Music Banter - View Single Post - What do you think of electronic remixes of classical songs?

aylictal · 06-20-2013, 09:01 AM

I've personally reworked a few classical songs from midi inputs from NES/SNES chiptunes. While these aren't classical in tonality (use of digital sounds, rather than actual instruments), they are classical in design a lot of the times because due to the technology back in the 80s / early 90s... electronic music for games didn't have much tonal capabilities to what they have now due to sampling rates using so much memory in the games. Sound producers had to really stretch music back then to be interesting, and the only way they could do it was to revert to classical styles.

06-20-2013, 09:01 AM	#20 (permalink)
aylictal Groupie Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 19	I've personally reworked a few classical songs from midi inputs from NES/SNES chiptunes. While these aren't classical in tonality (use of digital sounds, rather than actual instruments), they are classical in design a lot of the times because due to the technology back in the 80s / early 90s... electronic music for games didn't have much tonal capabilities to what they have now due to sampling rates using so much memory in the games. Sound producers had to really stretch music back then to be interesting, and the only way they could do it was to revert to classical styles.