Spyro 1 Theme's Tune?

Flapjacks · Feb 06, 2014 6:12 AM

I would post this in the individual board, but I'm feeling sassy today. Does anyone have/know the name of the sound effect used in the main tune of the Spyro 1 theme? I wanted to make my own music using it, but taking out the background noise in audacity makes it sound terrible, and I don't want the background music in there. Here's a link, in case you need a reminder:

Evidently you can't have timestamps with this bbcode. It's at 0:10.

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Swaffy · Feb 06, 2014 1:46 PM

Which sound? The chime?

Flapjacks · Feb 06, 2014 11:02 PM

Yeah, the chime.

Swaffy · Feb 07, 2014 1:21 AM

If I remember, they guy was using some kind of custom sound program so put all of the sounds together. So either he made the sound or it came with the program. I am pretty sure it is not available as a separate sound file, but you can go through those sound file websites and see if there's one that comes close to what you want.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Feb 07, 2014 5:10 AM

sounds to me like a combination of a chime sound that could have come from anything, and some kind of brass instrument, maybe layered a few times or a few different instruments playing, apparently pretty low in the mix, but i just have a feeling. i could be wrong on that, though.

(i always thought brass instruments were a little heavier on the low, deeper end than what's here, but they could just be playing higher notes/octaves. i really don't know.)

i think it's two different things because the chime sound is more audible at different points, and the last few notes of the melody (end of 00:11, 00:15) make it sound like there's something else playing and changing notes even when the chiming isn't playing.

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Flapjacks · Feb 07, 2014 5:16 AM

Well, either way, having the tune without the other music in the background would be nice.

Ulfbjörn · Feb 12, 2014 7:15 AM

I believe it's a pair of downtuned zils (middle eastern hand cymbals).
Something like this.

Flapjacks · Feb 12, 2014 8:24 AM

I'll mess with the file and see if I can get a similar sound. Thanks!

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Feb 12, 2014 5:00 PM

the only reason i don't think it's *just* percussion is because at the points i mentioned it sounds the pitch is changing rather quickly, like you could do by blowing different ways into a brass instrument (or for example, if you plucked a guitar string then slid your finger over; that kind of thing.) you can't do that with percussion.

(i know what i'm talking about, i just don't know the musical terms for it.)

Ulfbjörn · Feb 12, 2014 6:55 PM

the only reason i don't think it's *just* percussion is because at the points i mentioned it sounds the pitch is changing rather quickly

Then we're probably talking about different things. What I suppose you're referring to sounds like a quick strum of a set of strings; it may be a steel stringed guitar with rather loose / flappy strings, it could also be something like a santoor or some other zither-type instrument.

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Flapjacks · Feb 12, 2014 11:14 PM

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

the only reason i don't think it's *just* percussion is because at the points i mentioned it sounds the pitch is changing rather quickly, like you could do by blowing different ways into a brass instrument (or for example, if you plucked a guitar string then slid your finger over; that kind of thing.) you can't do that with percussion.
(i know what i'm talking about, i just don't know the musical terms for it.)

Yeah, but when Copeland made the music, he had a setup of different musical instruments that he had already recorded the sounds for, then played them on a keyboard. It's very possible to switch tunes (I don't really know the term either) quickly on a keyboard.

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