I was home, recovering from SMILE eye surgery (Lasik but better)… and staring at the screen was a bit difficult… luckily my ears were working fine. So, I started messing around with some FM synths and came up with this after a couple of days.
Naturally, it had to be titled, “My Vision is Augmented.”
I need to shout out Ryu Umemoto. His work on PC-98 games (warning: most are eroge) made me fall in love with FM Synth. He may be my favorite game composer and Xenon may be my favorite soundtrack… so count this among the biggest of my influences, right up there with Deus Ex (2000).
I used the DEXED vst to create most of the instruments and sounds for this (let me know if you want the presets or files). It’s an amazing, free FM Synth that accepts cartridge files from the Yamaha DX7. So, you can use any DX7 library with it. Otherwise, I also used the actual Yamaha DX7 vst for some bass instruments (I may replace it later with DEXED versions), Roland SRX Orchestra for some symphonic background PADs, and some Deus Ex sound fonts (don’t tell Alexander Brandon or Alexander Brandon or Michiel van den Bos).
