sure

I got my friend that white hoodie for her birthday last year and i don't know if she even knows you exist, she thinks it's just a hoodie

Charles please do a video on Genshin Impact music

Could you react to the Terraria soundtrack (original and/or Otherworld) or to Tom Lehrer?!

What's your favorite pokemon game?

Don't know if you'd be interested, but I saw a video somewhere of a guy who snuck in the Jurassic Park theme into a church service routine. Lol.

Perfect

When Pokemon Go came out, the restaurant that I used to play piano at was a “Pokemon Gym” in the game. We started getting people coming in playing Pokemon Go so I would play the Pokemon Center theme for them. 🙂

holy shit nobody'd complain if it was the national park theme

@@DavidBennettPiano That's very nice of you, a nice easter egg to those who know. Somethings still good to listen to for others.

Surprised to find you here.

Surprised to find you here.

Surprised to find you here.

Could we possibly do the ghost town one?

More

I went to Japan a few years ago and had a realization. It felt like Japan has held on to, and preserved a lot of things from the 70s-80s/late 20thC. Im in my 20s so can't claim to have lived then but there's a lot of 70-80s music that I got into because it reminded me of japanese game/anime music

Yes.

I think they know how to touch your soul with the music because the games/anime touch your soul as well because of the scenes or story

Probably because you consume Japanese media in excess.

It's in Japanese pop music as well. I think you are just not familiar with Japanese pop music other than some few that are famous in West. Check some top 50 pop list and you'll hear a lot of jazz influence

I really miss those days

Asia in general doesn't get enough credit in the music world, despite western classical music unironically being carried by them at the moment

Absolutely cracked, Joe Hisaishi for another example!

Is a case of "if is not white and/or from the US, we don't take it seriously"

Agree. But at least these brilliant boys give Japanese composers lots of credit: kzfaq.infovideos

I know. Games such as Ar Tonelico/atelier totori, Chrono Cross, Evergrace have amazing soundtracks too.

Until he does it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

Yess

@@cooldebt That, and insaneintherainmusic.

You should check out insaneintherain! Granted his jazz compositions are more sax based, especially his earlier stuff but he does really amazing work and is very versatile. He usually provides a breakdown of his arrangements in the descriptions

Seriously, me too. whens our mans dropping an album anyways

Seriously. I still tear up when I hear Celes theme

🥰

I actually cried, man I played the piano back when this game was new, played the games, man it's so beautiful

Same here bro, I feel you

Honestly if it didnt have catchy music i wouldnt have remembered it

I remember just listening to the title theme on loop via headphones on my game boy. I wouldn’t press start and just let it loop.

Same here brother. I don’t understand him, but he certainly brings joy

If you can understand what he's saying, the beauty of these pieces is magnified and can bring you even more joy

I‘m not understanding anything, too, but I love to just soak up information on something I am not understanding. :D

@@ThaMobstarr how i learned music theory, i just sorta listened to adam neely videos for like 2 years and then i got it

Lol

And then rejazzing and soloing along😭

Absolutely. Gold and Silver are Masuda’s best soundtracks, bar none. And it’s not just in the compositions, but also how he utilized the waveforms to make them sound fuller (compare the bass channel of the gym theme from G/S to R/B. It just sounds much better and fuller).

It’s crazy that it was the same composer with the same hardware and they sound completely different

Omg yes

Truth about all aspects of old games (game design, visual, audio)

It's evident when you have the chiptune genre, where the musicians really put the limits of what the old game consoles are capable of.

The 33 & 1/3 book series has a nice book about Kenji Kondos Mario music that spends a lot of time on this point! I totally agree

Redbull did a series called "diggin in the creates" (I think) and it digs deep into what your talking abt

It’s something I’m sad modern VG composers seem to have forgotten how to do, given that there are basically no limitations anymore. I’m waiting for the VG industry to rediscover the ingenuity the limitations forced them to develop in the early days

Holy crap, Hi Elsie 👋🏼

Agree full piano cover from Charles would be great but in the meantime, not piano but a fantastic cover: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

@@cooldebt the consouls are so good

Yeees!

PLEASEEEEEE

Totaly agree. He must publish a complete and clear version of it 😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

a bit of refining on that part right after and its perfect. Loved that so much

Team rockets theme and the Pokémon League champion in that game as well. As well as Lance's theme in gold and silver. My favourite pokemon music though has to be diamond and pearl because of all the jazz influences that went into writing the music.

Team rocket hideout from blue/red is also on that level, its like a bach intervention.

