This was my contribution to “POWER! GS”, which I composed on 2024-02-14. Please check out the rest of the album at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs, there's some amazing stuff in it! There's also a full download there, including the MIDI files.

This is the version from the album, recorded and mastered by @MelonadeM. My cover art here is based on the album cover art, which is also by MelonadeM! This recording is from a Roland SC-55mkII, but I've also uploaded the version I recorded from my Roland SC-7 at https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/beyond-the-stars-sc-7-version! My comments from the liner notes:

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The recording in this album is from a Roland SC-55mkII, but I actually wrote this song for my Roland SC-7. The SC-7 is the SC-55's obscure General MIDI-only little sibling: smaller and less featureful, but generally sounding very, very similar.

Actually, it has some GS-ish features; this song uses the reverb, chorus, TR-808 drums, and adjustable low-pass filter. I couldn't test on an SC-55 myself, but I hoped whatever I wrote for the SC-7 would transfer well, and thankfully it did! Interestingly, the piano tone is a bit different, but the rest seems to be identical.

If I'm somehow not the only one out there who still cares about this tiny beige box, you're in luck: I included SC-7 SysExes alongside the GS ones in the final MIDI file, just for you. <3

I wrote three different songs for this collab, but somehow it was only this one, written in a few hours on the day of the deadline, that I was happy enough with to submit.

The seed of this song was just me playing around with ninth chords. I love that wide and ambiguous sound! I didn't have a clear mood in mind while writing it, but the sparkly high-pitched arpeggio reminded me of Space Cadet 3D Pinball, and slow melancholy flute parts always make me think of JRPGs and the feeling of adventure, so I tried to come up with a title evoking those themes.

Programmed with Sekaiju. SysEx generated with SoundPalette.

POWER! GS

beyond the stars (POWER! GS)

This was my contribution to “POWER! GS”, which I composed on 2024-02-14. Please check out the rest of the album at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs, there's some amazing stuff in it! There's also a full download there, including the MIDI files.

This is a recording from my Roland SC-7 and represents what I heard while composing this. The version on the album is a bit different, because it was recorded on a Roland SC-55mkII and was mastered. I've uploaded that too at https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/beyond-the-stars! My comments from the liner notes:

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The recording in this album is from a Roland SC-55mkII, but I actually wrote this song for my Roland SC-7. The SC-7 is the SC-55's obscure General MIDI-only little sibling: smaller and less featureful, but generally sounding very, very similar.

Actually, it has some GS-ish features; this song uses the reverb, chorus, TR-808 drums, and adjustable low-pass filter. I couldn't test on an SC-55 myself, but I hoped whatever I wrote for the SC-7 would transfer well, and thankfully it did! Interestingly, the piano tone is a bit different, but the rest seems to be identical.

If I'm somehow not the only one out there who still cares about this tiny beige box, you're in luck: I included SC-7 SysExes alongside the GS ones in the final MIDI file, just for you. <3

I wrote three different songs for this collab, but somehow it was only this one, written in a few hours on the day of the deadline, that I was happy enough with to submit.

The seed of this song was just me playing around with ninth chords. I love that wide and ambiguous sound! I didn't have a clear mood in mind while writing it, but the sparkly high-pitched arpeggio reminded me of Space Cadet 3D Pinball, and slow melancholy flute parts always make me think of JRPGs and the feeling of adventure, so I tried to come up with a title evoking those themes.

Programmed with Sekaiju. SysEx generated with SoundPalette.

beyond the stars (POWER! GS) (SC-7 version)

This was a song I wrote in November and December 2023 for my Roland SC-7. From the beginning I was hoping to submit it to POWER! GS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs), but I was never quite happy with it, so I never did. At the same time, it's more or less a complete track, so it'd be a shame to let it sit on my drive forever. So, here you go: my attempt at writing trance! At least for the first part; I'm not sure what the second part is trying to be, it was just something that came to me.

Unlike my other works so far, this wasn't sequenced with Sekaiju! Instead I used my Yamaha QY70 as a sequencer. (The QY70 has an excellent built-in XG synth, but I didn't use it here.) I decided to write the entire song using the pattern/styles system, which was interesting. It's convenient how I can just input a series of chords and it'll reharmonise my patterns for me, among other advantages. I think it was fun! But I do think choosing to write the *entire* song this way is not something I'd do again. It's pretty ergonomic for a small device — I think I'd rather write a song on this, with its thoughtfully placed physical buttons and carefully designed UI, than on a phone — but I can't deny the advantages of having a big monitor displaying a piano roll for several bars of the song, which I can manipulate with a mouse. :)

tranSCend

MIDI file→https://chakkysworld.neocities.org/music/midis/88pro/CARLY_88.mid

CARLA (Yukari ver.)

