One night, One cassette tape... One Sony Walkman... One Commodore 64... and me... completed the whole soundtrack (including this tune) in one night... next day... school... :O I was only 16 or 17 when I created this... skilled, but tired... haha! =D
All this in one nihgt's work!? This just makes your version of the soundtrack even better. Question: What were your thoughts on the original soundtrack and did you ever listen to the original before getting tasked this project?
@valcaron My first tune I programmed in BASIC. Then wrote music in Assembly (hardcore stuff)... When I got my hands on a "tracker" I also had to familiarize myself with the possibilities, but it was a lot of fun not having to hard code each instrument, length and note, etcetera. My "home" now is Renoise, based on Fasttracker2, which in turn was based on Protracker, which in turn was based on Soundtracker, which in turn was based on Soundmonitor by Chris Huelsbeck... It's true evolution in music creation, which is even now adapted into "professional" software like Logic, Cubase and such. Quite a journey, really. ;-)
I studied this Song for man years and i found on sid channel 1 something incredible... pulse, noise, triangle, saw waves... comes together to create a fantastic melody... and as if this were not enough there is a snare...jeroen tel how did you do it? Fantastic... absolutely fantastic
@@JeroenTel Still my favourite version of Wilderness to this day and that's nothing against You Takada's original work. It's a brilliant piece from the arcade.
I owned Golden Axe on tape back then for the C64. I used to load up, and when these screens came. Awesome artwork and awesome music. When this theme was done, i resetted the C64 and loaded it up again. I even remember, the very first time i heard this, coming out of my television, to call my mom into the room and yelled, MOM come hear this! Isn't this AMAZING! Hands down best music programmed, not sampled or keyboard play, by Jeroen Tel. My hat, if i was wearing one, is off.
I'm amazed by all the multitasking the upper two channels are doing. Loved this version of the wilderness theme so much as a teenager getting into retro computing and retro gaming. ^w^
It is thanks to this track that I came to learn about Jeroen Tel's outstanding skills and work. So I want to thank you a bunch for making me re discover it. And if the Master himself comes around here, then please let my thanks go to him as well for his...well..mastery, of sound.
Does the C64 normally do a Rising Ramp or falling Ramp sawtooth? In some tracks like "Tintin on the Moon" and "Rubicon" It's a Rising ramp sawtooth; In "Outrun", "Afterburner" and "2400 AD" it's a falling ramp sawtooth. In this work both are present.
The SID chip’s filter inverts the output of the signal its filtering. So when unfiltered, the sawtooth wave is rising ramp, but when filtered, it’s falling.
normally most SID chip artists will likely to set the resonance to max. you can notice it with the sharp edges at the start of the wave. but some of them would like to set the resonance lower, to make it sound more like a normal wave.
169/5000 jeroen you can tell me more about this cover. you had a source or did everything on your ear. did they give you some source? tell some trivia. did you earn any money on this?
"One night, One cassette tape... One Sony Walkman... One Commodore 64... and me... completed the whole soundtrack (including this tune) in one night... next day... school... :O I was only 16 or 17 when I created this... skilled, but tired... haha! =D" I haven't read anything more? earnings?
Has anyone listened to the the version in Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed? It's Segas own Guiles Theme Goes With Everything. This is still outstanding, I loved my C64. 🥰
![Jeroen Tel - "Eliminator (C64) - In-Game Theme" [Oscilloscope View]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BiJ1Xsp44ek/mqdefault.jpg)
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![Jeroen Tel - "2400 A.D. (C64) - Main Theme" [Oscilloscope View]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QsfBkGpQ_dI/mqdefault.jpg)
One night, One cassette tape... One Sony Walkman... One Commodore 64... and me... completed the whole soundtrack (including this tune) in one night... next day... school... :O
I was only 16 or 17 when I created this... skilled, but tired... haha! =D
All this in one nihgt's work!? This just makes your version of the soundtrack even better.
Question: What were your thoughts on the original soundtrack and did you ever listen to the original before getting tasked this project?
@valcaron My first tune I programmed in BASIC.
Then wrote music in Assembly (hardcore stuff)... When I got my hands on a "tracker" I also had to familiarize myself with the possibilities, but it was a lot of fun not having to hard code each instrument, length and note, etcetera. My "home" now is Renoise, based on Fasttracker2, which in turn was based on Protracker, which in turn was based on Soundtracker, which in turn was based on Soundmonitor by Chris Huelsbeck... It's true evolution in music creation, which is even now adapted into "professional" software like Logic, Cubase and such. Quite a journey, really. ;-)
Anyway... You are a genius ❤️
Bedankt Jeroen! Wat een prestatie was dit! Ongekend.
Who needs school with these musical skills?
