I entered this in Capcom's Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Make Something RADD Remix Contest. The game is yet to be released so I don't really know anything about the original song. As for my arrangement, I knew I wanted to use guitars, but decided to go for a more electronic/techno sound to match BCR's soundtrack a bit more. (The Capcom website version had a small problem where one of the rhythm guitars cuts off at some point. This version is an updated version with that fixed).
If you listen carefully, you can hear that the drums in the intro are playing the pause screen song from Battletoads (NES) and the drums in the outro are playing the pause screen song from Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES). The original midi was sequenced by Stockman.
Final Fantasy X - Repent Thy Sins August 2009. Arrangement of "Path of Repentance" and "Via Purifico" (Via Purifico is the piano arrangement found on FFX - Piano Collections).
This song is played right after Yuna and her friends are found guilty for treason and are sent to the Via Purifico.
This song is played at the title screen. This is the
first time I used a drum program called "Addictive Drums". Original midi was sequenced by
Stockman.
This song is played near the end of the game inside the crater.
This was one
of my older unreleased tracks that I was planning to polish up, but
never did.
This
is a remake of a game that was only released in Japan called Akumajou
Dracula X68000. This track is played on stage 6-2 and is originally
called "The Tower of Dolls". The guitar solo has a few notes taken from Castlevania 1 - Heart of Fire (Level 5). The guitars are played live, but everything else is sequenced. This track is remastered slightly over than the previous DoD version, so grab this version instead. This is also
the first track I've made using a program called Reason for instrument
patches.
The credit's theme is pretty much the main theme of the game. There are
many variations of it, but this version is the one that plays in the
credits (it plays while showing you all of the STs you have defeated hence the title "The Fallen Warriors"). Everything is played live except for the drums and bass. This
is the first time I used Drumkit from Hell's EZDrummer. This was also
the first time I recorded 2 rhythm guitars tracks for a fuller sound (I wish I knew about that earlier...).
This
is the opening and main theme song to Namco X Capcom which roughly translates to "Wonderful New World". Everything is played live except for the drums and bass. This is the
first time I transcribed and arranged an entire song by ear. Thanks to Malice X who helped me figure out some of the notes. Ninja Gaiden 2 - A Long Way to Go May 2006. This is the ending credits song to Ninja Gaiden 2. Again, everything is played live except the bass, drums,
and part of the intro. I consider this is my first video game
rearrangement.
Older Video game Covers Here
are some of my very first videogame covers. As expected, they sound
pretty bad.
Poor quality. I
knew I couldn't reproduce the guitar solo in the 2nd half so I attempted to write my first guitar solo. I also sequenced an organ solo at the
end. You can hear my guitars are starting to sound pretty bad at this point.
I believe this is the first time I attempted to edit a midi track. Due to my limited knowledge of midi sequencing at the time, it was fairly tough. It was also my first time recording my keyboard. It came out really loud and distorted.
Rock
cover of the very short cutscene song... A test track I guess. I was curious how something like this would sound if I replaced all the tracks with electric guitars. No bass guitar unfortunately.
Only the Electric Guitars are played live. A few of my friends are in the indie band that plays this song. Check out the band here.
XhaDow Complex I - Medley August 2009. This is a rock medley containing small bits of almost every song that my friend XhaDow has made (at the time). Check out his music here. Medley of the following songs. Trace, Valency Number, A Moment of Clarity, Unknown Era, Quiet Assault Theory / Shade City, A Dance with Fear, Motive, Solar Divine, Disorder United, DisOrder Units, War 2.0, XY Controller +, Control XY, My Realm (another), Champion, War, Cresent Lounge, Your A.C. is Dead in Japan.
Sonata Arctica is one of my favorite bands and I definitely wanted to play one of their songs. I chose this as it was probably the easiest one. Even so, I left out a sweep picking part as I couldn't do it at all. Still, quality came out pretty good compared to the other earlier songs.
I only played the lead guitar on this. Sloppy playing especially towards the end. One of my dad's favorite songs. FLCL (The Pillows) - Ride on Shooting Star Early
2004. Furi Kuri/Fooly Cooly (Anime) ending theme. Vocals replaced with guitar
The melody for the vocals was in the midi so I played it with a guitar as well. One of my first
recordings.
