How did they do it?!?! -- Katamari Forever: Green Villlage

[ectogemia]

So I picked up Katamari Forever the other day, and fell in love with the village music.

Throughout the song, there's a harpsichord-sounding instrument that plays a few chords, sustains the last one, then it sounds like the sequence is played in reverse to get a cool, melodic swoopy effect. You'll notice it right away.

How is this done? My only guess is they made an audio clip and reversed it and overlaid the original and the reversal 'til it sounded right, kind of like how reverse cymbals can be done.

Is there a way to do this in a more streamlined, sequencer-only (i.e. no audio clips) manner? Other ways to do it?

[Anorax]

So I picked up Katamari Forever the other day, and fell in love with the village music.

Throughout the song, there's a harpsichord-sounding instrument that plays a few chords, sustains the last one, then it sounds like the sequence is played in reverse to get a cool, melodic swoopy effect. You'll notice it right away.

How is this done? My only guess is they made an audio clip and reversed it and overlaid the original and the reversal 'til it sounded right, kind of like how reverse cymbals can be done.

Is there a way to do this in a more streamlined, sequencer-only (i.e. no audio clips) manner? Other ways to do it?

One idea is that they used DBlue Glitch. Other than that I have no idea.

[DramaNoMore]

Edit: It's reversed on itself, yea... Gotta experiment with this...

edit 2: My whole post was irrelevant due to me not reading everything. Try a reverse delay. e-phonic's "retro delay" seems to do that.