TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 8 (Final !)

Part 8 final ? Yes, it is.

When I was compiling Part 5 and 6,
I was sure I had enough stuff for at least
10 Parts.

But when I looked closer to the FAC SOUNDTRACKER music files and all the versions I collected of the song "Every breath you take" I began to see that lot of these were not interesting at all.
So I decided to sort things out until I could fill the last 2 disks, Part 7 and 8.

I wanted to call this Part 8,
the "Every Breath You Take " edition,
but when I listen to all versions, all with the same errors or more, I wanted to create just 1 good version, so this edition is named "Soundtracker Edition Part 2".

Mostly cause the main part of the disk is filled with Soundtracker music, players, and info.
However, there are also some nice tools for the Philips Music Module, mostly samplers and a long FAC's FM-FAC sample of the song "Here We Go Again" of the synthesizer-rock band "Mad At The World" ( see Part 7 for more info).

The FM-PAC demo "Every Breath You Take" of the band The Police has a long history.

Originally was the song made in Synthsaurus V2.00 by Elko Duijm and when it was converted to Basic, it was too big to fit in the memory of any MSX computer.

Later there was a converter made BIT2BGM, but after conversing the tempo was wrong, instead of 120 it played 80!


I liked the song Elko Duijm made, so I cut the song in SynyhSaurus V2.00 in 2 parts and converted each part into a Basic listing.

More problems came to the surface,
when I played the 1st part in Basic.
After the refreins, the whole song got timing issues and the drums, the bass melody played out of sync.

I believe Elko Duijm tried to fix some of these issues in SS2 later, but I could not find any better version than the onces I collected earlier.

Anyway, for Part 8 I wanted to create
1 complete version by getting rid of all the same strings with music data and put together part 1 and 2 after that.
I listened to part 1 and I heard so many out of sync channels, I had not the courage to start fixing these.

So I made a cut-off sped up version with only the intro and 2 refreins, cause after that all the errors began.

 I had already converted pictures for a menu with "Every Breath You Take " versions, cause I decided to use only 1 version, I took the best picture merge it with the cut-off spec up version and voila there was the "Every Breath You Take" FM demo.

Now I  forgot there is a lot to read about FAC SOUNDTRACKER on this Final disk, like info about the music files , tips for use, my Basic replayers and info about all samplers.
Again I tried to find some info on the net about these songs:

Some of these songs are from the FAC Demo 4 "Facmanschap is Meesterschap" and MSX-Fan magazine  (via Unicorn Coorporation - Library #1)

But the song "Diver" (of Unicorn Coorporation again) came from a listing in MCCM 41, see page 29 or the screenshot on the left.

"Dremo 2017" was original a song in MUSIX (with drums), but was used (without drums) in Booty or Kick It  ofcourse all published by Aackosoft.

"No-Acid Part 1" was the pre-version of the song you hear in NO-PROMO demo  
What can I say, except unfinished?

 "Because" was a song of The Beatles of their best album "Abbey Road". And I found lots of good covers, remixes of this (mostly) acapella song. Even a movie "Across The Universe" that had a story based o the lyrics of 33 (!!) Beatle-songs.

But here are some "Because" treasures
I found on YouTube:

- All You Need Was Luv
  (still impressive see someone play all instruments and sing in perfect sync with the video)
- Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets Trailer song
  (yes, it was the trailer song of an action movie, The Beatles with an orchestra well done)
- Across The Universe
  (from that movie I mentioned earlier, acapella and not sang by The Beatles themselves)
- The Hit House
  (another from that Valerian movie, but this time in sort of "Terminator"-style)
 - DMA Reggae Mix
   ( lots of dub or echo, it turns the song into something even better )
- The Zap rmx
  (sort electronic techno style, very non-pop, Kraftwerk vs The Beatles remixed)
- Reggae Remix of tomseal76
  (more reggae, what if The Beatles recorded "Because" as a reggae song ?)
- SHIHA Remix
  (if The Beatles recorded "Because" today, it would sound like this, house music)
- Because the world is round
  ( a spoken version of "Because, but the relaxing music and video makes it soo special)


I don't have to tell you there is "Every Breath You Take" remixes, covers and other stuff related to the song on YouTube. I took a deep breath, dived into the pool and this is what
I found at the bottom:

