Famitracker Bits - Village Built on Green Pastures (Original) [2a03]
A pleasant breeze blows through the town.
DL Folder: https://mega.nz/#F!ktljXa5A!HbBYefp9mAJExTYUKJ-rUg
Bitchute Mirror: https://www.bitchute.com/video/vcq8HbpRBAhf/
Remember when I said I wanted to mess around with DPCM sampling a couple weeks ago? I wasn't kidding. I decided, after using the Sonatina choir samples, to mess around with some of the drums from the same soundfont to try and make myself a set of drums to use in future projects, then started messing around with the string samples. Then I decided for whatever reason to try making an original song using these samples, and the result was this town music.
As I stated before, I have to know how I want to use these samples before I even make the .wav files that will then be imported to Famitracker, then I have to make sure they don't sound completely awful before committing to it, and if I want to loop them I have to put them through Audacity and lower the volume and take a tiny portion of it so that it loops decently, and even then I've had some issues. It's a pain in the ass, for sure, and I'll admit that it's probably better to use the N163 expansion for stuff like this to save on filespace (VinylCheese, another chiptune composer who's far more experienced than I am, is a champ at doing this). I've also learned after getting this ready that apparently I can only have 64 samples in one .ftm file at a time, meaning I have to be pretty stingy about them. That being said, I think it turned out pretty well in this song, but I feel like I haven't squeezed out all I can with the DPCM channel quite yet...
-Trojan
String samples created using the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra VST/Soundfont, then converted to DPCM