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{{Infobox Composer
| Name        = Chris Granner
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| Name        = Christopher P. Granner
 
| Picture    = Chris_Granner_-_1.jpg
 
| Picture    = Chris_Granner_-_1.jpg
| Born        = December 4, 1957
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| Born        = December 4, 1957 (Age 54)
 
| BirthPlace  = Unknown
 
| BirthPlace  = Unknown
 
| Nationality = American
 
| Nationality = American
 
| Flag        = USA
 
| Flag        = USA
| Alias01    = Christopher Granner
 
 
| Website    = Unknown
 
| Website    = Unknown
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| Aliases    = CPG
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
'''''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.
 
'''''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.
  
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==Music Development==
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===ARC===
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Chris said this about his arcade music, specifically for Terminator 2 and Trog!:
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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.}}
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The CVSD Chris refers to stands for "Continually Variable Slope Delta Modulation".
  
 
==Gameography==
 
==Gameography==
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{| class="wikitable" |
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| Caption01 = Released
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| 1986-07-??
| ????/??/??
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| [[Road Kings (PBL)]]
| [[Big Bang Bar (PBL)]]
 
 
|  
 
|  
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| With [[Bill Parod]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 1986/??/??
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| 1986-10-??
 
| [[Pinbot (PBL)]]
 
| [[Pinbot (PBL)]]
 
|  
 
|  
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| With [[Bill Parod]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 1987/??/??
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| 1986-12-??
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| [[Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest (ARC)]]
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|
 +
|
 +
|-
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| 1987-??-??
 
| [[F-14 Tomcat (PBL)]]
 
| [[F-14 Tomcat (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1987/??/??
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| 1987-??-??
 
| [[Fire! (PBL)]]
 
| [[Fire! (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1987/01/??
+
| 1987-01-??
 
| [[Millionaire (PBL)]]
 
| [[Millionaire (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1987/10/??
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| 1987-10-??
 
| [[Big Guns (PBL)]]
 
| [[Big Guns (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1988/??/??
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| 1988-??-??
 
| [[Taxi (PBL)]]
 
| [[Taxi (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1988/??/??
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| 1988-??-??
 
| [[Truck Stop (PBL)]]
 
| [[Truck Stop (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1988/02/??
+
| 1988-02-??
 
| [[Cyclone (PBL)]]
 
| [[Cyclone (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1988/12/??
+
| 1988-12-??
 
| [[Jokerz! (PBL)]]
 
| [[Jokerz! (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1989/??/??
+
| 1989-??-??
 
| [[Earthshaker (PBL)]]
 
| [[Earthshaker (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1989/??/??
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| 1989-??-??
 
| [[Elvira and the Party Monsters (PBL)]]
 
| [[Elvira and the Party Monsters (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1989/08/??
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| 1989-08-??
 
| [[Police Force (PBL)]]
 
| [[Police Force (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1990/??/??
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| 1990-??-??
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| [[Pinbot (NES)]]
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|
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| Arranged by [[David Wise]].
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|-
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| 1990-??-??
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| [[Trog (ARC)]]
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|
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|
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|-
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| 1990-??-??
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| [[Star Trax (ARC)]]
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|
 +
|
 +
|-
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| 1990-01-??
 
| [[Whirlwind (PBL)]]
 
| [[Whirlwind (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1990/09/??
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| 1990-09-??
 
| [[Diner (PBL)]]
 
| [[Diner (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1990/11/??
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| 1990-11-??
 
| [[Dr. Dude (PBL)]]
 
| [[Dr. Dude (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1990/11/??
+
| 1990-11-??
 
| [[FunHouse (PBL)]]
 
| [[FunHouse (PBL)]]
 
|  
 
|  
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|
 +
|-
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| 1991-10-??
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| [[Trog! (NES)]]
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|
 +
| Arranged by [[Scott La Rocca]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 1991/??/??
+
| 1991-??-??
 
| [[Terminator 2: Judgement Day (ARC)]]
 
| [[Terminator 2: Judgement Day (ARC)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1991/??/??
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| 1991-??-??
 
| [[Terminator 2: Judgement Day (PBL)]]
 
| [[Terminator 2: Judgement Day (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1992/03/??
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| 1992-03-??
 
| [[The Addams Family (PBL)]]
 
| [[The Addams Family (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1992/10/??
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| 1992-10-??
 
| [[Fish Tales (PBL)]]
 
| [[Fish Tales (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/??/??
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| 1993-??-??
| [[T2: The Arcade Game (SNES)]]
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| [[T2: The Arcade Game (SNES)]] (T2ザ・アーケードゲーム)
| Original Music
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| {{Song-Box|01 - T2 The Arcade Game - SNES - Battlefield.ogg}}
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| Arranged by [[Andy Brock]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/??/??
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| 1993-??-??
 