- Reactable Mix
  (you can watch how the music changes, just by moving some electronic blocks
   on an electronic table)
- Harp Twins - Camille and Kennerly
  (2 beautiful young girls with 2 harps and very talented, impressive)
- Deep Chills Remix
  (lounge version, very relaxing with a bit of saxophone, fantastic)
- Alex Giudici Remix
  (a bit synthwave and a bit Ibiza, go slow dance)
- Scenester Synthwave Remix
  ( I can't help it, I love synthwave 80s style)
- Rush West Bootleg
  (uplifting house version, yeah really)
- MINOR KEY VERSION
  (very creepy version, for playing at Halloween)

And so we come to an end. TnC Collected Works is finished now.
All I can do is make new  MSX stuff ;-)

The disk Part 8 is on Mediafire / Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 7

Welcome to almost the last part of the series
Soundz & DemoZ Disks, Part 7.

I call this part, "The Soundtracker Edition 1".
I guess I don't have to explain that.

On this disk, you will find some Basic Replayers I once made, some info about each Soundtracker song and an example with lots of comments how to load and play a Soundtracker song in Basic.







And also a long sample of the song Living Dead of Mad At The World, a short of Christian band which sounded like Depeche Mode.

After releasing their 1st album with Living Dead and more great songs, they changed their sound to more hard rock.

I did not like it, the combi of the electric guitar with heavy electronics was much better choice.

On Part 8 you will find another sample of a track from their first album.

I liked this MATW album so much, I not only sampled some song, but after buying the record I bought blindly also the CD version, which had 2 bonus tracks.
Well, after listening I skipped them every time I played the CD.
They were sooooo bad, it made me wonder why the other songs got so much better...
Note: I hope you can listen to the sample, cause BlueMSX plays only silence.

Now I could tell you more about each Soundtracker song on this disk, but you better read the text on the disk.

Sorry, this disk has only 4 items in the main menu,
but I promise the next Part 8 will have much more.

I forgot something, because the Basic Replayers need a lot of Basic space, you have to start the disk with CTRL key pressed when booting.
Then Disk-Basic has more space to run the replayers.

I tried to find some interesting stuff about each Soundtracker song on the web, but no way.

* Here are some alternative wiki pages about the classical composers:

Joseph Kuffner & Francesco Spinacino  & Pieter van der Staak

* And some non-wiki info about the band: Mad At The World


* An MSX info page about Ernst Schulle or Unicorn Corporation 

* Couple of videos I found for Bye Bye Love / Memory / Perhaps Love / Love Me Tender

Yeah, this time no remixes or mashups, just a fresh version or a nice video of these pop songs.

* The PSG version from the original game "Lenam - Sword of Legend - Event 1"
* The guitar book of Pieter van der Staak including "Hiking to Haifa" and "Bound for Bulgaria" (see Part 3)

I am done now with Part 7, Part 8 is much more interesting...
Here are Mediafire and Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC ToolZ DemoZ Disk Part D

I completely forgot this ToolZ & DemoZ Disk Part D.
It seemed I was so busy with the "Paranoid Demo 2016" I forgot to post about Part D.

This part is special cause it had lots of graphics tools and some little demos.

Almost 4 screens full of tools demos, so lot to talk about?

Well, no. But I can try.
I did it with every disk.

There are demo's like TV-WALL, Random lines, Blockbox, 000Fractal, Fast MCCA Colorscroll, House 1/2/3/, Pagina, Intro Metal, all experiments for use in bigger programs, you will find them on other disks of TnC Collected works. Because I was already busy with the Soundz & DemoZ series and decided all at once to go on with the ToolZ & DemoZ series, all these demos have annoying random sound effects.

Some are pictures viewers with something special, like: Random Color, MED-Soft, MUP and CAT-PIC. CAT-PIC was one of the last MSX projects
I was working on (1996).

The idea was to create catalog pictures showing a thumbnail of every picture on the disk even if it's was made for a different SCREEN type. Well, I never came so far to implemented the conversion part of SCANMENU. It only creates a catalog picture in SCREEN 8 and creates thumbnails for SCREEN 8 pictures.

