Playlist with all my other Golden Sun restored tracks: [ Ссылка ]
Lossless FLAC files can be downloaded here: [ Ссылка ]

~~ Inside Tret / Altin Peak's Flood ~~
That song first plays at the end of Kolima Forest, when you are inside Tret Tree, trying to get him back to his senses. The song reappears a bit later when you visit the town of Altin while it's completely flooded.
And yes, I mentioned it in previous videos but when I was investigating how to properly restore the soundtrack, I discovered that the modulation effect was tempo-based on the GBA: the pitch gets modulated and the speed varies with the song BPM. I couldn't find a way to do this with existing soundfont plugins so I implemented it in my own VST, using portions of ipatix's source code for agbplay.
I'd like to thank ipatix once again for publishing the code for agbplay on github. And I also want to thank FreeJusticeHere for discussing that LFO with me, and also for helping me identify which sample I needed to record to get the correct sound for the "Nylon-str. Gt"! :)

~~ Details about the restoration process ~~
Tools used: GBA Mus Riper (midi and samples extraction), agbplay (synth restoration), Reaper. And also my own VST plugin ([ Ссылка ]).
Hardware: Roland SC-88 Pro, Roland JV-1080, expansion card SR-JV80-05 World, and Alesis DM5.
Midi files: the sequences are extracted directly from the game but need to be heavily modified in order to play them on the physical modules.
Sounds: most samples have been identified over the years, but some sounds come from my own research.
Synths: in Golden Sun, synths are specific to the internal audio engine, they are completely separate from the other instruments. ipatix managed to reverse-engineer those synths and made the code available on github. I'm using his tool, agbplay, to export them from the game in high quality (at a higher sample rate than what the GBA is capable of)
Drums: Golden Sun 1 uses samples from the SC-88 but on Golden Sun 2, Motoi Sakuraba changed all the samples. While some of them have been identified and come from the Alesis DM5, most samples still haven't been found to this day. I've extracted the samples from the game, denoised, re-panned and cleaned them.

~~ Thanks ~~
Mega thanks to Bregalad (GBA Mus Ripper) and ipatix (agbplay). I would never have been able to do those versions without their incredible work.
Massive thanks to the VGM Instrument Sources community, and especially FreeJusticeHere for his invaluable advice and help!
Special thanks to Coaltergeist and Cyanne for inspiring me!

Original song composed by Motoi Sakuraba. #GoldenSun #RestoredOST

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