Ok here are some fun tunes I have been working on recently. Most of the tracks here were composed using Bamboo Tracker (which emulates the really cool Yamaha YM2608 . If you wanna compose music that sounds like it comes from a PC-98 computer, it is a must have ).
Instrumentation
My goal was to try and recreate acoustic instruments. I think the guitar sounds really good! The violin, not so much. Still, it's neat in its own way.
Half-Baked
Yeah this song is less of a song and more of a demo(?) I wanted to explore something a bit more chill, and I really liked how the "piano" sound came out. You can really achieve some warmer tones with FM Synthesis if you play around enough! It's got a bit of a somber tone, which was mostly unintentional.
Crossing the River
Ok now here's a song that I actually put some time into structuring. I'm someone who likes a lot of arpeggiation in my works. I also like the bell sounds this soundchip can make. I also like chordal swells, another thing FM can do really well. I think I got somewhat inspired by some of Ryu Uemoto's works (for those not in the know, he composed a lot of music for PC-98 games). It kinda just ended up writing itself. It's another really short song, but I definitely want to expand this at some point.
A Beginning
A hypothetical title track to a hypothetical video game. This song was actually going to be part of a portfolio project for college, but I ended up getting really overwhelmed with the amount of work I'd have to do for it so it got scrapped. I still think this is super cool though. I tried playing with creating instruments that had a sort of high-pass filter built in. But I still think lower registers are king and its mighty prevalent here. I also experimented with the drum kit built into the tracker, and while I don't care for the sound, the results weren't too awful here.
I'm going to be completely honest with you. I hate the concept of "serious" music. It's such a ridiculous term with so much baggage it would break your back into many pieces. However, it unfortunately is the best way to describe the music I have loaded here. A lot of this is stuff I either did either for a class, or composed on the side for fun. Some of it you'd probably find cool, while other stuff probably just sounds like noise (a lot of it is noise, so you wouldn't even be wrong). But yeah, here's a couple tracks I'm proud of!
Morbid Computer
In case it isn't clear at this point, I'm very inspired by Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. I've actually done a couple pieces based off the story in some capacity, but this was one of the first I did. It kinda has some Brian Eno vibes to me, especially the piano part. I also didn't do a lot of editing to the instruments here, I just chose whatever preset sounded the best in Logic Pro and went with it. I definitely want to do a creepy ambient album based on this short story and its characters one day.
Here is some more misellaneous tracks. They're not really composed with a specific sound or style in mind, just me playing around and seeing what sticks.
Nice
I owned FL Studio for a little bit (I still kinda do, it's complicated...) and I made a really cringe beat in it. When I was 12 or 13, I thought that producing lofi beats would be my calling, even though this isn't really a lofi beat at all. But cringe is an aesthetic in and of itself I suppose, so groove along to this if you want.
This Has No Name
Consider this a musical rambling. It essentially was a long improvisation session with myself, which somehow turned into a duet for synth strings? I guess? I don't know, it sounds pretty cool though so that's why I'm posting it here.
Arpeggio
This came about after I learned that my MIDI keyboard has a really neat arpeggiator function on it. I wanted to explore what I could do with it, and while I know I could've done a lot weirder and/or cooler stuff with it, I don't think this sounds half bad. It scratches a part of my brain that is always itchy, so that has to count for something.
Doraemon
A bit of an odd one, I made this after discovering some games for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision. There was a game for the popular series Doraemon, that had this really cool arpeggiated figure (you can listen to it here ). I essentially took that, clipped it so one iteration of the timbre occurred, and used that as a bass. The arpeggio I slowed down, retuned, and added more voices.
GBA-Ass Beat
I'm (making my best attempt at) composing again! I've been messing around with my JD-Xi that I've owned forever and I somehow feel more capable doing cool stuff with it! We love a good bit-crusher and high pass filter in this house. This demo kinda sounds like a GBA game for some reason, that's why it's named that I guess.