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the origin of the THX sound
 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2008-12-08 23:20 [#02257840]
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I'd always wondered where this sound came from, how it was
made, and by whom. Well, now I know. Just wanted to pass
this along in case anyone's interested.

excerpt: There are many, many random numbers involved in
the score for the piece. Every time I ran the C-program, it
produced a new "performance" of the piece. The one we chose
had that conspicuous descending tone that everybody liked.
It just happened to end up real loud in that version.


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-12-09 10:26 [#02257882]
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man, and i thought max/msp was a tough one

 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2008-12-09 10:31 [#02257884]
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yeah. It's too bad they don't have any pics of that ASP
unit. I'd like to see what it looked like, just out of
curiosity.

lol, nice avatar, btw.

 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-12-09 12:20 [#02257914]
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i thought it was interesting. also read the bit about the
dr dre sampling suit and some other legal stuff they were
involved in.

i thought about sampling the sound in attack of the clones
when obi wan is chasing fett in space and fett leaves off
those charges. it is a pretty bad ass sound if you remember
the one i mean.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2008-12-10 10:34 [#02258072]
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yeah. I know the one. Lucasfilm/Lucasarts has consistently
supplied stellar sounds since episode IV.


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-12-10 11:45 [#02258086]
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the THX sound sounded very impressive to me until someone
showed me what's called 'polyphonic portamento' Some old
keyboards let you hold down one chord with one hand and it
will 'glide' to the next chord you are holding with your
other hand with a kind of tense/dissonant transition pretty
much sounds exactly like the THX sound. I have an old
Synclaviar demo record from the 1970s that has a bunch of
examples of chord gliding and they sound very THX-y


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2008-12-10 11:53 [#02258089]
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hmm. I guess that would explain the rumors that the sound
was made with a Synclavier. Thanks for the info.


 

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