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Hey whats up everyone,

I just came up with this idea yesterday *I'm sure it's been done* and I wanted to see if anyone would be down for this production challenge. Basically the challenge is, to construct a tune completely with samples only from a video game, so that means no synths etc...

We could all vote on which game to choose to pick the samples from, or we could choose our own games to sample from. I think it would be fun to only use consoles made on or before 1996, so basically N64 or Playstation 1 and anything made before them.

If anyone is down to do this lets set it up! But the deadline should be at least 2 weeks for the people that have work/school and or other obligations

Hah this sounds like a pretty fun idea. I think it might be quite good if each person used a different game and just sampled from that one and nowhere else for their tune.

What do you reckon the rules on effects/processing should be?

Sounds good to me, everyone just picks one game and samples only from that game.

As far as the rules go for processing & effects... I'm down for no rules I don't want to block anyones creative ideas
but seriously, we could even include granular synthesis *even though it's technically a synth*

I think the only sample that should/could be used outside of the video games is the kick drum. But seriously is anyone down for that?

Sounds fun

I'm sure people can find plenty of kick drum replacements in video game sounds! Dont think extra kick samples should be allowed

I'm calling Crash Bandicoot btw

Gonna start it now haha

Alpha Centauri would be a good one, its from 2000 and installs with a folder full of tuned samples (not much in the way of drums tho)

1point5 wrote:I'm sure people can find plenty of kick drum replacements in video game sounds! Dont think extra kick samples should be allowed

down!

I'm gonna sample FF8 off my psp

Original Metroid

someone has to do starfox....

Do a barrel roll!!!! pacheww pachew pachew chew chew.... ahhhhh!

ogunslinger wrote:someone has to do starfox....

Do a barrel roll!!!! pacheww pachew pachew chew chew.... ahhhhh!

Haha definitely!

...I've been having some fun with Crash Bandicoot already, got a 4 minute track pretty much done haha

I'll upload it in the next couple of days so I can check the mix etc

Half life 1 or 2?

MGS
half life 1 or 2(technically all the same sounds anyway)
portal 1 or 2
poke'mon (how rad would it be for everyone to work with 8-16bit? )

I mean the games are limitless!

Gurnumsbug wrote:MGS
half life 1 or 2(technically all the same sounds anyway)
portal 1 or 2
poke'mon (how rad would it be for everyone to work with 8-16bit? )

I mean the games are limitless!

Portal could be pretty cool (on a related note the portal 2 soundtrack is a free download, some incredible music in it!)

But I definitely thing this challenge has more appeal when limited to using older games with lofi sounds or 8bit/16bit stuff, ie 1996 and earlier as mentioned in the first post

Want to kick it back a few years so it's 8/16 bit only?

I haven't even started mine, probably wont be able to until friday or saturday

ogunslinger wrote:Want to kick it back a few years so it's 8/16 bit only?

I guess that means mine won't count then

Here it is anyway!

Soundcloud

Entirely made with samples from this youtube video:



The sub bass was probably the hardest thing, still sounds a bit silly but I'm not exactly gonna take this production seriously haha

dude that is so awesome, dl'ed foshooo. We could do 8bit later, I kinda want to do ff8 anyways


edit: I lost my aux to rca cable..... -__- I think I might have to wait until monday to pull my samples unless my homie has a spare I can borrow this weekend

Bump because I don't wanna be the only fucker that actually did anything for this haha

1point5, get a melodic sample and bandpass it several times until you get a fundamental, then tune it and bam, you have sub bass. distort it and you have a saw wave.