********************************************* ALBUM DESCRIPTION
This is the first SynaMax release on my new independent label, Psychic Rink, founded by myself and my partner, Shoffur.
The project file for this track was created in late November 2021 but development stagnated for well over a year until mid-to-late April 2023. Liberator is the first track I completed for my untitled work-in-progress Metroid Prime inspired album, scheduled to release in late July 2023. I was so happy with how the track came out, I decided to release it early as a single.
Like any good video game music cue, Liberator has loop points (starts at sample 1524465 and ends at sample 11764440) so you can, in theory, convert the track into a DSP audio file and replace one of the music files in Metroid Prime to hear Liberator in-game.
Special thanks to everyone who has reached out to me and shown their support; I hope you enjoy this latest release!
0:15 Intro 0:55 SynaMax's re-introduction to Symphony of the Night 2:01 Alucard 2:32 Super Castlevania IV 3:07 The enduring qualities of SotN 5:46 Resurgence of video game appreciation 6:36 Older AAA titles were developed more like indie games 8:14 New voice acting in SotN's later ports 10:07 Castlevania's Music 12:49 Playing NES Castlevania 14:06 Castlevania II's influence and immersion in early 3D games 15:42 Castlevania titles on our To-do list 16:50 We have to talk abouit Castlevania 64 19:34 Goth music 20:15 Siouxsie and the Banshees 21:15 The Cure 22:29 The Sound and Second Layer 23:24 Cocteau Twins 24:06 A couple of Alt metal releases 26:08 SynaMax's goth music selections 27:01 Joy Divison 28:52 Punk music in Crazy Taxi 29:22 SynaMax's upcoming Castlevania video and hacking SotN's sound engine 31:56 Shoffur's Kosmik Kode Vol. 2 and upcoming LPThe Good and Bad News about Metroid Prime RemasteredSynaMax2023-02-13 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
00:21 RIP Yukihiro Takahashi 01:54 Placid Plastic Duck Simulator 04:44 Untitled Goose Game 06:43 Duck Game 08:49 A Short Hike 15:45 We're making our own game!Bits and Knobs #7 - Metroid Prime Retrospective, Autechre, IDM, Warp RecordsSynaMax2022-12-21 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
0:00 Intro 02:26 Shoffur's first impressions of Metroid Prime 04:09 SynaMax initially didn't like Metroid Prime 07:48 Spacial awareness issues 09:22 Prime 2 made SynaMax change his mind 10:31 Prime 1 is a love letter to Super Metroid 11:05 Backtracking issues 11:58 Getting pissed at Flying Space Pirates 12:36 Issues with the 3D Map 13:19 Prime 2's storytelling verses Prime 1 14:45 Prime 3 and franchise fatigue 15:52 Autechre 17:06 Favorite Prime Bosses 19:58 Shoffur's rating of Metroid Prime 21:22 Metroid Endings 22:21 SynaMax's rating of Metroid Prime 23:38 Future videos about reviewing Prime's music 24:38 New Metroid Prime remix 25:04 What if Autechre did Prime's OST? 25:54 Autechre Discography 29:11 Warp Records and The Designers Republic 29:47 Hearing ZTime's samples in the game 30:39 Sean opening up about Autechre's involvement with Prime 32:43 Autechre pushing the limits of music technology 33:22 IDM's accessibility 36:20 Underground electronic music's influence on VGM 37:30 hymnlisch routes 4Bits and Knobs #6: Portal, Portal 2, Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Dillinger Escape PlanSynaMax2022-12-01 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
00:00 Today's Topics: Portal and Mike Patton 00:49 Metroid Prime Video Update 01:17 Mike Patton 02:00 Max's memories of Portal and Portal 2 03:26 Shoffur's first time seeing Portal 2 03:49 Portal's Spatial Awareness can be challenging 04:26 Portal's Music and Sound design 05:34 FM8 usage in Portal 06:34 Portal's dark sense of humor 08:41 SynaMax didn't know who Mike Patton was 09:16 Shoffur introduces SynaMax to Mr. Bungle 09:41 Mr. Bungle's debut album with John Zorn 12:11 John Zorn and his influence on alt metal and nu-metal 13:33 Shoffur's earliest memories of listening to Mike Patton 14:38 Mike Patton's involvement with Left 4 Dead 15:00 Mike Patton was featured on John Zorn's Christmas album 15:38 Peeping Tom / Mojo Music Video 16:36 Dillinger Escape Plan 17:27 SynaMax's Portal Gun and PotatOS Science Kit 18:52 How Portal 2 does things better than the original game 20:30 How Portal's developement started 21:28 SynaMax cosplayed as which Portal character? 22:25 How Portal's universe fits in with Half-Life 23:24 Nolan North's VO contributions to Portal 2 23:41 Space Core is the best characterI own actual music gear used in Metroid PrimeSynaMax2022-11-18 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
