Nice. I don't agree with them on the soundtrack claim though, when they say no synthesisers ets. Those sounds have been manipulated very heavily by computer in order to make them playable as melodic notes.
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Wed 19 Nov 2014, 14:28,
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^this
to the point where I'm wondering why they bothered, I can't discern anything "bike-makey" in the final sound...
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A synthesizer is a very specific instrument.
A synthesiser must have one or more oscillators operating in the audible range of frequencies to generate the raw sound. Things which are not synthesisers: sample-playback machines, filters, low-frequency oscillators, chorus / reverb / delay effects, distortion boxes, compressors, vocoders etc.
All of that sound could be made without resorting to synths. To be fair though, it seems like quite a lot of work to make synth like sounds, without using synths; if their claim is true, it means they've sampled some things, cut out some utterly tiny loops to basically create simple almost sine-wave like notes, and then run all of that shit through a bunch of the other boxes listed above.
So, they've basically simulated synths, using all the components you'd get in a synth, except replacing the first oscillation-generation step with a sample-playback step; so they're only not using synths on a technicality.
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