Sound Test Room vs /chapter5 Audio Comparison and Analysis | DELTARUNE

This is a bad video that I originally used to show a couple friends something I thought was cool. If anyone finds it interesting, that's cool. READ THIS: Clarifications & Corrections Q: Are you 100% Completely, Absolutely Sure that the /chapter5 tracks align with the Sound Test Room tracks? A: No. Absolutely not. While, yes, we have a melodic line, a driving rhythmic beat, and an alerting jingle, these tracks are so old and simple that if we didn't get confirmation with one of these (Happy Town), this wouldn't be much of a question in the first place. I can't gauge this stuff on sound alone. The important point, I think, is that one of them *was*. I believe it could mean in-universe, a character was developing tracks for the weird route of Deltarune since Undertale's sound test room. I think these ARGs revealed the weird route as less "unaccounted for" than we originally thought. And with Noelle and Kris being more and more thematically paralleled to Jevil this chapter, the character whose whole gimmick is being locked in jail while considering himself free from the prophecy and the outside world, things are looking pretty bleak. Q: So are we ever going to see a "Meat Factory"? A: I dunno maybe. If d.ogg really was what happened with that track, maybe not. But I don't know. Also, I genuinely just forgot d.ogg uses the drums for Raise Up Your Bat. Whoops. I'd honestly compare the sound of Meat Factory more to Digital Roots and Bit Roots, but not really. I've heard comparisons to GLACIER too since before this video was even made, but honestly it suffers from the same problem of just being a common kind of melody. I can't pin comments so I'll put this here too: "Ok guys I'm sorry to be a buzzkill, and I'm happy you're all engaging and pitching ideas, but please we can't just say that every single track with a pedal point or sawtooth shaped melody or a simple waveform is Meat Factory, you have to understand this. My point was that it'll be very difficult to claim one track is based on one from the Sound Test Room on sound alone. Look at Happy Town for example. If we didn't have the context of being in somewhere called "Hometown," or the actual file name of happy_town, would you be able to tell that those tracks were supposed to be related? In comparison with other tracks with similar melodies? An arrangement of a song we've already heard eight years ago?" Q: What does this mean for the River Person, Onion, and Gerson dialogues about an "old song coming from the sea"? A: I don't know. I wish I could say something crazy like "They're hearing a debug room out of bounds and that's also where in the Device Layer our Sound Tester is playing music." But I'm not nearly confident enough to believe or make claims that bold. I've already made many leaps here. Q: What does this mean for "Chara Intro Second Voice Theory"? A: I'm honestly hesitant to say this character has any other known appearances other than the Sound Test Room, the /chapter5 and /thankyou ARGs, and interrupting the intro. I'm happy just accepting this character as their own person until something clearly suggests them as anyone in particular we already know. Unrelated, I will say it's very funny to imagine someone going from "Thank you! Be seeing you soon." to "Please for the love of god stop answering 11 and 1225. Thank you." Or maybe I'm reading way, way too heavily into a single exclamation point. Or I'm misreading the tone here entirely.