nothingtosay
01-01-2011, 12:06 PM
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I thought I'd post something in celebration of the new year, so I decided on a preview from my upcoming Hitoshi Sakimoto megathread. This is the very first game Sakimoto ever worked on, and is apparently the first time he ever even wrote music. You can still detect in many of his tracks the beginning of what would become his signature style. It was Iwata's second composing job and the two split the duty fairly evenly. The music uses Sakimoto's now-famous Terpsichorean custom driver, which is well known for the quality of its sound and was even licensed for other games he had no involvement in.
MP3 (LAME3.98r V0: variable bitrate - highest quality) (http://anonym.to/?http://www.multiupload.com/E3XLJQL2LJ)
Technical info: This was recorded using Hoot (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/), then timed, faded, and the volume boosted by 2.6dB, so that the single highest peak in the whole soundtrack would reach 0dBFS, to bring everything up to a more normal volume. No dynamic range compression here or anything to get it louder. I then used foobar2000's resampler in "Ultra Mode" to reduce it from the original sampling rate of 55,466 Hz to 44.1 kHz. When I make the megathread I'll post a FLAC version at the original frequency.
I've included screenshots of the two composers' notes on the music they did. I know there is a decent amount of Japanese people on the forum here because of how many downloads from Japan the things I upload get. If someone could translate these I'd be crazy-ecstatic and grateful.
There are some songs here Sakimoto and Iwata arranged that are taken from other games and I've added the names, origins, and composers where I could, but I know 18 and 19 are taken from a Capcom game and I don't know which. Sakimoto mentions Section-Z in his notes but I can't find a match in either the arcade or NES versions of that soundtrack, so I guess they're not from there. Any help would be great. I think 25 is also from another game, but there are no notes for that or beyond. I'm pretty much positive the remaining three are original though: 26 being Iwata, and the others Sakimoto. There may be others, I don't know.
If there are any questions or comments, need help, etc., as always, just say the word. Happy new year, folks!
I thought I'd post something in celebration of the new year, so I decided on a preview from my upcoming Hitoshi Sakimoto megathread. This is the very first game Sakimoto ever worked on, and is apparently the first time he ever even wrote music. You can still detect in many of his tracks the beginning of what would become his signature style. It was Iwata's second composing job and the two split the duty fairly evenly. The music uses Sakimoto's now-famous Terpsichorean custom driver, which is well known for the quality of its sound and was even licensed for other games he had no involvement in.
MP3 (LAME3.98r V0: variable bitrate - highest quality) (http://anonym.to/?http://www.multiupload.com/E3XLJQL2LJ)
Technical info: This was recorded using Hoot (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/), then timed, faded, and the volume boosted by 2.6dB, so that the single highest peak in the whole soundtrack would reach 0dBFS, to bring everything up to a more normal volume. No dynamic range compression here or anything to get it louder. I then used foobar2000's resampler in "Ultra Mode" to reduce it from the original sampling rate of 55,466 Hz to 44.1 kHz. When I make the megathread I'll post a FLAC version at the original frequency.
I've included screenshots of the two composers' notes on the music they did. I know there is a decent amount of Japanese people on the forum here because of how many downloads from Japan the things I upload get. If someone could translate these I'd be crazy-ecstatic and grateful.
There are some songs here Sakimoto and Iwata arranged that are taken from other games and I've added the names, origins, and composers where I could, but I know 18 and 19 are taken from a Capcom game and I don't know which. Sakimoto mentions Section-Z in his notes but I can't find a match in either the arcade or NES versions of that soundtrack, so I guess they're not from there. Any help would be great. I think 25 is also from another game, but there are no notes for that or beyond. I'm pretty much positive the remaining three are original though: 26 being Iwata, and the others Sakimoto. There may be others, I don't know.
If there are any questions or comments, need help, etc., as always, just say the word. Happy new year, folks!