{"id":3936,"date":"2011-01-15T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2011-01-15T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:30:04","slug":"new-ocr-album-and-my-first-chiptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/new-ocr-album-and-my-first-chiptune\/","title":{"rendered":"New OCR album and my first chiptune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So overclocked remix<\/a> came out with a new album a few days ago, and it is absolutely fantastic.\u00a0 It’s called THE ANSWER<\/a>, and it’s a fanmade album of music from the Armored Core<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

For those of you who don’t know, ocremix is an online community of video game music fans.\u00a0 It’s got a database of almost two thousand fanmade remixes of popular game tracks, and all of them are available for free download.<\/p>\n

THE ANSWER is ocr’s 21st album project, and in my opinion it is one of the best.\u00a0 It’s full of happy, high-energy techno mixed with guitar and drums, and the quality of production is quite good.\u00a0 While each track is unique, there are enough recurring elements that the album feels very coherent as a whole.\u00a0 In that, it reminds me a bit of Humans + Gears<\/a> and Summoning of Spirits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, the album is available for free from the project’s webpage<\/a>.\u00a0 You should definitely check it out, even if you’ve never heard of the Armored Core games.\u00a0 Good stuff– ocremix is definitely starting the year out right!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Speaking of which, remember how I mentioned I wanted to make an album of original chiptune music this year?\u00a0 Well, I found a program for doing just that!<\/p>\n

It’s called MilkyTracker<\/a>, and it’s an open source program based off of FastTracker 2<\/a>, an old DOS program for writing computer music.\u00a0 The interface is way<\/em> old school–makes me feel like I’m on my old 386 from the 90s.\u00a0 Ah, those were the good days…<\/p>\n

Anyhow, after playing around with it for a while, I wrote an 8-bit style remix of Son of Flynn, the third track on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk.\u00a0 Several excellent chiptune arrangements of songs from the Tron soundtrack have been popping up recently, so I thought I’d get in on the action.<\/p>\n

Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Pretty sweet, huh? You can download the original file here<\/a>, but unfortunately I don’t know how to convert .xm to .mp3, so unless you have a media player that can read extended module files, all I can say is go fish.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, that’s what I’ve been up to these past few days. Haven’t gotten a whole lot of writing done, but I’m slowly transitioning back into WAFH and getting excited about it again. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to finish it before LTUE as I’d hoped, but a February 28th deadline seems reasonable. More on that later, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So overclocked remix came out with a new album a few days ago, and it is absolutely fantastic.\u00a0 It’s called THE ANSWER, and it’s a fanmade album of music from the Armored Core series. For those of you who don’t know, ocremix is an online community of video game music fans.\u00a0 It’s got a database… Continue reading New OCR album and my first chiptune<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[498,259,150,270,271],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-chip-tunes","tag-just-for-fun","tag-music","tag-ocremix","tag-video-games","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-11u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}