Famitracker Bits - Lullaby for a Princess (GBC-styled)
546 minutes and 45 seconds. 6 minutes and 45 whole seconds of Game Boy Color-styled music based off one of the saddest songs ever made by the pony fandom, done in one whole NSF/FTM file. This is, without a doubt, the LONGEST track I've ever done for Famitracker Bits, and I outright refused to split it up because I'm a crazy person. Roughly 5-7 days to make it, if I'm not mistaken. Worth every second.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trojanhorse-3/famitracker-bits-lullaby-for-a-princess-gbc-style
Starting off, as before it's GBC-styled. Meaning with no triangle I was limited to 3-4 sound channels depending on whether or not I was using Noise, which I wasn't, so it's on the lower end. To cap it off, one of them was almost exclusively the 'Strong Deep Strings' in the case of GBC "Triangle", which limited me to two channels used for the actual song. Not a lot of room to work with. DPCM was used solely to adjust the tempo and structure of each row.
In the process of creating this track, I listened to Lullaby for a Princess over and over again to see if I was on the right track. A string instrument was used for Celestia's "voice", and piano was used liberally throughout. I also added in a couple of the touches MEMJ added in her cover of this song (as you can most plainly hear at 4:04, or 1D-1E in Famitracker itself), because that was the one I was listening to. Finally, let me just say that the change from 4|4 to 3|4 and from there back to 4|4 made me adjust for that, and the semi-frequent tempo shifts threw me off sometimes.
Overall, it was a little tough, but I'm happy with what I got done. Hope you enjoyed it!
-Trojan Horse
Credit goes to ponyphonic for making this track - https://www.youtube.com/user/ponyphonic
Credit goes to MEMJ for making the cover I listened to when making this track - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGeqwdSQlqs
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