I've become interested in old sample libraries in recent years, thanks in no small part to their use in classic video game soundtracks. So this thread caught my interest. I just managed to buy the SL701 (Strings #1/Brass #1, Pan Flute/Tenor Saxophone, Girl's Voice/Marimba #1) and SL710 (Power Kick/P...

are you saying unless a sound was in an oldschool game, you wont use it? Not exactly, more that I just personally like a lot of these sounds and think it would be fun to use them. However, for the "remastering" concept I mentioned, using the same sounds would be necessary because the goal for that ...

I like a lot of the samples that were used in old video game soundtracks, and finding out where they originated from is interesting to me. On top of that, due to the limitations of the sound hardware that these games ran on, the samples often had to be resampled at lower bit depths and sample rates ...

Recently I've been attempting to identify the sources of samples used in various video game soundtracks. One of the soundtracks I'm focusing on is Konami's Gradius III, which is mostly FM based but also uses two sample channels. Here is the music sample ROM converted to WAV, but with noise eliminate...

I don't know of any for the SK-1, but this site has some RZ-1 sample cassette recordings.