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I started working on remixing the music from The Secret of Monkey Island using my Roland XV-5080 and Fantom XR. Here is my first draft of the main theme. Hopefully, there will be more to come…
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Dragon Warrior 4 – Tower Music – Remixed Drafts
Here are my two first drafts of the in progress remix of the Dragon Warrior 4 Tower Music. I’ll write more about it when I decide it is finished.
Current Draft:
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First Draft:
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Here is a short little take I remixed of the fanfare from the NES game Contra. I used the Roland XV-5080 and Fantom XR for this. More specifically I used the SRX-04, SRX-06, and SRX-10 expansion boards patches.
Enjoy!
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Dragon Warrior 4 – Tower Music
A friend asked me to see what I can do with this midi music of the game Dragon Warrior 4 if I had time to check it out. He mentioned that it was making patch changes to sounds that his synth doesn’t have. I have identified that the MIDI is most likely a Roland GS midi of the SC-88pro sound set, as none of the patch changes call for sounds from anything newer than the SC-88pro. I started cleaning up the first couple tracks, getting rid of redundant control messages mostly, and have recorded the song unaltered on my SC-8850.
Here it is:
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(MP3: Dragon Warrior 4 -Tower Music)
Now, it is time to see what I can do with it on the XV-5080 and Fantom XR 🙂
Fantom XR Tricks: Guitar Amp Sim with “Flanger” Using 1 MFX.
This post has been in draft form for a few weeks now, I felt like trying to do something more with it, but now am just posting it as is…
I was working on a new guitar patch for my Fantom XR, generally messing around really, and I was shocked to realize that I can not apply a flanger effect to it after the “Guitar Amp Sim” effect in “Patch Mode”. I knew that I could only use one MFX in patch mode, but I guess I am just used to my old faithful SC-8850 which could do true flanger using it’s ‘chorus dsp’. Now some of you might say “well just use performance mode and do an MFX chain!”, that’s well and good only if you don’t plan on using the other MFX units for something else!
So, I came up with a workaround using Chorus on the Fantom. It’s the same old trick, but it works. Here are the basics of it:
- Setup your Guitar Amp MFX however you like.
- Set your Guitar Amp MFX “Chorus Send Level” to 127
- Set your Chorus to “01:Chorus” and start with the settings below.
- Output Level: 32
- Filter Type: off
- Cutoff Freq: 8000 Hz
- Pre Delay: 0.0 msec
- Rate: 0.10 Hz
- Depth: 54
- Phase: 0 deg
- Feedback: 72
I made a guitar patch based on the “Fingr Tap’n” patch from the SRX-03 Studio SRX board I called “Priest HiWay” using the technique above.
Here is a short clip of me screwing around on my keyboard with it.
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As you can see, it sounds pretty much like a flanger thanks to chorus being a pretty similar effect anyway.
Till next time…
Ho! Ho! Ho! After struggling for a while to fit this all onto one CD, I finished my Christmas MIDI album! I have to say, I had a lot of fun making these recordings. All tracks were recorded using my Roland XV-5080, Fantom XR, and occasionally D-550 or SC-8850 synthesizers. The album is pretty much all orchestral, big band, and jazz music. Merry Christmas to all, and to all: Enjoy the music! 🙂
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A special thanks goes out to Gary of GaryW0001’s MIDI Home Page for letting me use his excellent MIDI’s and post my remixed recordings of them.
Track Listing / MP3 Download Links
- A Most Wonderful Christmas (7:35)
- Good King Wenceslas (2:37)
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (3:32)
- The Bells of Christmas (6:49)
- Christmas in the Round (10:33)
- Jingle Bells Fantasy (4:09)
- The Wonder of Christmas (5:23)
- Santa Songs (1:32)
- Chestnuts Roasting (4:32)
- Now Rock, Ye Merry Gentlemen (2:38)
- Christmas -That Special Time of Year (6:17)
- Santa Baby (3:21)
- A Rhapsody on Christmas Carols (6:40)
- Greensleeves (3:44)
- Snow! A Holiday Medley (4:11)
- White Christmas (3:35)
- Auld Lang Syne (2:40)
Download entire album as .ZIP archive.
- Track length indicated in parenthesis
- All source MIDI’s used with permission by their author or are considered public domain.
- If you enjoyed this album and would like to show your support, feel free to make a donation of any amount to my hosting bills.
Busy working on a new Christmas MIDI album.
I’ve been laying down track after track on my Christmas MIDI album for 2009…
I made one back in 2004 that the family seemed to really like, that was using only my Roland SC-8850. This time around I am using mostly my XV-5080 and Fantom XR, with some D-550 and other synth’s thrown in the mix for some tracks as well. It is shaping up nicely so far. At the time of this writing, I have 12 tracks completed.
Here is one track to give you a taste of what’s coming: Now Rock, Ye Rested Gentlemen, a ‘big band’ take on God Rest, Ye Merry Gentlemen.
This song was re-mixed and recorded using my Roland XV-5080 and Fantom XR with multiple SRX Expansion boards each. Enjoy!
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The source MIDI file was used with permission from Gary of Gary’s MIDI Home Page. So be sure to check out his website for some more great MIDI music.
New Gear: Roland Fantom XR
Check out my new Fantom XR page with photos and demos!
The Screen of the Fantom XR
Rocking with the XV-5080…
EDIT: Updated version with different patches with some more bite for “vocals”. What do you think?
Today, like many days, I was going through the thousands of patches in my Roland XV-5080 and came across a few replicating some of Jon Lord’s (Deep Purple) organ sound. So, I decided to remaster an old MIDI of one of my favorite Deep Purple songs on the XV-5080, Child In Time.
The two organ patches I used for this song are called “Fire Perc” and “HeavyTraffic” from the “SR-JV80-08 Keyboards of the 60’s and 70’s” expansion board . I customized both of the patches a little bit until I was happy with them.
Next, after spending more time than I would have liked to looking for a suitable guitar patch for the song, I gave up and made a new one. I wasn’t really going for emulation and just made something I thought sounded nice in the song. I spent a fair amount of time on the guitar patch. I’ll try to remember to write something about it later.
The next thing on the list was the drums, I used the “Studio Set” kit from the “SR-JV80-10 Bass & Drums” expansion board and customized some of the cymbals and crashes a bit. I also routed the drumkit to a separate audio output on the XV. So that I could amp it up a bit during recording, I set it to output from the XV dry, and added a different reverb and very minor EQ to it.
After that, I worked on the “vocals”. Normally I don’t bother using or keeping “vocals” in MIDI music. But, seeing as Child in Time is as much a great organ piece as a voice solo, I decided to keep it. I settled on a smooth mellow sound using a couple patches on the SC-8850 which I think does the job of keeping the melody of the song’s lyrics.
Here’s the recording, let me know what you think:
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Download My Updated MP3: Child In Time MIDI Remaster v2 (Roland XV-5080 & SC-8850)
Download My Original MP3: Child In Time MIDI Remaster (Roland XV-5080 & SC-8850)
This guy is one of the most amazing MIDI composer’s I have ever heard. I’m not really clever enough to write a nice bunch of paragraphs about how good he is. So, I’ll leave you with some of his music. Skeptics please remember, what you are about to hear is simply a recording of “one of those crappy .mid-e files” played straight through one of my Roland Sound Canvas’.
Enjoy! Oh, make sure you use the ‘next’ and ‘back’ buttons in the player to listen to all 5 songs posted here. Each one is better than the last!
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