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It's time once again to ruin a song! This is my attempt at a guitar performance of an arrangement of the first level music from the often-mocked Zero Wing. I just discovered the tab file lying around the other day - I must have put it together about a year ago. Like a lot of Megadrive games, Zero Wing had a great soundtrack despite the sound hardware that was limited even at the time - something often obscured by its infamous introduction.
As crude as the game's translation though it is, I think this is my best Tracktion attempt yet - I'm getting better at playing in time with myself. Though there's still quite a lot of sound-manipulation cheating going on...
Recorded with the Amplitube 2 Live plugin, in Tracktion 2, with an IK Stealthplug and a guitar with pickups that I'm convinced are rapidly dying. The bass and drums are electronic - I've been playing with the Sampler plugin to translate my usual drum kit over to Tracktion.
The GP5 ZIP is here, though I ended up deviating from it a bit when recording.
As crude as the game's translation though it is, I think this is my best Tracktion attempt yet - I'm getting better at playing in time with myself. Though there's still quite a lot of sound-manipulation cheating going on...
Recorded with the Amplitube 2 Live plugin, in Tracktion 2, with an IK Stealthplug and a guitar with pickups that I'm convinced are rapidly dying. The bass and drums are electronic - I've been playing with the Sampler plugin to translate my usual drum kit over to Tracktion.
The GP5 ZIP is here, though I ended up deviating from it a bit when recording.
Category Music / Rock
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File Size 2.26 MB
Everyone remembers Zero Wing for the meme-tastic translation, but that's where start and stop paying attention, so no one remembers that 1) the music was amazing, and 2) that game crossed the line from hard all the way into completely impossible. You can keep my damned base, and this is The Guy saying this.
Memorable music seems to be a theme for the Megadrive, seeing as I found myself accidentally mentioning it so much in that post I made to videogame_tales a couple of days ago... this one definitely translates well to this sound, not that it's far removed from it in the first place. But it's just as well that their translator seemed just to be looking up each word in a dictionary as he went, as he must surely have propelled the game to stardom.
I never completed it legitimately, though... I did save-state through it and was rewarded with a troupe of singing potatoes.
I never completed it legitimately, though... I did save-state through it and was rewarded with a troupe of singing potatoes.
I might take it to be looked at (or just replace it, it was a cheap second-hand one) - I'd been sort of hesitant to do that because it's easy to put the blame on imaginary things about your instrument rather than any faults of your own, but if something sounds off to you as well then that gives me more confidence that it might not just be me :)
Surprisingly, it took me a while to recognize the song, even with that icon and everything......but that's just because I'm bad at recognizing things; you did a great job recording all of that.....it sounds like you are MUCH better playing in time with yourself than I am; I've tried to record multiple tracks and have failed :P
Well, it took a lot of takes, and I have to admit some time-stretching cheating as well! I think I'm beginning to get a bit of a feel for it, you just have to get yourself to keep trying until everything lines up exactly with the click track. And it's always surprising how different things sound when they're played back compared to what I think I'm playing...
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