RBY had some amazing music. Remember the Viridian Forest music? The B section could be super easily converted into a nasty walking bass line

My favourites are the when on the bicycle and when a wild pokémon appeared in R/Y/B

I love that the two music analysts I follow know about each other. :D

We need a full album, that was crazy nice

Until Charles does a full cover, try this in the meantime: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Perhaps 8-bit and jazz hybrids are a thing. Imma look it up Edit: @cooldebt Thank you

If you like that combination, you should check out Aivi and Surasshu. They're a duo of a pianist and a chiptune composer who both did the soundtrack for Steven Universe.

An artist called Schnabubula had been doing it for years and it's absolutely incredible

Until that happens, try this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

This was just a few tunes from GSC. There's hours of music to break down. I hope he does more.

facts, theyre like my favorite parts of the video, I'd so watch an hour long video of just him freestlying

He just flexin. But I ain’t mad

He knows alright ehehe its normal to flex without noticing after you graduate I didnt graduate in music tho but i think i applies to every skill He just vibin But with technique and mastery of a professional musician, its amazing

Almost makes me cry! It’s so good

I'm new here and I'm already hooked on is freestyle piano playing.

except for the original played backwards?

You’re starting to scare me. Or you have shockingly similar KZfaq habits that I do

You know, Just, I saw you in almost every videos that I saw, from vtuber scenes to here. I guess we both got similar youtube recommendations lol

That was horrifying when I was a child!

Pokémon leaf green was my first own game that I played through and I wouldn’t have had it any other way

Dude same. Gen 2 is so weird for me cos I only experienced it second hand from my older brothers' cartridge. Because of that my memories of Gen 2 are the haziest but also the earliest memories of pokemon.

So majestic and filled with a sense of history... God the nostalgia is strong :')

Agree! Please!

I think that would be cool, but I definitely disagree that gen IV is the jazziest. I find gen II very jazzy as well.

Gen 4 definitely the jazziest fs

yall forgetting about Gen 5, literally based on New York

Agree, Diamond and Pearl are super jazzy!

Honestly

Yoooooooooooobclip it lll

Right?! It's like he just invented a new genre! XD

Very similar to Aivi and Surasshu's music! Especially with the piano + electronic 8 bit tunes. I highly recommend anyone who liked what Charles played to check out their work :)

Fuck yeah

little root town is my default ringtone since 2003ish

The Johto region is honestly my favourite region. Yes, the games themselves may not be the best especially with the wack level scaling, but the vibe of Johto is just so strong - the music, the locations, the characters just makes Johto's culture feel so strong

⁠@@J75PootleI think Johto had the strongest character identity with its Japanese architecture, the mythos surrounding it, and just how the world was laid out. The soundtracks are definitely the best in the series (especially the remixes for HG/SS).

He’s kind of stepped out of that role lately, though. Many battle themes in Sun/Moon we’re done by other composers, and Masuda only contributed battle themes to the second DLC expansion las.

Masuda heavily composed only the 1st gen music, then Ichinose took the main role. In the 4th gen the main composer was Hitomi Sato and in the 5th Shota Kageyama. Now instead the lead composer is Minako Adachi

@@samuelecallegari6117 the lead composer is and has been Go Ichinose since gen 2 with exceptions like bw, oras and xy when he was on break, he's basically the head of the sound team currently at Gamefreak still

@@PascalvandenBos well if you check the track by track credits you will discover that the majority of the 4th gen tracks are composed by Hitomi Sato and the 5th ones by Kageyama

@@samuelecallegari6117 thats actually not true at all, i have all of the cds and theyre pretty equally split among composers, that doesnt take away that Go Ichinose was still lead on gen 4 though and 8 too i bet but the ost still isnt out

same

you kidding? I sat and listened to the music doing nothing for a solid 10 minutes sometimes. I didn't understand *why* it was beautiful, but it was certainly captivating and I got lost in it all the time.

Listening to the Braxton Burks renditions on Spotify definitely gets me teary. So much nostalgia!! Just reliving these Kanto and Johto places, that don't even exist in the real world. Really crazy to be able to attach music to locations like that

I would highly recommend Aivi & Surasshu. Beautiful jazzy 8 bit with piano accompaniment.

The PCM Wave Samples on the Gameboy was 4-bit. The other channels were 8-bit in resolution as it was done by the CPU itself like the NES and MegaDrive and PC-Engine before it. The Triangle wave was made on the Wave table so yes, it would be 4-bit. The actual sound generators are integrated on the circuit for the custom CPU in the GB.

