I recently rediscovered an organ VST on my computer that is quite frankly proven to be quite interesting to experiment with. I downloaded it a couple years ago to make eerie background music for a haunted house (Toccata and Fugue) and forgot about it. Playing around with it, I'm really shocked at the amount of tonal colors you can coax out of it. The VST has a bevy of 104 stops (sound ranks, supposed to be spread over 4 manuals and a pedal keyboard, which would probably require one hell of a setup :o), which can be whisper soft or create a hell of a racket. It's a shame that the organ's been pigeonholed into hymns, weddings/funerals, and spooky music, because it really does seem to have a lot of hidden potential just waiting to be exploited :-\
Any requests?
You know, I've always thought that 8-bit Zelda music would sound amazing on harpsichords and organs...
Anything 8 bit ^^
Song of Healing? >.<
I somehow managed to misread that and did the Song of Storms instead. Oopsy doops :P
What? Sounds like the song of time to me xD
Gah, I'm so frackin' tired today I can't keep these things straight :P :-[
Lol it's quite fine but yeah it's the song of time. xD
Quote from: zoroark1264 on February 08, 2014, 01:48:43 PMLol it's quite fine but yeah it's the song of time. xD
I knew it!
(Ha I haven't even learned like 3 songs in ocarina of time yet)
Well, here ya go :P I played around with mixing and balance, which resulted in two different versions. One has more panning and stereo effects, while the other has more dynamic range.
Honestly, I never really liked Majora's Mask as much as I did OoT or ALttP. It was good, but it just lacked that....je ne sais pas. My brothers and I played those latter two games so much, we had 3 copies of each so we didn't hog it (or we somehow managed to break SNES/N64 carts, which is frankly impossible ;) ). There weren't too many games that were really that good.
Also, here's the same song on an (electric) organ:
Etes-vous francais ou canadienne?
Je suis americain 8)
Haha nice!
Quote from: JohnK on February 09, 2014, 03:03:33 PMHonestly, I never really liked Majora's Mask as much as I did OoT or ALttP.
That's because you haven't seen
(Not till you've beaten it)
this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1SVkysIRw)
But I'll never beat majora's mask D:
Quote from: JDMEK5 on February 10, 2014, 09:01:51 PMThat's because you haven't seen (Not till you've beaten it)
this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1SVkysIRw)
Reminds me of that old ghost story about the "cursed" Majora's Mask cart and the dead boy or something along those lines. Anyone else ever remember it?
Quote from: NocturneOfShadow on February 11, 2014, 07:50:43 AMBut I'll never beat majora's mask D:
Sheesh, I think it took my brothers and I a year or two of tag-team relay playing to finally beat OoT. Not even FFVII took us that long :o
Quote from: JohnK on February 11, 2014, 03:19:23 PMReminds me of that old ghost story about the "cursed" Majora's Mask cart and the dead boy or something along those lines. Anyone else ever remember it?
You mean the Ben creepypasta, right?
I think that was it. It's been a while, though :P
Anyways, new vid with a new VST (based on this....thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ) :o)
I first used this in the Sand Bird video, but I really pushed it to the limit with this one. It pretty much overloads my soundcard, so I had to record each part individually and mix them together. Not fun, but the sound is quite frankly unlike anything I've ever heard. It's sorta like synth strings, but there's something just very....powerful that really just hits you in the gut. Listening to this on a high-end surround system is really quite an experience. But TBH, it's really more trouble than it's worth, since this VST pretty much copies every stop (God only knows how many that is), and they're all super quiet. So to get an audible sound, you either have to select big sweeping gobs of 'em, or pick and choose carefully. It's a royal pain in the pooper :P
This gives me so many ideas! Hahaha! I get a little overexcited about new discoveries!
Honestly, what I'd absolutely love to have is a keyboard instrument that follows the basic organ concept (2+ keyboards and pedalboard, many selectable and combinable voices, etc.) and combines that with a high quality MIDI workstation. Basically, your typical Casio on steroids. It would open up so many wonderful possibilities and make for some very fun and interesting arrangements. Does such a beast exist in real life?
Bump...?
Anyway, there was this great game song that would sound really interesting on the organ. Umm... the final Bowser battle music from Mario 64.
Nah, just kidding. The song I had in mind was the Wii Sports Main Theme:
There are already organ parts hidden deep within it. I think it is a little clearer to hear in this 8-bit remix:
Though, it may be hard to get just right without the drums.
Speaking of the Wii Sports Theme, why the heck have nobody arranged it for the main site yet? It's the main theme for one of the best-selling video games ever. It would be like missing the The Sims 2 Theme! Or the menu theme from RollerCoaster Tycoon 2! Or the credits song of Super Mario Sunshine or even LoZ: The Wind Waker! Scandalous!
Cobraroll? o.O
:O
Honestly, it's probably because nobody/very very very few people actually liked Wii sports ;P