DOWNLOAD the MIDI: http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Roses_GS.mid

I actually started making this because the original's instruments are so damn similar to Bionicle Heroes, but the idea of sentence-mixing the Dungeon Dilemma vocals was just too damn good to pass on. Creating Wario's vox was much faster, as I was able to learn from working with the DD keysplit and streamline the process of making them match the notes.

Roses (WarioWare Cover)

Fabu-goddamn-tastic artwork by TheLazerSofa.

It's been so long since I made this that I don't remember much about working on it besides making the KeySplits for W and Mona's vocals. Making bounce loops for Mona and mapping each sample to where it sounded good proved quite challenging, but I like how her vocals turned out quite a bit. 
Also, just like the real game, Wario's vocals this time are totally different from those seen with the Week 6 covers. That had more to do with the fact that I actually pitch-mapped them rather than using the real WL4 KeySplit. Like with Mona, Wario's vox come from WW: Mega Party Game$.

...Just now, I spent a good amount of time updating the mix. I did some EQ'ing & mixing, mostly. I put M&W in separate DirectWave's, for one. Made the Drop's hi-hat less garish. 
I brought the old marimba channel back in to some degree, because it draws a little too much attention to itself if you're taking the vocals into consideration. It'd be fine if it were an instrumental. 
Not sure how well the changes I did to the drums' EQ go over. I should really make different channels for them so I can give them that extra bit of attention.

Girls in red dresses with white satin panties
Foreign locales like Ки́теж and Atlantis

M.I.L.F. (Mona Is Late, will Fire)

SpongeBob, you silly ol' sponge. Try using your Vampire Killer!

Got the idea for this when I thought about the similarities between Hx-1 and the Bloodlines Guitar. My original motivation was wanting to do something with said incredibly sick guitar. 
Actually, I don't really know if my motivations were as tangible with this one as some of my other covers. I just wanted to do it 'cause it's freaking cool.
That *was* why I ended up going with SuperSponge sounds, though, was the Hx thing.

Image was a background from the Archive dump of SuperSponge. It was chosen at random, because my Explorer doesn't like generating image previews, these days. SO, I'm glad it was a winner. 'Put a smile on me face.

Update Mar. 2022: Amplified the master volume.

Bloodlines (SuperSponge Mix)

Thumbnail artwork by Charger342.

Xander Martin requested a WL4 cover of this from me. Unlike some of his past requests this one seemed easy enough to warrant actually following up on. So I took a stab at it. 

At first I was using WarioWare, inc. as my standard for which sounds I could use. Actual Flute and Pan Flute sounds would be open to me this way, and the choir as well. 
[30,2] was an absolute shoe-in for the chorused plucked string, so that was obviously the first thing I did. I also went to the trouble of making this with Sappy playback in mind, unlike some of my other recent WL4 covers. 

Because of these 2 things I'd been flip-flopping on the idea of going full Arabian Nights with this waarangement. Finding ways of limiting the # of sound channels and # of voices while keeping audio seamless put the idea of also limiting myself to base WL4 instruments (justl ike good old day) in mind. 

So, after the initial arrangement was finished, I basically halted production for a while. I finally took a drug holiday this week, and I may resume it tomorrow (not sure just yet).
But anyway, today I came back to work on it a little more, since I remembered not being satisfied with it where it was. I did a bunch of patch event changes, and spruced up the choir part (which is now strings). 
For a while I had the 1st Flute set to be the Soft Electric Piano, but ended up changing it to [113,2], the Arabian Nights shanai. I ended up leaving the echo as [5,2] though, because it sounded like an echo for just the flutier portion of [113,2]'s sound. This gives the illusion that the lead is a doubling.

Cursed Wathedral - Wario's Mystery Meat

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Waamton_meeting.ogg

Something I put together yesterday*
Total time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

I guarantee at *least* half of that time was spent figuring out the bass. Another fifth or something would probably have been spent on figuring out how to distribute the notation between the different parts during the B section.