| [[Twilight Zone (ARC)]]
 
| [[Twilight Zone (ARC)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/01/??
+
| 1993-01-??
 
| [[Whitewater (PBL)]]
 
| [[Whitewater (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/08/??
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| 1993-08-??
 
| [[Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (PBL)]]
 
| [[Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1994/??/??
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| 1994-??-??
 
| [[Revolution X (ARC)]]
 
| [[Revolution X (ARC)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1994/10/??
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| 1994-03-03
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| [[Super Baseball 2020 (GEN)]] (2020年スーパーベースボール)
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|
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| With [[Brian Schmidt]].
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|-
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| 1994-10-??
 
| [[Addams Family Special Collector's Edition (PBL)]]
 
| [[Addams Family Special Collector's Edition (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1994/10/??
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| 1994-10-??
 
| [[Road Show (PBL)]]
 
| [[Road Show (PBL)]]
 
|  
 
|  
|-
 
| 1995/01/??
 
| [[Frankenstein (PBL)]]
 
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1995/06/06
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| 1995-06-06
 
| [[Indianapolis 500 (PBL)]]
 
| [[Indianapolis 500 (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1995/10/??
+
| 1995-10-??
 
| [[Pinball Magic (PBL)]]
 
| [[Pinball Magic (PBL)]]
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|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1995/12/??
+
| 1995-12-??
| [[Revolution X (SNES)]]
+
| [[Revolution X (SNES)]] (レボリューションX)
 
|  
 
|  
 +
| Arranged by [[Kevin Bruce]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 1996/??/??
+
| 1995-??-??
 +
| [[Revolution X (GEN)]]
 +
|
 +
| Arranged by [[Stephen Lord]].
 +
|-
 +
| 1995-??-??
 +
| [[WWF WrestleMania (ARC)]]
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1996-??-??
 
| [[Kingpin (PBL)]]
 
| [[Kingpin (PBL)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1998-??-??
 +
| [[California Speed (ARC)]]
 +
|
 +
| With [[Kevin Quinn]], [[David Zabriske]], [[John Paul]], [[Joe Lyford]], [[Gunnar Madsen]], [[Richard Carle]], and [[Todd Modjesky]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 2001/09/01
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| 2001-09-01
 
| [[Monopoly (PBL)]]
 
| [[Monopoly (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2002/??/??
+
| 2002-??-??
 
| [[RollerCoaster Tycoon (PBL)]]
 
| [[RollerCoaster Tycoon (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2003/??/??
+
| 2003-??-??
 
| [[The Lord of the Rings (PBL)]]
 
| [[The Lord of the Rings (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2003/??/??
+
| 2003-??-??
 
| [[The Simpsons Pinball Party (PBL)]]
 
| [[The Simpsons Pinball Party (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2003/02/??
+
| 2003-02-??
 
| [[Ripley's Believe It or Not! (PBL)]]
 
| [[Ripley's Believe It or Not! (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2003/03/18
+
| 2003-03-18
 
| [[Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (XBOX)]]
 
| [[Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (XBOX)]]
 
|  
 
|  
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| With [[Daniel Myer]].-
 
|-
 
|-
| 2003/06/??
+
| 2003-06-??
 
| [[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (PBL)]]
 
| [[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (PBL)]]
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2004-??-??
 +
| [[The Mummy (SLOT)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2004/07/08
+
| 2004-07-08
 
| [[Elvis (PBL)]]
 
| [[Elvis (PBL)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2004-07-??
 +
| [[The Fast and the Furious (ARC)]]
 +
|
 +
| With [[Vikas Deo]], [[Deep Sharma]], [[Forrest Roush]], and [[Greg Magers]].
 
|-
 
|-
| 2004/09/14
+
| 2004-09-14
 
| [[Johnny Nero Action Hero (ARC)]]
 
| [[Johnny Nero Action Hero (ARC)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2005/??/??
+
| 2005-??-??
 
| [[NASCAR (PBL)]]
 
| [[NASCAR (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2005/04/20
+
| 2005-04-20
 
| [[WWE WrestleMania 21 (XBOX)]]
 
| [[WWE WrestleMania 21 (XBOX)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2006/01/??
+
| 2006-01-??
 
| [[World Poker Tour (PBL)]]
 
| [[World Poker Tour (PBL)]]
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
 +
| 2007-11-27
 +
| [[Cruis'n (WII)]]
 +
|
 +
| With [[Vikas Deo]], [[Deep Sharma]], [[Forrest Roush]], and [[Greg Magers]].
 
