People who get upset over samples clearly have zero idea how samples actually work. People use samples all the time; that's literally what these audio libraries are meant for. I could list any number of my favorite game soundtracks which also use samples. Friggin Undertale and Deltarune's soundtracks technically uses samples, and I don't see anyone crying about their soundtracks. Using a sample masterfully is just as much a part of composition than anything else.

@@DMSwordsmaster mhm - i think the uninformed hate comes from... less reputable musicians that use entire basslines and unedited progressions from other material and claim that theirs is different, and better. but yeah, there's certainly a difference in quality between those 'musicians' and the mastermind himself.

every game on the snes uses samples-

Now I want to know how they think of Daft Punk, and they sample *actual songs*

I agree partially. In terms of composing yes, you still need to glue everything together but the so called Silent Hill signature sound is clearly noticeable in those samples before Yamaoka laid hands on it. Not to discredit his work and vision but the vibe was already there is what I'm saying.

Me when my boyfriend asks me how work is going (? Honestly, the process of exploring sample libraries is one of the cooler things the whole samplong process involves, cuz it's very exciting to see a raw sound with potential and already imagining how you can absolutely obliterate it and alter it for your own purposes.

THat one also appears in a NIN's Closer version that was used in the movie Se7en iirc

Jooo. Niezły odpał.

Yeah .a genius

Examples like that are exactly why I must disagree with the people making him out to be some talentless hack in these comments

just pitched it down lol

there are by far better examples in this video. this one is just pitched down

Yeah. I just tried replicating what he did. I couldn't do it in the 2 minutes I played around with it. It would take some time

Look up Glitchmachines' sample packs, those things are GOLD.

@@ambars_lairnice got anymore suggestions

amen

Leon and Lola. Hmm, I'll have too look them up

Silent Hill and Hatsune Miku, now that's a weird combination

@@nodeberiaestaraqui93 Do you think she would have eaten pizza with Eddie

@@SnorlaxNumber143 lmao no

Not that random considering these sounds were literally made to be sampled

@@alphalax7747point still stands

The meat riding is crazy

I think Akira yamaoka Is a genius the most scary to silent Hill is the sound, the soundtrack

@@BruhNuts87 ikr? The music is great, but that's some stan shit right there. All people want is to lick boots of their favorite creators.

chyea i was gonna say htf chu gonna get mad for useing sample sounds tu make somting OG am i right 🤔

@@shadowdragonx07 Hell yea bro shit is actually art too like Everybody can sample its all cool but like making the sample sound completely fucking new in the context of a new song? That shit's crazy

good thing this 'wizard' found "bizzare guitar" and "distorted reality" 1 and 2, because all of his best sounding tracks are only composed of that

@@joellemarron3452 1. what you mean by best sounding is completely subjective 2. sampling is still completely fine even if its just composed of one single sample lol its a prevalent thing especially in hip hop

@@CrysisVN In hiphop, yes. But it's focus is on rythm and rap and everyone knows they use samples. Since this is ambient music for an official soundtrack some people had the expectation, that the cool synth and guitar sounds are made by him. That's why it's disappointing to find out. Some tracks are just pitch shifted sample with drums or an extra pad chord. Of course not every track, Heaven's Night / White Noiz for example is still really good in my opinion - I exaggerated a bit in my previous comment. I still like this OST, I just had a different image of the artist before

Impressive, you know where i could find these cds ?

😅folliwing for answer

Ayo

Also expecting info lol

About Omnisphere, it's an application for pc and mac, with wide variety of sounds, you can use it as a stand alone application or as a VST instrument inside digital audio work station like reaper or Cubase etc...

And they forgot something very important her: His point was to make an ambiance for a game, not to make music for listening like Mickael Jackson.

Errrm but you have to be so heckin skilled to play an instrument !!!

sounds like rhe begining of Dissolved Girl

Its the other way around, BT (the producer) sampled that key/note from the song Teardrop (originally released on 1998) and put it on the sample library (2002).

