Ape Escape - Crumbling Castle ~ YM2151+YM3012 mix ~

The background music to ''Crumbling Castle'', a stage in ''Ape Escape'' on the original PlayStation, remade with Sega Genesis instruments. This time I made a mix with the YM2151 and YM3012 chips in mind.
I want to try and improve this mix later on, because the MIDI was missing some parts of the percussion and it is a hell of a job to correct that. For now, I arranged some of the snares and kicks to make the song feel less empty, but I definitely want to improve this one at some point.
The YM2151 is almost identical to the YM2612, the synth chip found in the Sega Genesis, but the YM2151 can play eight notes at the same time, while the YM2612 can only play six notes at the same time (not if samples are played simultaneously, otherwise it can only play five notes). For this song you really want to have more than five channels, so I went with the YM2151.
The YM3012 is a seperate sample chip, notably used alongside the YM2151. I am not entirely sure whether it can play multiple samples at the same time or not, but the OutRun arcade board seems to have both an YM2151 and YM3012 onboard to produce the music. That game has multiple samples playing at the same time, so I would assume that the YM3012 can do this.
Made in FL Studio 10 with VOPM and various game samples.
Music by Soichi Terada
MIDI by Daniel Wright
Mix by LittleMichaelz