And this is only using 2/3 of the Mega drive's sound channels. Not that they're needed in this case, as the other third is just dedicated square wave and percussion channels.
@@Nimta It's impressive that he used fewer channels but it also makes sense that not all channels were used. You'd want sound effects in the game, after all!
Tim Follin later said he regretted not working more on Genesis games, he found the ability to directly control the sound for each instrument was more interesting.
@@BlackCubone Aw, shoot. I'm sure he would of been able to stand on the same footing as other Mega Drive composing legends such as Yuzo Koshiro if he had done more.
@@SparkstarScope I agree, but honestly it made sense why Tim and Geoff Follin stopped making game music. They where treated like garbage from the game companies
I was never a huge fan of music on the Genesis (save for the occasional banger like Streets of Rage 2), and a lot of that was due to composer laziness and/or that God-awful sound library that popped-up after a couple of years of production (forgot what it was called and Google is being dumb). If the Follin's had worked on the Genesis I likely would've had a _much_ different opinion.
Don’t forget that Tim Follin credits his ability to get the most of the YM2612 chip to the custom driver by Dean Belfield. The creativity was Follin’s but a lot of the craft that made that possible here was Belfield’s. They’d already worked together for many years by the time they made this demo, including on Gauntlet 3, and Dean Belfield’s personal projects have included the GitHub Archive of the AY and SID code for the Follin brothers’ music in case you ever want to study it.
I'm imagining him furiously typing assembly into some ancient computer for several hours in the middle of a wedding and then playing the best song ever created just at the perfect time
In that case, you'd have to get married atop a hazy hill surrounded by spooky trees, the service would have to be led by a spiritual funk guitarist, the bridesmaids would be minstrels, with the entire ceremony constantly shifting in surprising new moods and directions, the likes of which no human has ever seen before.
I legitimately had to remind myself this was a Sega Genesis making this. I honestly forgot, about half way through. Is there nothing this man can't do?
Legend has it the Follin Bros. are time travelers who perfected the "Philosophers Stone" eons ago and used it to give a dabbing of musical talent to Ludwig van Beethoven , Michael Jackson , Jimi Hendrix , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Freddie Mercury , and a few others who weren't quite as talented as themselves. Another legend states something similar, but that they were the ones to introduce music to humanity in ancient times.
@@processred2858Reading comprehension isn't the best on youtube, lol. He doesn't compose anymore hence the wasn't. Don't assume the worst all the time, dear.
@@youforget1000thingsaday yeah i getcha mang :0) i just got nervous cause of the other comment. i had thought for a second that they meant "he isn't still alive"
@ oh wow! Thanks for the tip, that track was A-MAZING!!! I didn’t know the snes could sound so GOOD! (Well, I did because of donkey Kong country, but you know what I mean)
Would someone be willing to look for my brain? It just blew out of my skull! To think he did this way back when all these programs that make this seem "easy" didn't exist!
Tim Follin was a genius even back to the days of the Spectrum how he pushed the limitations of each machine was amazing! A true genius up there with the likes of Jeroen Tel!
The YM2612 was a very complicated sound chip to program for. Despite this, the Follin brothers somehow did what few have managed to achieve, and actually bring out the chip's full potential.
ONLY work he did for the genesis, too. imagine just getting to know the system you're gonna compose music for and instantly laying down absolute bangers on it lol
Theres no dac either which is insane for a song like this. A dac is sample channel btw, its what allows drums or voices. But the normal channels can be manipulated like how they are here to sound deep and drums. Better than dac sometimes too
Imagine a musical battle between Jesper Kyd and Tim Follin using the Genesis sound chip. Who would win? (Am I the only one who imagined such good shit?)
the maestro. like Koshiro everytime he composed these 8 bit or 16 bit epics, it was like he strapped the infinity gauntlet on to maximize the system's sound power. i can't think of one composition he ever did bad for any system, which is sadly lacking in my videogame experiences these days.
Jesus christ! good FM drums!? Now I KNOW he's a friggin genius! I have no idea why the follins never use samples unless they have to, like an amiga or SNES, but dammit they know their shit
@@thatviewer-4142 Follin also wrote the soundtrack for PSP, Dreamcast, PS2. He now has his own studio Baggycat, which has released: Contradiction: The Interactive Murder Mystery Movie and At Dead of Night.
@@SinedKMK Wow... That's impressive. Really shows how far you can get from simple beginnings. Even though I wouldn't exactly call that "whole bunch of instruments on one beeper" a simple beginning.
