Aural Nostalgia
Are some of you old enough to recognize this kind of arpeggiating sound ?
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It reminds me of the good old assembler days - and unfinished homework by the way…
27. May 2008 at 21:07
Yeah, chiptunes!
Doesn’t suck as much as ASUS.
27. May 2008 at 22:13
ZX Spectrum+
27. May 2008 at 22:30
Would work great as WipeOut HD soundtrack!
27. May 2008 at 22:31
Uhm - where do I know the background melody from? Sure I heard it before….
LG, Neri
27. May 2008 at 23:12
Well….
nontheless, my favourite so far.
27. May 2008 at 23:19
ich musste irgendwie an no way out of hell denken
Schön!
28. May 2008 at 10:44
Captain Future OST - Christian Bruh
war aba noch davor die Zeit glaubsch 
28. May 2008 at 11:12
well, the main sound is an arpeggio which was in the days of 8bit computers with only three voices (like the C64) a way to simulate chords and thereby harmonies. a typical chord alone has three to four notes and would have occupied all voices of such a sound chip. this is why programmer came up with the idea to play the 3+ notes of a chord in fast succession with just one voice.
as computer evolved and got more (much more, that is) voices for sound generation this “trick” wasnt used anymore - but i still like it as a stylistic element reminding me of the old (school- in my case) years…
by the way… at the high time of the C64 there was a fourth voice used by altering the overall volume of the three hardware voices which was an early method of computer sampling - only with distorting the three other voices and sampling rates that quite any cellphone of today could outmatch…
28. May 2008 at 17:54
It’s not only a trick invented to save a computers resources. You also find this in pieces of classical music e.g. beethoven, mozart, bach,… They used it to express different musical ideas - for example, specific lines of tones or splitting chords.
28. May 2008 at 19:53
considering the term “arpeggio” - of course. not only in classic music but also in film scoring (philip glass comes to mind)
but if you consider the actual tempo and therefore specific sound of the “computer arpeggios” as in the snippet here i would not say that its the same thing. the poor string players arms would simply fall off - although their faces might then give a very interesting expression… maybe something for sadistic composers ?
28. May 2008 at 21:47
Yes, this is music which I like! does good mood - the thing!!!
28. May 2008 at 23:10
Hi Rolf! I have been waiting for some infos on your production methods since the days of This World Is Yours. GREAT BLOG! keep it coming!!! :-)))
29. May 2008 at 16:30
Yeah me too
hope you are not to busy;)
Rolf if you like i would like to send you some of my snippets (just to hear your opinion)
i want a professionell opinion. I Hope you show us some tricks and a little bit of your know how;) maybe i can learn something from the great master of trance
31. May 2008 at 11:37
“EEEEEEEHHHHHOOOOOO, I’m tryin’ to use some technology”
31. May 2008 at 15:50
yes, i will show you a lot of “tricks” or at least my way of solving problems in the production phase of the album
and yes, you can send me mp3s and ill comment them
03. June 2008 at 12:38
Sounds great Rolf!
More of that stuff please… =)
21. June 2008 at 00:35
hatte mal aufm Commodore 64 einen Assembler am laufen der war auch auch ganz cool. Daran erinnert es mich
14. July 2008 at 18:16
@Yannick
“EEEEEEEHHHHHOOOOOO, I’m tryin’ to use some technologyâ€
I also say, sound like Timbaland, but my post is deleted, why, It’s good stuff anyway!!
16. July 2008 at 13:15
Hell yeah! This sounds very similar to my beloved Commodore 64 which I’m using since 15 years, also for doing some music on this machine
0ldsk00l 4ever! RMB 4ever!
11. October 2008 at 23:11
8 Bit- Samples vom PAULA (Soundchip Commodore / AMIGA)… nett!
12. October 2008 at 14:44
its definatly SID inspired but its not a sample…
21. May 2009 at 10:51
“Yannick Says:
27. May 2008 at 23:12
Well….
nontheless, my favourite so far.”
Well, I still like it after one year and 13 Stories. So I hope you might use it later? PLEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
21. May 2009 at 12:58
I also like it a lot!! For sure a good track for a Ep!