Oh dear. It seems that the furbies are invading...
That aside, I won the previous compo and thus I am selecting the next theme... this is a personal favorite of mine: SNES music.
This is wide open as to the interpretation of SNES music... though I would advise that you have not more than 8 notes (including drums and other samples) going at a time at the very least.
The SPC700 doesn't support a lot of special audio effects (unless you've already applied them to the samples, of course)... but there are a couple of effects that I do know are supported:
Pitch modulation (by using the previous channel as a pitch envelope)
Echo (complete with filtered decay through FIR coefficients... warning: this does take up SPC700 memory for an echo buffer)
My only other advice that if you do keep track of sample totals (as in total sample length)... make sure the loop points are divisible by 16 (especially if this were to be real SNES music) and try to keep the total sample size under 100,000 (this is if it were to even remotely make it to the SPC700..).
The deadline will be set at 23:59 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on November 4, 2012.
So you can make a SNES song using non-SNES soundfonts... but you'll have to make sure to manually edit down the samples. I myself have disobeyed this part before by not editing the larger samples (though ever since getting a proper converter from .it to .spc, I am now much more aware of how large I can make my samples...). So the answer to that is... with the proper sample editing, actually, you can use other soundfonts... and I guess other styles, too.