The main part is the tools, which can be divided into 3 categories:  converters, text readers, color changers.
I won't name all converters one by one, see for yourself. There are enough pictures on this disk to play with.


Every MSX-er creates text readers, cause it's not so easy
to read texts in MSX-Basic, so I made a couple myself.
Check out: CopyEdje and CataInfo.

With color changers, I mean changing the pallette of the pictures in SCREEN 5, 7 and sometimes 8 too.
Like: Color searcher/converter, EditPal5, palet changer.

But wait! There is more!
For example:

- My favorite copy tool in MSX-DOS 1: Autoload
+ It uses your whole memory-mapper to copy (big) files

- My homemade menu with sub-menus:  Homemade
+ Made for own utility disks with lots and lots of programs
- My twice modified MCM Text Scroller: Scroller
+ In SCREEN 0, but easy to use in your own programs.
- My universal MSX-DOS autoloader: Memman
+ I didn't make it, I just made it a bit user-friendlier.


And I mentioned it earlier there are pictures for SCREEN 5, 7 and 8 to play with.
In the MED-Soft (EMP-Soft v0.0) picture viewer, you see some SCREEN 7 pictures made
by Elko Duijm with Graph Saurus of Bit2 (of course).

You see a lot of the color purple in the screenshots, I just like deep purple...

Still want to download this disk: Mediafire
 

My Music Memories: My Doorbell of The White Stripes

It took me a lot of time to post something new. But here it is now.
It's not I don' t like Blogging anymore. I just had a lot of stuff made (and ready to blog about) and I couldn't finish it.
I was still not happy with the end-result. This post was one of the few things that were really finished and I will blog about it now.

I was searching for audio for a song of Bob Fosko "Me vader is behanger" for another project I was working on. Bob Fosko was also heard in an MSX sample of "De Kuil" , see Soundz & DemoZ part 5. Then I found a blog called "Pindakaas" with the original audio, strangely not from YouTube. I consider to post the complete song on YouTube, some day.
Anyway, that blog had only music from YouTube and other sources, without any comments.
In fact, most of the time comments are disabled.
Mmm, why. Don't you want any feedback? Good or bad?



Okay, one of the songs I listened to was this one "My Doorbell". I listened to it, because it was a funny title, a song about a doorbell. And it was. You hear only drums, a keyboard and a singer, boy what a funky tune this is. Of course, I started browsing for more White Stripes on YouTube and after I listened to their most popular songs I had to admin,

I never am a fan. In fact, I believe "My Doorbell" was the most commercial song they ever recorded. Who is they? The White Stripes? I could write the same things that wiki already did, so I only say that Jack White never played the same song the same way and I think Megan White struggled more and more to keep up with Jack. Being a drummer is not easy if the singer and guitar/keyboard player goes freestyle during each song.

Did I tell I only liked "My Doorbell" ? No ? That's true, I found a live recording of an alternative blues song "Ball and Biscuit" and it was the best blues song I heard for years.
Raw guitar riffs, steady drums.

BTW I could help creating a little meme with "My Doorbell"
Sorry for that!

Of course, there are covers of "My Doorbell", like from these "two losers"
( well, Josh Mullen did 51 other covers of famous songs, and all were not bad at all ).
But the best version of "My Doorbell" is the live version of The White Stripes featuring Jools Holland on piano and Jack White on distorted guitar.
It's really something else.

My Music Memories: Bleed of Timmy Trumpet & SCNDL (Monstercat)

When you get older your music taste seems a bit rusty, you like music from a certain decade. For me, it's the 1980's and the 1990's.

So if you son or daughter is listening to music, you probably dislike it, cause it's in your ears out of sync, too loud or something else.

However sometimes old tunes could be new favorites of your next generation.
And sometimes it's time to make new musical memories.

I posted earlier about my Monstercat favs and before I found out to create playlists on YouTube. I downloaded some music video's from YouTube months ago. Like this one.
Recently I downloaded some anti-stress exercises on an old USB-stick of 512 Mb and
when I was browsing through all my downloads I found a couple of Monstercat songs



I listened and I could not help my self, liking this one "Bleed" is a very simple song.
You just take a short trumpet loop, a drum-computer and somebody who is clearing
his throat (or Bert of Sesamstraat is laughing).
Put it all together in the default Monstercat style and...voila...

