Journey to Silius - Stage 3 (PC-Engine CD Style Remix)

I recently got a Roland U-220! It's really a cool module, contains some of Capcom's most revered sounds for one, especially in some of the drums and the guitars. It really is a proto-Sound Canvas of sorts, containing many of the sounds that would later appear on the SC-55 and be popularized that way.

Obviously the U-220 is put to work quite heavily here (drums, synth brass lead, guitars, mallets, choir pad and the bass), but I combined a lot of other stuff I own too - namely a lot of SC-8850 (guitars, more drums, pads, leads, mallets and strings), a bit of M1 (just the brass stabs), Wavestation (just the lead in the outro) and Quadrasynth (the piano part in the outro).

The reason I decided to remix this song in particular was because of conversations happening in the chiptune scene - It has recently been discovered that Sunsoft's bass samples have been incorrectly encoded in DPCM, and that reversing the bits gets you the actual samples that they used. A Roland slap bass was very clearly heard in Gimmick and a few other titles, after that process. The PC-Engine CD moniker comes from a few friends saying this has extreme PC-E CD vibes, which I agree with.

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