What are the synths used here ??

[KBD_TRACKER]

Just wondering what synths were used in the soundtrack .... And I am also a bit curious: what is the chord progression used ?

[Z]

Doesn't sound like any synths are used, but samplers.

It sounds like a sample of an electric piano playing a Sus2 chord then being payed on different notes.

[mpa1104]

The stringy pad that comes in later could be a sampler or a synth, but given that the sound is quite generic, I for one would be hard pressed to guess a particular synth.

As for the start of it, sounds to me as though Z is on the money there. They're Sus2 chords certainly (or Sus4 depending on what you consider the root note to be ). If they were sampled as a chord and played on different notes (which it does sound like), that's what I'd usually call rather lazy since the chords themselves are easy to play live: D-E-A , Eb-F-Bb , F-G-C

As a point of conjecture though (and in order to defend any perceived laziness ), I'd hazard a guess and say that since these sorts of info/education vids are done on a small budget (with music being the very last consideration since any muso would be happy to do it for free ... apparently ), it's likely that whomever provided the music here may well have cut as many corners as he/she needed. Ostensibly, that track could easily have been done on one sampler with the required sounds set up across zones on the keyboard (and with minimal sequencing). Also, given the repetition of the patterns used, they could all be loops anyway (so, FL Studio, Garage Band, you name it, although I'm conscious of the fact that the vid may well have been made before that sort of software was around).

Interesting vid by the way. When I think that cast-iron girders and beams are the sorts of things that lives depend upon (ie, holding up bridges and skyscrapers, etc) I'm often even more aghast at the sort of temperatures that can make those same substances soft enough to bend!

[Music Bird]

It could be a sampler. But maybe it could be a Roland JV/XP series keyboard.

[KBD_TRACKER]

The stringy pad that comes in later could be a sampler or a synth, but given that the sound is quite generic, I for one would be hard pressed to guess a particular synth.


As a point of conjecture though (and in order to defend any perceived laziness ), I'd hazard a guess and say that since these sorts of info/education vids are done on a small budget (with music being the very last consideration since any muso would be happy to do it for free ... apparently ), it's likely that whomever provided the music here may well have cut as many corners as he/she needed. Ostensibly, that track could easily have been done on one sampler with the required sounds set up across zones on the keyboard (and with minimal sequencing). Also, given the repetition of the patterns used, they could all be loops anyway (so, FL Studio, Garage Band, you name it, although I'm conscious of the fact that the vid may well have been made before that sort of software was around).

Thanks for the reply ! However I did not feel that this piece of music was particularly "generic" or "last consideration" or overly "repetitious".
In fact it reminded me of some pretty able acid jazz, circa 1990s. Thing which I had not heard in a while.