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Pico-8 Music Tutorial #32 – Creating the Pico-8 Multi-Sampler
The Pico-8 multi-sampler is out, files attached below!What is a multi-sampler? It’s a group of samples, organized musically. In this case, I recorded and edited every possible note + instrument combination in Pico-8 and organized them so they can be triggered using a MIDI interface (like a keyboar...
Pico-8 Slipways Music Cart
Download. Listen. Study. Edit. Mix. Share!The tutorial on how I mashed all this music into this cart is here
Pico-8 Music Tutorial #31 - The Music of Slipways
Slipways was released last week!The soundtrack represented a few firsts in my work with Pico-8, so I thought it deserved a tutorial. 5$+ Patrons can download the music cart here.First, the music adapts to player progress. As your empire grows, so does the music. Jakub and I exchanged many emails on ...
Weekly Recap #3
The Bach portraits are complete! Slipways for Pico-8 has been released! Tutorial #30 has been published!(I’m still trying to find the best way to present WIPs. Suggestions are always appreciated! I may start recording ALL of my composition sessions to create more interesting videos. This way you ...
Pico-8 Music Tutorial #30 – Composing Horror Ambience
My best attempt at composing “horror ambience” in Pico-8 in about 20mins. Thanks to Grzegorz Dalek for the tutorial request!(btw, I really like the idea of patrons sending me their music ideas/sketches and me showing ways you can expanding on them. Send me your carts! Would you prefer a video tu...
Weekly Recap #2 (Mar 12 - Mar 18)
A productive week!The Bach portraits with Trasevol_Dog are almost done. I’m really happy with how they’ve turned out. Rémy is doing a great job bringing out the fun, goofy, cute, and surreal side of this project. The playlist is here. Five more to go!The music for Slipways is now complete! With...
Weekly Recap #1 (Mar 5 - Mar 11)
I’m really excited to try this new format of presenting my works-in-progress! The goal will be trying to keep these as concise as possible, but still rich in content. The videos will feature excerpts of things I worked on during the week, totalling no more than 5mins. Below I’ll write some expla...
Pico-8 Music Tutorial #29 - From 4-Channels to 2-Channels
Using the Mario Overworld theme as an example, watch me reduce it from 4-channels, to 3 and 2-channels.When I'm doing this kind of work, my goal is generally to preserve the essence of the tune as much as possible. Eventually though, it will start to take on a character of its own and sound Pico...
Future Plans for Patreon
The Pico-8 Bach inventions are complete!I’ll release them soon on BandCamp. Trasevol_Dog and I are also collaborating on a series of music videos dedicated to Bach and these compositions.Now that these arrangements are complete, I’ve started thinking about future projects and ways to enrich the ...
WIP - Bach's Invention #15 (Pico-8)
My inspiration for this one:
Pico-8 - Bach's Invention #14, Project Files!
So the main difference between this arrangement and the others is the lack of volume tails and expression in the two main parts (channels 1 & 3).When I started this arrangement, I didn't have any idea what I was going to do. So I just went with the flow. The first step is finding the tempo, choo...
WIP - Bach's Invention #14 (Pico-8)
I'm trying something VERY different in this one. Can you tell!?
Pico-8 Music Tutorial #28 - Bach Workflow
Describing how I approached transcribing and arranging the Bach inventions in Pico-8. Need clarification on something? Let me know!Thanks to Finn Ellis for the tutorial request!
Pico-8 - Bach's Invention #13, Project Files!
Similar to #12, I have a one-hit instrument and a looped instrument with a volume tail. Except the 'right-hand' and 'left-hand' parts have their own, so there are four instruments in total. The RH part is mostly using instrument 4 (pulse) and the LH part on instrument 3 (square). I d...
Mp3 - Bach's Invention #13 (Pico-8)
Warning: MUSIC THEORY AHEAD!One of my favourite chords is the Neapolitan bii. To my ears, it's a very dramatic chord - it's quite a departure from the harmony you might expect, especially music from the 1700s. As it turns out, the Neapolitan appears in invention #13. Funnily, I didn't he...
Patreon Goals Updated!
I’ve finally added some Patreon goals!I really like the idea of setting symbolic goals, and then offering a community reward to say ‘thanks.’ It took me some time to think of rewards that I thought would be interesting for me AND the community, hence the delay. But here’s what I have so far....
WIP - Bach's Invention #13 (Pico-8)
My favourite part about this one was arranging the section at 0:26. There's something nostalgic happening there, but I can't quite figure out what :)
WIP - Bach's Invention #12 (Pico-8)
For each new arrangement, I try to think of a new way to build the instruments, use effects, and structure everything differently.For #12, I was playing with the fade-in effect (4). Use different SPD values, you can change the speed of the fade-in. Instrument 0 is a 'one-hit' instrument:Inst...
Pico-8 Frequency Chart
We're still working away on creating a text-to-speech converter for Pico-8.I explained "formants" in my previous write up. When you say a vowel, formants are the prominent frequencies that give that vowel it's characteristic sound. Each vowel has three (F1, F2, F3)We decided that in ...
WIP - Bach's Invention #11
I may still adjust some of the volume levels on this one, but it's mostly done. Went for a maximalist, "more-is-more" approach for this one. The instruments are chosen randomly (which means me finding different ways to type numbers between 0-6).Often I would mis-type a number in the effe...
Pico-8 Music Tutorial #27 - 3 Ways to Write in Odd Time-Signatures
1. Through compose. It’s more work, takes up more space, but you’re guaranteed to get the time signature you want.2. Subdivide 32 differently. We’re used to it being divided 8-8-8-8…. so why not 7-6-7-6-6? 3. Create a time-keeper SFX, as explained in the video. Make sure the non-time-keepers...
Pico-8 - Bach's Invention #10, Project Files!
This one was fun. I used the instrument editor to created multiple arpeggio effects.... then applied arpeggios to THOSE.
