howdy pardner... it's about time to be sharin' a daily tracker or DAW video of a song of mine with some added commentary here on cohost(tm)! i've been doing this for like a week already! and i'm going to keep doing it! so prepare yourselves. buckle up. strap in. and enjoy the ride
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today's song is: Mischievous Mephits, for the SNES's soundchip SPC700
the smallest tune on Elemental Harmony! this is another song that started as a separate, tiny .it module (48kb, i think) - it was a little harder to re-arrange for SNES, since i used as many as 14 channels in the former module. if i'm being honest there's a couple moments that i wish i could've gotten to sound as full with the limited polyphony of 8, but such is life. overall this is still a frivolous little tune that i'm happy with. it's also kinda far off from how i usually write, and i recall putting extra care/focus into the individual lines, letting them line up how they want rather than trying to impose a greater structure. i was still learning to use trackers at the time and that seemed like a good thing to try focusing on in that new context/workflow.
like with the rest of Elemental Harmony, the melody was paramount, but i worried less about the specific underpinnings of it and just let it flow freely. the result is a bit harmonically bizarre and adventurous. i even tried something different with the video for this one to emphasize all the colors dancing around. sometimes i surprise myself by how weird i can get my harmonies to be, how far i can push the envelope. when i was in music school 100 years ago it didn't click with me as much, haha. but i have long since embraced being irreverent and weird in what i make, and i have lots of ideas about how to that now >:)
a fun fact about the ending is that the glitchy bit is actually the .spc file overflowing on memory. i coincidentally liked how that sounded so much that i didn't "fix" the problem and left it as-is. : )
