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Browse piano sheets by Jake Kaufman on Zen Virtual Piano. Jake Kaufman is a composer and sound designer who dropped out of high school and then spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias virt. In 2002 Kaufman was one of the co-founders of VGMix, a website that hosted video game music remixes. Kaufman says he has worked in the industry in some capacity since around 2000, when he started scoring Game Boy Color games. The virt remixes and the VGMix website may point to remix work running through both his alias and a site he co-founded. Kaufman names the platformer Shantae as one of his early favorite gigs. He says the music and sound effects of Shovel Knight were entirely made using FamiTracker, a free NES music tool that looks kind of like a spreadsheet. Kaufman has said he hoped the music would be both a love-letter to the NES and a step beyond what cartridges could do, as the graphics and gameplay were. Kaufman is friends with the Yacht Club crew outside of work, which put him inside the game concept before it began. It is tempting to link scoring Game Boy Color games with writing Shovel Knight in an NES tool, as two pieces of work that involve more than one console. Kaufman says Manami Matsumae still taught him things through her music, just like Mega Man 1 did years earlier. He has described an aim of writing building blocks modular enough to fit together but diverse enough to survive long gameplay sessions. Kaufman announced on November 1, 2014 that he was parting from WayForward on mutual terms. His plan was a freelance career as composer and sound designer, based in a studio of his own. Setting his own schedule and picking his own projects was the reason he gave. Does Game Boy Color scoring from around 2000, set beside a studio of his own from 2014, mark out a career that stretches across both periods? Mint Potion, a music label based in Santa Clarita, California, was started by Kaufman and recording engineer Robert Altschuler in March 2016. Original Sound Version named Kaufman Composer of the Year for 2011. The choice rested on his BloodRayne: Betrayal and Mighty Switch Force work, plus several other soundtracks and arranged albums. Shantae as an early favorite gig and the Mint Potion label started in 2016 may point to a career that covers both scoring individual games and running a music label.
Browse piano sheets by Jake Kaufman on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jake Kaufman is a composer and sound designer who dropped out of high school and then spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias virt. In 2002 Kaufman was one of the co-founders of VGMix, a website that hosted video game music remixes. Kaufman says he has worked in the industry in some capacity since around 2000, when he started scoring Game Boy Color games. The virt remixes and the VGMix website may point to remix work running through both his alias and a site he co-founded.
Kaufman names the platformer Shantae as one of his early favorite gigs. He says the music and sound effects of Shovel Knight were entirely made using FamiTracker, a free NES music tool that looks kind of like a spreadsheet. Kaufman has said he hoped the music would be both a love-letter to the NES and a step beyond what cartridges could do, as the graphics and gameplay were. Kaufman is friends with the Yacht Club crew outside of work, which put him inside the game concept before it began. It is tempting to link scoring Game Boy Color games with writing Shovel Knight in an NES tool, as two pieces of work that involve more than one console.
Kaufman says Manami Matsumae still taught him things through her music, just like Mega Man 1 did years earlier. He has described an aim of writing building blocks modular enough to fit together but diverse enough to survive long gameplay sessions. Kaufman announced on November 1, 2014 that he was parting from WayForward on mutual terms. His plan was a freelance career as composer and sound designer, based in a studio of his own. Setting his own schedule and picking his own projects was the reason he gave. Does Game Boy Color scoring from around 2000, set beside a studio of his own from 2014, mark out a career that stretches across both periods?
Mint Potion, a music label based in Santa Clarita, California, was started by Kaufman and recording engineer Robert Altschuler in March 2016. Original Sound Version named Kaufman Composer of the Year for 2011. The choice rested on his BloodRayne: Betrayal and Mighty Switch Force work, plus several other soundtracks and arranged albums. Shantae as an early favorite gig and the Mint Potion label started in 2016 may point to a career that covers both scoring individual games and running a music label.
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He used the alias virt for his video game music arrangements and remixes.
Kaufman says the music and sound effects of Shovel Knight were entirely made using FamiTracker, a free NES music tool that looks kind of like a spreadsheet.
In March 2016 Kaufman and recording engineer Robert Altschuler founded the music label Mint Potion, based in Santa Clarita, California.
Kaufman announced on November 1, 2014 that he was parting from WayForward on mutual terms and going freelance from his own studio. He gave setting his own schedule and choosing his own projects as his reason.