So good . Best vibes of all versions . Listening to it im amazed nobody ripped it off for a pop tune or something . Im glad too that never happened
I studied this Song for man years and i found on sid channel 1 something incredible... pulse, noise, triangle, saw waves... comes together to create a fantastic melody... and as if this were not enough there is a snare...jeroen tel how did you do it? Fantastic... absolutely fantastic
1.000's of hours of practice... I guess.... and passion! =)
@@JeroenTel Still my favourite version of Wilderness to this day and that's nothing against You Takada's original work. It's a brilliant piece from the arcade.
❤@@jamiewilliamson9829
Literally one of the best c64 tunes ever Jeroen Tel is a legend 👍
Can't do anything more than like that and agree.
One of the defining SID masterworks.
I'm humbled to have been in the position to even do so. ❤
I owned Golden Axe on tape back then for the C64. I used to load up, and when these screens came. Awesome artwork and awesome music. When this theme was done, i resetted the C64 and loaded it up again. I even remember, the very first time i heard this, coming out of my television, to call my mom into the room and yelled, MOM come hear this! Isn't this AMAZING!
Hands down best music programmed, not sampled or keyboard play, by Jeroen Tel. My hat, if i was wearing one, is off.
Sorry for the late reply, life kind of took over. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. 🫶🏼
The BEST cover of this song ever written. Jeroen is a genius :)
Another epic piece of music from an excellent composer and musician.
And this folks, is what a master-class instrument sounds like, in the hands of a master-class composer.
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Thank you, Sherbert!
LEGENDARY.
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I'm amazed by all the multitasking the upper two channels are doing. Loved this version of the wilderness theme so much as a teenager getting into retro computing and retro gaming. ^w^
Awesome. A pleasure for ears now even for sight!
It is thanks to this track that I came to learn about Jeroen Tel's outstanding skills and work. So I want to thank you a bunch for making me re discover it. And if the Master himself comes around here, then please let my thanks go to him as well for his...well..mastery, of sound.
You have some Mega Drive drums here, and it still amazes me that SID chip is generating it by synth, without PCM sampling.
The SID chip is hands down the best piece of 8-bit audio hardware.
I think awesome part from 0:49 to 1:19 and from 3:00 to 3:30 not in arcade version.
True.
It is though, isn't it? I mean Jeroen's has more instrumentation (I think that's the word).
Huh. It was definitely in the DOS version, which is what I played.
I notice that channel 3 switches waveforms mid-note. A pretty cool way of emulating FM synth
Fm is way more complex lol
@@chinossynthesizer705 you think i don't know that?
@@ninjacat230 analog could never emulate or sound like fm synthesis same for fm synth it can't sound like analog their both unique in their own ways
@@chinossynthesizer705 you think we dont know that?
Everyone who plays this game has a personal attachment to this song because you composed it.
This give me chills !
that's fantastic!!!
When you are defeating zombies, skeletons and creepers with nothing but a "Golden Axe"
Love that filtered arp sound
Not gonna lie, this sounds much fuller and better use of the hardware it's on than the Megadrive version.
Does the C64 normally do a Rising Ramp or falling Ramp sawtooth? In some tracks like "Tintin on the Moon" and "Rubicon" It's a Rising ramp sawtooth; In "Outrun", "Afterburner" and "2400 AD" it's a falling ramp sawtooth. In this work both are present.
The SID chip’s filter inverts the output of the signal its filtering. So when unfiltered, the sawtooth wave is rising ramp, but when filtered, it’s falling.
@@acrouzet I thougt that might be the case, but it doesn't looked filtered in Outrun (And by that I mean having the squiggly lines at the ends.)
The resonance must be lower then.
normally most SID chip artists will likely to set the resonance to max. you can notice it with the sharp edges at the start of the wave. but some of them would like to set the resonance lower, to make it sound more like a normal wave.
ma è stupendoooo
Wenn J.Tel in der C64 Szene fehlen würde, würden 50% fehlen...
1:32 What is the third channel doing there with its wave? Inversion?
Just an apeggiated pulse wave switching to a sawtooth under a low-pass filter
Real g a m e r music
*_understandable, have a great day_*
Fuck yeh!!
Jeroen
169/5000
jeroen you can tell me more about this cover. you had a source or did everything on your ear. did they give you some source? tell some trivia. did you earn any money on this?
"One night, One cassette tape... One Sony Walkman... One Commodore 64... and me... completed the whole soundtrack (including this tune) in one night... next day... school... :O
I was only 16 or 17 when I created this... skilled, but tired... haha! =D" I haven't read anything more? earnings?
@@kontopremiowe7581 In an interview he gave in Dutch he said that he earned on the order of €1000, although I'm sure € didn't exist back then.
Has anyone listened to the the version in Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed? It's Segas own Guiles Theme Goes With Everything. This is still outstanding, I loved my C64. 🥰
Sonic and Allstars racing transformed
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my bad sir, have a great day