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Some More Obscure Video Game Music Landmarks
The development history of the video game music library is a particularly interesting site of innovation. To the uninitiated, the chip tunes of the 80s and early 90s video game were ear-bleeding nonsense. Yet the limitations of early synthesiser chips really tested the compositional abilities of many talented music directors. Households internationally are haunted by the echoes of Dreams Come True's Sonic the Hedgehog soundtracks, and decades on, parents who have never even touched a joypad can recognise such tunes. Many enthusiasts now strive to emulate this sound and in an impressive array of retro-styled games, the grating electronic sound of the early consoles is alive and well. Though they tend to eskew the single-layered simplicity of 80s and early 90s tunes, games like 'Super Meat Boy' feature many of these old sounds in multi-layered soundtracks.
We tend to think of the achievements in game audio leading to the hi-fi quality fidelity of the noughties, but actually, the 90s contained enough startling innovations to make it worthy of note. The site of a great deal of this innovation was the PC, which in the 90s was very much at the vanguard of technological progress whilst the incumbent consoles were limited to Midi tables. One of the boldest and earliest endeavours was the dynamic music Lucasarts put into popular point and click adventure 'Monkey Island 2'. The instruments in Lucasarts' midi system were capable of seguing neatly between scenes and other actions on screen without the need to pause. Later in the decade, tracks that were composed in much the same way to electronica production musicwere widely used. Notable examples of this kind of music being widely used were found in the Unreal engine titles 'Unreal' and 'Deus Ex': total sound fidelity was finally a reality.
It was around this time that games musicians became more like experimental artists. The use of ethnic chants and instruments defined PC strategy title 'Homeworld', its 'Industrial Arabic' sound linked to the game's story of returning desert-planet exiles. 'Homeworld' was also distinctive for its use of 'Agnus Dei', a vocal version of 'Adagio for Strings' as well as credit music by Prog Rock band Yes. Just ten years before, many home computers were choosing between the music or the sound effects.
can police scanners be traced?
I was looking on ebay and i saw those multi-band scanners, I thought, what if i stumble upon a police frequency and it got...... stuck on it, would i get traced? because i know you can't, legaly, listen to the police, something to do with you can't listen to radio/mobile phone messages or calls that aren't inteded for you.
I am sorry but you are wrong about listening to a police channel. Scanners are not illegal if they were then you couldn't go to a CB shop and buy one. They can not trace you because they only receive they don't transmit anything. You are right it is illegal to listen in on a phone conversation at least in the state of Arizona it is. That is where you get into the wire tapping issues.
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness (drownedinsound)
_Hello Sadness_ is obviously more melancholic than anything **Los
Campesinos!** have done so far, but thankfully far from being melodramatic. To
end in a football analogy, now an LC staple: it’s a solid performance, by far
their most coherent yet, but missing some of the flair of previous bouts.
52 Reason / Record Tips - Week 6: Multi band processing part 1
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