Custom Music Request

What format are you looking for?

 

Search up "Green Hill Zone Bass & Percussion" on Youtube. It should be the first video you see, and it has everything but the drums and baseline removed.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: you might need a Youtube converter to get the song, but I think the guy has a link to the MP3 on his profile.

 

If you still want the other melodies intact, then I'd say getting a Midi file and removing the melody line from it is your best bet. (I'm unsure on how to do this, but I think FL Studio or another Midi friendly program should help.)

Another way is to Download Winamp, and get the in_vgm plugin so you can play the .vgm format. one you do that, you can change in_vgm's settings so you can mute the melody line you want to get rid of.

 

Hey, I'm the guy who has those uploads on YouTube. I can give you exactly what you requested for. And Afro Thunder is right, you can use in_vgm and Winamp to mute a song that's available on Project2612.

Just gimme a few moments.

 

You're on here now, dissident? kinda strange for me to be seeing a lot of my favorite youtube members on here lately...

To get back on topic, Fuzzball, I know you don't want Midis, but I think you might be able to give it MD-like sounds if you have the Ultimate Genesis Soundfont.

(I'm not trying to advertise in any way, btw. Just trying to be helpful)

 

Haha yea, I'm on here. I attempted to register back in May, but I suppose I needed more reason than simply having contacted Tokuhiko Uwabo.

Also, you can use Audio Overload. It allows you to mute, and it's a stand-alone executable. I'm also giving you all the main themes without melody, just because. :P

EDIT: Enjoy

 

You can use XMPlay instead, as I do. It works with Winamp input plugins, and its portable as it needs no installation. You just unzip it and run it.
The following should solve all your problems:
XMPlay
in_vgm plugin Get version 0.35, and put the file from the zip into the XMPlay folder, or even a sub folder.
Sonic VGM files This is the soundtrack to Sonic 1 in vgm format (they say vgz, but its just the compressed version of vgm). You should also check out the rest of that database.

Anyway, once you've unzipped XMPlay, added the in_vgm.dll to the XMPlay folder, and unzipped the Sonic soundtrack to anyplace of your liking, open XMPlay and right click it somewhere, to open Options. Go to the Integration section. Be sure to hilight vgm and vgz, and click apply. Now explorer should have associated those vgz files to open with XMPlay.
Open Green Hill Zone from the soundtrack. If you can hear it, all is well. Open Options again, and go to Plugins > Input. Click the vgm input plugin in the list, and click config to open the plugin's settings window. From there, go to the YM2612 tab and start tweaking the channels. The check boxes determine whether a channel is active or muted. Here's a reference pic so you know you're doing it right:


The lead is probably the first channel, along with another channel dedicated to the echo. Keep in mind that because a channel will sometimes swap instruments it is not always the same throughout the song, and you may end up muting more than necessary. Your own intuition as a sound editor will have to take over from there.
If you can hear the lead muted out, you're all good, so click OK to confirm out of the plugin settings window. Now in XMPlay's options, click output. From here, common sense should take over. Make sure the song is stopped, then change the output device to WAV Writer. Set the output directory, then click Apply. When you hit play again, you will be given a file save dialog, then the song will play silent but fast, as its writing the sound data to disk. You can now use your lead-free Green Hill Zone for experimentation.

That's just the beginning though. Have you ever heard of emulated formats? They'll change your life. They consume FAR less space than MP3 soundtracks (since they're similar to tracker formats) and they are always in perfect lossless quality, and if its synthesized then you can increase the sample rate as high as possible. Emulated formats exist for just about any console that uses chip or tracker style formats to play music (Genesis, SNES, NES, Gameboy, N64, etc) For some plugins, you can render each track solo and create a full remix. I suggest you render out the percussion and use Wavosaur's BPM detector to help you with your remix.

 

Glad I could help. :D

 

You sure? It should have options to mute nearly all emulated game music on the right side. Did you use VGMs from Project2612.org?

 

You must be talking about the 4 extra PSG/SN76489. Those can be muted with XMPlay or Winamp, with the in_vgm plugin.

 

Yea, you can't really channel mute PSFs. I don't know the technical details behind them, but it's not like a NES, SNES, or Genesis song, where the channel has ONE instrument in it. PSFs (and I think USFs as well). It's weird.