Gee, I wonder what Gannon is up to.

Last i checked he was hiding in the fridge behind the mayonnaise jar...

wtf kind of waveform is this?

the mt-35 is a really simple keyboard, it only has 5 voices:

Piano
Electric Piano
Organ
Oboe (the one i used here)
and
Vibraphone (the only voice with a decayed enevlope that sounds after you release the keys)

none of the voices sound realistic at all, though because it synthesizes them by mixing 2 square waves (of varying pulsewidths)

the keyboard also has linear envelopes on the voices that decay, sounding very un-natural

i modified my keyboard though, aside from mounting an old radio tuner cap on the side (replacing the tuning cap on the bottom for neat pitchbends :D)
i also cut a trace on the board next to the volume slider for the rhythm (drums)

i ran a wire from the open side of that pot to the raw unfiltered mixed main voice to it, this effectively not only made the rhythm volume control what i was, it also made it a tone control for the main voice;

if i turn down the rhythm volume, the main voices sound brighter because the unfiltered sound is coming through the rhythm amplifier :D

the short answer is:

the keyboard creates all its voices by mixing 2 pulsewaves of different pulsewidths but the same pitch, these are mixed internally by a very simple centered trimpot, then filtered via a simple low pass filter (that i've bypassed here), and depending on the voice a triangular linear enevelope,

i THINK the keyboard was made in 1983, that would make it not only older then me, but also the tune im playing here :D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisann.....31412/sizes/l/

this isn't mine, but heres a picture of the keyboard, its essencially a white MT-36 which seems more common, mine is sunbleached yellow and has as a oilburn where someone laid an incense on it, :[

i like the keyboard because it's tiny, lightweight, and fun to practice on its little keys the keys are bigger then an SK-1's and more durable, even if i have to tune it each time i play it since i relocated the tuning cap to a very bumpable spot (on the right side)

neat. =3

Thanks,

once ya get the hang of thie one its suprisingly easy.

:D

hehe I shall have to practice more. for right now, no live performance for me! =3

I always simplify something like this down to a simple melody, and bassline,

something that can be played using one finger on each hand.

if you ignore what octave its supposed to be in (you can pretty much figure that out if its s tune your familiar with after all)

you can simplify it even further,

i never actually write out notation like this, but in my head, this is how i see the intro:

for the first verse:
the bass is like this: Bb Ab Gb F then you can jump from that to G A and back to Bb

if you just play it one note after the other, you'll notice it sounds familiar enough, that you should be able to guess the timing from memory and based on how your playing the lead, which is just playing the following a few octaves higher:

hold Bb for several beats, then play:
Bb 5 times, (according to the melody) AB (where it skips down once) Bb <repeat each time you play a different bass note till your on F then simultaniusly play F G A on the lead and bass,

thats the intro,

the whole lead melody to the first verse, if you ignore the intro and bass and what octave its in, is this:


Bb F Bb Bb C D Gb Ab Bb Bb Bb Ab Gb Ab Gb F F Eb F Gb F Eb Db Db Eb F Eb Db C D E G F

and the second verse is the same up until a point where you play:
Bb Db C A which is the sort of bittersweet sounding part, afterwards comes:
F F# Bb A F (2 times) then comes: D Eb Gb F Db Bb C D E G F and then you repeat the intro of the song,

this second verse was omitted in the Game Boy games "Links Awakening" and "link to the past" and the first verse just repeats (annoyingly ;_;)

but try playing that after listening to the real thing once,
you'l instantly realize what octave somethings supposed to be in and you can correct that as you play. and this can make it a lot easier.

the bass part is really easy to figure out once you get the lead figured out. so give it a whirl. :P

the "Overworld" music is just a different version of the "Intro" and its a little easier to play, but once you do, figuring out the main screen music is easy.

the hardest part about playing it, is playing the bass and lead at once,

i do this from memory since i cant read sheet music, and thus i memorize things one note at a time till i have them. then i'll just do octaves to thicken things up and add trills and things as i learn them,

the bass part is mostly just the rootnote of the chord of the note your playing down 1 or 2 octaves, (but not all the time) in this tune.
its pretty easy to figure out.
hope that helps :P
(now if only the music from castlevania was that easy xD)