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As far as I understand, the SNES has no digital synthesizer in it and it's a straight up sampling synth. And that the samples are loaded into the ram from the cartridge. Well that brings me onto this: what in the world did these companies use as the initial sound sources?

Did they use regular, commercial synthesizers like old Korg, Roland, and Yamaha synths? I'm guessing if that holds true, that they probably also used drum modules from Alesis, Roland, etc. Or, they might have even made their own drum samples.

If they did use all that I listed above, it would most likely be pretty hard to tell what they used since 1) the sound has gone through major down conversion and quality loss, and 2) the sounds were sampled and chopped into very tiny snippets which are looped by the sampler synth.


Does anyone have any idea about what kind of gear was used as far as the original sound sources for SNES games?

http://www.tweakbench.com/


Specifically, Peach, Toad & Triforce. Should give you some Nintendo sounds.

Checkout the overview for more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

Haha wub I think you kinda jumped the gun there a bit after reading the thread title buddy . He's just asking as to where the original sounds came from that they loaded into the SNES.

Gameboys use midi for their audio right?

I have some old gameboys laying around, anyone ever made cool audio hardware out of them? I'd really like to get more hands on with hardware, and this reminds me that i could use my gameboy for this purpose, it fascinates me really.

The SNES actually has a very famous and popular sound chip made by Sony. As I recall it had some basic synth features including envelopes and filters, maybe even an OSC or 2. But yeah any samples were no doubt done with regular synths and drum machines of the 80s like the DX7 and Roland gear, or even real instruments in the case of some. I remember some extremely convincing orchestra music in SNES games. SNES had good quality, I believe it was 32khz which isn't quite the best but good enough for the 90s. A bit too good actually... I much prefer the older NES sounds and especially the older C64.

As far as the Gameboy, LSDJ is very fun.

Has anyone on this board tried circuit bending a old game boy advance? I'm watching videos of people do crazy shit with the older model ones but nothing with a GBA

Paradigm X is the board tinkerer.

Yeah I always figured there was a sound chip on board being triggered via midi from the cartridge. Neve actually opened one up to take a look though.

I bought an old game boy at a flea market with the intention of bending it, haven't gotten round to it yet.

Cloack and dagger on here was making some nice game-boy tunes a year or two ago. Think he used Lsdj which i think you can use without modding the gameboy.

Yep, it works fine as is.

You can virtualize LSDJ or any other gameboy/snes/nes oldskool stuff and just record it with audacity or somethin. Just google it