Has anyone tried to convert baroque music to chiptune? (Page 1 of 2)

I'm an avid fan of medieval, renaissance, folk and baroque musics, and some of my own compositions have some ancient music touch (I like to see this as my trademark).

I've also made some quick or longer covers of such musics.

Here is a quick conversion of some Tielman Susato renaissance musics on C64: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=4828 (it's a C64 disk image you can use in emulator, the sid files are included in it). It was quick because I've only used the convenient midi to sid converter from sidwizard. It could be done more carefully with some rework on the instruments for example. You can get one of the sid files there: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=4825

On OPL3, I've made this which is obviously like renaissance dances: https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/cyber-danserye

This tune (on C64) was inspired by renaissance dances as well: http://garvalf.free.fr/var/upload/musiq … e1_drm.ogg
This other one a bit by baroque: http://garvalf.free.fr/var/upload/musiq … id8580.ogg

So not much pure baroque music, which is a shame. Lully's Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs is without doubt, along with Marin Marais' Alcyone music, one of my favorites, so it could be a very very good idea to make a cover of it! So... challenge accepted.

Last edited by garvalf (Dec 5, 2016 8:40 am)

@rumpelfilter Thank you for your answer. Baroque music is indeed pretty simple, but on the other hand, the instrument used produce very deep sounds.

@garvalf Thank you very much for your answer, that's very interesting. Content aussi de voir qu'il y a d'autres français ici
I'm eager to see what you are going to produce.

@tuzuw: yes, that's a major point. When you work with a classic string quartet, there's a lot you can do by just working with articulations and dynamics, which might be a bigger challenge when working with the tools available in chipmusic. On the other hand I didn't want to say that baroque music is simple. Counterpoint is a pretty complex thing to master (just look at Bach), but it's probably more achievable in chipmusic than if you wanted to recreate a romantic symphony. In fact a lot of switched-on classical music focuses on Bach and counterpoint-based music.

I've started something with the Sega Megadrive chip. It's only the first part at the moment and it sounds rather rough, something like the Orange Mecanique / Clockwork Orange's theme: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=5288 (it's in vgm format)

edit: and since it was made with DefleMask, I can also export it to SID format: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=5289 but with only 3 voices it is quite limited.

Last edited by garvalf (Dec 5, 2016 3:16 pm)

nice musics XyNo...

I've finished the transcription of Lully's march to Megadrive: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=5298

I'll probably try to improve the instruments and the orchestration later...

Last edited by garvalf (Dec 7, 2016 2:52 pm)

I have a partially tracked version of 'Zadok the Priest' in LSDJ. If it's ever finished I'll share it here.