Dies irae remix (Dual POKEY) - Atari 7800 music after Mozart
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Dies irae remix (Dual POKEY) - Atari 7800 music after Mozart
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"Dies irae" from Mozart's Requiem (K. 626), remixed for the Atari 7800: the hammering choir as a C64-style chiptune, "Quantus tremor" as a riser, the main theme as a half-time dubstep drop, then back to the chiptune for the end.
Played from the public-domain score: every pitch, chord and bass note comes from the Mutopia Project engraving of the 1877 Breitkopf & Haertel edition (Mozart, completed by Suessmayr). The drums, the wobble and growl rhythms and every sound are ours.
This version: two POKEY chips + the TIA, real 7800 playback (dual POKEY, as on the 7800 GameDrive), recorded in an emulator.
Sound: POKEY A ($450): a PWM lead, 1-frame chord arps and a falling counter-arp; in the drop the 16-bit PWM wobble and a buzz/pure growl. POKEY B ($440): violin 1's driving 16ths and their echo, an octave-jumping 16-bit bass with a deep kick, then the choir stabs and a sub-bass. TIA: kick, snare and hats.
Key and tempo: D minor, 180 bpm; the drop at 150 bpm, half-time.
Length: 2:30.
Needs two POKEY chips on the cartridge (7800 GameDrive).
The same remix comes in four versions, each built for its chip: Dual POKEY, TIA, Minnie-style and AMY-inspired.
The picture is a PC redraw of the "7800 Music" jukebox screen, its spectrum computed from the audio (the remix is not in a jukebox ROM). Sound leveled to -14 LUFS. The video starts with the Abysmal Games logo and its sound.
Music by Abysmal Games, from Mozart's Requiem
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