Digital Symphony music

All music on this page composed by Martin Bazley using Digital Symphony, a descendant of the various tracker programs out there, and the most complex one for RISC OS.

Most of the samples - with the exception of Supernova, Dance of the Meteors, Rock Planet, Axel &FF9, Supernova &FF9, &FF9 Rock and Midnight Starlight - came from various other PD tunes. The &FF9s had some or all of their tune samples created by dragging sprites into the Digital Symphony sample window to see what it would do (it was a very boring afternoon...) and the others (apart from the Starlight) used default samples.

Midnight Starlight had its samples created with a program that Martin wrote himself, which should hopefully be coming soon (but don't hold your breath). It was designed to fit a gap in the market - as in, there are plenty of programs around that allow you to do fancy things to existing samples, but not a lot in the way of actually creating your own.

Each track is available both in its original Digital Symphony format and in the ubiquitous MP3 format, to give them the widest possible audience. Christopher used TimPlayer in conjunction with GrabSound (both by André Timmermans) to convert the Digital Symphony tracks to WAV format, and then Pete Everett's port of Shine to encode the resultant files as MP3s.

The Digital Symphony files have been zipped in order to preserve their RISC OS file type (&10B); to listen to them you will need a compatible tracker music player such as DigitalCD. None of the symphonies are Delta-Sigma compressed, so they should be compatible with older versions of TimPlayer and the like. You can also download an archive of all the Digital Symphony tracks in their original format (3876 KB).