​@@YHUAN01 Actually, every channel is indeed 4 bit, not just the Wavetable channel. The two pulse channels and the noise channel all produce 1 bit waveforms that are adjusted by a 4 bit volume control to produce 16 different volume levels for each channel. The wave channel is also only 4 bit, and because of this only the max volume level can accurately reproduce the wavetable. The other 3 volume levels use bitshifting to lower the volume, to the point where the lowest volume for the channel only has a bit depth of 1. Also saying it was done by the CPU can be a bit misleading as it makes it seem like the sound is generated in software, when in reality (as you stated) the Sound hardware is integrated on the same chip as the CPU (NES and PCE are like this as well, but not the MD), and the CPU's role in most cases is to act as the sound driver, adjusting the sound hardware's registers in order to produce music/SFX.

@@zynidian the DAC is 4-bit. The CPU controls the sound mixing and pitch and timing. Yhe sound generators are part of the cpu itself though essentially on a separate circuit. Could have phrased it better but my point stands that the sound generators are not 4-bit. Hell the shift register on the noise channel is 15-bit but the polynomial register is 0-7, 8-bit. Much like the other channels sans the wavetable. The Mega Drive is similar a bit in how the sound generation is of higher bit depth than the final output. The YM2612/3438 produce sound at 14-bit depth but after converting the digital signal to analog the final output is 9-bit depth. PCM playback on channel 05 of the YM2612 is 8-bit depth. Case in point, any programmer is working with 8-bit computing with the sound on a GB. Though yes the final analog output is 4-bit due to the DAC.

@@YHUAN01 Ah ok, I was primarily talking about the bit depth of the final DAC output for each channel, since that's what ends up getting heard. You're right about how, in the process of getting to that final output, parts of the hardware have lengths that are neither 4, nor 8 bits. I guess it really depends on what "bit" even means in context. Take for instance the LFSR used for the noise, which itself is 15 bits wide. But the output used for audio is just 1 bit. So is the noise channel 15 bits?, 1 bit?, 4 bit? Well, it's all of them depending on how you look at it. Bart E's original comment was specifically referring to the bit depth of the output, so that's what I focused on in my previous comment.

@@YHUAN01 Its two channels at 7 bits each. It's fuckin weird.

Agree but until he does, I'll be listening to this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

@@cooldebt Oh, snap, this is a good find. Thanks!

@@AdamSmith-jb2lf Glad you liked it. The Consouls turn 7 in a couple of weeks so you have 7 years of tunes to enjoy on their channel ;)

Ikr?!? Please Charles?!

hey charles? please break down bill wurts' here comes the sun

@@mr_lemonade4230 n 7 I'll

Fancy seeing you here :) And he covered two of my favorite GSC songs too

Only GSC is good, RGBY has some grating tunes.

Dude I was playing GBI on my GameCube lately. The gameboyplayer is basically a whole gameboy without the screen and buttons. So it's full original soundchip is in there. Played some gold and silver over towers. Holy shit those gameboy channels hit different. On emulation it's kind of soft, but original hardware it's raw. Shits actually got bass. I think the high tones fucked up my ears for couple days tho lol.

I prefer the GBA tracks, but these are nice too.

@@averytubestudios every single tune in 3rd gen makes me instantly cry in nostalgia but 2nd gen ones are very underrated imo

Thank you, I was just about to comment this.

@@bkebradley Ditto. Thumbnail should've also been of Gold Version if he were being honest.

Ichinose is the Game Freak goat fr. Composes stunning route/town themes and amazingly bombastic battle arrangements. So versatile. Also was the sound director for DP, which is still the best overall OST in the series imho.

Yeah, Junichi Masuda was more of a director and/or music consultant after the first generation.

Go Ichinose was an apprentice to Masuda on the original Red/Blue/Yellow games' soundtrack. And then on Gold/Silver he took the lead, and Nat'l Park and Ecruteak are the two best tracks of the entire series imo. Love Go Ichinose, unforgettable name to an English speaker too, lol

I'm someone too Ahaha

Youre not alone... its okay. Tesseract has made me cry once or twice.

I feel that just hearing the chip tune versions of them lol. Ecruteak city is probably my all time favorite track. I just get so nostalgic hearing it. I play that to go to sleep sometimes

When he said that 8-bit is almost Bach I immediately thought about Castlevania

Wot

Oh hell yeah! Bloody Tears, Vampire Killer, Crystal Teardrops, Requiem of the Gods.

I was gonna comment saying that it'd be great to hear this for Bloody Tears and Vampire Killer!

Yeah but who asked

It's a relatively young art-form, so it's only in the last decade or so that mainstream critics have begun to analyze it. Plus once games starting releasing on CDs the soundtracks became more likely to fall into a pre-existing genre (usually orchestral or jazz) and the main thing to analyze was format related elements like loop points and dynamically adaptating to gameplay.

