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The Sounds Of HALO: Combat Evolved
The Sounds Of HALO: Combat Evolved
#Sounds #HALO #Combat #Evolved
“Alex Ball”
A look at some of the equipment used by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori to score Halo: Combat Evolved, released in 2001.
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Subscribed to you for years, you have no idea how happy I am to see you do a video on one of my favourite games and composers (that Flood music still gives me the creeps lol)
i love u sm xv5080 š
As someone who was all in on the CD-ROM era of gaming, this was so awesome. Halo was a leap forward, but it's soundtrack was still very much like the "Redbook audio" era of gaming. I know many consider the sound of those modules "canned" but they have such a soft spot in my heart and have been a major influence in my own compositions.
Please do halo 3 if you can
Learned nothing …. Love it š
I still get chills hearing the CE soundtrack
wow I had no idea many of these sounds were just presets
Every pro You tuber was an ex call centre worker.
iĀ“ve learned nothing!<3
You are so talented, great respect.
Dang you nailed the Duke Nukem 3D soundtrack on the guitar.
XV series is probably the last GOOD rompler series that Roland made i can get sounds out of my SD-80 that an analog synth could only dream of (not that analog synths are bad) its just how it is
the emu proteus 2000 modules in their various guises (I have ten here) are immensely powerful & deep instruments, especially if you went down the roll-yr-own-flash route, like I did.
I have a couple of the roland things too- 2080 & 3080 iirc- but the proteus stuff is where one will easily lose hours & hours just auditioning presets, let alone editing… more fun than vst/softs.
Yes, the exotic vocals. The old trick of working at the studio late when nobody else is around and just singing gibberish in a highish range, and adding lots of reverb.
Surprisingly that worked pretty well. I believe he also did the other "female exotic voice" that is in one of the main themes, kinda a yodele kinda thing. I believe he was asking one of his men choir guys to do it, and when demonstrating it the guy just said "why don't you just do it".
This is fucking awesome. Props ā¤ļøthank you for talking about this masterpiece
Yesssss! Thank you alex for this video.
I was playing Halo CE yesterday and thought, "man this sound design is way better than what we have in modern games today". Good video!
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Okay, now contact Reznor and do the Quake soundtrack.
Embrace the reality of your hairline Alex. You'll thank me later.
As a Sound Design masters student currently, your channel has really been a godsend for inspiration and for information thatās incredibly helpful to me, thank you Alex!
1:03ā Egg box reminds me of this classic scene: https://youtu.be/kAG39jKi0lI?si=w7UnR-1r3L97jK6y
I love CE's OST. Also its predecessor Marathon. MIDI makes me giddy l.
I'm loving this video, thank you so much!
only 15 seconds into the video: this is so cool !
I thought this was gonna be about the Ensoniq Halo.
Itās insane how even the sound design is completely saturated in lore as well
So dedicated, thank you for this amazing Video Alex š
Can't express how much I love this channel! HUGE thanks to you Alex!
A couple years back I got the sudden craving for an early 00s DnB , Trip Hop , and general ā Electronica ā sound design revisit . Got a $50 dollar mini Pc running E-MU Emulator X3 and itās libraries, SM Pro V-Machine for a few prehistoric 32 bit VSTiās , Pi400 I already had running Atari Cubase 2 and an Akai Miniak off Goodwill for about $150 as an Access Virus stand in . I doubt Iād have gone to that much effort had it not been during lockdown , but post the tech hurdles it was fun to revisit and the results where authenticity pleasing for the rabbit hole project. Cheers !
I just want you to know that I was desperate for a wee, but watched your vid, then when you did the āegg boxā gag, I let out a loud laugh and little bit of wee. Now I have a small wet patch. Iāve cleaned myself up and come back to watch the rest of the vid and make this comment
That Xbox aināt got nothing on that beautiful studio !š®
Alex, have you changed hair conditioner?
90s romplers are suddenly super hip again! I'm tempted to buy a load of Roland XVs and Emus for purely speculative purposes, despite my general aversion to capitalism š
They have to be going to go up in value. I recently dug out the library CDROMs for my old Digidesign Samplecell II card. It was fairly crap, and the samples are all time stamped something like 1994 but when I loaded them into Pigments with it's modern filters and effects, it made some killer breathy digital pads!
My father passed away a month ago, and left me all of his Rolandās and pedal mixers and keyboards and I had no idea what to do with it allā¦ thank you for showing this!!! I can recreate halo now and make him angry from beyond with his precious music being created for some 343 guilty spark sounds haha!