>walks in
>masters a console and makes the best music imaginable with it
>leaves
Tim Follin
>game is unreleased
>refuses to elaborate
Pictionary music: jaws dropped on floor
Plok music: shit my pants
Time Trax music: shit my house
lmao same
relate
@@thepeller210 no its so good...I've shit my house listening to this before.
Solstice drop: shit everyone else's pants
You may want to watch your fiber
Follin tamed the NES, SNES, and Genesis, bringing out the best of their sound capabilities. What a fantastic composer!
And this is only using 2/3 of the Mega drive's sound channels.
Not that they're needed in this case, as the other third is just dedicated square wave and percussion channels.
Don't forget the ZX Spectrum. The fact that he was able to make music with that is beyond anyone's skills.
Including speccy, C64 and Amiga too!
and the gameboy, the man was a machine
@@Nimta It's impressive that he used fewer channels but it also makes sense that not all channels were used. You'd want sound effects in the game, after all!
To Follin, there is nothing called 'technical limitations', he can push it to the extreme. Follin is a god confirmed.
I hope I can become as good as a music composer as him
Especially considering Follin managed to make a complex tune with ZX Spectrum...basically a beeper. Check out his work on Agent X.
the solstice cover is actually based off a reference image of him making music
Tim Follin later said he regretted not working more on Genesis games, he found the ability to directly control the sound for each instrument was more interesting.
God, I wish Tim Follin did more Mega Drive work. Would've kicked ass.
Tim also regretted it. As shown here: th-cam.com/video/GC1dTzyb5Gs/w-d-xo.html
@@BlackCubone Aw, shoot. I'm sure he would of been able to stand on the same footing as other Mega Drive composing legends such as Yuzo Koshiro if he had done more.
@@SparkstarScope I agree, but honestly it made sense why Tim and Geoff Follin stopped making game music. They where treated like garbage from the game companies
@@alexlovelady8249this 👉
I was never a huge fan of music on the Genesis (save for the occasional banger like Streets of Rage 2), and a lot of that was due to composer laziness and/or that God-awful sound library that popped-up after a couple of years of production (forgot what it was called and Google is being dumb). If the Follin's had worked on the Genesis I likely would've had a _much_ different opinion.
My dream is that one day i would be able to masterfully understand every resource and limit of a soundchip as tim follin
The 2612 is such a great chip. If you can mix voices correctly, you can get some crazy shit like this.
Same bro
Imagine if he used both of the MD's sound chips, thst would be mental.
@@CmdrbzrdCoding Secrets / Gamehut coded a mod player (sample mixing) on the Genesis
Don’t forget that Tim Follin credits his ability to get the most of the YM2612 chip to the custom driver by Dean Belfield. The creativity was Follin’s but a lot of the craft that made that possible here was Belfield’s.
They’d already worked together for many years by the time they made this demo, including on Gauntlet 3, and Dean Belfield’s personal projects have included the GitHub Archive of the AY and SID code for the Follin brothers’ music in case you ever want to study it.
I want Tim Follin to perform music at my wedding.
It is would be interesting wedding =)
I'm imagining him furiously typing assembly into some ancient computer for several hours in the middle of a wedding and then playing the best song ever created just at the perfect time
In that case, you'd have to get married atop a hazy hill surrounded by spooky trees, the service would have to be led by a spiritual funk guitarist, the bridesmaids would be minstrels, with the entire ceremony constantly shifting in surprising new moods and directions, the likes of which no human has ever seen before.
@@SinedKMKhe would be the only person who could pitch bend a marimba
@@FB64_Fakebeta This sent me... XD
i usually find youtube comments stupid but everything anybody could say about this dude being a genius is right in every possible sense lol
I legitimately had to remind myself this was a Sega Genesis making this. I honestly forgot, about half way through. Is there nothing this man can't do?
This is unmistakably a Sega Genesis - it sounds great
Legend has it the Follin Bros. are time travelers who perfected the "Philosophers Stone" eons ago and used it to give a dabbing of musical talent to Ludwig van Beethoven
, Michael Jackson
, Jimi Hendrix
, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, Freddie Mercury
, and a few others who weren't quite as talented as themselves. Another legend states something similar, but that they were the ones to introduce music to humanity in ancient times.
Great artists show us how mediocre most people are.
@@TitanicToddler Compared to most Genesis tracks, it's extremely complex - to the point of sounding like something more modern and arranged.
Ah yes. Sometimes Genesis escapes itself. Same with snes.
This is a straight club bop. Follin wasn't human.
hes still alive
*isn't lmao
@@LOS_NEGRITOS that scared me for a second i got that notif and thought he died
@@processred2858Reading comprehension isn't the best on youtube, lol. He doesn't compose anymore hence the wasn't. Don't assume the worst all the time, dear.
