PilotWings 64 Rocketpack demo HD.wmv

This was one of the sequences I created before beginning the track work on PilotWings 64. It eventually became the Rocket Pack theme. The sequence itself was written to demonstrate a sound library that my company created called Sounds of the Seventies by Sonic Arts. The library was released for Emu Systems and Kurzweil users. For you musicians and composers out there, the entire track was just a sequence in my Kurzweil K2500.

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Music

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• PilotWings
• 64
• Rocketpack
• demo
• sound
• track
• Music
• Dan
• Hess
• Soundtrack

[alf42red]

This is great! Please tell us how you get the ideas for those melodies! What scales/chords do you use? Is it improvised, recorded with quantization? The PilotWings64 music is a great source of inspiration.

[SonicArtist313]

@alf42red It's been a few years but what I remember is watching the early renditions of the game and thinking that the characters were kind of funky/cartoony and the music just kind of flowed from there. Many tracks were written initially in my home studio after my first visit to the Paradigm studios which made it in to the game including mission select, jungle hopper, and of course Rocketpack.

[SonicArtist313]

@alf42red I don't think of scales so much as melodies and grooves when I write or a feel which I am going for. I don't like to quantize, would rather just spot fix any obvious mistakes. Thanks for the post!

[WestAirAviation]

Thank you for the childhood memories sir,

I feel like I should be giving you a tip.

[SonicArtist313]

@WestAirAviation LOL! You just did. Thanks!

[Metroid225]

@SonicArtist313 Did you use the MusyX soundkit? I haven't gotten my hands on the Maestro devkit, so I can't really know.

Regardless, boss work, man. Pleasure to see old devs creeping up on the tubes. :)

[SonicArtist313]

@Metroid225 I never used a sound kit. Sound development was part of my process and a big part in shaping the overall tone of the soundtrack.

[alf42red]

@SonicArtist313 You have more PilotWings64 tracks that weren't in the game? :D Can I buy them somewhere?

[SonicArtist313]

@Guitarist500 That is a good question. I never met the man, nor did he have anything to do with my soundtrack for Pilotwings 64. I wrote, arranged, sequenced, recorded and installed each and every track in to the game myself. It is typical for Nintendo to give credit from within where it is not due. Mr. Wada and Oyagi were instrumental in selecting tracks that I was writing for the different themes, although it was a great challenge to get past the cultrual barrier for music types.

[Guitarist500]

I have a question, what's akito nakatsuka (the arranger of the ost) like? I'm wondering what he's been up to as well