{"id":308,"date":"2017-03-12T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/?p=308"},"modified":"2017-03-12T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:15:25","slug":"308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/2017\/03\/12\/308\/","title":{"rendered":"SNES music limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admire what they could and couldn't do with video game chiptunes.<br \/>\nE.g., to go from this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YK1rsQsDo_Q\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YK1rsQsDo_Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>to this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chase - Yoko Kanno (Uncharted Waters: New Horizons)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ckJKhFVxXms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like I wonder if it breaks some poor composer's heart to have their amazing masterpiece work, confined to a representation in a 30-second loop with 64kb of memory and 8 midi channels. In context, good soundtracks tend to stay good soundtracks, even if chiptunes lose so many details and subtle aspects of the arrangement. I suspect that part of the job of BGM composers back then was to create songs that could still sound good on that form factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admire what they could and couldn&#8217;t do with video game chiptunes. E.g., to go from this: to this: Like I wonder if it breaks some poor composer&#8217;s heart to have their amazing masterpiece work, confined to a representation in a 30-second loop with 64kb of memory and 8 midi channels. In context, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,109,150,176,205,206,231],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-console-games","tag-music","tag-retro","tag-snes","tag-uncharted-waters","tag-uncharted-waters-new-horizons","tag-yoko-kanno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cml-a.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}