Long sustained notes for the lead, great groove, arps that remain the same over a changing bass, lots of madmaxish features, very good melodies and cool evolving chord sequences. I could totally listen to this while playing a Thalion game, modmate nailed it!
Hi there! The 'D' command stands for 'detune', the numbers behind indicate the number of the halftone steps to detune the originally triggered note. As you might not be familiar with the features of the YM, but maybe with synthesizers, imagine you create a sound with two oscillators and when the 'D' command is trigged, the first oscillator stays at the note that was played before, while the second oscillator plays the detuned note, which ideally results in two different notes played at the same time - or on the Atari, two notes in just one channel (the square wave note stays the same, while the 'timer SID effect' is detuned). This feature, which was 'invented' by Jochen Hippel in his epic 1999 'Buzzer' tune (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HkcGTz0r9kU.html at 1min 40sec), was not exploited in the years after, so I thought I give it a try! 🙂
I'm actually very familiar with synthesizers, but not specifically the YM (I've written emulators for CPUs and audio chips before). And as a guy that understands very well the inner workings on the 8 bit machines of yore, this is one of the coolest things I've ever heard in my life. Also a wonderful explanation. I assumed it was some kind of detune, but was under the impression only one oscillator on a channel, so you were doing some crazy manipulation of the sound to give the appearance of multiple notes. I listen to this kind of stuff all the time while coding, and I literally stopped what I was doing to go and see what the heck was going on, and you did it while making it sound like a banger. Well played good sir, well played.@@mOdmate
