST VOLA2; PZIUTYMX 2.10a por JUDStyle; PMDWin.dll 0.52 (+ ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin) y FMPMD2000 0.31 por C60; Wavosaur 1.8.0.0; Audacity 2.3.1

Carita de ángel © 2000 Televisa, S.A.
Otomachi Una © 2016–2025 MTK Inc./Internet Co., Ltd.
Synthesizer V © 2018–2025 Dreamtonics Co., Ltd.

Carita de Ángel (versión PC-9821 con Otomachi Una)

Heaven May Seem Out of Reach, But Looking Back is Hellacious

From grace into distortion, grit under the skin voltage snaps through shattered loops. 

Plintgrn live set.opaq

~nkrn~ - "Russian Skrillex" [DEMO]

From a crypt commission for Holly Plank; the request was for something along the lines of my earlier track "dark grove" (https://soundcloud.com/spinnylights/dark-grove).

dark alcove

Wir Sind Der Antichrist

This was the last (and best) of a slew of video game music covers I made for YouTube during 2016-2017.

Check out the music video!:
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLKXUquF_Q

🎼 Original composer: Masato Nakamura

Emerald Hill Zone KEYTAR COVER (Sonic 2)

REMEMBERING “Queen of Tejano Music” Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1971–1995) on what could have been her 54th birthday, 30 years after her passing, & also commemorating the 30th anniversary of her posthumous studio album & single…

Dreaming of You (PC-9821 Version)
Genre: FM-synth chiptune/vocal synthesizer cover
Written & composed by Franne Golde & Tom Snow
Arranged by SilSinn9821
Performed by Hanakuma Chifuyu
Harmonies by Mai, Tsurumaki Maki, HALO, & Natsume Itsuki
Mostly referenced from a MIDI sequenced by Marcel González (which did not contain the guitar solo at the very end)
Sound drivers used: PMDPPZ 4.8s (Yamaha YM2608/OPNA) + PPZ8 1.08 βrelease 3 (2×Burr-Brown PCM61P/86PCM)

Instrumental arrangement started 2025.05.14, finished 2025.07.18
Vocal tuning started 2025.08.06, finished 2025.08.12
Project overall finished 2025.08.12.
Sound channels used: 6×FM (+1×FM3Ext) + 3×SSG + 1×ADPCM-A (RSS) + 2× 86PCM (8× PPZ8)

SilSinn9801 a.k.a. SilSinn9821 a.k.a. SilSinn-P a.k.a. Silent Sinner in Scarlet
YouTube: https://youtube.com/SilentSinnerInScarlet
NicoNico: https://nicovideo.jp/user/68029427
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/silent-sinner-in-scarlet
Carrd: https://silsinn9801.carrd.co/ & https://silsinn9821.carrd.co/
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/silsinn9801
Patreon: https://patreon.com/silsinn9801
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/silsinn9821.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://pawoo.net/@SilSinn9801 & https://mstdn.jp/@SilSinn9821
Misskey: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/@silsinn9821 & https://voskey.icalo.net/@silsinn9821
mixi2: https://mixi.social/@SilSinn9821
Twitter: https://x.com/SinnerSilent
DeviantArt: https://silsinn9821.deviantart.com/
Pixiv: https://pixiv.me/silsinn9801 (https://www.pixiv.net/users/39352603)
Pillowfort: https://pillowfort.social/SilSinn9821
Mighty Network: https://doujinet.mn.co/members/19465066

Tools used:
Synthesizer V Studio Pro 1.11.2 (for the talkloid-like monologue)
Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro 2.1.1 (for the sung parts)
KAJA’s MML compiler MC.EXE 4.8s
C60’s PMDWin.dll 0.52 (paired with ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin) & FMPMD2000 0.31
Wavosaur 1.8.0.0
Audacity 2.3.1
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10

Dreaming of You ℗ 1995 EMI Latin

Selena / Dreaming of You (PC-9821 Version, covered by Hanakuma Chifuyu)

JoeyFunWithMusic alt account - a cosy home for my old and miscellaneous projects. Welcome!

Main account: https://soundcloud.com/joeyfunwithmusic

https://linktr.ee/JoeyFunWithMusic

Some tiger from Norway who makes music and stuff.
Currently open for commissions! More information here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118rH_PGIHBgSuPqiAdhKNq559b6_YhwZyYH9nT6cbAI

Alt account: @mm1_alt

ALBUM 10: MANZAI is LIVE!
https://nanoray.bandcamp.com/album/manzai
MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/nanoray

Ask me in DMs my e-mail so i know youre a real person, thanks!
Solicitation e-mails will fall directly into the shredder.

NURSE (2019)
GACHA (2019)
TILT (2020)
ΔPP (2020)
CETO(2020)
SPIRAL「1995」螺旋グミ道路ep(2020)
ZAPPER(2021)
NURSE 2 (2021)
DIGIMAIDEN (2022)
TOYBOX (2022)

Silent Sinner in Scarlet, abbr. SilSinn in the 🎮 community, started writing ♪ after hours of playing old PC/​video 🎮 (feat. 🎼 generated by soundchips from 1980’s–early 1990’s). Found favor with Yamaha YM2608/​OPNA FM-synth chip (found in high-end NEC PC-9801 & -9821 💻 that once dominated the 🇯🇵 domestic market) because of the relative ease of composing/​arranging ♪ for it and for its ability to mix FM/​PSG/​PCM 🔊 paradigms in a well-balanced fashion. Chose PMD98 by KAJA as the preferred compiler for making OPNA ♪ evocative of both “PC-98”, arcade, & Sega MegaDrive/​Genesis systems. For inspiration, thankee to legendary composers ZUN, 高井達雄, & 植松伸夫 as role models to follow.

New tracks tagged #FM Synthesis