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Oh, there’s also the Hyve synth, but it doesn’t do midi and it’s flat and it only makes one sound so it’s kind of irrelevant as an input device. Neat, but severely limited.

Oh, you’d have to remap it. But if CBA is turned 90 degrees it’s at least a similar physical layout. Or if the Axis / Sonome / harmonic table layout is rotated 90 degrees, it could be remapped as CBA or the jammer layout or a few others.

It’s okay, this thread isn’t intended to be flashlight-related and doesn’t have a thousand people eagerly waiting for updates. :slight_smile:

Like it for some reaon made me think of Orbital:

… The Girl With The Sun In Her Head?

That’s ironic. :slight_smile:

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I like to chime in on off topic topics once in a while :wink:

What’s that you say? Chimes?

I made this one a few years ago, “Accidental Mega Man”, and it “chimes in” too:

Heheh @ that dancing dude

I enjoyed yesterday’s beer-and-explosions holiday by making a different kind of loud noise.

… and although I had planned to stay in, I got restless and before I knew it I found myself juggling a lightsaber for a party of elementary school kids while half a dozen fireworks shows erupted all around us.

Aside from the unshakable feeling of dread that the world as we know it is doomed and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent its inevitable collapse, it was a good day. :slight_smile:

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow.
— Susan Ivanova

LOL, I’ve been meaning to watch that for ages… Somehow I still haven’t. I hear good things about it though, particularly how it actually has a coherent story from beginning to end which was written in advance instead of going season by season. That’s rare.

Maybe I should watch B5 sooner rather than later. The XO sounds like someone I’d get along with. :smiley:

Definitely, do. And the movies.

I was privy to the mailing-list “jms speaks”, and he went into the whole deal with the execs, and laid down the law, else no deal.

First, it’s to be a 5yr arc. Not 4yrs, not 6, not 2, not 10. 5.

Second, no one is to change anything in his scripts, not rewrite sections, not so much as move a comma.

He kept total control of the series, kept it coherent, kept it as close as possible to his “vision” which he had in the shower (I kid you not), and most importantly, kept the suits out of it.

And it paid off. Things in the background you see in S1 would figure prominently in S3 or later.

Details, details, details…

In contrast, look at “Andromeda”. EXCELLENT first season, then bobsledding downhill from there after Sorbocles got his mitts on it. S1 didn’t spoon-feed you anything. One ep you’d hear feral kids referring to the “one-stoff”, and you had to figure it out on your own they were talking about the First Officer (abbreviated “1stOff”!).

After Sorbocles got to it, it turned into “Hercules In Space”. Barfights, warlords, shoot-’em-ups, completely dumbed down and more “action” than anything remotely cerebral. <gag/>

ha that is a long time ago, hearing those notes :slight_smile:

That MIDI sounds! The exact same music styling as my old time favourite arcade game: Raiden III. I played that for hours on my Intel Pentium 233MX machine back in my college days. The sounds is relaxing, while being cool and playing god. Kill them all! fusion moves! I played 2P by myself (left hand = keyboard, right hand = joystick) just to get the extra killing projectiles

- Clemence

Andromeda definitely went downhill… especially in season 4. And then season 5 was a completely different show with the same characters. If one must watch, stop after season 3.

It seems now I need to find a Raiden III soundtrack. A quick look on youtube shows it has some nice sounds I might be able the dial in on the new toy, but I can’t hear much behind all the explosions. :slight_smile:

Anyway, those CV (analog control voltage) outputs I thought I’d never use on my Keystep? It turns out they do some neat stuff when I plug it into other analog equipment. I tried that this morning. Also, I need to find a better video editor; this was really awkward to edit.

Ow, ow, ow! My bat-like ears were really picking up those high-freq notes…

Yeah, probably the freqs were getting too high (Nyquist limit) and getting aliased down to lower freqs.

Sorry, I checked and it turned out that I played the older version: Raiden II. I like the Raiden II music better than the newer version

Raiden II full soundtrack

Raiden III full soundtrack

I have not much clue about the technical stuff but that was fun to hear! The reproduction of all those high frequency sounds by my simple little HP computer speaker is amazingly good btw.

Ah, yes, Raiden II sounds like its music came from a classic FM chip. Probably the popular Yamaha one which was standard on sound cards (Adlib, Sound Blaster, etc) for a long time.

… google …

Oh, not quite. The Adlib chip was a YM3812, but Raiden used a YM2151. Pretty close though. The PC version probably used the Adlib anyway since that’s what would have been available.

I don’t have a FM synthesizer, but a friend offered their Volca FM for cheap and it’s vaguely tempting. I like the sound of traditional analog synths better overall though. To me, frequency modulated digital synthesis sounds like the texture of plastic, the musical equivalent of paintings made only with pastel colors, like visiting a display home where every piece of furniture is brand new and every last detail is staged to make the house look lived-in despite being completely devoid of life. There’s something nice at times about the artificial clean-ness, but most of the time I prefer the scratchy dirty rawness of a subtractive analog synth.

While FM synths meticulously build up sounds one sine wave at a time, producing a very clean sound with a tidy spectral graph, what I used is nothing like that. The subtractive analog synth approach is to belch out all the colors simultaneously into a giant spectral rainbow from one horizon to the other, but filter out some of it before it hits the canvas.

Mathematically, square waves are the sum of an infinite series of sine waves at harmonic intervals. You can think of it kind of like the ripples caused by throwing a rock into a still lake. But of course that’s too simple, so most synthesizers provide lots of ways to make the canvas quite a bit dirtier than just a single square wave. It’s harmonics on top of harmonics as far as the eye can see, interference patterns, like a bunch of people throwing rocks into the same lake all at once. This makes really massive sounds which totally fill the sonic space. Then filters contain the mess, somewhat, by dynamically changing the shape of the lake. This cuts out some frequencies while amplifying others. It’s messy and fun. :slight_smile:

Good FM can be really good though. For example, “Cave Bouncer” by my friend tenfour:

That requires more precision than I generally care for though. I typically paint the broad strokes and then get bored and move on.

It was y Intel Pentium 233MMX, Creative 24x CDROM drive, (crappy) Creative desktop speakers, 32mB EDO RAM, VooDoo something VGA Card….I couldn’t find the PC version of this Raiden II. Sounded a bit different.
I don’t know, was it the speaker I used didn’t have basses, or I already forgetting how it really sounded. Will try to get the .exe file of the original game in my stash later.
My first “real” active speaker was Altec Lansing ACS495 bought it secondhand for ~USD 60 in 1999. And it has been my only desktop speaker until today, sounds so much better than my bluetooth UE Megaboom.
Once I get the file, you can try to install it. Extracting the MID should be simple enough.