Sonic CD (2011) - You Can Do Anything (FM / Mega Drive* cover)

Note: This is a cover of the 2011 instrumental. How have I not covered this before? Without a doubt, this has been my most thorough cover so far. I meticulously listened to the original several times over to make sure I got everything absolutely right. Surprisingly, everything fit into nine channels from the start, I barely had to use any tricks. If anything, I mostly had channels to spare. The song also required me to use the most unexpected program - Notepad++. I had to write some code to add two PCM samples together! At least that was the plan. You can't simply add the sample values together and call it a day. I didn't bother learning how sound works, so the addition was instead carried out in Audacity. My C program still had a use however, as a quick pcm2dpcm converter. The only reason I went through that effort, by the way, was to make sure I could create correctly-formatted, Mega Drive-friendly files at the end. In theory, I could replace some samples in the Sonic 3 ROM with mine and they would work perfectly! I cared that much about authenticity. I began with this song around a month ago, on April 23. Turns out that giving myself that much time was not a good idea. The cover was completed in just two days, but I fell into a cycle of finding minor mistakes, correcting them, re-rendering everything, rinse and repeat. For the next two-odd weeks! It's been rather exhausting, but I'm finally done with it. I can't find anything to correct anymore (for one reason or another), and I'm incredibly happy with the result. Additionally, I might experiment with the visual presentation, yet again. Coloring the oscilloscopes didn't last very long. Since I have these games and the ability to record them, I figured I could use some videos I captured. That ought be more interesting than a solid black background, but as long as I'm using a tracker, the oscilloscopes won't go anywhere. I also don't have all games I've ever made a cover of. I might also start worrying about making custom thumbnails and stuff. Take this whole thing a bit more seriously, you know? I was never really happy with the auto-generated thumbnails to begin with. Sometimes, they're just plain stupid. For this video, one of them showed Sonic covering his eyes with his hand. As funny as it would be, I can't possibly use that facepalm as a thumbnail!