Sonic Classic 2 - Circus City Zone Act 1 (Stardust Remix)

I made a cover of this amazing song from deltarune chapter 2

Pandora Palace 2a03 cover

Uses original in-game MIDI, arrangement made entirely with C700.

This came about from the incredibly half-baked idea of "what if THIS was arranged to be the Porky's Porkies equivalent of Pokey Means Business's Heavy Section???" 
I keep coming back to this idea, but always give up on it before getting anywhere because I already know the amount of planning, effort, and actual skill that I would need to pull off the 'PMB Heavy Section' arrange of Porkies like I want. The final product is literally never the "Porkies Mean Business" I have in mind.

Even with THIS I wanted to stick with exclusively PMB instruments. However, like most humans I'm obsessed with imitations that are as close as possible, and just ended up making the equivalent of a soundfont cover. Fuck off

At least this "attempt" bore some kind of fruit. It turned out pretty good, actually. In particular, the Rock Organ sounds great with these settings for the FIR Filter.
Like I alluded to earlier, I ended up importing the Rock organ, ride cymbal, a tom, and the Franky guitar, but for whatever reason couldn't bring myself to import the Crash Cymbal.

I was expecting translation to be a lot more of a headache, but to my immense satisfaction it ended up being rather streamlined. I was even able to *add* in new notes (to recreate the power chords) because of how the channels were originally handled. 
The trumpet and sax channels were barren outside of the two places you hear them for, and the intro trumpets were their own separate channels. I only needed to bring their notes over to 3 of the original channels and do stuff with the Events. Plus, thanks to BRSO Articulate I could use the already differing note colors to my strah-TEE-jik ad-VAN-tejj.
Rearranging the percussion was probably about the same amount of trouble, and for the most part it's because of the "cymbal" overlapping with other things. Of course because I just ended up using the Noise as a shitty stand-in it's not as big of a deal.

I like how, because I used the default hat in some places and included the Franky guitar, it ended up sounding more like EB. Not to mention, by coincidence the patches I chose for the brass are the same as the original Runaway Five songs'. Originally I went with them because I (rather hypocritically) didn't want to import too many new sounds.

Oops, I forgot to make the thumbnail... and left this sitting here unposted for like 3 hours.

Burst-In Rock 'n' Roll - Mother 3 (EarthBound Mix)

Summers, Eternal Tourist Trap (Stardust Remix)

underrated song, probably because its short

Castle of Evil (SuperSponge Cover)

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)

candy cane lane literally has the tonality and name scheme of a classic sonic stage lol so i made this to try and demonstrate that

I made this to prove a point

A fast-paced acoustic fusion with lively guitar and a whistling lead.

The image was generated using an AI.

Whistling Mood

Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' (Cmyth Remix)

So, I had this idea based on what I (and JonTron, as I later recalled) sound like while imitating the Lead from the first segment.

Monquatic Ambiance

An XG sequence I got from this .zip I found by searching up "ffvii official midi sequences". After the first round of inserting effects and instruments, I had to have the master around 58% or something. Eventually I imported the audio for j-e-n-o-v-a (god i hate typing that) into FL, to get a more accurate sound. As part of that I tried to bring over the mixing and reverb settings you hear in the real tune. By the time I was finished, I was able to have the Master Fader at 100% :)

F-I-V-E-V-O-L-T

"Massive Fähigkeit"

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Sorry if uhhh the volume for tracks varies, or is just relatively all-over-the-place. Even though I usually keep my system vol. at 52, there have been times where I've changed it and forgot that I did, then started working on a project.

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Q: Why do I use the Wario Land 4 soundfont to some capacity for so many tracks?
A: Because I love the way it sounds, obviously. Half the reason why I'll start making a MIDI in the first place is that I want to hear what it'd sound like with the Wario Land 4 soundfont.
Q: Wo, Tahutoa, youre music sure is good! :))
A: DON'T CAPITALIZE MY NAAAAAME AaRRGHKKhH IT LOOKS SO HEINOUS I CAN'T STAND ITTITTI hawhawtitits?? Thank you, though

One wonders how much of their fanbase thinks of ol' typhoidoa as "epic Wario man, *and ig some other stuff*" - the same sort of typecasting that has felled a number of UT Remix artists over the years.

Battle Mania Daiginjou "Brawing Up" (SuperSponge Cover)

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