... and why did they sound different?
I'm talking about: David Whittaker (Thundercats), Jas C Brooke (Outrun), Jonathan Dunn (Robocop), Tim Follin (LED Storm) et al.
Now I read that David Whittaker and Jas C Brooke worked in the same office and that Jas wrote the play routines but also did actually compose some tunes. I also read that David was the go to guy for a quick tune.
Tim Follin seemed to be the most consistent with tunes like LED Storm sounding brilliant on both machines.
I guess they would compose the tunes with synths and drum machines, and have predefined sound effects already coded, then put the notation down in some sort of chip-tracker and then their play routine would use the sound chip to play the right notes, adsr waveforms, loops etc. but despite having supposedly the same sound chip (AY-3-8910\YM2149) the Spectrum versions sometimes sounded better (e.g. Thundercats, Outrun, Joe Blade).
In Renegade the music was by Jonathan Dunn on the Speccy and Tim Follin on the ST so why didn't Ocean just save some cash and port Jonathan Dunn's version to the ST like they did with the Gameboy?
In another example, the "percussion" on the ST version of Joe Blade sounds too loud but it was perfect on the Spectrum. The ST version was by Mike Brown but the Speccy version was by Gary Biasillo. I wish Gary Biasillo did more ST Tunes. Target Renegade on the Spectrum was excellent.