*Then did about 3 minutes' worth of tweaking-- most of which was Playlist Window stuff. The rest was adding a few more notes to the accompaniment's sequence.

Battle with the Chaotix Prince (VS Lancer)

EVERY TIME I TRY TO SEND A LITTLE [[Cool Refreshing]] ADVERTISEMENT DOWN THERE -- WHAT DOES HE DO? HE TURNS IT INTO [Heavy Showers].
AND WHO NEEDS THAT???
EAHEAHEAHEHEAHEAH

Art by poryphone on Twitter: https://twitter.com/poryphone/status/1459969177943371778

The first time in a while that something I've done has felt like a legitimate rip. I loved that original picture so damn much that I did this - and on the same day, too. I should've done schoolwork instead but I probably would've wasted my time on something unproductive otherwise, so whatever.

I might do a bit more with the vocals, but a running thing with my Spamton mixes is I tend to dislike how the finished vocals sound at first but then they grow on me. We'll see how it goes. (Update: the same thing happened again, surprise surprise)
At some point I also want to improve the counterpoint (mostly regarding the strings for the Major section).

I'd really like to analyze the counterpoint between melody and bass to find out why the same two bar pattern works harmonically throughout the entire melody, even though I wrote it with the Minor section in mind*. I'm thinking the resolution notes in bar 1 probably take turns being tensions or chord tones for w/e the melody's implied chord is at the time. 
*WAIT. Minor. Consistent harmony... I chord and VI chord are both Tonic chords.... HRM.
So, the bass goes like "B, F#, D# E, G->F# | B, F#, D# E, G->E" That means the bass technically stays on WAIT> WIAT IT'S A PENTATONIC SCALE ISN'T IT. 
1 2 3 5 7. E F# G B D# Just corrected myself, the pitch is also F# and not F; Holy SHRIEYT.
I was thinking about how it technically stays on the I chord, specifically in the form IM7(9). It makes TOTAL SENSE that it works consistently between all the melodic bars like this.
I DID THAT SHIT on ACCIDENT. AAAAGH 
DAMN. i'm so awesome.
(edit: technically it's got pieces from both kinds of a penta scale, which is why some parts felt like they worked better than others)

Anyway. Now all that I'd have to do after that is map the chords out, which rartedvisage already did in his sheet music in 2019, but I wanna take a crack at it myself. 
Fun time in the near future :]

((If I can't have 🇦🇱🇮🇹🇹🇱🇪🇧🇮🇹🇴🇫 𝕗𝕦𝕟 🇮 🇲🇮🇬🇭🇹🇦🇸🇼🇪🇱🇱 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆))

Spam-Miser

QUIETLY HAND ME THE [[Little Birdie!]].
WHY NOT?
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
YOU HAVE [[Gooey $#-ow of Emotion]]S FOR SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
INSUFFICIENT [[3G Data]].

Spamton Γ. Spamton

"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)

"Now THIS is what I'm talking about! Enormous, EXPENSIVE-looking house, and no one's home!! Hoo-hoooo, this is MY kind of future!! Do you think they'll mind if I take a peek inside?"

Past: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa
Present: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/full-moon-freeway
Bad: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa-bad-futer

Completely sequenced by me. On that note, I've been surprised by how smooth progress has been, considering I've been sick the whole time.
Still a work-in-progress, but I hope to get it to a point of being finished before midnight tonight, just to see if I can do it.

Update: wasn't able to public it before then because I fell asleep. But it's been ready since around 11:20 last night, or something. AAAaaagh. 
BAM! NAH. NAH. nnNA-DUH, DAH. BU-DANA NAH-NANA DAH. Finished the whole freaking thing in about 5 1/2 hours. Hoo-Hah!!
Update 2: I did add in the fade-out and a little bit of dead air at the start just now, though.

When I first started sequencing the strings I didn't like how they sounded, right. I ended up also opening Bad Future because I had the idea to see which patches I used for the pads, since they sound really good. I saved the mixer settings for the pad track and brought that over, and that's basically why the pads in this sound so good.