Underrated? Its the most overhyped soundtrack in Pokemon. Black and White is underrated.

@@eddiewiththe_ie correctly hyped** But I agree that gen 5 music is sick too. But there are a ton of good gen 5 music memes out there already so I don't think it's unrecognized by any means.

@@benjaminpiela5210 It is correctly hyped, but it's very close to the Hoenn soundtrack in terms of how great it is and often takes all of the spotlight. and yes, gen 5 music is the most underrated

Don’t forget the Lake Themes! Highly underrated!

There are a bunch of those kinds of channels. And there are many channels that don’t deserve to be more popular than them unfortunately. *cough cough* James Charles *cough*

This.

Looks like that'll be changing pretty soon.

He'll get there in like two days lmao

@@TheColonelMcKernel hopefully

Chrono Trigger has one on the best soundtracks ever. It's incredible just how much the music in that game heightened the mood and atmosphere and turned what were already pretty memorable scenes unforgettable!

An old one from these boys but a good one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9idfJaIqritoo0.html

Dude, YES!!!! I said this last time, but Chrono Trigger is so dope, especially Zohar's piano renditions. (Btw, it's so nice to see a fellow cellist out in the wild ✊😔)

Had to look into the comments to see if someone would mention Chrono Trigger. It's absolutely magical.

I love chrono trigger music too!!learned secret of the forest by ear I was obsessed with those opening arpeggios

Oh hey! You’re that trombone fella.

Perfect fifth violations 🥰

on a gameboy, it would need to be a 3-point counterpoint. The fourth channel was only a white noise generator, which usually got relegated to being percussion.

8th species

YOOOO sup

Yeah

I just now realized that he wasn’t at 1 million already.... wow. I thought he was for the longest time lmao

Hell yeahhhhhhh!!

No u

Something about the Gameboy speaker and chiptune gave it an unearthly sound that later iterations haven't quite captured. Maybe it was the subtle buzz.

Yes, I was thinking this one as well. Actually they changed the original song because it was too creepy and dissonant. You can find the original song on youtube though.

Isn’t that the one that supposedly caused kids to commit suicide?

@@steelstrings4 yea I heard that, but sounds highly unlikely.

@@SeraphsWitness The Japanese version causing suicides has been a creepypasta for a while, but there's even less evidence for it than the widely exaggerated impact of the Porygon episode. The latter was at least partially real.

Yes! Especially done by these boys: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fL55rNaWltmqnpc.html (they also did Monkey's Delivery Service)

They are amazing although it’s based around samples more than 8bit of some of them.

Lisa the painful too, although its much more simpler and tame in comparison.

completly agree! Braxtons work is soooo fucking fantastic

That's why I love what HGSS did with the remake of this tune. Also if you're looking for good Pokémon piano music, I suggest musicmike512 and Darren Ang for their piano renditions of Pokémon tunes.

Was masuda the composer as well as the director?? Damn

Go Ichinose was actually the composer of all the themes Charles Cornell talked about. Masuda's compositions weren't nearly as ingenious.

@@seanplayscl in the second generation, the more emotional and harmonically rich songs like this one were composed by Go Ichinose, a very talented composer

@@seronimo__7735 Oh I see! Thanks for correcting me.

Where is this video??? Charles pls

They are among the best. They bring out what many composers tried to replicate when writing their music. They show how, for example, Koji Kondo was influenced by latin jazz. (Sidenote: Koji was also influenced by what is now known as city pop.)

They deserve more subscribers.

Agree. Also love The Consouls - the best example of exploding 8-bit music into a jazz ensemble: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

Super soul Bros has the best Jazz adaptations in the game next to Insaneintherainmusic

Fantastic games

Iconic games with iconic soundtracks. Played through them both recently and they haven't aged a day!

I would absolutely love remakes of these or a sequel 🥲

This rendition also: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eM-hd9ecqNW0kmg.html

Update: it was dope. Got get Nebula.

Yes!

The SNES actually wasn't super limited in terms of its sound hardware. It was mostly a space issue at that point; storing a bunch of long, complex, or high-quality samples on the cartridge wasn't exactly viable in most cases.

@@KidPrarchord95 Right, I guess I meant more in regards to a space limitation. A lot of interesting workarounds were made to compensate for the lack of storage space, which I think is really cool.

Holy smokes we need it! I can hear it now in my head let's find some Hidden Barrels!!!!!!!

Rare had their own proprietary sound chip...