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[Music Port] Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1

After what felt like years of SMW music making abstinence (not like I've ever been good at it in the first place), I decided to try my hand at porting a song again.

This is "Gymnopédie No. 1", a famous piano piece written in 1888 by my almost-namesake Erik Satie. I'm sure many of you have heard it one way or another.

Porting this was unexpectedly challenging, at least to a music newbie like me. Not only are slow and quiet piano sounds hard to replicate using SMW's instruments (didn't want to bother working with samples), the song also makes heavy use of chords, sometimes playing seven notes at the same time, requiring me to pay close attention to what notes are supposed to be playing on which channel. And to make matters worse, the song repeats once but slightly alters a few notes in its second part - I had a hard time choosing where to set loop points. In the end, I guess the insert size (1497 bytes) is acceptable, especially considering it plays for 3 minutes. Yep, it's that slow.

Although I tried to replicate the original as closely as possible, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the notes are off by accident. If they are, though, at least it's nothing unpleasant-sounding.

Enough jabbering, here's the link. Due to its very slow and quiet tone, it'd work well for extraordinarily calm places, especially cutscenes. (And as the SPC file name says, it'll sound better in-game.)


 
Wow, somehow this song slipped into my mind as "Hey, I'm from Animal Crossing". Thanks for porting this song, reminding me it isn't from Animal Crossing, and a pretty awesome port! The @13/16 piano gives off a nice, soothing mood. I can see it being used in a good number of hacks.

You seem to be a natural at this stuff, and I would love to hear you port more music! :D

EDIT: Oh right, this isn't your first port. Silly me! ^^;
Thanks for the feedback! This means a lot coming from an experienced musician like you. :)

Originally posted by CrispyYoshi
EDIT: Oh right, this isn't your first port. Silly me! ^^;

It's my second port actually, not counting the handful of semi-decent custom compositions I've made. I have some experience with SMW music making, but not a whole lot.


 
I remember hearing this in MOTHER 3. It's a really beautiful music, and you did a very good job porting it! @13 fits very well in chords.
Wow, this song is great. I think it has a lot of potential for really calm places like quiet towns. I also think it has a bit of a somber tone so it could be used to that effect as well.
Oh man, this song. At first, I thought the name of this one was Gymnopedie 3. but I must've been mistaken... In my favor, at least!
The cause being that I love this piece! We need more classical music ported! Let this be some kind of harbinger of great things to come!
Oh, I remember hearing this one from one of Dominator's ports from Mother 3. It's such a nice and relaxing song. I didn't actually know it was originally a classical piano piece. Well done on the port, by the way, the ADSR is perfect and it could fit to a sad cutscene/level very well.
I remember the song from the game called Binary Land if you've heard of that game. The game was in Japanese, but I think the song was in French. It would be good if you could port that song.
Hey, I remember hearing this song in the second submap of VIP Mario 3! :O
Oh man, this brings back memories of the time I played that hack.. was it like 5 years ago? I don't remember, but yeah I really like how this turned out! I also like your choice of instruments. @13 has that nice, calm timbre that it can be used in any chill out/downtempo music like this.