(YM2151 + Sega PCM) Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients
Channel: nestunes
Date: 2019-05-13

INCOMING ANNIVERSARY UPLOAD!!!!
A year ago to the day, I uploaded the original version of Red and White! as my first-ever chiptune. It's been a time and a half since then - I've hopped trackers several times, from OpenMPT to Famitracker to RAD to AdTrack 2 to BambooTracker, and even did a little fiddling with Professional Music Driver (ZUN's preference for writing his PC-98 music) before finally settling on DefleMask. I've started using FM synthesis (first with the VRC7 and later the OPNA and Sega X arcade board), along with PCM samples rather than noise/triangle percussion and more use of effect commands (particularly DefleMask's 3xx command to simulate slurred notes). I've vastly improved as a musician, and even started writing some of my own music (keep an eye out!) as well as begun a project to (re)arrange all of EoSD's soundtrack (which I'm about halfway done with).
I've also all-cleared every single game in the series (the WBaWC demo doesn't count :P) on Normal difficulty, which means I've actually played Soku now and know what the hell is happening in it! There's no elevator background in Walfas, though, and I'm lazy by nature, so I just stuck our two shrine maidens in a cave. Close enough, I suppose.
One more thing of note: I can't recall if I've said this before, but this song and Our Hisou Tensoku are the things I heard that made me think "hmmm, maybe I'll give this toohoo thing a shot." I'm glad Wesevich created his arranges, because it's led to me meeting some wonderful people and just generally having a great time with this series. And, big props once again to him for making these songs sound good when blasted out by a band that had no idea what it was doing.
I cannot thank you all enough for the support I've received in writing these arrangements and making occasional memes. This channel's still pretty small, and I'm not expecting it to get much bigger anytime soon, but I'm honestly glad there's anyone who has the time to listen to me whine. Here's to another good year of chiptune arrangements and some Hard 1ccs!