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#1
Music / Game Music...on the organ
February 07, 2014, 02:01:50 PM
I recently rediscovered an organ VST on my computer that is quite frankly proven to be quite interesting to experiment with. I downloaded it a couple years ago to make eerie background music for a haunted house (Toccata and Fugue) and forgot about it. Playing around with it, I'm really shocked at the amount of tonal colors you can coax out of it. The VST has a bevy of 104 stops (sound ranks, supposed to be spread over 4 manuals and a pedal keyboard, which would probably require one hell of a setup :o), which can be whisper soft or create a hell of a racket. It's a shame that the organ's been pigeonholed into hymns, weddings/funerals, and spooky music, because it really does seem to have a lot of hidden potential just waiting to be exploited  :-\



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#2
Piano Arrangements / JohnK's arragnements
September 08, 2013, 01:18:52 PM
Hello everybody. I've been playing the piano since I was 6 or 7, when we got our first piano. I began picking out various videogame/cartoon themes shortly afterwords, progressed rapidly in lessons (tackling Joplin and Mozart by 4th and 5th grade), took a break for a few years, and now I'm back at it and better than before :)

Here's a little arrangement/interpretation I've had floating around in my head since forever. It's the semi-well-known map/menu theme from the original Starfox game. Instead of a steady militaristic march, it's meant to be a bit more subdued and relaxing, with almost a glockenspiel/music-box type tone color (done so by playing staccato an octave higher with a bit of pedal). It's pretty simple, and it's probably been done already. It's a bit more pianistic than the version already on the site, in my opinion.
PDF:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9x7cdnrvql663pm
MIDI:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qg93dvic9xa5zm4
MP3:
Coming soon