Glad someone else noticed it

​@@AvithOrtegasounds like copyright infringement lol

@@djapathy8967 Not exactly. How do you suppose music is made, eletronic music mostly, and sampled music? Well, by using samples from pre-existing media or creating new ones. Using samples to create new songs is legal. In fact, there is a whole genre dedicated to it called Plunderphonics. And you don't even have to credit anyone at all.

Yup indeed it was hehe :)

Drack! My hero!

Ah yes lappland the wolf girl

That's probably exactly how it happened. They are SAMPLE CDs after all, and made for this purpose.

@@razmatazz9310I think what he was saying was that it was more impressive that Akira used sounds intended to be used by Drum n Bass producers and re-interpreted them for these dark ambient songs he made. That’s just the art of good sampling.

Professional musician and sound designer here: yes, that's precisely how we come up with samples. I've taken samples from the most random places, it's all about experimenting, taking some random audio from somewhere and manipulating it until it sounds cool. It's as much a talent as it is a skill

this is literally the process mate, you listen to each and all the tracks and take mental notes of which have potential. you experiement with each in a sampler and figure out the reach of the sample.

funny enough i use a similar process for searchjng for sound effects

Who's bitching about samples?

@@satanamogila9251 there was some dude in the comments here who left a shitstorm of replies calling yamaoka a hack and insulting his fans a few months ago but I think he deleted a majority of them. Nice woodsman pfp by the way Nvm he didn't delete them they just got buried

Curb Your grammar or you'll end up like jennifer garner Whoever you are haters 🖕

@@cutecat3662 Heed to your own advice, hypocrite.

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I love that he uses samples tbh. He's just like anyone else, and you can use those samples to make your own beats like the master did, and produce a crazy sound.

Nearly 100% of those upset are not working professional musicians or producers. It’s the uninformed outsiders looking in.

Sample Haters when the musician uses standard tuning instead of coming up with their own original A-G chords.

Even RDJ (Aphex Twin) used samples. Why the fuss.

@@ONOBITCH yes. Yes we do c:

Yeah, glitched me for a second there too. Same sample's in the Unrecalled version by Coil, go guess which's first.

​@@pora-porawell coil is the one that did the Precursor mix, at least Danny Hyde was. The unrecalled one is just a reworking/alt take he put out of the original one.

​@@pora-poraAnd I believe there's a bass sample in Into the Depths of Sanctuary from SH4 that's also in KoRn's SH song from Downpour, so my guess is that's also a sample Yamaoka used or KoRn decided to sample it from Yamaoka's track

I thought so! It's my favorite Spyro music.

Spiderman Enter Electro - Shocker Theme

Also Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Sad Monster

Most games (if not every game) of the late 90s until at least the early 2000s used samples from synths or sample libraries.

It's literally the Autumn Plains homeworld music lol, weird how a little kids game and a horror game can use the same tools but achieve completely different vibes. Can still totally hear the resemblance in both games tho. Edit: for another Silent Hill track that uses this sample check out "Peace and Serenity". One of my favs.

Nowadays composers and producers use a ton of samoles as well. We don't got sample cd's, we got samplepacks, and there's websties where you can buy a track and download every separate instrument to sample. Even more, I've spent entire afternoons listening to youtube videos with 3 views of high school bands to download and sample.

Remixed by Coil as Closer (Precursor) to be exact!

@@trenta.958 L O L

@@trenta.958 no. Akira used ROYALTY FREE sample disks. These disks are made with that intention exactly - for people to use the samples in their music!! It’s stealing if ur sampling somebody else’s music or if you’re copying chord progression/melody (replaying them on different instruments) that is stealing yea or you could call it a “cover” The problem is people use the word “sampling” for everything nowadays. So the term sampling involves royalty free samples (legal) and stealing melodies from others (illegal) But stealing melodies is not sampling. It’s called covering or just plain stealing But using a small 2 second long sample of a synth-chord from a royalty free sample cd is exactly NOT stealing.

