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Second serious attempt at Famitracker, I decided to cover one of my favorite Castlevania songs: An Empty Tome (Shanoa's Theme).
For all of you who know the song, you might notice I used the short version's intro before the long version of the song. That's because I'm actually planning to append the middle section and (a slightly expanded version of the) finale of the short version at the end of this piece to achieve a non-looping remix of the song. (Full with bats in the end, hopefully.)
Hope you enjoy it, comments and whatnot are always welcome.
I'm not certain, but I want to say that there are a few missing notes in places. I can't even really say where, actually.
Beyond that, I think this is very nice. I'm excited to hear one of my favorite new Castlevania tracks coming to life on a new medium. You've got something great here.
It has an excellent beat, but it's missing quite a bit of notation (just as Arrow said).
If you have some sort of a sound editor & an MP3/WAV version of the original song, I suggest you try to separate/mute the right & left audio outputs (especially if you feel you're having troubles grabbing every note from the song).
Mute one side & listen to it carefully. Then, do the same to the other side.
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I usually try to mix different tracks together when there's too many to hold every separate instrument.
Also, you may be able to mute certain tracks if you get the original song rip and run it in WinAmp. Also, I think there's a program that lets you export the songs from DS games into Midi files and export their instrument set as a Sound Font. I did that for a cover I'm in the process of making.
EDIT: Actually, after looking it over, every track seems to be used quite a bit, so I don't think mixing tracks together would work for this song (at least not easily).
EDIT 2: Woops! I forgot to say, great work! The songs from this game are great, and it's interesting to hear it in 8-bit form. It also sounds like you got all the notes right from the original song. (Sorry for not saying that sooner :P).
Also, just a question. I noticed for the strings, you used a Brass+Lead-sounding instrument. I've also noticed things like that in other songs. When I'm creating covers for songs, should I be using more simplistic instruments like waveforms instead of trying to emulate the sound of the instrument, or is that just up to the author of the cover to decide? I'm not sure if I'm going overboard in trying to make it sound exactly like the original, since I haven't been doing this for very long...
I think it's up to everyone to decide. I, for one, am using instruments similar to those used in Famicom Castlevania games, because I'm going more for a "What would this track sound like if it was put in the games back then?" kind of sound.
I'm currently trying to find the original sound file from the game and a way to play it muting channels, your method sounds good enough for me to try. Thanks.
You've got something great here.
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