Monstercat described the music style as BOUNCE, I think it' s another glitch-hop or dub-step clone. A very funny one.

Life Is Strange - the game the music the story the fan-stuff

I kinda feel a bit strange, cause I want to post a comment about a game I never played.
Life Is Strange comes in 5 Episodes, so it's 5 games you must play to know the whole story. You can play Part 1 for free. 

I saw the whole package on Steam on sale. The title made me curious, so I began to read the comments. How can this game gets so much goodwill ?

And it gets strange cause lots of the comments were from male gamers, 
while the game is really about the friendship (and a bit more) between 2 female teenagers. 

One called Chloe (blue hair) gets always in trouble (or killed)  and the other (Max) save her by rewinding the time. 

So I watched the trailer and spoil everything by looking for the ending in Episode 5. 
I started Pewdiepie video, cause he played the whole game and just like Pewdiepie I was breathless and swept away by the end choice you had to make. 
Yes, it's no more than a interactive story where you must make the desicions, which have their consequences later in the game. But the final desicion, where Max must choose between Chloe or the town she lives in, is hard.

Why ? How weird the conversations may be, you believe in all people in the game, 
specially in Max and Chloe. So at the 2nd Pewdiepie ending, when Max is at the funeral of Chloe, I watched with almost tears in my eyes. It was so so sad...
And I didnt want to play the game anymore, to experience this all again by myself...
So it's a great story to believe in.

Another big plus of the game is the well-chosen music, that really gets under your skill. For example in both endings you here "Spanish Sahara", sounding so sad, but also songs like "To All Of You", "Obstacles", "Mountains", "The Sense Of Me" fits perfectly to scenes in this game. 

You can say all songs wanted to make you sad, but that's not true, luckily. 
Check out the Vortex Club Party Music. 

Life Is Strange had a big impact on all gamers, so on YouTube you can find alternative endings, parodies, new home-made stories and music-videos.
Of course there are different soundtracks to be found and even songs inspired by this game.

I could continue much longer, but it's  better I give you some YouTube links and let you find out yourself what the Life Is Strange game does to you.

Trailer / Pewdiepie's playlist / Parody / Soundtrack / Home-made story / Music-video / 
Vortex Club Party Mix

I also watched Piediepie's video's for Walking Dead, also very tough to watch and make even harder desicions than in Life Is Strange, but it hit me not so hard as Life Is Strange.
Maybe the music in Life Is Strange is better, I dont know.

Have an amazing experience with Life Is Strange.

TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 6

And there was Part 6, The "Lily Was Here Edition". First I will explain the title of this edition.

"Lily Was Here" was a single from the soundtrack of Dutch movie "De Kassiëre", and was composed and performed by Dave A. Stewart (ex-Eurythmics) and Candy Dulfer (a Dutch saxophonist). The film was very bad and the soundtrack easy to forget, however this song became very famous and if you search on YouTube "Lily Was Here Remix" you can spend a whole day to listen to all of them.

So I will keep this YouTube "Lily Was Here" linkslist a bit short.
Here we go:
* Music Video featuring Dave A Stewart and Candy Dulfer
* Music Video featuring scenes of the movie "De Kassiëre"
* "Lily Was Here, Live in Amsterdam" great live version.
* Remix of Teddy-J with another bass, more uptempo and an weird animation video.
* Remix of GPP with that nice Ibiza feeling in it.
* Remix of K-Lukasz with more tempo, more techno dance.
* Remix of Emanuel Kosh & Timofey, with a more lounge attitude.


On this disk you can find a MSX-1 sample demo (Wordstore+) and a MSX-2 sample demo (FM-FAC sampler). Both had not much of a graphic interface, so I created a simple menu (see picture). While I was search for a Music Module basic-tool, I found an old FM-Pac Music demo by Crackbird & Maddog, better know as TwinSoft. They used some stolen music from XAK and a lot of selfmade covers of famous songs, including...Lily Was Here (see picture). I listened and it was so bad, it sounds like a PSG conversion that was never finished. So I didn't include the demo on this "Lily Was Here Edition".

