Nectarine

This is a new take on an old idea. Version 3.0 was sounding rather sub-standard compared to the other tracks on the CD, so I decided to start over again in FL Studio (3.0 was started in FastTracker II and later finished in ModPlug Tracker).

The introduction is a fun tip of the hat (or fedora, you might say...) to a rather famous theme composed by John Williams. He's always been one of my favourite soundtrack composers. After the rather deceptive outset, the music settles a little more comfortably into my own personal style. This portion was created entirely with the EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra (Gold Edition) library.

When the main section begins, I decided to stay reasonably close to the structure of the first two versions of this track, but with an updated sound. One key difference though, is that the themes are developed much further than any of the previous versions.

The bulk of what you're hearing is the Sytrus synthesizer (a soft-synth), but the piano is from the Symphonic Gold library and the drums are a combination of the QL Stormdrum library and one of FL Studio's built in synth drums. In fact, the kick drum is a hybrid sound I created by filtering the high end from a synth bass drum and the low end from a natural kick drum sample and then combining the resulting sounds.

There is an easter egg present in this track, as is the case with the original version and version 3.0. It's a small tribute to one of my favourite video games of all time.