I’ve been sequencing General MIDI songs since I was 8 — I use it as a visual artist uses a sketch pad, to rough out ideas before recording them for real. Other times, they ARE the real recording, as with the Kwakfest Album. While GMidi encompasses the vast majority of my lifetime creative output, only a few of my best sequences are here, and the rest are safely stored away, where they can do no harm.
The theme was “SONGS THAT ARE STUCK IN YOUR HEAD” and, as you know, arranging complex songs from memory (sometimes things I haven’t heard in a decade) is my favorite twisted pastime. In hindsight, the Katamari bassline is way off because at the time I’d never heard the song outside my bassless TV, but I think we can agree I fixed [...]
Also from memory though this one might be a little less accurate because it’s more complex, but I think I got the voicings right. Hope your sound card can set pitchbend range via rpn!
Reggae this time! I happen to like this one a whole lot because it’s such a departure from my usual discocheese kwakfest entries. This was difficult to pull off in an hour.
Kwakfest entry – and probably my best one to date. It’s very complex, listen on an awe-series card or sblive if you can, because it uses the resonant filters on those cards for the synth line.
Kwakfest entry.. 4 and a half minutes, written in an hour. They’ve started like skipping over my tunes each time :(
Written in an hour for a general midi ‘kwakfest’ compo at vgmix, this is a rock/celtic tune.
A jolly little tune! Written in an hour for a ‘kwakfest’ general midi compo at vgmix.
This one was done in 40 minutes (!!) Because I couldn’t get my midi interface working, so I didn’t have time to tweak or correct timing, this is just raw playing, track after track. :(
Written, yet again, in an hour for a ‘kwakfest’. Yes, I write gmidi insanely fast, much faster than any other composition method.
Written for a hentai dating simulation soundtrack I’m writing together with tz, this is for meranii, the independent and spunky girl who plays dancing games and likes to beat people up with bricks.
Whipped this up in a couple of hours, posted it as ‘midigrrl’ on the vgmusic forums, watched the forumgoers drool over ‘such a brilliant girl’ for several hours (most of whom would have torn it to pieces had they known it was by me). Yes, I used to troll forums by composing music.
Written for a hentai dating simulation soundtrack I’m writing together with tz, this is for kurisuti, the bashful, geeky girl whom you try to seduce during dates at the arcade.
Done in an hour and a half, if I remember, for a kwakfest compo that used an FF7 SoundFont. This is my best attempt at ‘uematsu battle rock’.