Making Earthbound Style Music

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Eagle Minded
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Since finally playing through Earthbound this past spring, I've been super obsessed with the game, and especially the soundtrack for it.

I also recently got ahold of a Polyend Tracker, and considering that trackers were fundamental to making music for videogames, I've been experimenting with using its sampling capabilities to recreate Earthbound based music, seeing as though it was perhaps the first videogame soundtrack to use samples, stereophonic effects and vibrato. They had to expand the size of the cartridge just to include the soundtrack for the game.. but anywho here is my first experiment with the polyend in an attempt to create an Earthboundy type tune

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mTUAQ2DqpWiEYcN08UJ3kZnHrP_ZkSHh/view?usp=sharing

edit: also this is probably not a finished version of the song, just the most fleshed out idea I have so far

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Would love to give this a listen, but it says "Couldn't preview file, Owner prevented playback and download of this file".

Buzz Buzz's Prophecy has to be my favourite track that has BOC vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_4UPladqQ

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Ah, the curse of google drive- this fixed link should work hopefully!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mTUAQ2DqpWiEYcN08UJ3kZnHrP_ZkSHh/view?usp=sharing

I absolutely agree about the Buzz Buzz Prophecy theme, it's so fantastic. The whole soundtrack really has influenced my perspective on how you can use sampling as an instrument

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would love to comment on your track, but the link still doesn't work. at least for me
it fascinates me how multi million dollar companies can have such broken shit. especially with youtube
yes, i would love to be free!

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NorthSaturnian wrote:would love to comment on your track, but the link still doesn't work. at least for me
it fascinates me how multi million dollar companies can have such broken shit. especially with youtube


ah, quite frustrating. Yeah it's absurd. Hope this youtube vid I just uploaded will do the trick tho

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NTFMTS wrote:
NorthSaturnian wrote:would love to comment on your track, but the link still doesn't work. at least for me
it fascinates me how multi million dollar companies can have such broken shit. especially with youtube


ah, quite frustrating. Yeah it's absurd. Hope this youtube vid I just uploaded will do the trick tho

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it does sound like earthbound, great job
yes, i would love to be free!

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NorthSaturnian wrote:
NTFMTS wrote:
NorthSaturnian wrote:would love to comment on your track, but the link still doesn't work. at least for me
it fascinates me how multi million dollar companies can have such broken shit. especially with youtube


ah, quite frustrating. Yeah it's absurd. Hope this youtube vid I just uploaded will do the trick tho

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it does sound like earthbound, great job


Thanks for giving it a listen!!

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