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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2021
- If you didn't already know, Hard Times was an 80s synthpop song that wasn't released until the late 2000's. And because it wasn't released at the time, in the 90's the song's composer reused the song as the level theme for Ice Cap zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. There's more details to this story, but I'm not recapping the complete history of Sonic 3's music right now.
I got the idea to make this cover after hearing the act 2 arrangements that Isabelle Chiming wrote for all of the Sonic 3 levels that didn't already have proper act 2 music. Her arrangement of Ice Cap took the approach of subtly integrating the melody from Hard Times into the act 1 music, similar to how Flying Battery's act 2 arrangement worked. That made me notice just how different the original Hard Times recording is from what eventually became Ice Cap zone's music. It made me want to create my own Genesis cover of the original Hard Times arrangement, using some of Ice Cap's instruments.
Because I was using so many samples and instruments from the original song, I decided it would be easier to make this in FL Studio using Chipsynth MD instead of using Deflemask. I could've still made a Deflemask copy of this, and maybe I will go back and do it one day for comparison's sake. But since it was so much easier for me to work on my arrangement in FL Studio, starting over in Deflemask felt pointless to me. I still made sure to stick to the Genesis hardware limitations as much as possible. Even the square and noise channels are all coming from Chipsynth MD. I tried to reference volume levels from actual Genesis music so that this would feel a little more hardware authentic. But the biggest inaccuracy is definitely the pitch bends and vibrato since FL handles those differently than a tracker would. Aside from mastering, the only other inaccuracy here is that the release of some instruments may overlap a bit, but it's nothing you'd notice while listening to the full song, and I made an effort to cutoff releases wherever I could, such as with sample playback and the pad synth.
I decided to skip the ending guitar solo since it wasn't quite clear enough to transcribe. And for something that's supposed to sound like video game music, it made more sense to loop straight back to the beginning after the last chorus instead of jumping from a solo to the first chorus or something.
I should mention that for some reason, the video and audio may not sync up perfectly. It seems the video recorded the song slower than my direct render.
Oh, and I've got another big project I'm working on after this one. A project that combines both Chipsynth MD and SFC.
Be sure to check out Isabelle's Ice Cap arrangement that inspired mine. (The other two arrangements she posted are super good too!) • Sonic 3 & Knuckles - I...
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Arranged, mixed, and mastered in FL Studio: www.image-line...
All Genesis samples and instruments recorded from Chipsynth MD: plogue.com/pro...
![[The Jetzons - Hard Times] vs [Sonic 3 - Icecap] mashup (HQ)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iPNgC3gBaq4/mqdefault.jpg)
This sounds eerily similar to a song that I know I've heard on the Genesis. I think it might have been Zone music from a Sonic game? Man this is sure to drive me nuts for days to come.
Please read the description.
@@HLRxxKarl Man, was my sarcasm that subtle? Whoops!
@@BradCorrupts probably
@@BradCorrupts not really
@@HLRxxKarl ouch
Alternative Title: Ice Cap Zone With Vocal's
that's true should have been in sonic mania actually but they didn't maybe in sonic 3 air ?
This could've been a great Act 2 mix.
Genesis barely had enough resources for a regular ice cap, not to mention this
but yeah it could
Act 3
Wow!! “Way cool” feels like the perfect way to describe this, lmao. It’s cool knowing I inspired you! This is probably my favorite genesis Hard Times remix out there. I think all the differences are almost more interesting than the similarities. Really awesome, thanks!
neat
Did you mean: *Way past cool*
0:30 Exactly like ice cap
this is sick as hell?? how the fuck does this only have 600 views
This aged poorly
@@thishandlewasassassinated not really, I'd still consider it pretty underrated lmao
IT HAS LESS VIEWS?! WTF?!
@Yotsuba よつば in 7/22/2022 (today) it has 13,433 views
16,740
Now that hits the spot for a good genesis remix of hard times
I like the balance between recreating the original song accurately while also referencing themes from Ice Cap. Excellent work on this!
Wow pretty cool mix, I love how it's pretty familiar and brand new at the same time. It's going to be a sad day in hell when kids no longer associate this a classic like Sonic 3.
They should have put this in sonic Mania
Maybe a mod will someday?
@@SgtSega sonic mania how to make mods *search*
True
They couldnt put it because
Probably some sort of contract that was formed in 1994 with Jetzons and SEGA broke by now
Its someone else’s song, the J E T Z O N S
SEGA changed the name of Hard Times into Ice Cap Zone
And obviously, because of legal reasons, copyright issues etc.
@@RETURNMOV171 now that's true right there
Ice Palace act 2
Wow ice cap act 2
@@GEMRO417 Act 3
Nobody can beat johnny's music selection to Blast Robots at...
Except this to Ip1, but ip2 stills hits ass to 2034
This sounds very accurate to the original, and it sounds great too! I don't know how to feel about using the lead brass from flying battery to replace the vocals but this sounds cool
god imagine sonic 3 with sonic cd time travel, this would make a perfect bad future for ice cap
90s Time ???
Beautiful and awesome, bro.
Absolute banger
That lead instrument is everything. I think this is my favourite Hard Times genesis cover
ice cap zone act 3.
yep it's confirmed
the bass is literally ice cap and thats awesome
of course hard times was way before ice cap but this needs to be the new ice cap theme
That's because the bass is literally the same for both tracks
Ice Cap is Hard Times.
Brad Buxer, the main (credited) composer for Sonic 3 was the keyboardist for this group.
Oh wow this music in sonic 3 ice cap zone act 3
This need to be a mod in Sonic 3 A.I.R.
get the devs
Ice cap zone act 3 !!!❤❤❤
This game had give me ... HARD TIMES
This is amazing man
ICE CAP ZONE 3
Iceberg Zone from the hit game Speedy the 3 Hedgehog
I was expecting you to just play Ice Cap Zone.
The best version yet dude awesome!
Awesome!
Hard times in launch base zone.
that would be sick
A little Different from Ice Cap but still making it very Similar to keep Fans to Listen to it also!
Am I reading this correctly? You made this accurate to the amount of voices of the actual soundchip?
Yep. Wouldn't make it any other way. That's why all the playlist tracks are labeled to match the channels of the original sound chip.
@@HLRxxKarl Nice! I guess that means it could work in the actual hardware if this were to be resequenced in... say... DefleMask. I've heard amazing works using the soundchip alone. I bet this song can sound even better
Way past cool!
icecap zone bad future
Actually good future, what do you mean?
@@Hearttoons2003. actually BEST Future 😊
great remix
0:30 ICE CAP ZONE
ACT 2
Waited for the guitar solo but it never came
You must have a HARD TIMES making this lol
that's true 🤣🤣 but you have to admit he is pretty good at these remixes and covers
Fnf be like