Bad Guys Get Dead

It’s 2006, you lucked out and the nearest game store had exactly one brand new Nintendo wii, the “revolution” in motion controls. It was in a sleek gray box. The discs entered the small white console, thru a calmly pulsing blue LED ringed media slot.

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Alas, it cost considerably more than you anticipated. There is not enough money in your account and you could not purchase it.

Your wealthy neighbor grabbed it right from your hands and bought it. It’s ok, you can still experience it.

The initial setup is easy, composite video yellow, left audio white, right audio red, power, a strange black bar with infrared LEDs on each side, and batteries in the wiimote. Let’s go.

With a quick press, the power indicator turns from red to green. A quick pulse of blue from the media slot and a chirp from the device displays a warning on the CRT television.

Press (A) to continue…

“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day I got in...”

I've been diving into the lush depths of my #Korg #wavestate. Here's a quick lunchtime jam combining two really great things. Pulse wave #chiptune and #BerlinSchool rules sequencing. Kick back and enjoy the ride as we sail the electron sea. Technical jargon: All sounds are live from the wavestate, there are no loops or prerecorded parts. Layer A is an A2600 pulse shaped and filtered, sequenced in 8 steps and sent through a LCR (Left, Center, Right) onboard delay. Layer B is a series A2600 pulses, also shaped and filtered at each point in the 10 step sequence. Layer C is several different pulse waves on a staggered sequence so the sine pulse lands on a different note as it cycles. It goes through an on board three head tape delay. Layer D is a 90% A2600 pulse, with finger priority portamento pitch slides and a pitch LFO (low frequency oscillator) on the modwheel. It's sent into a polysix filter as well. All layers are attached to the vector joystick for easy blends. I love this thing.

Let's do a slappy little midtempo synth improv for lunch.

In case you wanted the most condensed tutorial possible for making a legendary #sound from scratch:

The #THX Deep Note conjures so many feelings, suspense, fear, joy, anticipation and release. Probably more depending on the listener. From chaos and dissonance it forms order and harmony. From the Wikipedia page:

The U.S. trademark registration for the first version of the sound contains this description of it:

In 1992, the Deep Note was registered as a trademark by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The sound is perceived as louder than it actually is; sound designer and re-recording mixer Gary Rydstrom explains that, "from a technical standpoint, 'Deep Note' just feels loud because it has a spectrum of frequencies that grows from small to large."

Although Moorer had initially claimed that the score consisted of about 20,000 lines of code, he subsequently corrected the statement...

Prepping for a winter storm in my best dystopian villain garb.