Zap Kick Pinion
Zap Snare Pinion
Looping Bass PM
Thunder ROTT
Skeleton ROTT
chicago wind Sub
Organ Ratz
Eerie Choir Sub
Metal Guitar Sub
InsaneLaugh.sample Mark
InsaneLaugh2.sample Mark
tomdrum Unripped
Reveresed Cymbal
High Crash
Howling Gargoyle FTP
Dragon's Growl FTP
Screamin' drama queen
WHATWSTH.WAV
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An S3M by Arcturus=======
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Celebrate Halloween with
this fun, voice sample
laden S3M! A few of the
samples are from games,
a couple from Rise of the
Triad (ROTT) and a couple
from Full Tilt Pinball
(FTP).
Enjoy. And have a
ghoulish evening...
(c) 1996 Nucleus Software
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After having completed a fairly serious-sounding song in Dark Star (final), I wanted to have a bit of fun, so I made a Halloween track. The bassline was inspired by some background music I heard in a Halloween episode of a TV series I watched at the time, possibly Home Improvement. Other musical inspiration was probably from the Rise of the Triad soundtrack song “Chant” and the Phantom of the Opera main theme / Echoes by Pink Floyd.
The sound effect samples come from Rise of the Triad and Full Tilt Pinball (which may have come packaged with our family computer). This was (I think) the first time I used the “floating tempo” technique: alternating a slow and fast tempo on consecutive lines throughout the song to create a “groove” effect. This was also the next-to-last time I used my favorite guitar sample of my early tracking days, which I first used in Segue and would use for the final time in Pretzelstock.
Overall this song has a decent idea but I wasn’t fond of the ending. The guitars kind of took away from the haunted mansion feel I was going for, and they were absurdly loud when I added the higher notes. The Homer Simpson sample at the end was completely unnecessary. A year later, I created another Halloween song called The Creeping House, which is far better. It even briefly uses the same idea behind the bass line, but I wouldn’t call the song a remake.
- arcturus