Half Moon Highway (Good Future)

This is another of those songs I've wanted to post a cover of for a long time, and specifically using this soundfont. Even on paper you can see why.

Getting the chords to mesh with the rest of the sound was the biggest hurdle, I think, because unlike the previous couple of times I tried this, I'm a lot better at transcribing than I used to be.

I'm kind of glad I never finished covering this until now, though, because I don't know that I could've gotten the 2nd Lead to sound as good otherwise.

Quartz Quadrant Past (SuperSponge Cover)

I wasn't that happy with the mix initially, but after the last few days of it being up on Private I'm actually quite happy with it, now.

Originally I had started this using SB Drawn to Life instruments, but pipca did something with the Crash soundfont recently, if I remember right. Some kind of fighting game song, I think. 
But anyway, that made me think to use Crash, which in retrospect worked SO well that it gave me the inclination to make all future SRB2 mixes just use whichever soundfont worked best for the compositional style. Happy late birthday. it took me 4 tries to type birthday just then.

I wondered yesterday if 4/13 had any significance. I had this odd feeling that it did. Then it turned out to be Homestuck Day.

VS. Metal Sonic - SRB2 (Crash Bandicoot Arrange.)

Done entirely with C700. Tried to get it as close to the original as was feasible. I may update it to feature the 16th note tambourine to fill it out a bit more in the future.
I originally started this project last... summer, I think. The bulk of the work I did back then, including transcribing the accordion. I transcribed the notes as accurately as I could, since that would make or break a large portion of this for me. 
Everything from the section just before the breakdown, all the way to the end, which of course was more labor-intensive than the first half, which I covered just today (edit: whenever that was).

Thé à la Menthe (Bunny Hopping to Scaraba)

https://twitter.com/nescartridges/status/1516076681399701510

How to Orchestrate Spamton

"Hey! My bling reacted to how crazy MAD I am! Now I can FLY!! Let's smash that bozo's ride and nab that jewel! Try not to hit too many meteors on the way there! Time is money, and I'm running out of both!"

Directly caused by seeing pipca's take. I was like 'I wanna try,' so I did. 
Was initially dubious of how the lead was shaping up, but I'm really satisfied with how I managed to mix it. The way it turned out, I could swap the 2nd doubling from 24 Wildflower Reed to 80 Hurry Up Square seamlessly and have it sound just as good.
Had a bit of difficulty getting the bass to sound brassy but not awful, and bassy but not too smooth. I ended up doubling 3 Deow bass with 120 Headrush.
I had the idea of achieving the right-pan brass's octave sound using 63 Calliope, which has a similarly octave-like sound.
I got the growl of the lead using Fiery Cavern, but that didn't sound that great by itself. I beefed it up with 113 Trumpet, and briefly debated soloing that but that didn't sound good either, so I kept both and did some panning trickery. I ended up duping it for a third layer, after 24 Reed sounded great with 113. I couldn't decide if I liked 24 left-panned or 80 Square center-panned better, so I did both, putting them in order of mounting grandiosity.

𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘱 jermaWalk "Still fuckin' got it!"

The Doomsday Zone (Wario Land 4 Cover)

Alright, chump, so you got two options, here.
You could either be a ""saint,"" or you could be greeeedy...
Munch, munch. What??? No, you don't get any more!? Those are your two options! Two! I don't feel like thinking of a third! Don't get greedy with ME! I'm the winter warlock, pal!
—
The thumbnail was actually meant to be a placeholder (I think it was one of the only Wario images in the folder I was looking at), but then I realized it's actually perfect for the subject matter.

(featuring Shawnster as the Winter Wario and Charger342 as the disembodied narration)

Wario's Ultimatum

Requested by that Brandon guy. I figured I might as well, since it's the mp3 that was sitting in my files for over two years. I apparently exported it on 9/11 at 8:11AM, 2021. 
I remember turning off the sound effect channels specifically to export this. Then the old vocals (which used my voice) were made in January of 2023. Then I got Charger's vocals in February. And then I got Shawnster involved on likeee the 22nd of December.
In other words, across its lifespan, the project saw three Christmases. :P

Wario's Ultimatum (Instrumental)

My bit from TTGD's "GHOST (in My Home)" collab in 2021.

