Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (Super Nintendo, 1995) by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2020-09-22T17:58:32Z My first and only soundtrack for the Super Nintendo (SNES) back in 1995. The sound sources were recorded from a Turtle Beach - Maui sound card. My studio gear at that time consisted in that sound card, a Sound Blaster (the Maui had to be attached to an existing sound card), a pair of speakers and a Roland PC-200 keyboard (which I still have). The sound chip (APU) was created by Sony and designed by Ken Kutaragi, who was also the designer of the Playstation. The chip was in fact a complete autonomous computer with its own CPU (sort of 6502 with additional instructions), memory (64k), and DSP which produced 8 channels of audio and also some cool effects. The APU communicated with the main console processor using 4 registers, and some kind of communication protocol was used to upload the code and sounds from the game cartridge to the APU during the game. The 64k had to be shared with the sound driver, sound sequence data, samples for the music & fx. Also some memory was required to process the commonly used reverberation effect (if necessary). The development system for the console was a huge, grey rectangular box that communicated with the PC via a SCSI port and MIDI. My unit didn't work very well... and I had to spend some time every morning switching it on and off a random number of times until it booted correctly. The development tools were very rudimentary (compared to today's standards) and all written to run on MS-DOS only. The soundtrack is recorded from the "Audio Overload" multi-sound chip emulator. I hope to be able to record the soundtrack from a real machine in the future. Contains tracks Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 1 / 2 by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2012-12-31T17:21:24Z Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 2 / 2 by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2013-01-01T11:08:27Z
Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 1 / 2 by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2012-12-31T17:21:24Z
Asterix & Obelix - Complete Soundtrack (SNES, 1995) Part 2 / 2 by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2013-01-01T11:08:27Z