@@trenta.958 it’s not, the samples he used were royalty free, but you clearly know nothing about how copyright works, also, you’re clearly a hater, wthat the fuck are you doing here?

2 months later and i’m still astounded at how anyone could consider royalty free sampling on the same proportion with stealing

@@trenta.958 boo

And he did it greatly. I confess that I feel kinda dissapointed to know he didn't created every detail of the SH soundtracks, but it takes talent and attention to put something together pretty well.

Also if I was a kid those album photos also would scare the living shit out of me haha

It's just that SH was the highest profile usage of them.I can't hear Stuck in the Middle without thinking of Reservoir Dogs. It's not genius at all, it's just when something gets put in front of millions of people, it becomes a big part of the zeitgeist then embeds itself in memory.

Gonna be honest, that's a little disrespectful to J Dilla and Madlib. Both of them were/are way more involved with transforming samples into brand new pieces of work and that doesn't even involve the process of actually crate digging to find those samples. The majority of what Yamaoka did was directly grab a sample from a sound library from a well known company like Spectrasonics or Zero-G and layer it over his own work with slight processing or directly take one of the pad samples to use as his own. Of course the end product is still amazing and is a huge part of my childhood but J Dilla and Madlib are on a completely different tier when it comes to sampling. Especially when you realize they were using MPC's and SP 303's and 404's.

Indeed. It's certainly not just a random mash-up of samples. He has clearly manipulated them and added his own flavor to it, creating his own vision.

Wooooww wait did stewart copeland made spyro soundtrack?

@@vibrantdragon3123 Looks like you're new to this? Stewart did in fact make the music for the games. The first four, at least (Spyro 1, 2, 3 and Enter the Dragonfly). I responded four months too late, I know but don't really care. :D

​@@XavierXSims Copeland is very hit and miss for me but I do respect his madness. During covid I watched the original Equalizer tv show and he had some crazy scores on that. I also bought a Korg Wavestate a few years back which has a bunch of presets called Copeland-orch which are samples of his orchestra type rhythms, not sure if he was involved or their an homage.

Postal 1 aswell!

Yeah, I recognize that one too. One of the few tracks from the first Xenosaga I actually liked. I thougth that sounded a little uncharacteristic of Mitsuda's style. Now I know why.

Whoops I just made this comment too, wasn't expecting to find other Xenosaga fans here. Dozens of us!!

It doesn't seem to be common knowledge. In the case of Akira Yamaoka, he was tasking audio libraries designed for the sole purpose of being sampled.

As you can confirm in the comments, people are extremelly ignorant of almost everything concerning creativity on any industry. Yet keep bragging and consuming whatever influencers keep regurgitating about whatever they don't know about, but was payed to spread. Music is a blessing and using samples are harder than the average player thinks. And oh boy, just like everything beyond just playing anything.

It's like saying if you used a guitar then you cheated because you didn't make the guitar yourself

If Akira took the samples as is and did nothing to them, then it would be "cheating" "stealing" etc, but they were reshaped and layered into something entirely different and thus became something different.

And in SH Homecoming's "The Terminal Show". I guess its such a great sample he had to use it over and over! x)

Yeah last I checked the title said 1-4.

@@locki_dos I know, I just said it was ALSO used in origins

You're right

omg yes

Wow, yeah! Good catch.

I'm kinda happy for you 😅

@@gorlygorl1575 Don't write same comment twice.

@@gorlygorl1575 Don't write same comment twice.

@@namelastname5267 I don't know why it was posted twice

Everything is based on something, no shame in inspiration!

That's awesome 👀👏

bruh it pitch up and sped up added sum some drum you got that

@@Lovehateismyonlyname Nah.

Same they so relaxing and eerie to me that and claw finger from SH1

and Day of Night guys 🤝

I knew it was NIN, it's used in "Closer (Precursor)"

I only remember seeing VIVsect's post. Do you know who the others are? It would help if I were to make more of these.