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Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:42 am

No shmups and no music make beatsgo something something.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:10 am

Not sure how many here like Ambient, but I recently made this public on soundcloud. I'm down to one track left in the runtime for this, and this is the fastest I've worked on an album. Here's the first completed track I made for an album of ambient. Less than a week's worth of work and I'm almost done.
https://soundcloud.com/james-shain-2/ja ... uds-we-saw

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:20 pm

More Mega Drive stuff, but this time it's original - and relevant to the forum! A small demo reel for a fake shmup!

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/sets/ ... ry-md-demo

lilmanjs wrote:Not sure how many here like Ambient, but I recently made this public on soundcloud...
https://soundcloud.com/james-shain-2/ja ... uds-we-saw

I'm no expert on ambient, but hell, I found this pretty relaxing!

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:54 pm

Heavy Viper wrote:More Mega Drive stuff, but this time it's original - and relevant to the forum! A small demo reel for a fake shmup!

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/sets/ ... ry-md-demo

lilmanjs wrote:Not sure how many here like Ambient, but I recently made this public on soundcloud...
https://soundcloud.com/james-shain-2/ja ... uds-we-saw
I'm no expert on ambient, but hell, I found this pretty relaxing!

Thanks for the kind words. That set is really good. Really makes me wish for a real shmup in the mega drive style.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:05 pm

Just finished the complete soundtrack for this game. The music featured will get a mix overhaul before release, it's all composed and mixed using headphones, I've since bought proper studio monitors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4ibz8-L_k

The ending music I made hasn't made it into this build of the game yet. Also, this game is coming to Steam in a while.

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:35 pm

The bass is a bit thin in the video, but overall it sounds like a cool, pumping techno soundtrack. Nice work!

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:00 pm

Heavy Viper wrote:The bass is a bit thin in the video, but overall it sounds like a cool, pumping techno soundtrack. Nice work!

Thanks! Your track was very cool, I wish I had those type of sounds.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:44 pm

Great music in that video emphatic. Really works well. Wish I knew how to make music fitting for a shmup. Anyways, a new release came out today. Deep and Ambient Techno with a screaming driving melodic and noisy remix from Dwn Cx. Owen Ni and I work well together, so we're going to become Outward Roots after this.
https://omchaki.bandcamp.com/album/tale ... dub-module

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:28 pm

lilmanjs wrote:Great music in that video emphatic. Really works well.

Thanks!

lilmanjs wrote:Wish I knew how to make music fitting for a shmup.

Well, I got YouTube links sent to me with stuff to mimic (the general feel of the stage), so you just apply yourself to the task at hand.

lilmanjs wrote:Anyways, a new release came out today. Deep and Ambient Techno with a screaming driving melodic and noisy remix from Dwn Cx. Owen Ni and I work well together, so we're going to become Outward Roots after this.
https://omchaki.bandcamp.com/album/tale ... dub-module

Cool stuff.

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:18 pm

Here's a little guitar piece I cooked up in the afternoon.

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/strange-lights-itm

lilmanjs wrote:Anyways, a new release came out today. Deep and Ambient Techno with a screaming driving melodic and noisy remix from Dwn Cx. Owen Ni and I work well together, so we're going to become Outward Roots after this.
https://omchaki.bandcamp.com/album/tale ... dub-module

Yeeeees. This is the kind of stuff I can get lost in. You two make good things happen.

beatsgo · Post by **beatsgo** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 3:21 am

Tried my hands on a touhou arrangement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:30 pm

Not new music this time around for another post in here, but it was requested by a label owner and friend that I make a mix of Deep Techno and Ambient Techno music. It has dropped today and if anyone needs the tracklist I will post it. Features artists G.R.I.T., Sean Walsh, Coppice Halifax among others including a Hiroshi Watanabe remix he did for me a while back and a colab track with Owen Ni. Hopefully I didn't screw up too badly.
https://www.mixcloud.com/slipmatmusic/s ... eepwarmth/

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:20 am

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/uccm

Sorry. :3

lilmanjs wrote:https://www.mixcloud.com/slipmatmusic/s ... eepwarmth/

Thanks for this, it's been making for good job-hunting music!

