"If there are missing parts or if I am starting with nothing, I'll recreate whatever is needed with my MIDI keyboard or just by drawing notes out," he said. While Jeremy also tried to find MIDI tracks of music he likes (or importantly, ones he can listen to on repeat) sometimes he's forced to make his own. Jeremy's approach is a little more in-depth and takes a bit more time - he averages about 15 hours on each song. You can get sheet music and convert into MIDI files as well, for the harder things to find." But yeah most of the time I'll either find or buy these MIDI files. "I've got a little micro Korg I can plug in, to add different bits. " are already broken out into different instruments," Nathan said. After downloading a soundfont file - the most popular one seems to be a recent upload by someone named "Pablo's Corner" - he finds MIDI versions of his target track and lets the soundfont align itself to the elements of the song. Nathan's process isn't as laborious as you'd think. I guess I find the moodiest songs seem to work better." How are N64 covers made? My most popular one was a My Chemical Romance one which a lot of people seemed to like as well. "I guess I try to find songs that I like from my childhood and stuff. "Half the time you'll have the perfect track and the perfect sound and then you put them together and they just don't work," he said.
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I'm taking them a little more seriously now, since they get so much more attention."īack in Melbourne, Nathan said it's a bit of trial and error when it comes to finding the perfect track to cover with the limited range of sounds from the 1996 game. "I would've definitely spent more time if I had known it would be successful. "People are digging the music, which is funny, because I didn't take them as seriously as I took my own personal music," he told triple j. "I was inspired to figure out how I could get similar effects and my first few songs were the result of that experimentation."Ĭanadian artist Something Is Real was actually inspired by watching Jeremy's work on Radiohead's In Rainbows and began creating N64 covers outside of his own music. "I ended up posting it to my YouTube account and got some positive feedback, which motivated me to share more. "About two years ago I made a version of Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada in the Mario 64 soundfont," he said. He told triple j he's been producing covers for a couple of years now as a hobby and creative outlet after he came across a cover of American Football's ' Never Meant' and started experimenting. "And I was listening to them like 'Oh, these are awesome, I wanna make one'."Īnother creator is Montana-based artist, Jeremy, who produces covers under the name on4word. Then a couple of years ago the algorithm just started blessing Nintendo soundboard covers because they kept coming up in my feed. "That stuck with me for a very long time. "I'd go back to early YouTube, back when was pure, I remember the first thing I saw there was this video called 'Dank Dank Docks' and it was Snoop Dogg mixed with like Mario 64," he said. He works under the moniker Microplastic Brain and has been producing N64 soundfont covers for the last few months. Melbourne-based creator/shitposter, Nathan Robinson is one of the artists suddenly pumping out MIDI versions of popular songs and deep cuts alike. So who's making these nostalgia-heavy covers? It's all come from people who have likely spent countless hours on painstakingly recreating massive tunes with the sounds we typically associate with a '90s-era Mario wahoo-ing through clunky three-dimensional landscapes. Punch the right thing into YouTube (like "soundfont" or "N64 cover") and you'll be greeted with a seemingly endless offering of content.
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