I've been trying to get my hands into MIDI arrangements, for a little change from transcribing stuff into Note Block Studio (some pieces are just too difficult to get to sound good, especially complex orchestral arrangements like this). Every now and then, some particular piece from videogame soundtracks I love gets stuck in my mind, and this masterpiece of a track happened to be the one last week, right when I was a bit motivated to try transcribing something again.

This galaxy is so memorable, both for the atmosphere and the challenge it offers. The Bowser head as the galaxy icon struck me the moment I approached it, and even the name of the galaxy sounds as powerful as it is daunting. (Bowser has managed to build an entire *galaxy generator*, WOW!)

To top it off, seeing Yoshi wave goodbye at Mario after the long journey they got through, together, as if he said "good luck, my friend! I know everything will go well", almost brought tears to my eyes. The music reflects this spectacularly well -- the calm section with the trombone leading right into the triumphant brass section captures that feeling of "I'm going to save the universe!" extremely well.

In a matter of three days, I had transcribed the entirety of the piece. I'm surprised at how well I've managed to pick up some of the details in this one, and in the end, I'm pretty satisfied with the result! (On multiple occasions I've refrained from publishing things like this due to them not getting "good enough" for my taste, and for the first time I've managed to call it finished, rather than spending days going back to tune some fine details and then never recording a video of it).

This was so much fun! The visuals with Embers look absolutely *gorgeous*, and noclip.website also happened to add a 'Studio Mode' which came at a perfect time! (You can see I had a lot of fun with it in the background of the video, hahaha!). I hope to be able to do more arrangements like this in the near future! =)

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→ Original track:
"The New Galactic Empire"
Mahito Yokota
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Original Soundtrack
© Nintendo, 2010

Recorded with Embers → [ Ссылка ]
Footage from noclip → [ Ссылка ]

Soundfont → Fluid R3 GM

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