|}
 
|}
  
==Picture Gallery==
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==Image Gallery==
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
File:Chris_Granner_-_1.jpg|Linkedin Profile
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Image:Chris_Granner_-_1.jpg|LinkedIn Profile.
File:Chris_Granner_-_2.jpeg|Staff Photo; Unknown Source
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Image:Chris_Granner_-_2.jpeg|Staff Photo from the NBA Jam Tournament Edition arcade.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
*'''Facebook:''' [https://www.facebook.com/chris.granner]
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* [https://www.facebook.com/chris.granner facebook.com/chris.granner] - Facebook.
*'''Linkedin:''' [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2]
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* [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747 linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2001747] - LinkedIn.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQonYtLpbFM youtube.com/watch?v=cQonYtLpbFM] - Chris talks about his video game music for pinball games.
  
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[[Category: Composers]]
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Revision as of 03:10, 25 October 2022

Christopher P. Granner
Chris Granner - 1.jpg
Born December 4, 1957 (Age 54)
Birth Place Unknown
Nationality American   USA.svg
Aliases CPG
Website Unknown

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!:

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.

The CVSD Chris refers to stands for "Continually Variable Slope Delta Modulation".

Gameography

Released Title Sample Notes
1986-07-?? Road Kings (PBL) With Bill Parod.
1986-10-?? Pinbot (PBL) With Bill Parod.
1986-12-?? Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest (ARC)
1987-??-?? F-14 Tomcat (PBL)
1987-??-?? Fire! (PBL)
1987-01-?? Millionaire (PBL)
1987-10-?? Big Guns (PBL)
1988-??-?? Taxi (PBL)
1988-??-?? Truck Stop (PBL)
1988-02-?? Cyclone (PBL)
1988-12-?? Jokerz! (PBL)
1989-??-?? Earthshaker (PBL)
1989-??-?? Elvira and the Party Monsters (PBL)
1989-08-?? Police Force (PBL)
1990-??-?? Pinbot (NES) Arranged by David Wise.
1990-??-?? Trog (ARC)
1990-??-?? Star Trax (ARC)
1990-01-?? Whirlwind (PBL)
1990-09-?? Diner (PBL)
1990-11-?? Dr. Dude (PBL)
1990-11-?? FunHouse (PBL)
1991-10-?? Trog! (NES) Arranged by Scott La Rocca.
1991-??-?? Terminator 2: Judgement Day (ARC)
1991-??-?? Terminator 2: Judgement Day (PBL)
1992-03-?? The Addams Family (PBL)
1992-10-?? Fish Tales (PBL)
1993-??-?? T2: The Arcade Game (SNES) (T2ザ・アーケードゲーム)
Arranged by Andy Brock.
1993-??-?? Twilight Zone (ARC)
1993-01-?? Whitewater (PBL)
1993-08-?? Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (PBL)
1994-??-?? Revolution X (ARC)
1994-03-03 Super Baseball 2020 (GEN) (2020年スーパーベースボール) With Brian Schmidt.
1994-10-?? Addams Family Special Collector's Edition (PBL)
1994-10-?? Road Show (PBL)
1995-06-06 Indianapolis 500 (PBL)
1995-10-?? Pinball Magic (PBL)
1995-12-?? Revolution X (SNES) (レボリューションX) Arranged by Kevin Bruce.
1995-??-?? Revolution X (GEN) Arranged by Stephen Lord.
1995-??-?? WWF WrestleMania (ARC)
1996-??-?? Kingpin (PBL)
1998-??-?? California Speed (ARC) With Kevin Quinn, David Zabriske, John Paul, Joe Lyford, Gunnar Madsen, Richard Carle, and Todd Modjesky.
2001-09-01 Monopoly (PBL)
2002-??-?? RollerCoaster Tycoon (PBL)
2003-??-?? The Lord of the Rings (PBL)
2003-??-?? The Simpsons Pinball Party (PBL)
2003-02-?? Ripley's Believe It or Not! (PBL)
2003-03-18 Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (XBOX) With Daniel Myer.-
2003-06-?? Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (PBL)
2004-??-?? The Mummy (SLOT)
2004-07-08 Elvis (PBL)
2004-07-?? The Fast and the Furious (ARC) With Vikas Deo, Deep Sharma, Forrest Roush, and Greg Magers.
2004-09-14 Johnny Nero Action Hero (ARC)
2005-??-?? NASCAR (PBL)
2005-04-20 WWE WrestleMania 21 (XBOX)
2006-01-?? World Poker Tour (PBL)
2007-11-27 Cruis'n (WII) With Vikas Deo, Deep Sharma, Forrest Roush, and Greg Magers.

Image Gallery

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