Harmony Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-3-thx-sound.html This story was terribly interesting to me. Having to write music like they did "back in the day" really separated the musicians from the wannabes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hy Bound Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Thats pretty interesting. I never realized how much work went into that sound... It didn't sound THAT complex. I guess I've never really appreciated how much all of the old synthesis was just code-writing. Cool read, thanks for bringing it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I love that the program never made the same sound twice. It would have been kind of cool for them to run the program for every new THX movie, and the sound would be a little different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analoq Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I've posted that before, but it was in this intimidating thread so I'm sure it largely went unnoticed. Anyway, even today you'd really have to know what you're doing to duplicate that sound. Reaktor probably isn't sophisticated enough, probably SuperCollider or ChucK would be the "easiest" way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmony Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 Yeah sorry about that; I'll use the intimidation factor excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sole Signal Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Nice, I had always wondered how that sound was created. I had no idea that so much work was involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abg Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Actually, its just a patch from Gladiator 2.. Seriously though, it's even the first sound from the demo on their website! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Burns Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Coincidentally, yesterday one of my music professors was talking about IRCAM, the place where that guy worked in the 70s. It's basically a place where acoustics scientists, performers, and composers get together and play around with really avant garde stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analoq Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Max/MSP comes from IRCAM. It's not the only institution of its kind, we have CCRMA here in the US. There's probably others I'm forgetting. Actually, its just a patch from Gladiator 2.. Seriously though, it's even the first sound from the demo on their website! That serves a good example of showing the complexity of the THX sound when compared to the sort of approximation you'd get off a regular synthesizer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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