00:25 Resident Evil 4 00:51 Carolyn Lawrence Cartoon VA 01:47 Resident Evil 4 Influential Gameplay 02:32 Max's first experience with RE4 05:23 Resident Evil 4 Remake 06:07 RE4's User Interface VS. Remake 07:34 RE4's ambience 08:31 Scary Monks 09:29 Will the remake be too tense? 10:54 Silent Hill 2 Remake 16:25 YMO and Solo Works 22:40 YMO's influence in video game music 24:34 Anatomy / Kitty Horrorshow 28:07 SIGNALISThe Untold Story of my Scream in Cry of Fear (featuring other famous sounds made by me)SynaMax2022-10-24 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
00:40 How we started playing Silent Hill 05:50 Sonic Youth Reference in Silent Hill 08:37 Silent Hill's influence on indie horror 10:13 Portishead reference in Silent Hill 11:02 Silent Hill 2 13:02 Max gets scared in SH2 14:45 Alien Isolation's scary sound design 15:48 Alien Isolation Ending 16:59 Akira Yamaoka's sample library collection 17:59 Finding the SH2 Forest samples 19:39 Silent Hill 3 22:42 Silent Hill 4 27:08 Silent Hill 4's lack of music 29:40 Remakes and RemastersBits and Knobs Podcast #3: NieR: Automata, Yume Nikki, Playdeads Inside, Hollow Knight SilksongSynaMax2022-10-04 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
01:14 Yume Nikki 04:58 Playdead's Inside 09:59 NieR: Automata overview 12:12 Okabe's gear and Omnisphere 14:54 NieR and Anime Tropes 16:33 NieR: Automata's Pros and Cons 19:01 Drakengard 21:32 Yoko Taro's dark storytelling elements 22:54 Hollow Knight Silksong (Spoilers for first game) 24:34 Hollow Knight Silksong (No Spoilers) 27:34 OutroHow to Recreate Metroid Prime Music (Part 2)SynaMax2022-09-30 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
1:09 Racing Games (Need for Speed, Burnout) 9:43 Hypnospace Outlaw 16:16 Quake 24:16 Snatcher 27:36 Weird Sega CD games (Rise of the Dragon, Jurassic Park) 30:35 Modern AAA games vs Indie games 33:26 Trent Reznor's soundtrack for QuakeBits and Knobs Podcast #1: Hollow Knight, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime 4, Lain, Anime, Music & More!SynaMax2022-09-19 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
********************************************* 0:00 What is the Bits and Knobs Podcast? 2:47 Hollow Knight 3:58 Super Metroid 5:21 Goth subculture influencing 90s media 6:15 Silent Hill and Super Metroid: Horror Masterpieces 7:28 Music written for media in Context 8:26 What are our video game backgrounds? 9:26 Shoffur's early games 10:56 Shoffur's Proud Hollow Knight Moment 13:46 SynaMax's early games 15:46 Nintendo Direct September 2022 16:13 Issues with the Switch 17:39 Metroid Prime 4 Speculation 19:20 Tears of the Kingdom 20:05 The Current State of Anime 21:40 Serial Experiments Lain 23:12 Our upcoming projectsThe Origin of the Super Mario Kart Horn Stab SampleSynaMax2022-09-12 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
Never thought that my favorite music group was sampled in a Nintendo game.
0:00:00 Intro 0:01:00 Adrian's manga / Why Max is interviewing electronic music pioneers 0:01:50 What got Adrian interested in electronics? 0:04:53 How Adrian became involved with computers 0:08:32 Getting a job at Fairlight 0:13:19 First assignment at Fairlight 0:14:16 Torturing Fairlight CMIs 0:15:25 Fingerprints shorting out PCBs 0:17:50 Quality of Electronic components 0:18:40 The first year at Fairlight 0:20:25 Redesigning the Fairlight video card 0:22:10 Working with 20 MB Hard Drives 0:23:22 Fairlight computers for businesses 0:25:23 Qasar Computer 0:27:02 The Alphanumeric Keyboard 0:30:20 Keeping the Series I in production 0:31:28 The Fairlight computer case and its designer Alan Galt 0:33:50 Dual 6809 CPUs and OS9 0:35:20 Making the Series IIx 0:36:36 Running Fairlight CMI in MAME 0:37:08 Memory Paging and Diagnostic Software 0:39:09 Moving to the 6809 for Series II 0:40:40 Filtering out "B Flat Birdies" 0:42:37 How sample playback on the Channel Cards worked 0:44:50 The Series III 0:46:56 Tony Furse's smoking 0:48:07 Constant sample rate vs Variable sample rate 0:49:39 Drawing schematics for the Series III 