Another thing written for my Roland SC-7. I made the first versions of this back in January, intending to submit it to POWER! GS (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs), but I was never happy enough with the ending. This month I finally came up with something that feels okay. At this point I'm just happy to be able to release it.

Programmed in Sekaiju. The filter sweep stuff relies on SysEx which are generated with a tool I made called SoundPalette.

The cover art is a cropped, blurred screenshot from the first episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I don't know if the title fits, it's just… a feeling.

listless daydream

This is another Roland Sound Canvas song.

Credits:
Written, Recorded, Produced and Mixed by Nicholas Kempson
Nicholas Kempson – Sequencing, drums, synthesizer

Spaceship to Jupiter V

Ruby Red Ghost Toad

SCV01

the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the

sand canvis

Original Soundtrack of FlyKnight.

FlyKnight: store.steampowered.com/app/3108510/FlyKnight/

Dev: wabbaboy.itch.io/
Models: squareanon.carrd.co/

Written and produced by Michi VGC.

FlyKnight OST - 06. A Bad Feeling

FlyKnight OST - 05. Bed of Corpse Flowers

FlyKnight OST - 07. DragoonFly Knight Kalim

FlyKnight OST - 09. Lunamoth's Requiem

old twitter clip from when i first tried making a song on the sc 88 pro
very much inspired by shinji hosoe's tracks from gtr 
image from driving emotion type-s

sc88 pro shinji hosoe style thing

Concept album about a lost PS2 game about a group of explorers discovering another world, and becoming trapped within.

This is part 1 of 2! Art + worldbuilding will be coming soonish.

Ruins Under Starlight

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Track 1 - Canvas
Composed by KOTOSTRIEB
Do not Reupload.

The two-song single "Canvas" contains the title track, "Canvas," and "White Flower... Forgotten Days." These two songs were originally going to be included in the album Eulogy of the Ten, but were later scrapped due to their short length.

CANVAS

Canvas

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Track 2 - White Flower... Forgotten Days
Composed by KOTOSTRIEB
Do not Reupload.

The two-song single "Canvas" contains the title track, "Canvas," and "White Flower... Forgotten Days." These two songs were originally going to be included in the album Eulogy of the Ten, but were later scrapped due to their short length.

White Flower... Forgotten Days

anew

sound design session return.flp - 2025-Jun-02_3

from the beginning

Composer [Commissions are OPEN],
Check my portfolio in the link down below.
Currently working in a bunch of game projects (check my Portfolio)

If you download/buy a song and want to use it on media projects, just remember to give me proper credit.

If you want to use a song from my personal portfolio, feel free to send a msg; if your project looks cool, why not!

Send a dm or e-mail for collabs/commissions
I also use Discord: Michi#4861

Comments are disabled on some songs because of spam bots.

I'm Nick Kempson, a DIY musician from Melbourne, Australia.

I started out playing bass guitar and it all went from there.

echo⁺ beyond𓈒 
heal₊ wander⸝⸝ 
halo✩ fragment𓏲 
angel⊹
✿˚ : ✧༺♥༻∞

#everence

Composer of many genres.

*YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE MY WORKS FOR AI*

this is where i'll drop any twitter clips/vgm demos/wips that don't fit my main page or may not get finalized!

plus sometimes cool art i've made and some commentary about the tracks

I may not be very good at doing things the right way, but I'm the best at doing them the shitty, overly-complex way.

A place to host chakky's current project-- to make MIDIs of every sele song EVER. This is the second seleMIDIs account, as I filled up the first.

**EDIT 12/9/17: We did it! This project is no longer being updated regularly.

Original seleMIDIs account: @seleMIDIs
All MIDIs/FLPs available for download here: tinyurl.com/hyhuqvl

My SoundFonts include:
  - Arachno (main SF)
  - SGM-V2.01 (supplementary SF)
  - Timbres of Heaven (tertiary SF)
  - SYNTHGMS (rarely)

Run by @chakkycharizard

Update on my album: 42 mins of music is fully done + mixed pretty much perfectly, so far, just not posted yet, because I'm thinking now I need to work on the art and story more. Part 1 is a bit scratchy + bassy but you won't hear those issues in the final version, all mixing was redone.

No AI is used in my music, no AI will ever be used in my music. That also means I never use AI stem separation, AI mastering tools, or any other "little helpers" that producers use and try to act sneaky about it. No AI means NO AI. I cut my samples and loops in an old version of Audacity. All my art is drawn first and then traced using vectors in Inkscape.

Artist & musician living with chronic pain, but inspired by the fun things in life!

Thank you all again for 300 followers!

Discord: Donny#1128
donovankirkmusic@gmail.com

New tracks tagged #Sound Canvas