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|Both of those games were done with our legacy system that featured the Yamaha YM2151 FM synth chip, driven by a proprietary OS running on custom hardware (primarily a Motorola 6809). We had 8 channels of FM, 1 8-bit DAC channel that we mostly used for drums (the "one-armed drummer" syndrome), and a channel for dialog fired by a WW2-era Harris voice-codec that used an algorithm called CVSD -- that I'd never heard of before, and never wish to hear again, frankly. So -- 8 monophonic FM tracks, one sample track and one dialog track; no channel fx of any kind. We did have the capability of running music in the "background", and stealing channels to play a "foreground" effect (the music kept playing in the "silent background"). We essentially had no tools to create music that you'd recognize as such -- the system was driven by 6809 Assembly language macros. We were essentially writing music in assembler.}} | |Both of those games were done with our legacy system that featured the Yamaha YM2151 FM synth chip, driven by a proprietary OS running on custom hardware (primarily a Motorola 6809). We had 8 channels of FM, 1 8-bit DAC channel that we mostly used for drums (the "one-armed drummer" syndrome), and a channel for dialog fired by a WW2-era Harris voice-codec that used an algorithm called CVSD -- that I'd never heard of before, and never wish to hear again, frankly. So -- 8 monophonic FM tracks, one sample track and one dialog track; no channel fx of any kind. We did have the capability of running music in the "background", and stealing channels to play a "foreground" effect (the music kept playing in the "silent background"). We essentially had no tools to create music that you'd recognize as such -- the system was driven by 6809 Assembly language macros. We were essentially writing music in assembler.}} | ||
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==Gameography== | ==Gameography== | ||
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! Notes | ! Notes | ||
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| − | | 1986-??-?? | + | | 1986-07-?? |
| + | | [[Road Kings (PBL)]] | ||
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| + | | With [[Bill Parod]]. | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1986-10-?? | ||
| [[Pinbot (PBL)]] | | [[Pinbot (PBL)]] | ||
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| With [[Bill Parod]]. | | With [[Bill Parod]]. | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1986-12-?? | ||
| + | | [[Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest (ARC)]] | ||
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| 1987-??-?? | | 1987-??-?? | ||
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| 1990-??-?? | | 1990-??-?? | ||
| + | | [[Star Trax (ARC)]] | ||
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| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1990-01-?? | ||
| [[Whirlwind (PBL)]] | | [[Whirlwind (PBL)]] | ||
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| + | | 1991-10-?? | ||
| + | | [[Trog! (NES)]] | ||
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| + | | Arranged by [[Scott La Rocca]]. | ||
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| 1991-??-?? | | 1991-??-?? | ||
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| 1993-??-?? | | 1993-??-?? | ||
| [[T2: The Arcade Game (SNES)]] (Ｔ２ザ・アーケードゲーム) | | [[T2: The Arcade Game (SNES)]] (Ｔ２ザ・アーケードゲーム) | ||
| − | | | + | | {{Song-Box|01 - T2 The Arcade Game - SNES - Battlefield.ogg}} |
| Arranged by [[Andy Brock]]. | | Arranged by [[Andy Brock]]. | ||
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| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1994-03-03 | ||
| + | | [[Super Baseball 2020 (GEN)]] (２０２０年スーパーベースボール) | ||
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| + | | With [[Brian Schmidt]]. | ||
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| 1994-10-?? | | 1994-10-?? | ||
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| 1994-10-?? | | 1994-10-?? | ||
| [[Road Show (PBL)]] | | [[Road Show (PBL)]] | ||
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| 1995-12-?? | | 1995-12-?? | ||
| − | | [[Revolution X (SNES)]] | + | | [[Revolution X (SNES)]] (レボリューションＸ) |
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| Arranged by [[Kevin Bruce]]. | | Arranged by [[Kevin Bruce]]. | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1995-??-?? | ||
| + | | [[Revolution X (GEN)]] | ||
| + | | | ||
| + | | Arranged by [[Stephen Lord]]. | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 1995-??-?? | ||
| + | | [[WWF WrestleMania (ARC)]] | ||
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| 1996-??-?? | | 1996-??-?? | ||
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| [[California Speed (ARC)]] | | [[California Speed (ARC)]] | ||
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| − | | | + | | With [[Kevin Quinn]], [[David Zabriske]], [[John Paul]], [[Joe Lyford]], [[Gunnar Madsen]], [[Richard Carle]], and [[Todd Modjesky]]. |
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| 2001-09-01 | | 2001-09-01 | ||
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| [[Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (XBOX)]] | | [[Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (XBOX)]] | ||
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| − | | | + | | With [[Daniel Myer]].- |
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| 2003-06-?? | | 2003-06-?? | ||
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| + | | 2004-07-?? | ||
| + | | [[The Fast and the Furious (ARC)]] | ||
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| + | | With [[Vikas Deo]], [[Deep Sharma]], [[Forrest Roush]], and [[Greg Magers]]. | ||
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| 2004-09-14 | | 2004-09-14 | ||
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| − | | | + | | 2007-11-27 |
| − | | [[ | + | | [[Cruis'n (WII)]] |
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| + | | With [[Vikas Deo]], [[Deep Sharma]], [[Forrest Roush]], and [[Greg Magers]]. | ||
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* [https://www.facebook.com/chris.granner facebook.com/chris.granner] - Facebook. | * [https://www.facebook.com/chris.granner facebook.com/chris.granner] - Facebook. | ||
* [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747 linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747] - LinkedIn. | * [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747 linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747] - LinkedIn. | ||
| − | + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQonYtLpbFM youtube.com/watch?v=cQonYtLpbFM] - Chris talks about his video game music for pinball games. | |
[[Category: Composers]] | [[Category: Composers]] | ||
[[Category: Foley Artists]] | [[Category: Foley Artists]] | ||
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Chris Granner is an American video game musician and has been composing music for video games (mostly pinball machines) since the 80's. He started his video game music career in 1986 where he worked for Williams/Bally/Midway Games, composing the music and sound for a large amount of their arcade games. Nine years later, Chris left Williams/Bally/Midway and started working for Capcom's North American division in May of 1995, also composing audio for their pinball machines. He left Capcom in March 1997 to work for Incredible Technologies where he stayed until 2001. He then worked for Leading Edge Design and scored the music to a couple of their games. He also worked for Play Mechanix and wrote the audio to six of their slot machines. In 2004, he composed the music for IGT's "The Mummy" slot machine. Later, he worked for Studio Gigante and wrote the music for some of their games. In 2002, he worked for Stern and created the audio for some of their pinball games until 2005. Since February 2011, Granner has been working at Jersey Jack Pinball in Evanston, Illinois.
Music Development
ARC
Chris said this about his arcade music, specifically for Terminator 2 and Trog!:
The CVSD Chris refers to stands for "Continually Variable Slope Delta Modulation".
Gameography
Image Gallery
LinkedIn Profile.
Staff Photo from the NBA Jam Tournament Edition arcade.
Links
- facebook.com/chris.granner - Facebook.
- linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747 - LinkedIn.
- youtube.com/watch?v=cQonYtLpbFM - Chris talks about his video game music for pinball games.