@@youforget1000thingsaday yeah i getcha mang :0) i just got nervous cause of the other comment. i had thought for a second that they meant "he isn't still alive"
far more unique and sci fi than the show. This guy was an actual wizard when he was still doing soundtracks (or should i say 'soundtrax')
I've never heard music like folins, especially on the snes and genesis, it's amazing
absolutely incredible
Master of Groove and all that sounds sexy
Thunder Force games on the megadrive.. Technosoft were Megadrive Kings!
2:10 that fm sound is clean
The knife is clean.. which cuts through the soap 🔪🧼
This is a prime example of how underrated the Mega Drive's soundchip is, demo brought to you by the sound wizard Tim Follin.
I absolutely love how much this sounds like it could be one of Giorgio Moroder's tracks.
This is such a crazy good track. I keep coming back over and over, just to get my mind blown every time.
Listen to waterworld dive snes you not gonna regret it
@ oh wow! Thanks for the tip, that track was A-MAZING!!! I didn’t know the snes could sound so GOOD! (Well, I did because of donkey Kong country, but you know what I mean)
@@FredrickCarlsson YE SIR 🗣️🗣️
So sad to know such great music was probably close to never being heard
WOW! This has finally been ripped! I've been waiting for years. What a great day.
Follin did a great music for a game that didn't even release...
Tim Follin could make a fart into the greatest video game soundtrack if he wanted to.
Tim Follin: Whats technical limitations? All I hear is HOW GOOD CAN I MAKE THIS THEME?
Yeah, Tim cared more about pushing the limits than making music that fit the games
@@LucidMlemhe pushed the limits so hard that he MADE the music fit in the game even if it shouldn't
Thats how good he was
It sounds great independent of the fact that it's all FM and programmed. Simply incredible.
Commenting 1 year later, still good
This man made the soundchips in these consoles his bitches.
This guy made the Megadrive sound like something the hardware developers didn't expect
KFAD has revitalized this song
Oh yeah, one of my favorite tracks (and contestants) so far
Bob Shnitzel same
Yup
Ikr and it's sick!
The glitchy boi did it, he made Final Four. Who knows what kind of prize he gets?
This piece of music is so well-produced, you could play it on the radio exactly as it is!
follin casually making the most rad ass music without ellaborating further
what a chad
Even the prototype dump ROM is lost, that's how hopelessly lost it is.
Link updated 😉
Tim Follin can bend any sound chip to his will.
I think Tim Follin and Yuzo Koshiro are the OGs of Sega soundboard music.
If he was born in the 18th century, he would have been comparable to Mozart. That's how big I believe Follin's talent is.
How many artists out there would be considered geniuses if only they could get a break?
Meanwhile in an alternate reality
"If Mozart had been born in the 18th century he would have been comparable to Follin"
You should listen to early Mike Oldfield and early Genesis.
comparable to mozart? lol mozart got nothing on this madlad
0:50 so dirty, MMMMm!
TIM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU CAN'T JUST COME, MASTER A SOUND CHIP AND GO.
Would someone be willing to look for my brain? It just blew out of my skull! To think he did this way back when all these programs that make this seem "easy" didn't exist!
Nooo!!!!!!! Your brain !!!!!!!!
This music is so amazing, I swear the eye just winked at me
I want Tim Follin to preform at my funeral!
Imagine Tim Follin remixing Thunder Force IV music.
This is what the future sounds like
Tim Follin was a genius even back to the days of the Spectrum how he pushed the limitations of each machine was amazing! A true genius up there with the likes of Jeroen Tel!
screaming crying pulling my hair out scratching all of my skin off.... definitely going on the nut playlist
😭
Hope your happy then plok bud, I wouldn't be if I was your nuts
Guess where I came from in December of 2019
this might as well be magic. how the hell did he do this with the technical limitations of the megadrive?! Sick
The YM2612 was a very complicated sound chip to program for. Despite this, the Follin brothers somehow did what few have managed to achieve, and actually bring out the chip's full potential.
"Welcome to Coast to Coast radio."
I grew up on this XD Miss good ol art bell at night
Greetings! I'm Space Ghost!
...wait, wrong Coast to Coast.
Sick as hell.
Never knew Folin did anything for the mega drive. I'm not disapointed
ONLY work he did for the genesis, too.
imagine just getting to know the system you're gonna compose music for and instantly laying down absolute bangers on it lol
@@LOS_NEGRITOS i want to hear him do the Master System
Never heard a more amazing Genesis song I
Don’t know if this is pushing the consoles sound chip to its limit but it sure sounds like it
This song evokes nostalgia in me that I never knew I had.
dude's a bloody genius, nuff said
this is just mental
OOoohoooooo, these chords are so good!