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:02 pm

Heavy Viper wrote:https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/uccm

Sorry. :3

lilmanjs wrote:https://www.mixcloud.com/slipmatmusic/s ... eepwarmth/
Thanks for this, it's been making for good job-hunting music!

Thanks for listening to the mix. I figured the entire mix would be tagged while playing, but seems is not. So, have the tracklist which includes the labels they are released on.
1. Sean Walsh - Perseverance (Run On Recordings)
2. DeepWarmth - Balance [Hiroshi Watanabe Remix] (Omchaki)
3. B.Toriyama - Separation (Run On Recordings)
4. Audiokonstrukte - Relief (Cold Tear Records)
5. G.R.I.T. - The Furthest Outpost (Octal Industries Reconstruction) (Entropy Records)
6. SkiFi - Lunar Echos (Cold Fiction Music)
7. Yagya - Snowflake 4 (Subwax Bcn)
8. Owen Ni & DeepWarmth - Constellation (Omchaki)
9. Textural Being - Hydrology (Zzzzra Remix) (Perso Records)
10. Edmahnd - Refractive (Cold Fiction Music)
11. Dublicator - Liquid Substance (Deep In Dub)
12. Coppice Halifax - Mintmorning (Milieu Music)
13. Ocralab - Fractus (Deep Electronics)

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:56 pm

Here's a not-joke track I did to celebrate Metal Gear, since there's a new one out and all:

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/cover ... olid-snake

EDIT: ...aaaaand something shmup-related!

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/dream ... ntasy-mart

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:50 am

A space disco track from me.

https://soundcloud.com/datathief/solar-surfer

beatsgo · Post by **beatsgo** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:04 am

Step 1: Create an Industrial(?) song on Renoise
Step 2: Convert it into MML and compile it using the WonderSwan Total Sound Driver
Step 3: ????
Step 4: MAKING IT! MAKE MONEY!

EmperorIng · Post by **EmperorIng** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:49 am

Heavy Viper wrote:More Mega Drive stuff, but this time it's original - and relevant to the forum! A small demo reel for a fake shmup!
https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/sets/ ... ry-md-demo

All of these tracks are quite good. I need to get Deflemask soon. For the longest time Shiru Otaku's venerable VGMM was the be-all for FM music tracking, but Deflemask I suspect has already surpassed it in usability and versatility. Being actively supported is a big part of it.

I love the bell sound FM makes. Don't know why.

Heavy Viper wrote: https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/cover ... olid-snake
https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/dream ... ntasy-mart

I like the MG2 remake, though I have a soft spot for ol' Opa Opa. MG2 has some of my favorite tunes in the entire series.

pixelcorps wrote:A space disco track from me.

https://soundcloud.com/datathief/solar-surfer

The jazzy touches of the synth melodies are what make the track for me. It is very solid and well-produced. You play it at clubs?

beatsgo wrote:Tried my hands on a touhou arrangement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did you sample the ZUN track itself? Some of the instruments feel like they are out of the game directly.

Future Funk, VaporWave, and other like genres have cropped up over the last year, and I'll admit that while I like some of it, it's hard to wrap my head around the whole process (french club + jpop = future funk?). Just rambling.

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New FM YM2612 track: Hope in the Darkness.

Feel the determination!

To celebrate the [non-]accomplishment of 10,000 people pressing the "play" button on my soundcloud!

This is a melody I've had sketched out on the piano for years before I finally stopped being lazy enough to commit. All the better, because it would have sounded a lot worse back when my skills were more rusty. For those interested in seeing the development, here is an old WIP of the track from a long time ago.

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:21 am

EmperorIng wrote:All of these tracks are quite good. I need to get Deflemask soon. For the longest time Shiru Otaku's venerable VGMM was the be-all for FM music tracking, but Deflemask I suspect has already surpassed it in usability and versatility. Being actively supported is a big part of it.

I love the bell sound FM makes. Don't know why.

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I have a soft spot for FM chimes and bells. :3

Now is actually a really good time to check Deflemask out! It's had MIDI in support since version 10, and Delek's just released version 11 with YM2151+SEGA PCM support. Exciting times for FM tracking, for sure.

New FM YM2612 track: Hope in the Darkness.

Feel the determination!

...

