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.)
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.)