THX sound on Mellotron m400 ! ( Deep note )

THX Intro is played on a Mellotron M400.

I used the "Church Organ" sound. .

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[PhobiaGuy]

ironic that its in mono haha, goog tho

[S1nwar]

sounds very flat...

[Deathsquad49]

is your mellotron for sale?!

[stupidnicks]

turn it up, tuuurn iiiit uuuuuup!

[turntapzap]

Brilliant!

[albedoshader]

@natere2: Far from it.

[albedoshader]

@youwantotestmykungfu: No Synclavier nor any other known synth was used. Lucasfilm had a mainframe computer called ASP (Audio Signal Processor) for making all kinds of sounds. The score of the THX sound was created by 20,000 lines of C code that controlled the pitch of digitized Cello sounds.

Makes Synclavier appear a little less cool but I find the true version even more fascinating.

[albedoshader]

@albedoshader: You can find the full story if you search for "Music Thing: TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 3: The THX Sound"

Very interesting read.

A short clip:

"There are many, many random numbers involved in the score [...] they lost the original recording. I recreated the piece [...] they kept complaining that it didn't sound the same. Since my random-number generators were keyed on the time and date, I couldn't reproduce the score [...] I finally found the original version and everybody was happy."

[albedoshader]

@Redliner500: The original THX sound was created with digitized cello samples. Some proprietary sound software (named ASP, Audio Signal Processor) was used to layer these waveforms and change the pitch by certain rules containing random elements. Funny enough, the original THX sound was lost and it couldn't be reproduced, just because the pitch etc. were partly random. So a new one had to be created. Fortunately the original was found again, later.

[Redliner500]

@youwantotestmykungfu i read somewhere that the Synclavier II was used to make the THX intro

[DrMerkwuerdichliebe]

Incredible that f.ex. Pink Floyd worked with this instrument until 1973 ( ! ), from Dark Side of the Moon onwards to be specific, and only thence the Moog etc. !

[youwantotestmykungfu]

not bad at all I think the THX sound was from a synclavier FM synth