How could Tim Follin..

..tease out such great tunes out of the SFC..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY

..when all other couldn't?

I should ask him once.

 

I'd bet half of it is sampling some real instruments instead of shitty synth instruments. That's why the Plok title theme sounds so good


More wizardry here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A

 

I don't know but it's awesome.

 

Thats a great song. Who doesn't love chiptunes?

 

Seriously ^^
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That is a shame

 

An interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkicZOG-Z4

 

Follin has often seemed stand-offish and unapproachable in interviews, but that YouTube video is a good one.

How does he coax such good sounds out of the SNES/NES/C-64? Talent, arpeggios, and a love of prog-rock. His "non-programmer" personality probably helped a lot to get "real" music out of a console rather than "console" music.

 

Bomberman 4 had some pretty cool music and sound effects if I remember correctly.

 

Tim Follin was a genius, anyone that can get 5 channel sound from the Sinclair Spectrum, which had a 1bit beeper (the speaker can be on or off...) when no one else could (although David Whittaker did get close a few times).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBH0Fgbd1Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz46pCROkjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kHPBp-_Unk

 

That blows my mind.

 

Just next to Tel Jeroen, he is probably my most favorite chip-tune composer of ever!

Every of his c64 work is outstanding (LED Storm, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Bionic Commando etc.). So is his Sinclair and Amiga stuff.

And on any platform he released musics, he squized out the max possible. So could he turn a NES into SID like sound generator. That's awesome.

The master of bended flutes shall live for ever!!

 

Actually, he has only about 31 years left in him, on average.



(I couldn't resist! Sorry!)

 

Follin's good, but the unsung hero of SID-like NES is Alberto Gonzales (not the senator).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7DgTUKVE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7DgTUKVE4

I'd advise anyone who loves arpeggiated chiptune to grab the nsf files for Asterix and The Smurfs. I've never played either of the games and have no particular desire to, but the music is fucking amazing.

 

Very nice stuff Alchy And yes, if you didn't know, I definitely would tip on a SIDler.

Oh Chris

 

Back in the good ol' days, I have played a lot of HC games only for the fabulous musics sake. Mostly it was the motivator #1 IMO.

 

Didn't know he did the music for XMen and Spider man on the SNES! Wondered why it sounded a bit like the first Youtube link here

 

It sounds like a horrible noise to me. I can appreciate the skill perhaps, but it sounds awful.

 

Alberto Gonzales' stuff is good, but the best SID-like musician besides Tim/Geoff Follin is Neil Baldwin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp6T2YueKig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxt7oTMnBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_567162&v=ggdLBmE-J50

The best part is, he's actually active (& friendly) in the NES Dev scene. His homepage: http://dutycyclegenerator.com/

Of course everybody probably knows about Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, etc., but one of my favourite C64 musicians is Matt Gray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGFV_xxR64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpneomNT6CI
etc.

 

Oh yeah Neil is awesome. Really like his work on NTRQ.

Another favourite of mine is Gilles Soulet's Albedo:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/sid/?id=26299