I was browsing around on youtube last night and saw something in my recommended videos. It was this video of Aquatic Ambience using the actual synths:
From the description:
Here is a link to his dropbox, that has many other remastered tracks: Currently remastered tracks
There are a bunch of fan favorites such as Stickerbush Symphony, Forest Interlude, Fear Factory, etc. Fair warning, if you listen to Ice Cave Chant, try not to jack the volume up as some of the crystally sounds have really ear piercing levels.
I always love hearing stuff like this because I've always wondered what these tracks would sound like without the SNES compression. I think the composer of the Goldeneye soundtrack had uncompressed versions of that game on his website as well.
Enjoy!
From the description:
What you're hearing is the original samples used to create Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country, combined with the music instruction data from the game, plus mixing and mastering magic for a perfect recreation of what a studio recording would have sounded like.
How:
-I used rarespc to convert the audio data into MIDI
-Located the original samples (with the help of SPC Tool for reference) from various 90s Roland and Korg machines including the Wavestation, M1, U-220, and R-8 -matched up the correct samples with the MIDI data in FLStudio (again, using SPC Tool for reference), and voila, a perfect recreation
-Mixed & mastered it, and added reverb
Here is a link to his dropbox, that has many other remastered tracks: Currently remastered tracks
There are a bunch of fan favorites such as Stickerbush Symphony, Forest Interlude, Fear Factory, etc. Fair warning, if you listen to Ice Cave Chant, try not to jack the volume up as some of the crystally sounds have really ear piercing levels.
I always love hearing stuff like this because I've always wondered what these tracks would sound like without the SNES compression. I think the composer of the Goldeneye soundtrack had uncompressed versions of that game on his website as well.
Enjoy!
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