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This came about from an experiment, and now I feel it may snowball into a project by itself.

Ever since discovering Touhou, I always wanted to make ZUN-style music, but I never quite figured out the instruments he used. I did the research and figured out he used the Roland Edirol SD-90, which supplied a great bulk of his sounds, among several VST instruments such as the Roland Edirol Hyper Canvas; both discontinued products. I tried the Touhou Soundfont, featuring ZUN's signiture "Romantic Trumpet" patch, but it was a tad buggy and lacked drums. Luckily for me, I have the Roland TTS-1, which is based on the Hypercanvas and features many of the same instruments (including the drums used in "Luna Dial").

So, after a few experiments, I decided to play the original midis through the TTS-1 to see how it sounded, but my experiments came to a halt when the Extra Stage boss theme for Imperishable Night, "Reach For The Moon, Immortal Smoke" wouldn't play. Since it's my second favorite theme behind "Necrofantasia", I decided I'd rebuild a great bulk of it from the parts I could salvage. This was the result: a near-perfect remake using only a single VST and post-processing effects (mainly final mix compression and a limiting boost).

Compare to the original midi:    • [IN] Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke [O...  
Compare to the original game version:    • Mokou's Theme - Reach for the Moon, Immort...  

Notes on production are in the annotations.