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Ska Cha Cha (Sonic Rush) Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and 32X Cover

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I wanted to try covering Ska Cha Cha with Furnace tracker, to make something that could theoretically run on a real Mega Drive and 32X.

Furnace does not currently support the 32X, so I attempted to mimic it with two generic PCM channels at 10 bits and a rate of 13750.

I worked on this cover from May 2nd to May 6th.

Furnace project file

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Sendvid Might be a Good Alternative to YouTube and Vimeo for Video Hosting

Sendvid logo.

I've heard that some companies host their videos on Vimeo rather than YouTube because they feel that YouTube's interface isn't a good fit with their branding. Unfortunately, Vimeo has a tendency to disconnect and be unstable.

Sendvid is a simple, free video host that I've heard of. I haven't used it yet, but I have used their other service Imgbox (an image hosting website) which I've found reliable and useful.

Did You Know Styluses for Capacitive Screens Don't Have to be Expensive?

Photo of a hand drawing on a tablet with a passive stylus.

You may have heard of active styluses, which have lots of features and are battery operated; but did you know that styluses for capacitive touchscreens can be simple and inexpensive? Passive styluses do nothing except conduct the electricity from your finger to the tip of the stylus, so they work with almost any touchscreen and don't need to be charged.

I learned this thanks to Kommando Tech's article "What Is a Stylus Pen and How It Works". Please read their article if you want more information.

How to Remove Line Breaks in Excel

Microsoft Office Excel logo.

Microsoft Forms responses can be downloaded as an Excel Spreadsheet; but the fields will often have unnecessary line breaks, which causes these fields' names to be discarded when importing the spreadsheet into an MS Access database.

Remove line breaks:

  1. Open the Find & Replace box
  2. Click on the Find field and press Ctrl + J on your keyboard
  3. Leave the Replace field blank
  4. Click "Replace All"
  5. Save your workbook
  6. Close and reopen Excel. This is necessary because Excel will automatically fill the Find field with whatever was last used, and it is impossible to delete line break characters from the Find field, so Find will be broken until Excel is restarted.

Peepy's Secret Midi (Almost Finished)

Emamouse's songs for ItemLabel use a lot of complex harmonies that remind me of the classical piano music I've been playing lately. The song "Peepy's Secret" has a lot of buzzing sound effects that make the song trippy and surreal, but it also makes the notes a little hard to hear; so to understand the song better, I decided to transcribe a midi version of it. I didn't finish transcribing the end of the song because I was getting a bit tired, but I hope you still find my midi useful. Feel free to download this Peepy's Secret midi and adapt it into sheet music or reference it for covers (credit to me would be appreciated).

This transcription would not have been possible without this stem splitter AI and this transcription of the chords and melody of the verse and chorus by mathyfurret. If you plan on finishing this midi, please download the stems I split with the AI.

As I was writing this post, I just realized that the entire time I was transcribing the song, I accidently had all the stems set to a bass-boosted EQ. 😅

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