0:52:34 Wire-wrapping and eventually getting Series III working 0:56:56 Leaving Fairlight for Roland 1:00:50 Getting hired by Ikutaro Kakehashi 1:02:14 Working on the A-880 MIDI Patchbay at Roland Austrailia 1:03:44 Meeting Peter Gabriel 1:04:36 Strange encounter with Florian Schneider 1:08:33 Meeting Jean-Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield 1:09:49 Living in Japan 1:13:18 Watching Akira, Evangelion, and Star Trek on TV 1:17:44 Working on the A-50 MIDI controller 1:21:03 Issues with Japanese Patents 1:24:52 Roland's stance about Pitch Wheels at the time 1:26:09 Getting frustrated dealing with suppliers 1:26:43 The passing of Dave Smtih and Yukio Tamada, unsung programmer of MIDI 1:27:35 Dave Smith's proposal for MIDI at Fairlight 1:28:12 Roland and Yukio Tamada's involvment with the origins of MIDI 1:30:00 The various Roland products that Adrian influenced 1:32:18 Adrian wanted to make a singing synth ala Vocaloid 1:33:05 More Roland produced influenced by Adrian 1:37:28 Adrian came up with the name "Roland Sound Space" 1:39:07 Working at Fairlight VS Roland 1:40:58 Roland is not the same company as it was 1:42:17 Roland's founder hated small keyboards 1:43:38 OutroA Thank You message & Update on future videosSynaMax2022-07-01 | ...Important Announcement regarding Metroid musicSynaMax2022-06-14 | Click to SUBSCRIBE ► youtube.com/channel/UCgA957Snkk7N-P7LPCiJe3A?sub_confirmation=1
0:00 Intro 2:17 A quick disclosure 2:52 What gear was used? 3:38 KORG MS2000 4:25 KORG Electribes 5:02 Proteus 2000 6:16 XL-1 Turbo 8:15 Orbit-3 9:03 Virtuoso 2000 9:24 SC-880 9:54 Uncivilised G'rooves 10:19 Other sample libraries used 10:34 Missing sounds 10:54 Hooking up the gear 11:44 Looking for presets/EA-1 example 12:24 Spectrum Analysis 12:50 Effects Processing 13:24 The argument for presets 13:47 "Sound Palettes" 14:41 Let's work on a track 15:11 "More Senses" 16:08 "Bliss" 17:02 "Ethereal" 17:18 "Goa Trance 3" 18:13 In the next video... 18:24 Final thoughts
0:00 Intro 1:01 Tina Turner and Successful Singles/Albums in Croatia 2:43 Uncivilised G'rooves Intro 4:18 How did Uncivilsed G'rooves came to be? 7:37 Electribes as inspiration/MIDI through Atari ST (also used by Fatboy Slim) 9:07 What kind of gear was used? 11:16 Working with automation 12:14 UG took six months to produce/Metroid Prime OST took 3 months 13:54 Where was UG recorded? Mixing console from Simply Red/Effects Processing and Plug-ins 16:45 Jamming with the ER-1/Original UG patterns 17:21 Sysex data/Piracy of UG 19:02 Favorite loops from UG/Mastering "No Shame" 21:26 G'Father/Using visual stories for inspiration 21:54 M'Room inspiration/Happy Accidents with sampling story 23:53 UG's unique sound design sets it apart from other libraries 24:39 Unreleased "UG Vol 2"/"Uncivilised M'oods"/Finanical issues and Distribution through sample library companies/Piracy 25:54 Understanding why you do what you love/Discovering SynaMax's channel and UG's renewed interest 28:44 UG being the consistent element of Metroid Prime's soundtrack 29:30 Researching Xenon Records/"Who is ZTime?"/Finally getting to meet and interview 31:05 UG didn't make a lot of money/when ZTime first heard about Nintendo using UG 32:12 Preview of new ZTime Beats 34:00 Exile kick drum being used in VS. Emperor Ing (Chrysalis)/WAV and CDDA differences 35:24 UG is the missing link between Castlevania and Metroid 37:47 How did you come up with the name "ZTime"? (silly voice warning)/Prince and The Time/The Hidden Meaning of "ZTime" 40:24 Prince and Peter Gabriel as an influence in Zok's work. 41:35 Production Library Music/Working for Eurovision with visuals and camerawork 44:16 Acknowledging the skill and challenges of production music composers/producers. 46:05 Copying other's work/Recreation burn out and rememberING why you love music 47:31 What's your opinion on when to use hardware and digital plug-ins? 49:44 What is Finspire?/Inspiring each others to create and share 54:37 Collaborating as an electronic musician 55:29 Feeling pressured to produce content today/The importance of community with music 1:00:11 Uncivilised G'rooves Remastered 1:04:04 Do you have any advice for any aspiring musicians and artists? 1:06:16 OutroSynaMax - Hunters Bounty (New Metroid Prime Inspired Track 2021)SynaMax2021-12-13 | DOWNLOAD ► synamax.bandcamp.com/track/hunters-bounty