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by colmon
Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:53 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: playstation startup screen: what synth?
Replies: 29
Views: 34202

Re: playstation startup screen: what synth?

there isn't one, is there? i thought the game soundtrack for ps1 resided on the cd-rom itself, as opposed to a midi player such as the snes and genesis used

i figured the boot sound must reside as a sample somewhere on the os rom?
by colmon
Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:04 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: playstation startup screen: what synth?
Replies: 29
Views: 34202

Re: playstation startup screen: what synth?

that thread about wavestation filter resonance has got me wondering but i guess this is gonna be one of those unsolved mysteries until some random dude gets interviewed 10 years later about how he got paid thousands of dollars to hold down a couple of keys on an emu morpheus or something a la the du...
by colmon
Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: playstation startup screen: what synth?
Replies: 29
Views: 34202

Re: playstation startup screen: what synth?

interestingly, somebody recreated the boot sound with a juno 60 and cz-3000. i think they did a pretty good job -- except it misses the bells and harmonic drone at the end ie. the best the part! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBaKIcBmHA for some reason none of the people who uploaded the original p...
by colmon
Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:09 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: playstation startup screen: what synth?
Replies: 29
Views: 34202

playstation startup screen: what synth?

anyone know what synth was used to create the playstation startup sound? it's etched into my mind for eternity



man that brings back some memories *sniff* :cryin:
by colmon
Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:55 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Guess the synth
Replies: 9
Views: 3074

Re: Guess the synth

sounds like roland microkorg to me, the original analog model
by colmon
Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:29 am
Forum: Buyer's Guide
Topic: Anyone Own the Micron and the MicroKorg?
Replies: 10
Views: 3641

Re: Anyone Own the Micron and the MicroKorg?

this is one of the gayest threads i have ever read on this forum
by colmon
Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:45 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: how to achieve this detroit techno sound
Replies: 20
Views: 12498

Re: how to achieve this detroit techno sound

man rob hood's sound design on internal empire is just amazing, and still sounds remarkably fresh
by colmon
Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:44 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: how to achieve this detroit techno sound
Replies: 20
Views: 12498

Re: how to achieve this detroit techno sound

how about the "lead" sound in this classic robert hood track?



some sort of chorus/delay modulation? fm?

think i'm gonna keep this as the all purpose vse detroit techno thread if that's ok with ya'll
by colmon
Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:18 am
Forum: Buyer's Guide
Topic: Drum Machines?
Replies: 32
Views: 9280

Re: Drum Machines?

you should get a roland tr-727. those gritty quijada and agogo samples are just perfect for industrial/ebm
by colmon
Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:39 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: early aphex twin distortion sound
Replies: 30
Views: 16240

Re: early aphex twin distortion sound

awesome
by colmon
Sun Jun 06, 2010 11:38 pm
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick - What Synths?
Replies: 3
Views: 1970

Re: Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick - What Synths?

this is the best ambient album ever made
by colmon
Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:23 am
Forum: Samplers
Topic: Ensoniq Mirage and the EPS
Replies: 5
Views: 3741

Re: Ensoniq Mirage and the EPS

by colmon
Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:04 pm
Forum: Samplers
Topic: Vintage samplers: dealing with memory limitations
Replies: 17
Views: 7155

Re: Vintage samplers: dealing with memory limitations

i've been cheating by recording audio into my laptop and speeding it up, sampling back into my yamaha tx16w, and then transposing back to it's normal speed i guess you could do the same thing with any sampler that allows you to resample and bypass the laptop completely, but unfortunately tx16w doesn...
by colmon
Thu May 27, 2010 11:11 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: Fantastic synthesists never mentioned on the VSE Pt.1
Replies: 103
Views: 43563

Re: Fantastic synthesists never mentioned on the VSE Pt.1

+1 for laurie spiegel! she immediately came to mind when i saw the thread title, it seems she's a severely underrated synthesist generally, not just on here some others: roberto cacciapaglia, producer of the classic lost synth pop album by ann steel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFupSiFFpg haruomi...
by colmon
Tue May 25, 2010 9:50 am
Forum: General Synthesizers
Topic: What synths have Depeche Mode NOT used?
Replies: 24
Views: 10188

Re: What synths have Depeche Mode NOT used?

loads of gear interview transcriptions here

http://www.sacreddm.net/1980s/imu011184 ... 84main.htm