There is also a Guitar FM Sounds demo
(see picture).
I had a nice picture of a guitar and a nice random FM sound-effects generator, called FMSOUNDS. I combined them with some animation and this was the result.

You will find on this disk more tools, just like the Part 5 disk.

Different ones ofcourse.

 Also there is a lot to read on this disk, specially I included
3 versions of SYNTH TOOL (for converting Synth Saurus V2.00 Basic files) with a textfile in Dutch and English.
I used Bing Translate instead of Google and the result was better than expected. The Bing translator tries to create real phrases and that speeds up the final translating a lot.
And some leftover converted PSG musics for the FM-Pac (see picture)

I'm almost reached the end of my collection ZoundZ and DemoZ, so it now harder to fill up the entire disk. I'm guessing I can create 2 more disks, but a major challenge lies ahead for me and I'm not sure I can handle it properly.
That's all for now.

Check out: Mediafire / Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC Soundz and DemoZ Disk Part 5

Here is already Part 5 of my infamous series of ZoundZ and DemoZ disks. 

This one is called "The PSG-Sampler Edition". 

Yeah, most of this disk is filled with samples made with PSG-SAMPLER, a very good MSX-2 sampler program. It runs only with Memman a memory manager developed by MSX Software Team.

I used PSG-SAMPLER mostly to convert long samples and sequences from the "New Era" demo by UMF, cause I wanted to hear the best-sampled songs on any MSX audio device, instead of only Music Module or Turbo-R.

PSG-SAMPLER was able to play a sample via PSG, MSX-MUSIC (FM-PAC), MSX-AUDIO (MUSIC MODULE), PCM (Turbo-R) and SIMPL (an easy to build MSX sample device).

However the MSX-Basic replayer was never really finished and I lost interest in sampling music on my MSX, 

I was more interested in FAC Soundtracker and Moonblaster.

 

On this disk, you find 2 long converted samples of the "New Era", "Feel It" and "Groove". You can find these together with "Orgasmico" on "Move The House 7" from EVA.

Noticed the link was not taking you to discogs.com?

Since you have to log in on discogs.com I will never link to them again. Why should you log in on Discogs? Does Wikipedia have a login? I think Discogs made a big mistake here.

They are not another Social Media like Facebook, Pinterest, etc, they are only an encyclopedia of music, nothing more...

 I also recorded a funny sample of Blunt Axe "De Kuil" in Dutch language. The sample came from the CD-single "De Kuil", but was never a big hit in the Netherlands. The first single of Blunt Axe had more success and made it even to be uploaded to YouTube

I liked the instrumental version of "De Kuil" more and recorded it on a compilation tape called: My Favorite Remixes II Side A (start at 15:37), cause I think Blunt Axe used too many samples in the radio version.

But there is more shit to find on this Part 5 disk, than just samples. I created especially for this ZoundZ and DemoZ series a simple PSG sound-effect creator called SOUNDER, a remake of PSG random sequence maker BIGHIT 2.2 and a couple of tools to play with if you have a FM-PAC or MSX-MUSIC.

And I created a sort of simple animation demo with a nice drawing of a steamboat, of course, the drawing and music were made by my partner
in EMP-Soft, Elko Duijm.

I have not much to say here, except download it and have fun exploring.

Mediafire / Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC SoundZ & DemoZ Disk Part 4

Finally, I finished Part 4 of this series. I wanted (as always) do more than just put the files in a menu with a short description and release it. 

No, instead I checked every program on this disk, tried to make it a little better and when I was nearly finished, there was not enough disk space. So I had to remove some to save it for the next Part (5). 
And just at the last check, I found out I forgot the main drum kit of one of these Moonblaster demo's you will find on this disk. 

Well, Part 4 is ready now, it's called "The MoonBlaster edition", cause it contains 3 small Moonblaster demo's, MOVE THA HOUZ, TC-TECKK, and ZOOITJE. Together with the Music Module sample demo  REVOLUTION, there was not much space left. I filled the rest of the disk again with small MSX-MUSIC files.

Some notes about the REVOLUTION demo. It was the last sample demo I made, this time together with Elko Duijm, he made the graphics, I did the samples and main programming.
Of course, the title was not original, but if you use samples of J.M. Jarre's Revolution, how would you name your demo then? Sample Demo #24?

