RickyRister | Artificial Heart (Original) @RickyRister | Uploaded June 2017 | Updated October 2024, 29 minutes ago.
A theme I gave up on several months ago before finally finishing it now. Mews wanted a piano heavy techno style song (or something along those lines. I’m not sure what it’s actually called since he just gave me Jade from MM as an example), which meant I wasn’t allowed to use trumpets or flutes or saws or really anything other than piano (and synths, but I don’t have synths) for the melody and accompaniment. That caused the song to sound emptier than the void (cue whining about not having access to synths). Despite making up a bunch of sweet melodies, I still ditched the song in the end because of the emptiness problem. (And because others were slightly concerned about my incessant whining about the emptiness problem)
Recently, Yuugen offered to arrange the song into the style that Mews preferred, so I dusted the old file off and finally finished the song. To be honest, I didn’t expect it to turn out so well. I was originally planning to just make a barebones sketch to send off for arranging since I was expecting the emptiness problem to rear its ugly head again, but somehow it never did and I made a full-fledged song. I guess I’m a lot more experienced than back then and found a way to fill up the emptiness (mostly with drums and SD-90 soundfont StStrings. Man StStrings is good at taking up space. And yes, I’m a filthy scrub who only uses soundfonts)
As for the song itself? Well… It’s your generic melancholic/hopeful song. It’s a bit rough around the edges, mostly because it’s going to be arranged anyways and I’m lazy.
The miditrail animation might look a bit desynced to the music and choppy at times because there were issues with the recording and I’m not a video editing wizard yet.
"Fun had while composing" rating: 8/10
"Fun had while video editing“ rating: -20/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle
A theme I gave up on several months ago before finally finishing it now. Mews wanted a piano heavy techno style song (or something along those lines. I’m not sure what it’s actually called since he just gave me Jade from MM as an example), which meant I wasn’t allowed to use trumpets or flutes or saws or really anything other than piano (and synths, but I don’t have synths) for the melody and accompaniment. That caused the song to sound emptier than the void (cue whining about not having access to synths). Despite making up a bunch of sweet melodies, I still ditched the song in the end because of the emptiness problem. (And because others were slightly concerned about my incessant whining about the emptiness problem)
Recently, Yuugen offered to arrange the song into the style that Mews preferred, so I dusted the old file off and finally finished the song. To be honest, I didn’t expect it to turn out so well. I was originally planning to just make a barebones sketch to send off for arranging since I was expecting the emptiness problem to rear its ugly head again, but somehow it never did and I made a full-fledged song. I guess I’m a lot more experienced than back then and found a way to fill up the emptiness (mostly with drums and SD-90 soundfont StStrings. Man StStrings is good at taking up space. And yes, I’m a filthy scrub who only uses soundfonts)
As for the song itself? Well… It’s your generic melancholic/hopeful song. It’s a bit rough around the edges, mostly because it’s going to be arranged anyways and I’m lazy.
The miditrail animation might look a bit desynced to the music and choppy at times because there were issues with the recording and I’m not a video editing wizard yet.
"Fun had while composing" rating: 8/10
"Fun had while video editing“ rating: -20/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle
![[SttJ Stage 3 Theme] Path Carved by Steel and Lightning ~ Electric Raise](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mk49DkYGxUY/hqdefault.jpg "[SttJ Stage 3 Theme] Path Carved by Steel and Lightning ~ Electric Raise
SttJ got bashed hard when it came out for many reasons, not the least of which was because its music sucked.
Somehow, I’ve managed to find myself as the composer for SttJ, so now I’m slowly working to “fix Sparen’s mistakes” and replace its OST.
I managed to finish 5 songs in time for the first update.
“SeitenTouji 1 - Adamantine Memory Blade is a third person Touhou-style shoot-em-up game featuring an all-male cast in the world of Daiten Daichi. Play as Teiki Tetsurou and discover this unfamiliar world while also perhaps saving its fragile peace in the process.”
-Sparen
Download: http://www.bulletforge.org/u/sparen/p/seitentouji-1-adamantine-memory-blade
Music Room comment:
This is a huge departure from my usual style, huh.
Partly because I was too lazy to change the intro from Sparen’s version.
But when it comes to factory break-ins, who doesn’t instantly think synth & guitar?
At least it’s still got my signature counterpoint at the end.
“Fun had while composing” rating: 9/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle")
![[SttJ Last Word Theme] Just Another Challenge to Face](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nFZDmUMyitQ/hqdefault.jpg "[SttJ Last Word Theme] Just Another Challenge to Face
SttJ got bashed hard when it came out for many reasons, not the least of which was because its music sucked.
Somehow, I’ve managed to find myself as the composer for SttJ, so now I’m slowly working to “fix Sparen’s mistakes” and replace its OST.
I managed to finish 5 songs in time for the first update.
“SeitenTouji 1 - Adamantine Memory Blade is a third person Touhou-style shoot-em-up game featuring an all-male cast in the world of Daiten Daichi. Play as Teiki Tetsurou and discover this unfamiliar world while also perhaps saving its fragile peace in the process.”
-Sparen
Download: http://www.bulletforge.org/u/sparen/p/seitentouji-1-adamantine-memory-blade
Music Room comment:
I rewrote the melody so many freaking times because
I just couldn’t come up with something laid-back.
In the end, the song turned out upbeat instead.
And you know what? It actually fits Teiki better.
“Fun had while composing” rating: 6.5/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle")
