Feldspar (Genesis)
By Snyderman on June 2, 2024 9:20 pm
Week 22 in the bag!
I decided to push myself and also finished a track for Battle of the Bits earlier this week. The challenge; use just Sega Genesis GEMS patches + whatever PSG patches.
Since I spent all of the time picking out favorite patches and modifying volumes, and creating a lot of custom stuff for square and noise channels I figured I'd just make a second track using essentially the same session (including tempo).
I wrote both GEMS tracks in honor of Jon Miller, one of the creators of the GEMS editor and driver who just passed away early May 2024. GEMS get a lot of grief, but I wanted to pay my respects to someone that had quite an influence on Sega Genesis music, even if some of it was creating a sound engine everyone says sounds "farty".
I really had two halves or two styles I wanted to write, more of a classic 80s funk / electro thing and a 2000s ghetto funk deal. The first part reminds me of a lot of stuff Mark Miller was writing (Kid Chameleon etc). Not the most elegant transition and I ran out of time to really touch this one up but I enjoyed putting it together.
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