Hey! I’m a hobbyist music producer and big fan of Guild Wars 2 and Super Adventure Box. As such, I decided it would be a great idea to make a tribute to SAB. CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR IT:
It’s a chiptune arrangement of the song Battle on the Breachmaker by Lena Chappelle (you hear it in the Nightmare Fractal’s Ensolyss encounter), but you’ll also hear a few nods to Lena’s awesome World 2 Zone 3 SAB soundtrack, Storm Top.
If you enjoyed this, feel free to check out my other Guild Wars 2 arrangements:
Warp Worm
Tarir
Fun facts:
1. This took 18 hours and 10 minutes of work over the course of about a week.
2. The program you’re seeing in the video is FL Studio 12. It’s a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) used to produce music.
3. 90% of the software I used is completely free: BiT BOX, Bleep, Magical 8-bit, DSK ChoirZ, 3xOsc. The only things you need to pay for are FL Studio (the actual music creation software, of which there are some free alternatives) and Omnisphere (which I used for two instruments).
4. This isn’t true 8-bit music. It has some things like bitcrushed strings/choir, reverb, etc, which is basically impossible to emulate in 8-bit on a PSG sound chip. However, it’s very heavily chiptune-inspired and SAB-inspired.
5. I wasn’t going to make something this year for SAB due to time constraints (last year I made the Warp Worm arrangement), but one Guild Wars 2 player who’d heard my arrangement last year showed an overwhelming amount of support for another arrangement this year, which motivated me to make this arrangement.
6. This was made entirely from scratch, transcribed by ear.
I hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening.