Date	Title	Description	Download Symphony	Download MP3
08/12/2007	The 12 Days of Xmas	Manic Digital Symphony version of a well-known Christmas carol.	Download (87 KB)	Download (3570 KB)
03/01/2008	After the Battle	A strident cinematic march. Not very good in places, but I love the mid-section...	Download (176 KB)	Download (5 MB)
15/11/2007	Asteroid Storm	A quite strange tune which I can't quite categorise. House? Trance? It was mostly composed to see if I could - you'll get used to that phrase...	Download (110 KB)	Download (4 MB)
10/09/2007	Axel &FF9	This was the first tune I composed with image samples, and is mainly included just for completeness' sake. It isn't worth listening to for any other reason. A not-quite-faithful rip of the famous Beverly Hills Cop theme by Harold Faltermeyer.	Download (35 KB)	Download (4 MB)
11/03/2008	Blue Moon	Excellent! This is probably the best tune I've composed in recent times. Plug in some speakers and dance!	Download (126 KB)	Download (2821 KB)
19/05/2007	Bar Room Blues	Worth listening to just for the bassline and mid-section. My first and only attempt at a twelve-bar-blues piece.	Download (91 KB)	Download (4 MB)
02/09/2007	Buzz Off	A 'chip' song, as I believe the term is. Here I relied a lot less on samples and more on the structure of the tune. Not bad.	Download (5 KB)	Download (5 MB)
23/03/2007	Cosmos Charge	Again, included for completeness. One of my earliest and worst tunes. Has quite a nice big horn sound though.	Download (197 KB)	Download (5 MB)
30/12/2006	Crystal Nebulae	My second-ever tune and one of the only truly slow ones. Loads of nice crystal sounds and a good tune. Please excuse my inexperienced use of fades.	Download (93 KB)	Download (4 MB)
09/02/2007	Dance of the Meteors	My third tune, and the first one I was really happy with. Sounds quite like an old Ultimate Soundtracker tune - probably because it uses a lot of the same samples.	Download (70 KB)	Download (4 MB)
18/09/2007	Ditty in Two	Only two patterns long. Might make a nice intro?	Download (5 KB)	Download (329 KB)
15/03/2008	Drift	A wonderful dreamy and yet dramatic slow tune, and the only one I ever composed on all eight channels. Chris reckons this is my best, and I agree it's certainly one of my best.	Download (166 KB)	Download (6 MB)
24/04/2007	Empty Distances	An ever so slightly weird, 'environmental' tune (that's what I call it, anyway).	Download (118 KB)	Download (5 MB)
22/06/2007	Fish and Chips	A quite nice tune with reasonably simple samples (although not as extreme as Buzz Off). It loops and has weird bits attached to the end. At one point I intended to attach this to a computer game, but that died long ago.	Download (56 KB)	Download (2302 KB)
12/10/2007	Fish and Chips - 36 KB Intro Tune	My attempt to squeeze as much as possible out of just one position.	Download (7 KB)	Download (962 KB)
10/06/2007	Galaforce Remix	Martin Galway's music for the game Galaforce was, in my opinion, one of the best ever for the humble Beeb, and I decided to have a crack at remixing it. You can listen to the original here.	Download (139 KB)	Download (6 MB)
27/03/2007	Galaxy Medley	An old file collecting together various nice themes which I couldn't be bothered to elaborate on. My first track with proper fades. Note that it makes great use of tremoloes, which TimPlayer doesn't support, and therefore the MP3 version is rather different.	Download (171 KB)	Download (5 MB)
08/11/2007	Ice Rings	An all-time classic. If you want to listen to me at my best, download this one.	Download (172 KB)	Download (5 MB)
12/02/2007	Light Speed	My first and only attempt at hardcore techno. This was only my fourth piece, so I didn't really have enough experience.	Download (133 KB)	Download (3922 KB)
13/02/2008	Mad World	My adaptation of the Tears for Fears song (the original was composed by Roland Orzabal). One of my later tracks, but sounds quite like an early one.	Download (130 KB)	Download (3842 KB)
13/04/2008	Midnight Starlight	Has a very nice theme, but takes a while to get going. Please excuse the bassdrum - I'm still learning the ropes of this program. (And I wrote the thing!)	Download (121 KB)	Download (3739 KB)
22/04/2007	Neutron Dust	Until Ice Rings, this was my showpiece tune - the one I played when I wanted to demonstrate my talent. Looking a bit dated now, but still sounds great...	Download (122 KB)	Download (4 MB)
25/02/2008	Pink Elephant Blues	Classic! Silly and infuriatingly catchy! Quite probably the best theme I've ever come up with. Also, check out the lyrics!	Download (61 KB)	Download (3207 KB)
14/03/2008	Pink Elephant Blues - Piano Version	Pink Elephant Blues adapted for the piano. The organ voice represents parts that are meant to be sung only. The other three voices are just there for the sake of it.	Download (39 KB)	Download (3302 KB)
09/03/2007	Purple Space	When my mother told me electronic music sounded like something going down the plughole, I took it as a challenge and wrote this. Note use of tremoloes.	Download (120 KB)	Download (3935 KB)
17/05/2007	Purple Space II	I enjoyed writing Purple Space so much that I composed a longer and weirder sequel, mostly to see if there was anything still left in the genre. Holds the current sequence length record, at 85.	Download (173 KB)	Download (5 MB)
01/01/2008	&FF9 Rock	My second and much more successful attempt at rock, this time using some rather nice lead guitar-esque sounds extracted from a home-made wallpaper. For the curious, you can see the original image whence they came here.	Download (88 KB)	Download (5 MB)
09/04/2007	Rock Planet	This was the tune before Neutron Dust, when my standards had slipped to an all-time low. It was going to be slow and soothing, but I put a lead guitar in the sample list for some reason... Mainly included for completeness.	Download (167 KB)	Download (6 MB)
25/12/2006	Supernova	My first ever tune. The theme remains a classic.	Download (60 KB)	Download (3109 KB)
12/09/2007	Supernova &FF9	Supernova with all its tune samples and a few more besides replaced with images. Also, one or two of the patterns have been corrected and the fades have been fixed.	Download (26 KB)	Download (3109 KB)
06/08/2007	Tribal Beat	Strange and percussive. Not quite techno, but not quite anything else either...	Download (75 KB)	Download (2475 KB)
15/01/2008	Doctor Who Remix	There are many, many remixes of Ron Grainer's famous theme available. Here's mine.	Download (242 KB)	Download (2417 KB)
05/09/2007	Wormhole Travel	My fastest-ever tune. Not for those with heart conditions. Due to a bug in TimPlayer, the MP3 has a tuneless buzzing noise in places.	Download (135 KB)	Download (3541 KB)
21/02/2007	X-Files Theme	My very first attempt at a remix. Absolute rubbish, and only included for completeness. The original theme music for this television series (entitled 'Materia Primoris') was composed by Mark Snow.	Download (115 KB)	Download (4 MB)
18/03/2008	Yellow Space	Not sure what this is, but suffice to say it's only worth listening to if you have a subwoofer. My longest tune at nearly 7 minutes - you have been warned!	Download (223 KB)	Download (6 MB)

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