Some of my favorite Waarangements are the ones like this where I *actually* make something sound like it's from the game.

Ghost in My Village (TTGD Ghost Collab entry)

I hadn't applied the volley of effects needed for creating an Astrotrain voice since I had my previous laptop, and I wanted to prove to myself I hadn't just up and forgotten how to do it.

Astrotrain vox

Track from 2020 I never uploaded. I think this was when I was first playing with PM2's unique FIR Filter/Echo settings in C700. It came about entirely because the Cello sample reminded me of the Pokey Overdriven Guitar.

MeGaLoVaNiA (Pac-Man 2 Cover)

Another track from August of 2020. I remember I used this song because I wanted to get some practice with the game's chord samples. I don't know if I was sticking to the 8-voice limit, but I remember I was still new to working with C700. I know it at least hits the original track's 10-voice limit.

I really must be an accomplished digital musician if I'm making shitty Old Man descriptions like that.

Mother Jellyfish (Pac-Man 2 Cover)

Another old 2020 track. I guarantee I only did this because the composer for Mario Party 2, Yasunori Mitsuda, is the guy who did Chrono Trigger.
That's probably why I posted the SuperSponge cover but not this one, because the idea I was acting out was really corny.

Frog's Theme (Mario Party 2 Cover)

Nothing special. Just sounds nice.

Thumbnail by me.

Underfell - It's Raining Somewhere Else

For some reason, there isn't a high-quality upload of this on SC.
Go to my SounClown profile for a garlic chain's worth of Wario content.

“So admit it... Don't I look cool in the game screens? Those long, muscular legs on my sturdy, toned frame... I'm the perfect specimen of a man! ...What!?!? You say I look fat and my quadruple chin looks like a waterfall of flab? Shut up! That's just because you have your television set up for widescreen display!”

Edit: When I get Pro, I'm updating the mp3, because I got my hands on a HQ version. Even if I kinda resent that this track has a good 890x the amount of views that my others do on average, I can't wait to actually put a high-quality upload on here. I'm gonna update the track title and everything.

Update: hey hey hey, pisanos. Say hell o to the newly-updated Greenhorn! BTW, fun fact: Greenhorn is, like, an actual thing: it's a noun that means "noob", essentially, only it sounds nicer.

Wario World

2003

Wario World - Greenhorn Forest [HQ]

Something for the fanfiction "Some Day You're Gonna Be Mine." In it, Frisk mentions a music box that used to play a soft melody. This is the first thing that came to mind.

It's Raining Somewhere Else (Music Box)

“Waa–!? I expected that road to still be there! Now I’m all wet for no reason!! 
Well, at least this place seems less… busy. Who installs loudspeakers on a highway??“

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

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/sTARSust_Seedwaa.mid

I've wanted to cover this song since very early on, much like Ice Challenge before it, but only just now managed to follow through, all the way to the end of the tune... again, much like Ice Challenge.

I wonder how many people were sold just from the intro alone. I know *I* would be.

This but in Reason 10

Half Moon Highway (Past)

"Wow!! This place is really busy! No idea how high up this is, but the view from here's really something! I wish I could get down to those casinos! Especially since there never seem to be any humans around in these paintings... What's up with that??"

Past: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa
Bad: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa-bad-futer
Good: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/stardust-good

UPDATE: Happy New Year 2022! Here with a MAJOR Update to Stardust Present! I've added the remaining HUE's, replaced the Daow portion of the "Hit it" with the "EY!!" vocal from Club Sugar, and added in the siren. I've also given the effects on the Loader an overhaul. I finally used a Limiter for the sake of getting the master to be nice and loud without clipping like the old audio does.

