RaiDK Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 Hi, I'm new to remixing and was wondering how I'd go about making NES music... that is, music using NES type synths and drum beats... What program should I use? Are there samples I can use, around somewhere? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hale-Bopp Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 http://tweakbench.com/ has some free VST synths (see the left side bar) that emulate NES sounds available for download. Check out peach, toad and triforce in particular and see what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygecko Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 They are crap. If you are not prone to tracking or learning MML, the best way is to know the specifications of the hardware so you can recreate it as closely as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaiDK Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 http://tweakbench.com/ has some free VST synths (see the left side bar) that emulate NES sounds available for download. Check out peach, toad and triforce in particular and see what you think. Awesome, thanks. Got these working in FL Studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 another one settles for shitty VST that don't sound anything like the NES Ask me about FamiTracker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaiDK Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Righteo then, what's that about Famitracker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 It's a tracker that lets you write your own .nsf files. I should really try to make a beginner's guide to chiptunes and post it in this forum somewhere. I might work on it when that xm-to-spc tool is done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frau Mauro Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 http://www.zophar.net/utilities/download/nessf2_1.0.zip The NES soundfont replicates the square waves near flawlessly without having to learn FamiTracker's ridiculous layout and functions. Trust me on this. You can substitute regular MIDI soundfonts for it, or you can use it in FruityLoops via Fruity Soundfont Player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 http://www.zophar.net/utilities/download/nessf2_1.0.zipThe NES soundfont replicates the square waves near flawlessly without having to learn FamiTracker's ridiculous layout and functions. Trust me on this. holy fuck what no nearly flawlessly my ass, though it's a lot closer than triforce. If you've gotta sample NES sounds, rip them out of virt's chiptunes via modplug or some other tracker Okay I gotta stop freaking out about this shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frau Mauro Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 It's easier and more convenient then learning a program that looks like it's from the early 90s. I merely gave another option, as there's plenty of different methods for getting NES sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Okay okay. I know I overreact to these kind of things. I realize FamiTracker is using a very old interface, but that's pretty close to how people made NES music in the first place or at least, that's how it was made on computers. I also realize some of you aren't really aiming for authenticity and that's FINE, I just don't want to hear it when you're done ( ¯_>¯) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaiDK Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 Well, the first one posted sounds good enough for the sort of thing I'm trying to do. I have learnt however that the NES's percussion sucks... Might have to rip some GB samples... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Even the "hey" from TMNT3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frau Mauro Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Okay okay. I know I overreact to these kind of things.I realize FamiTracker is using a very old interface, but that's pretty close to how people made NES music in the first place or at least, that's how it was made on computers. I also realize some of you aren't really aiming for authenticity and that's FINE, I just don't want to hear it when you're done ( ¯_>¯) The outcome can easily be compared to some NES chiptunes and then adjusted with an EQ if authenticity is a goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Ascher-Weiss Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Except for the stuttered nature of the volume envelopes [something BARELY detectable [if at all] to the human ear] you can get extremely convincing results with a sampler. You don't have to resort to ripping the samples from Virt's songs either. Just grab any NON konami nsf. Konami uses so many effects that you'll be hard pressed to find any clean samples HOWEVER, konami soundtracks are the only source for DPCM samples. If you don't know how to rip sounds from an nsf, PM me and I'll upload waves of the various NES sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaiDK Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 Nah, ripping NSF sounds is fine. Winamp + Disk Writer Edit: Can anyone recommend a NES game which has some decent percussion / drum sounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drack Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Depends on what you're looking for. I liked the percussion in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but any late NES game wil have decent PCM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I'm messing with FamiTracker, except I'm having a problem. Since there's no volume control for the Triangle channel, how do you set note off? = does nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Guapo Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 It's a tracker that lets you write your own .nsf files.I should really try to make a beginner's guide to chiptunes and post it in this forum somewhere. I might work on it when that xm-to-spc tool is done. Wow! Excellent! I'm gonna try this out now. Thanks a lot for that tip!!! I love tracking interfaces. I have tried it out now. Works great. Quite hard to make good drum-samples though. And while we're on the topic, perhaps one of u know of any good trackers. I hoped for sk@le-tracker, but it seems down. I also liked renoise, except that it costs money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klm09 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Even the "hey" from TMNT3? Haha, man, I remember the first time I played that game, I was actually amazed when I heard that the first time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 And while we're on the topic, perhaps one of u know of any good trackers. I hoped for sk@le-tracker, but it seems down. I also liked renoise, except that it costs money. I think modplug is decent. If you want one with more modern features, try Madtracker. It gets you VST and ASIO support, just like Renoise, though the interfaces of the two are completely different. Renoise is pretty freakin' fancy though. I'd say it is worth the 50 euros. Oh right! Also, reduz just finished another tracker. Hooray! I played around with the beta, I haven't checked out the solid release yet, but it's a semi-IT clone, an oldschool interface I actually like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Guapo Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I think modplug is decent. If you want one with more modern features, try Madtracker. It gets you VST and ASIO support, just like Renoise, though the interfaces of the two are completely different. Renoise is pretty freakin' fancy though. I'd say it is worth the 50 euros. Oh right! Also, reduz just finished another tracker. Hooray! I played around with the beta, I haven't checked out the solid release yet, but it's a semi-IT clone, an oldschool interface I actually like. Oh yeah. Modplug. I used that player when I had win95 installed , never tried the tracker. I'll try it out. Chibitracker was beautiful, but I've never come to terms with Impulse-tracker. I'm more of a fast-tracker person. I so fell in love with renoise's channel-bundling or... you know that thing. It's an awesome program, but sk@le-tracker was getting there. *sigh*- maybe renoise worth buying after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerrax Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 This why Logic is my favorite sequencer. Logic's built-in ES 1 synth perfectly emulates all NSF sounds. Throw in a bit crusher for the PCM wave and you have a great NES sound emulation without the ridiculous layout of a tracker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucky o'hare Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 http://www.zophar.net/utilities/download/nessf2_1.0.zipThe NES soundfont replicates the square waves near flawlessly without having to learn FamiTracker's ridiculous layout and functions. Trust me on this. holy fuck what no nearly flawlessly my ass, though it's a lot closer than triforce. If you've gotta sample NES sounds, rip them out of virt's chiptunes via modplug or some other tracker Okay I gotta stop freaking out about this shit Oh, freaking out is warranted to an extent. From a lot of what I've heard these VSTs don't sound very spot on. Some sound pretty far off, even. If learning famitracker or MML is too daunting for some (like me), you can always learn more user friendly sample based trackers, or even something totally different than a tracker (whatever you guys are familiar with), and just sequence music based off of samples taken from NES music. Whether or not you plan on meeting the system's limitations, you're guaranteed to match the general sound of the NES if you sample sounds produced by one. It wouldn't be possible to NOT sound like an NES that way, obviously. You can listen to nsfs, select whichever channel is of interst (by shutting off the rest of course), and sample away. I've been using audacity and/or goldwave to do so. The most difficult part of that is tuning samples and making them loop cleanly, but I at least know how to do that with modplug. It's really not all that hard... I can elaborate if anyone is intersted. My two most recent NES sounding projects are the two medleys up on my page, check 'em out if you're interested (if you're not overcoat). http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=96050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidThunder Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 meh...i wish i could use that software...though, when I try to remix stuff using NES synth, I record some shit off the NES emulator...and then edit the shit using this shitty mixing software called Adobe Audition (which fucking sometimes fucking shuts me down whenever I'm in the middle of mixing)...Hell, sometimes I won't be able to save a certain session whenever i'm done and want to go back and make a re-do of the mixes i create. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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