Copy of "Made in Wario" | Wario-themed Waarangements by tahutoa

MIDI Transcriptions/Remixes of Songs Where the Base MIDI Was Made By Me

SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey

Song covers in the style of Wario's GBA titles. Source material can be from anywhere.

Waamixes: songs that are essentially the exact same as the original, but feature Wario soundfont(s). 
The waamix designation still applies to songs that more-or-less match the source material, even if the given MIDI has been heavily edited or doctored.*
Waarangement: songs that use the Wario soundfonts, but also sound sufficiently different from the source material: in the case of tracks that used a pre-existing MIDI, the song is considered the source material, not the .mid. 
Examples of waarangements include "Bad (Mario)", "Doodlecture (WL4II Doodle Woods)", "Fury Rock (WL4II Fiery Cavern)", and so on.

To best exemplify this distinction, compare "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Wa" with WL4II's Toy Block Tower, aka "Ob-la-di Obelisk". 
'Ob-la-wa' is a waamix, because it features WL4's instruments, and changes the drums a bit, but is functionally the same as the original song. 
'Obelisk' on the other hand is a waarangement, because its sound is wholly different to that of the original, due to the addition of swing, parts of the original TBT's drums, etc.

* Examples of this rule would include "I'm Only Sleeping in the Row", which sports a thoroughly repaired melody line and a split-up rhythm section, but only because the melody line was highly inaccurate, and WL4 can't handle so many direct voices as the rhythm section was asking for.

"Made in Wario" | Wario-themed Waarangements by tahutoa

A different spin on "Your Best Friend" made for SourAppleStudios' "Horrortale" AU. 
Something simple, but classy.

Your Only Ally

An experiment in progressively adding more instruments to something. The melody is simple, but catchy. 

Fun fact: this song came into being when I first began work on 'We're the best'; I thought it was neat, so I saved it as a separate little project before getting back to work. Of course, due to the similarities, I'm going to add it to the playlist, because I'm lame and can only come up with completely original things when I sleep (true story). 

I guess (parts of(?)) this would play for whatever the equivalent of the Undyne chase sequence is; probably the bit towards the end where V.I.N.CENT and Maximilian finally duke it out. Depending on how far into the chase you were, a different part of the song will play (the first part playing at the beginning, the last part playing towards the end, obviously).

Run away! (Partially original)

I like this song. I also like transcribing songs that I like. Hence, this thing. The original is better, I feel, but I think this sounds close enough to the original to warrant uploading.

Telstar (The Tornados) Arrangement

The idea came from when I was thinking about Ganon's laugh from the Zelda II Game Over screen and "Feel Gooderang, Inc." at more or less the same time. I think I did a good job of emulating the "Half Singing, Half Talking" effect for that first part.

Feel Good, Link.

* never really saw myself as a suit and tie guy. too tight-- collared-- for my taste, y'know wha'm sayin'...
* but hey. 
* here we are.

I wanted to transcribe this song, so I started doing it. Initially, though, I couldn't get the beat right, and I also had most of the instruments from "Hotel" in use already, so I inserted the background guitar deal, made it match the other notes, and then just kinda did the rest of the song.

If you were missing it, the It's Raining Blue Wrath mp3 can be found by clicking here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1crbB-uPJIUqmKLVki9hiTYJgTvbvjegr
here are the notes for it:

I pitched 'Blue Wrath Hotel' up in FL Studio to see if I could get it to match the pitch of the original 'Hotel' background guitar, and I found that it sounded good at +240. Then, I slowed the tempo from 140 to 96 (the tempo of IRSWE), and I liked how THAT sounded too; made for a good combination. Finally, to add to the chillness effect, I removed some of the background guitar's notes. Then, I did a little bit of moving around for the Vives parts. Obviously, most of the instruments were changed to match that of IRSWE; multiple instruments use the Vives instrument, so at certain points, it makes it sound like improv jazz, which is a nice bonus.

By the way, I made the sprite edits you see in the image, if that wasn't obvious.

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The Blue Wrath Hotel

Pitched the song up +580 cents on a whim, realized it was in a/the key that matches up with Bad, and as we all know, if there's one soundfont that should always have a few MJ songs under it's belt, it would be Wario Land 4.

Bad (Mario) - "Bad" in the style of "Portal (Menu)"

"Thanks a lot, buddy, it took us three whole days to make this MIDI."
(Shakes fist)
"THREE DAYS!"

Ghostly Garlic (Ghostly Garden + Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

I think I've finally done Monster Iestyn's MIDI justice :D
...i hope.

Too bad I didn't know about FL's tendency to screw with literally every programmable slider until some time after Iestyn himself literally pointed out that the pitch bending wasn't there. Son of a bitch. I made a fool of myself in front of the person whose MIDI I like better than the original Mystic Mansion.

"There's nothing to fear
So listen dear
Follow me, and I'll make sure we both get out a-li-ive"
"Please, just un-der-stand,
That's not my hand,
I would ne-ver be wont to lay a finger on you!"

"Sapphire Passage - Mystic Mansion" | Wario Land 4 + Sonic Heroes

You thought it was some sickass rock n roll, but it was ME, DIO

uhh https://musescore.com/crono23/foolin-around

"Foolin' Around (1920s Piano MIDI, not Deff Leppard)" | Henry W. Ross + Wario Land 4

"Still Dre - Variation" | MuseScore + Wario Land 4

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: https://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Odysseus.mid

Spent a lot of time playing this level as a kid. Kickin' surf rock tunesss.

Bikini Bottom - SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: https://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Artorias.mid

Made this MIDI second. The guitar reverb effect was all done by hand, by the way, and believe me, the first 2 seconds of this song are the part I spent the longest trying to get right.

The Blue Abyss - SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: https://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Thysanostoma_loriferum.mid

The part where the flutes come in is extremely daunting when you first get to it, but luckily I was able to unravel the different layers and transcribe them. This is the arrangement I think I did the best on, as well as the best of the three MIDIs made thus far.

Jellyfish Fields - SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

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

After nearly seven months of having the bassline and the whole first 8 measures (mostly) done but nothing else, I finally went back and finally fuckin' finished the title theme. 
   What this means is, not only was I the first person to make and publish a MIDI cover from this game, but I am now ALSO the first person to make and publish a MIDI cover for EVERY track from this game.

Title, Hall of Fame - SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

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Get a Wario Land 4 soundfont *with named presets* here: https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/files/27-instrument-sets/425-wario-land-4

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Soundfonts that I use the most (in order of prominence):
Wario Land 4 (for pretty much anything, because I love WL4's sound)
OmegaGMGS2 (My go-to soundfont strictly because of how many High Quality out-of-the-way instruments there are)
SGM V2.01 (For when the OmegaGM variations of instruments are lacking)
Touhou (Flute, Saxophones, as well as some Basses and Harpsichord, otherwise same as SGM, where it's to stand in for OmegaGMGS2)
Earthbound (for Overdriven Guitar and other Pokey-related instruments)
Mother 3 (for 8-Bit and Synth stuff, usually)
Get a list of Preset names for (the original ver. of) the Wario Land 4 soundfont here*: https://warioforums.com/attachments/wario-land-4-soundfont-instrument-names-zip.6962/

*Appreciate it; altogether it took me something like 8/9 hours. The first 5/6 to listen, write down what I'm hearing, switch instruments, repeat over 200 times. Then, many months later, go through it all over again, this time to write down the Preset/Sound Bank relationships for each one, because I didn't the first time, and my laziness came back to haunt me once I started fiddling with Polyphone, intending to rename the WL4 presets and make my life easier.

Bikini Bottom - SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey (Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

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