---
Unlike the waarangement made for Stardust Speedway Past, this one was NOT made from scratch. Most of the channels were (sufficiently modified versions of) Iestyn's MIDI. The electric piano chords that make the rhythm section I DID do completely from scratch, and the drums as well (including the intro), with the exception of the pre-chorus break (the part with the high-pitched cubana "not-a-cowbell" agogo thing), where I used Iestyn's version as reference.

The choice I made to include WL4's vocal bits was an inspired moment, for sure.

Half Moon Highway - Mega CD Wario Land

For JAWF. The brass/toxic landfill guitar combo ended up pretty close, eh

Click my name for an unhealthy amount of Wario content. ...Like this for example: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/der-kommissar

fun fact: the only reason this exists is because 120,2 sounds almost just like the square from the original, to the point where I at one point asked myself if that was the source used for it.

"Tainted Love" - Soft Shell

Now completely WL4-compatible! That's right punk, all the instruments, effects, etc. that you're hearing will actually carry over 100% to the final hack. (Well, not the EP's echo channel. We have to take the number of voices into account, you know.)

Original MIDI by Ulrik Ruud Rostrop, heavily modified by me.
WL4II Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w

Wario Land 4 II

Hip Shop

Wario Land 4 II: Item Shop

* you take a mortal man
and put him in control.
watch him become a god,
watch people's heads a-roll.

In which a skeleton goes over the reason his reports have been showing massive anomalies: a Marigold God of Megadeth.
---
So I was wanting to do something with this song anyway, but I didn't get the idea to put the Undertale spin on it until I read those lyrics. Total shoe-in for Flowey. Not to mention the third verse could very easily be used to describe the final act for the Pacifist Route as well: 
"The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A-warring for the heavens,
A peaceful man stands tall"

In other news, for one reason or another the lyrics section did not include the harmony, which is a crime. I had to basically listen back to a YT upload of the song over and over for the chorus so I could write it down. After all that was done, I went and added a bunch of slider notes to try to make the choruses sound like the ones from the real song. I unfortunately couldn't quite the guy's "Uegh" to come across, however I'm thinking about messing with the note velocities some more tomorrow, so I can accomplish a similar effect to what I accomplished with The Baron's saxophone.

Update: didn't mess with velocities as much as I expected to, but I did put in most of the important vibrato parts for the melody, as well as spruced up note timing and the pitch bend. It's up to you if it sounds any better.

The Absolute God of Megadeth

For @stowawayface, who convinced me I should've posted this WAAne after all.

BEE BAH BAH BA-DOHP BOPE
BAH BAH BA-DOHP BOPE

SCATWAA

I needed an excuse to finally Public my Monster Hits playlist, and I'm sure some of you people will appreciate this track, so here you go.
MIDI from midi-world, with the exception of the main riff (which, as we all know is the most important part). That's the same notation I wrote which is to also be heard in that "nah nah nah you playin" track I posted.

Sweet Dreams but it sounds like Wario Land

Ian Livingstone - Composer
Herman Witkam - Duduk, Irish Whistle, Peruvian Quena, Xiao, Shvi
Mark Livingstone - Acoustic Drums, Percussion
Tony Clarke - Guitars

Extracted from the game's files and converted from .wgt to .flac using VLC Media Player.

BIONICLE Heroes

Avak's Dynamo

DOWNLOAD the SF2: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/1394
MIRROR: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rmke1y-oAwv2vPe_9FqHZ4fQwT4ex5jF

This one I decided to do because it really taps into that same spirit. Like, if there were a 1v3 minigame themed after Wario. I can't remember which instrument I replaced with the Accordion, but it fits so well in (whatever)'s place that it doesn't bother me.

Rowdy Rumble (Mario Party 2.sf2)

"Massive Fähigkeit"

(If you enjoy my tracks, be sure to h'whack that like, repost, and share it too.)
You've reached the home of the so-called "epic Wario" thing. I've a massive catalogue of waamixes and waarangements for yon nigras to peruse with hearty contentment, as they eat whole garlic loaves and shoulder bash their computer.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/tahutoa300

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.

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