Some Spoony Bard

I had asked Molkirill if he wanted to cover a different community megawad OST (still working on that but won't say what at this time), and he just invited me to be a part of this as well. I presume Molkirill just wanted to fill out the other half of Final Doom after we had done the TNT cover a couple years ago. As far as the MIDI pack projects go, Plutonia is about as classic as it gets, and several of these tracks have persisted across a great many new megawad projects, so I felt it was worth it to contribute.

I'm likely not going to be AS big a part of these OST covers as I have with the TNT Mega Drive covers, but I will still be there! ^^

E3M2 for me, pls!

Falcom music, always and all the time. Especially Takahiro Unisuga's tracks. They are never not incredible, heheh.

This is still my current desktop background. UnderTale was my obsession from 2016 to 2021 or so, and I drew this for myself in 2019, but also anyone else who saw it on DeviantArt at the time. Sad that DA's been eating its foot super hard the last year or so, so I had to remove all my art from there, but oh well.

Not sure if there are any MIDI slots left that still need filling, but I'd be happy to contribute some wherever they are needed! ^^

Songs done! I usually do a lot of song covers anyway, so I was kinda worried I'd get too close to the OGs if I gave them a fresh listen before doing the covers. I tried to recreate them all purely from memory as best I could, but I had a feeling I was missing huge chunks from each, so I gave them all exactly one listen and added stuff based on that. Hope they sound good! MAP02 - Hammer MAP06 - Plustle MAP23 - Socket Hideous SpoonyPlutMIDI.zip

I'm using Sekaiju for all my MIDIs these days. Can vouch for how good it is. ^^

I'd like to take the MIDI for MAP02, MAP06 and MAP23. If you can't give out more than one slot, just MAP06 is fine. Those 3 are probably the ones I know most by heart.

Yamaha XG MIDI modules came out WAY after the Ys and Legend of Heroes PCE CD games (and the MU2000EX specifically didn't come out until the year 2000). A majority of those OSTs were made using synths and drum machines of the late 80s, like the Korg M1, Roland R-8, D-50 and Yamaha DX7. And that's just the ones that Hudson Soft did the ports for. Falcom's own Legend of Xanadu PCE CD games mostly just used Roland synths from what I can tell. I think there was SOME incorporation of sounds from Yamaha MU modules in Falcom's early Windows games, but I don't really know enough to verify for certain. Also, I realize the thread is getting a bit off-topic, so I'll stop here. Sometimes I can't help but be a huge nerd about old synths. :P

I mean, I know they used it for some of their MIDI albums in the mid-90s, but outside of that it seems like they just stuck to GS or GM format. At least that means the songs from their early Windows titles are easily rippable >:)

Almost anything from Falcom games works as good background music for any creative thing I find myself doing. I've been putting together a playlist of lots of their music that would make for good map BGM, and I have made MIDI arrangements for a few of these as well.

I don't necessarily think any of the plasma sounds are bad, but none of them are perfect. OG is iconic, but it can be harsh when used a lot. D3 is clean-sounding, but a bit wimpy. PSX is very retro-sounding, but lacks a strong oomph like the other two do. I know some of Skillsaw's WADs have custom plasma sounds, too, and I like them just fine, too, but they also sound a little flat. I actually took two sounds from X-Men Children of the Atom and mashed them together "MADE" a plasma sound of my own that I think checks all the boxes on what I want out of a plasma sound. Strong attack, distinctive timbre, and still has a retro-sci-fi type of sound. I just need to actually make a map so I can show it off, lol.

I did actually start making those as well, though I think someone else did a version for an actual Genesis homebrew Wolf3D that sounds more like the original PC soundtrack? I might still come back to it at some point, ‘cause I’ve got all the songs from episode 1 covered already, and I like beefing up the texture for stuff like that, heheh.

At some point I’d love to make some video tutorials for Furnace Tracker to put on my channel, so hopefully anyone who wants to make this kinda stuff will have everything they need to go nuts with it, heheh.