MOVE THA HOUZ was a simple remake of the Flying Bytes music disk Move Tha HouzDisk version, with MoonBlaster versions of their "best" tracks.
Their tracks were made with FAC Soundtracker Pro only for MSX-AUDIO and I hated it that Flying Bytes didn't bother about MSX-MUSIC users.
So I made this remake with some surprises, for example: play song 1 in the Music Replayer.

For the TC-TECKK demo I made a long info text in English, don't ask me why. I made a simple text viewer so you enjoy my sense of humor...There is also some useful info in it, 
I don't think I need to say more here. A SCREEN 5 demo.

There is a lot to tell about the ZOOITJE Moonblaster demo. 

First: ZOOITJE is a Dutch word for MESS, Impact made some house tracks with that name and I liked to hear them in MSX-STEREO. 
I converted the FST Pro (again !!) files in MoonBlaster 1.3 and created so-called stereo-edits. But MB 1.3 had a nasty bug, so after creating and saving the stereo-edits I never could edit it again. There was more trouble. 

When I tested the demo I noticed ZOOITJE 3 file was corrupted and I had not any backup. So I needed to create a fresh new stereo-edit (with MB 1.4 without the bug) and because Impact made also ZOOITJE 5, I created another stereo-edit for this little demo. 

At this time it was still a text-only demo, very boring for a ZOOITJE/MESSY demo. I decided to remake the demo in SCREEN 1 and created with the help of CHRPAINT (also made by me) some weird character color changes. It made the ZOOITJE demo MESSY enough, believe me...

Finally, I put some FM-Pac/MSX-Music files all made by EMP-Soft on this disk. 

Menu 2 contains converted PSG-music by me and Menu 3 contains original works by Elko Duijm.

I hope you like them, as much as I like those.
There are some game music , some classic tunes, and some famous pop-songs.

Mediafire / Pcloud

Oh my, I forgot, I included my own version of the MoonBlaster Basic Replayer on this disk.
I used it a lot for listening to my own collected Moonblaster music on the disk.

Last note: as you will see there is no ZOOTJE 1 music made by Impact, that's because ZOOITJE was already made by Flying Bytes, check out the MOVE THA HOUZ demo.

TnC Collected works : TnC SoundZ & DemoZ Disk Part 3

I just could not set myself to program my delayed Wordstore Mix demo's or Wordstore Mega demo or improve MBR8S and release a final version or modify some Basic games for my 112 MSX Basic Games series. 

So instead I collected demos and music for Part 3 and higher. However, I had to program some parts to make this disk more user-friendly and more translated into English. For example, MODULE2 was hard to translate and still have a working layout and SULTANS OF SWING MENU I had to program it from scratch. I am happy with the result, but it was not easy to get good digis. So converting pics to SCREEN 8 was the most difficult part.

Now, something about the stuff you find on the disk.

This disk is called the "Sultans Of Swing Edition", cause mainly it contains different versions of the song "Sultans Of Swing" of Dire Straits of course.


You can find an MSX-1 FM-version, a Music Module sample version and a Synth Saurus 2 version. Is there more?

Yes, I included the NO-PROMO demo, the only demo I every made with Magic Music Module music program. I still don't know why I bought it, cause it was just a bad FAC Soundtracker clone. 
 For the big words seen in the demo I used the trick from Philips MSX-2 Basic demo and it was also my first demo in SCREEN 5.  
About the music: it was my 1 and only attempt to compose a house track, I made many versions of the song, but this was the best I could. 
I failed completely to create a good house beat.Some parts are not that bad at all...

The last part is some tools I made for FM-FAC Soundsampler  for the Philips Music Module.
It's not freeware and I couldn't find a cracked one, so I could not include it in any way.
But you can still use this programs without it and listen to some samples of J.M. Jarre.

To fill up the disk I added some FM-Pac/MSX-Musics from Elko Duijm of EMP-Soft and created a simple menu to play those.
Also on this disc some tools and a player to create BGM files from Synth Saurus 2.0 files and of course some EMP-Soft BGM files to listen too (Elvis Presley !!).

Mediafire / Pcloud