Pictionary, but it’s on the sega megadrive
yes, tim follins music sound like it shouldn't be able to come out of thos consoles
HOLY SHIT, THIS IS IMPRESSIVE
Theres no dac either which is insane for a song like this. A dac is sample channel btw, its what allows drums or voices. But the normal channels can be manipulated like how they are here to sound deep and drums. Better than dac sometimes too
DONT CARE
@@conntraa If you don't care, then why did you waste time reading it, let alone typing a response?
@OP
Ah, so the dac is the sound channel that makes those "Whoo!" "Come on!" and "GO!" sounds in some of the Sonic 3 music. =^p
@@ChaosRayZero icebberg is my friend I was just joking around with him lol
@@conntraa Oh, okay. Sorry I misunderstood the joke. ^_^
-I've seen people who have typed things like that seriously though, so...-
One of his best sounding guitars IMO
Holy shit
God, this is SO GOOD, I can't even!
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
TIME TRAX 🗣️🗣️🔥‼️
God i wish i was born earlier. Far earlier. i'd have loved to have tim and geoff to play at my wedding. Especially something as sick as this.
This music reminds me of Bill Nye the Science Guy.
High NRG, Tim Follin amazing!!! 🔥
Tim follin have a great taste his improvised the best 👍💯
This guy is so good he could headline EDC on the mainstage with nothing but ancient chiptune
This makes me think of the future
I used to watch the show,,, never knew there was a game for it,,, sounds like the roller coaster levels in DKC2..
The Genesis version was cancelled, though I'm pretty sure the Super Nintendo version was released
For whatever reason this reminds me of the movie “flight of the navigator”.
that mega drive ''SCHWANG'' damn
Imagine a musical battle between Jesper Kyd and Tim Follin using the Genesis sound chip.
Who would win?
(Am I the only one who imagined such good shit?)
Follin can make a ZX Spectrum sing like an SNES, he'll find a way.
Dude cooked already but had to make sure that you know that he knows what he's doing at 2:06
To think this came out of a genesis sound chip. A chip notorious for sounding like ass in most cases.
Who disliked this?! HOW!? WHY?!
Opinions i guess!
@@BusinessZeus They're weak, facts are vastly superior. When will opinions stop existing? Evolution is a waste of time.
@@joeygreathouse3029 ok videogame villain
@@SparkstarScope hahaahahaha
@@joeygreathouse3029 Interesting opinions you got there...
the maestro. like Koshiro everytime he composed these 8 bit or 16 bit epics, it was like he strapped the infinity gauntlet on to maximize the system's sound power. i can't think of one composition he ever did bad for any system, which is sadly lacking in my videogame experiences these days.
Help, I'm on replay #12 and there's no end in sight.
Jesus christ! good FM drums!? Now I KNOW he's a friggin genius! I have no idea why the follins never use samples unless they have to, like an amiga or SNES, but dammit they know their shit
Even when they do use samples, you get the Plok soundtrack
RIP.
This music is saying to me "MAKE SCANIMATE EFFECTS AND 3D RENDER IN THE GENESIS!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!"
Hack the planet baby!
awesome
Reminds me of the bass in thriller
this is like if the beach and boss theme from plok became one
I wish tim follin would put out some original albums
Hard to accept that this pearl comes out of a Mega Drive 😮
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees~~~~~~~~~~~
i'd love to know what settings tim follin used on this game since they all sound really good
i got them
So, this guy can make good music for the Z60 (or whatever it was), the C64, the NES, the SNES, and the Sega MD. What else?
@@thatviewer-4142 *for the Z80 ;)
@@SinedKMK Thanks! Also, nice response time! Especially since you posted the video 11 years ago.
@@thatviewer-4142 Follin also wrote the soundtrack for PSP, Dreamcast, PS2.
He now has his own studio Baggycat, which has released: Contradiction: The Interactive Murder Mystery Movie and At Dead of Night.
@@SinedKMK Wow... That's impressive. Really shows how far you can get from simple beginnings. Even though I wouldn't exactly call that "whole bunch of instruments on one beeper" a simple beginning.
Damn
Oh right this is back when the games were like less than a mb.
this game isn't lost anymore btw
I just can tell yhis wacky workbench part 2, literaly hear the two sounds you will see
Daft punk on Genesis. Enough said.
Exept a bit more relaxing!
I don't like daft punk
It has a little with the Plok boss music.
Fun fact: the Mediterranean sea is dry in this image
this track is pure Moroder
Gussin'
huge epcot vibes
Cool
nice
God himself blessed these masterpieces.