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I wanted to paste this before but I wanted to wait until I had more to show before I did. However, my time is becoming increasingly sparse, and so I decided to post this now.
Web Link:
http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStuff/MegaManInstruments_jan6.rar
It's the Mega Man Instrument Pack for FamiTracker. This "project" is essentially an archive with FamiTracker instruments designed around actual programmed instrumentation used in Mega Man games, complete with a text file that explains the more technical application of making Mega Man music in FamiTracker. It includes instruments from Mega Man 2 to 9 (although, it's so bare right now that it only includes mostly stuff from 3 and 4). Mega Man 1 instrumentation was pretty simplistic compared to the others, though I haven't gotten around to replicating them yet.
Some of the example mods included in the archive are complete remakes from Mega Man 1 to 9. Another couple are two original songs utilizing these instruments, or modified versions of them, to create Mega Man styled songs.
Here's a list of the example mods (with NSF accompanying them):
[li" class="link">· Wily Stage 1 - Mega Man 2 and 9 wily stage 1 remakes, simple examples
· Plug Man - 1 pattern remake of Plug Man's stage using pattern effect vibrato.
· Spark Man - 1 pattern remake of Spark Man's stage, the interesting thing here is that the fade outs are instruments themselves, keeping the patterns cleaner.
· Boss Theme - Mega Man 3 boss remake, complete with crazy crash cymbal. Utilizing instrument based vibrato, since the pattern based one doesn't work very well.
· Wily Stage 4 - Remake of Mega Man 9's Wily Stage in FamiTracker, almost perfect. Remade in Mega Man 3-6's style
· Wily Castle Jingle - from Mega Man 2 and 9. The Tom slides were from 9, since 2's were lower pitched.
· Stage Select - Mega Man 1 stage remake. Literally took me 2 minutes to do.
· Volt Man - Gecko Yamori original song. Remade from an Mp3, using my bank's instruments with slight modifications. I kept with Spark Man's style since that's what this song's based around.
· Orig_test/test1 - Was an original song I remade in music engineering school in a few days called Protools Man ([url=http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Originals/ProtoolsMan.mp3]download) .. It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped in NSF, so I may scrap it since the tempo it's based around just doesn't good on the 2A03's 60Hz timer.[/li]
If you make any Mega MAn styled songs with this bank, let me know so I can include it with future versions.
Here's your Skull Man example mod. I didn't do a full remake, just some example parts of the song.
Also included are some "wet" examples (Bubble/Splash..splash doesn't follow the original song, it follows Bubbleman's just to show Bubble Man's instrumentation as an example)
Interesting. The main thing I always liked in Skull was that part where it had no lead and the percussion going. MM4's percussion always had that verbiness (not a word probably) to it
I am very new in the chiptune scene, and this is very profound information.
As I'm analyzing the volume levels in these samples, I just close my eyes and picture the musicians at work in the programming room 20 or so years ago when the tunes went no further than that small room in Japan.
That's a great idea, when I was at work, I was daydreaming about redoing some Demon's Crest and Breath of Fire music with Gargoyle's Quest/Red Arremer II instrumentation, or any Capcom NES title made in 1992.
Start by making a thread where the first post contains just about everything the wiki should. I don't see why a wiki should be necessary at this point.
I'd be willing to host a wiki for this purpose, should it be necessary.
RE: Making Mega Man music in FamiTrackerPosted: 2009-02-14 06:30 (Last Edited: 2009-02-14 06:31)
This is my first post on this board, so first of all I'll just say that I just started using Famitracker a few days ago and I absolutely love it! I've made a few chiptunes in MODplug using "borrowed" samples, but Famitracker is so much more fun to play with, and creates a much more authentic sounding song. I'm hooked.
Anyway, this thread really helped me get an idea on how to create different instruments with different sounds in famitracker, and I used a bunch of samples from the bank provided by tssf in creating my first famitracker module which can be found here:
[url=http://cycopl.googlepages.com/plagiarisman01.ftm]http://cycopl.googlepages.com/plagiarisman01.ftm
(I named it that because I tried really hard to imitate the capcom/megaman style)
Also, I recognize the name TSSF from somewhere... Did you post music on RPGamer or UOSSHP (when it was still up)?
Yeah, I've been tracking for at least 10 years, heh. I posted on RPGamer, UOSSHP, UOSSMP, etc etc.. I am the same guy.
BTW, very nice song, especially for a first attempt. May I make a suggestion about your triangle tom? you're going way too complex with it. It's way more simple, and more megaman-esque if you replace your triangle tom code from this:
4 13 32 50 62 77 96 120 126 126 126 125 125 126
to this:
| 16
..it's way more simplistic, and it's more mega man-esque. Keep the note-cuts off them, I think that would work out better for that sound and style.
Also, you might want to watch your retriggering notes.. they're sort of blending into one note. A good way to avoid that, especially the way Mega Man 3 and up did it, is to make "Fade" instruments, and trigger them just before the retriggered note, so the fade will lower the amplitude of the square channel to a point where when the note plays again, it will sound like a new note. It's hard to explain, but check out my Plug Man example in that archive, and it'll give you an idea of what I mean.
One thing that I really like is that "retriggered" square found in Spark Man. I made up my own little variant of it (slightly different volumes) and it sounds good.
I used it in a few pieces in my game. It'll probably be used in others too.
Awesome, thanks for the info TSSF! I made the change to my Triangle Tom and it sounds so much better now.
I think I get what you're talking about with the "fade" instrument for retriggering notes, it's the "Lead Echo" instrument in the Plug Man example, right? I'm gonna go ahead and try it out.
That's awesome that you're the same guy. I've been tracking for probably 9 or 10 years myself, but it was always just a hobby and I never really submitted anything to any websites. I have one song on RPGamer that I tracked like six or seven years ago, but that's about it. I know I downloaded a bunch of your songs back in the day though. Small internet.
Edit: Welp, I updated it. I made the tempo of the song too slow, so I don't have enough room to fit a fade instrument between the retriggered notes, so I just created a new instrument for each of the square waves, "Square 1 Short" and "Square 2 Short", and it definitely sounds a lot better now. Thanks again for the help.
