The "Hello World!" of the demo scene. Bad Apple has a unique history, for a song and video that's been just about everywhere and on all sorts of retro computers and devices. Not bad for a song from 1998 that was primarily meant to be …
The "Hello World!" of the demo scene. Bad Apple has a unique history, for a song and video that's been just about everywhere and on all sorts of retro computers and devices. Not bad for a song from 1998 that was primarily meant to be a stage level chip tune theme for and old shoot 'em up called Lotus Land Story. Add to that, a version of the song in 2007 was arranged for vocals, first done by Nomico in Japanese. It's had quite a few English versions, most notably by singer and voice over actress Cristina Vee. There are two versions made by her, one that follows the Nomico version, and a metal version featuring RichaadEB on guitar. The metal version is my favorite, and you can check it out here:
https://youtu.be/9Xz4NV0zsbY
The Midi I used for this version can be found here:
https://musescore.com/thvocaloid21-5/bad-apple
I intended to use more instruments, but Cakewalk didn't like running 20 + instruments, especially after truing to tweak them to remaster the volume. Even with the missing instruments I initially intended to have, It still came out pretty decent.
Also, if you want to use the Bad Apple video, you can download it free from the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/TouhouBadApple
Software Used:
For Music:
Cakewalk by BandLab (Version 2021.04 BUILD 175, 64 bit)
Copyright © 2021 BandLab
Audacity 3.02
copyright © 1999-2021 Audacity Team.
Audacity is a registered trademark of Dominic Mazzoni
http://www.audacityteam.org/
For Picture:
Paint.NET (Current Version: 4.2.16).
Copyright © 2021 dotPDN LLC, Rick Brewster, and contributors -
Official website: http://www.getpaint.net/
For Movie Compilation:
OpenShot Video Editor 2.5.2 .
Copyright 2008 - 2021 by OpenShot Studios, LLC
https://www.openshot.org/
