David Warhol
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Dave Warhol is a composer, sound designer, and programmer. He played low brass instruments when he was in school. He started working at Mattel Electronics as a audio engineer, game designer and programmer. After being a video game musician and audio engineer for some time, he decided he wanted to make his own company for video games and he founded Realtime Associates in 1986. Realtime still exists to this day and is still run by David Warhol. He has also won the 12th Annual G.A.N.G. award.
Music Development
GB
Warhol created a program that converted MIDI files to something that the GameBoy could read. According to one of the composer's at Realtime Associates, it was really touchy in that if a note overlapped another note a little bit in the MIDI file, the song wouldn't play back properly and instead hang on the said note.
GEN
David composed MIDI files in Cakewalk and converted them to the GEMS sound engine.
GG/SMS
David created a MIDI conversion tool.
NES
Warhol created a program that converted MIDI files to the NES. He would compose his MIDI files in Cakewalk and then use his program to convert said MIDIs to the NES. If another composer at Realtime Associates was behind the music, he would use the same procedure, except he would arrange the composers' MIDI files first before converting them.
SNES
Warhol programmed a sound driver which converted MIDI files to the SNES. The instrument samples were taken from other SNES games. Warhol lent his sound driver to many video game developers, but only his company name was mentioned in those games.
Gameography
Links
- rtassoc.com - Official.
- facebook.com/dave.warhol - Facebook.
- twitter.com/davidwarhol - Twitter.
- youtube.com/watch?v=WeMseLpbREQ - Video Interview.