Y'know, the steady one-two rhythm and ascending brass in this really makes me think "Tecnosoft!" Really like the breakdown half-way through, too. Nice work. :>

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beatsgo wrote:Step 1: Create an Industrial(?) song on Renoise
Step 2: Convert it into MML and compile it using the WonderSwan Total Sound Driver
Step 3: ????
Step 4: MAKING IT! MAKE MONEY!

Looking forward to hearing the WonderSwan version!

beatsgo · Post by **beatsgo** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:57 pm

EmperorIng wrote:
beatsgo wrote:Tried my hands on a touhou arrangement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did you sample the ZUN track itself? Some of the instruments feel like they are out of the game directly.

Surprisingly no, but I did my best to duplicate the original instruments by ear. For example, the clock tick-tock sample is actually a ride/crash sample in the PC-98 version. Also I did 4 things in the song to make it somewhat danceable

1) Transpose the 2nd to last part to match key/pitch
2) Switch 2 sections due to the weird slowdown and keep things moving in the song
3) Remove the slowdown
4) Obviously it's not my own rendition if I didn't gave it beatsgo-ish motifs and melodies E:

Here's the original version to get an idea what I mean

It's definitely far from being a song I can put out there for people to dance to, but compared to 2 years ago with the first song I release I came a long way.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:29 pm

Brand new release out on my own label with Owen Ni. We are Outward Roots and strive to create some sort of atmospheric techno sound. At least it can be called Ambient Techno on our first Ep together.
http://cfmlabel.com/releases/cfm071/

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:27 am

lilmanjs wrote:We are Outward Roots and strive to create some sort of atmospheric techno sound.

http://cfmlabel.com/releases/cfm071/

I reckon you nailed it, guv. :>

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:21 am

Heavy Viper wrote:
The jazzy touches of the synth melodies are what make the track for me. It is very solid and well-produced. You play it at clubs?

thx! I used to, had a few record deals, gave up.. too much scene crap and too many shady distributors... Gave up on doing it Japan too because they expect you to play for free.

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:33 pm

Just finished my 1st test track for my 1 man STG project, codenamed "PROJECT G"

It's full on heroic STG J-Metal .. won't be doing any more until I get the vertical slice done of the full 1st stage..

Probably a ton of fine tuning and detailing to go but I think it's at a suitable demo stage to privately share to see what you people think...

鋼の天使 Steel Angels (v0.5)

https://soundcloud.com/studio-work3/ste ... 05/s-DbrY0

Heavy Viper · Post by **Heavy Viper** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:08 pm

pixelcorps wrote:鋼の天使 Steel Angels (v0.5)

https://soundcloud.com/studio-work3/ste ... 05/s-DbrY0

Excellent drums! Guitar tone is pretty spot-on for heroic J-metal, too, though I'd say the guitar melody could use some polish. A promising sneak-peek!

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:55 pm

pixelcorps wrote:Just finished my 1st test track for my 1 man STG project, codenamed "PROJECT G"

It's full on heroic STG J-Metal .. won't be doing any more until I get the vertical slice done of the full 1st stage..

Probably a ton of fine tuning and detailing to go but I think it's at a suitable demo stage to privately share to see what you people think...

鋼の天使 Steel Angels (v0.5)

https://soundcloud.com/studio-work3/ste ... 05/s-DbrY0

Quite enjoyed this track. Really feels like shmup music and the style is well done.

Post by **system11** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:54 am

As a result of one of their tracks being used in American Horror Story, I have now discovered: She Wants Revenge.

It's like they were transplanted from 15-20 years ago, stripped back sound which reminds me in places of early Depeche Mode and Bauhaus.

First two albums I've liked.

Third I haven't listened to yet.

cvaniafan · Post by **cvaniafan** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:28 pm

My new mixed set : https://soundcloud.com/shiny-noxxy/elec ... hiny-noxxy
Pure indie nu-disco & electro house stuff. Enjoy.

TomuS · Post by **TomuS** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:42 pm

I recently released 90 minutes album of SN76489 music: https://tomy.bandcamp.com/album/psg-series-4
All raw hardware recordings. It's a... little bit different than your basic Master System music.

DestroyTheCore · Post by **DestroyTheCore** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:40 pm

Noob question: how can I mimick that ''typically Japanese melody'' and we can hear starting at 0:16? I wish I could insert this sound into my tunes. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqowbr2V2TI

shmups.system11.org

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