[Cover] marcb0t - Ocean Melody (Roland MT-32; MIDI)

Описание: Composed by marcb0t (GEN/MD)
Arrangement by Tobikomi (MT-32)

An arrangement of marcb0t's tune, Ocean Melody. This tune was made for "Winter Chip IX" on Battle of the Bits, and got 3rd place in the Sega Genesis category. This is really nice tune and is unlike any song I've heard on the Sega Genesis when I first heard it back in 2016. It's 2022, and it is still a pleasant and joyous ride from when I heard it before!

marcb0t gave us an incite in his process of creating the sounds. He makes use of the OPN2's DAC with melodic samples like steel drums and a sax! marcb0t also utilizes a sampling of the underutilized CSM, or Complex Sinusoidal Modulation, to create speech synthesis. At the time, CSM was like a new discovery of the OPN2 (or the OPN line in general); and because of this, not a lot of tools supported it back then. VGM Music Maker had no support for it, but the FM Drive VST did! That means that marcb0t had to record a sampling of it to playback in VGM Music Maker.

Okay. I'll shut up about the nerdy details!

Unfortunately for me, I had to take liberties in making this. I decided to not cover the entire song, mainly because I burnout when I cover long songs. I also went for a low tempo-type groove for this one, as opposed to the original's funky rhythm. Other than that, I had a blast arranging this!
Please, enjoy! :D

Sequenced in JAZZ, recorded in MUNT

MIDI Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0nvlqxcjz9...
MP3 Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1a78bnrfqp2...

Link to original song:    • Ocean Melody  
  / ocean-melody-version-1