Spectrasonics Distorted Reality - a classic sample CD from 1995
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- In this video we listen to demos of banks from the classic sample CD "Distorted Reality" by Spectrasonics, from 1995. Very successful sample CD back in the day, and still eminently usable in modern music production.
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Iceland 1
04:13 Cricket Choir
04:56 Solia
05:50 Lost Horizon
06:40 Creepy
07:39 Taj Mahal 1
09:00 Insomniac
09:22 Bonham Burn
09:47 Pigheaded
10:01 White Trash
10:21 Trip-Hoppin'
10:35 Ring-Hopper
10:58 Funk on Fire
11:19 Hard Core 2
11:41 Wild Ways
13:05 Distressed
13:56 Megapad
16:47 Ethereal
19:36 Conclusion - Hudba
These were used in the silent hill ost’s as well. Such phenomenal sound design. Still holds up today.
a lot of these samples are actually still inside omnisphere.
@@cloacal_kissing It's because the founder of spectrasonics is none other than the original producer himself, Eric Persing. He did distorted reality 1 and 2 and any of his work got transferred into omnisphere. I just found this out and we owe a lot to this guy!
Thank you so much for this moving tribute Paolo! Eric and I had a blast making both discs and I am still surprised by their lasting and quite far reaching appeal.
Thank you very much, Ryeland!!! You and Eric did a fantastic job on the library, as time (and all the comments on the thread!) have attested! If I may ask... any plans for volume 3 in the series?? :-)
@@SynthManiaDotCom As a few have noted in the comments, many of these sounds were folded into the Omnisphere platform, however the 30th anniversary isn't too far away, who knows what the future may hold? ;-)
@@ryelandallison8035 ..... 😉👍🍻
@@ryelandallison8035 HOW. HAS. IT. BEEN. ALMOST. THIRTY. YEARS. WUT. 😱
You are a legend, thanks for putting this out into the world!
Hearing alot of Nintendo 64 stuff in here. Iceland 1 was used in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, White Trash sounds like the beat to Bower's theme from Super Mario 64, Trip-Hoppin' was used on Jabu-Jabu's Belly dungeon theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Ring-Hopper sounds familiar but I can't remember what it was used on. Thanks for showing us these great sounds!
And they used samples from the "Gigapack" sample CD too for Zelda Ocarina of Time. Stuff like the "angel" choir, the pads in Forest Temple etc. And some sounds from Korg Wavestation!
I think Ring-Hopper was used on "Bad Up" at 45:12 on this album: czcams.com/video/ED6mBEEvW2s/video.html
That's where I'm getting familiarity from at least!
I personally know Ring-Hopper from Talesweaver's "Just climbing"
Kondo loves DR in general, Iceland being reused in Wind Waker for the blue warp sound effect, "Space Dock" used as the whoosh camera adjustment sound effect in OoT/MM, to using 4 or so more loops from DR in MM alone. He has some good taste in samples.
This was definitely one of the CDs Koji Kondo discovered during his many trips to a secluded store that had a lot of discs from around the world. He'd take a walk and visit the store whenever he needed inspiration
White Trash wasn't actually used in mario 64. Instead Bowser's theme uses sounds from a library called "A Poke in the Ear With a Sharp Stick" by Rarefaction
Iceland 1 (3:10) was famously used in the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask song, 'Last End!' I knew it sounded familiar!
It's my favourite I fucking LOVE this sound
Also in Wind Waker!! Teleporting light sound.
This is used a LOT in the score for "The Fifth Element". Absolutely phenomenal library!
Yeah, I definitely recognized the Beat from "Korben's Theme"! My all time favorite! ^^
Wow! Love that score.
akira yamaoka used this cd for the silent hill games as well, like most of those songs are based solely around these samples. it's immediately recognizable.
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Yes, just wanted to say the same as i Heard the Ice effects
So many recognizable sounds from these CD's. Incredible how much they have been used in everything from movies, to games and music.
I've got both Distorted Reality 1 + 2 and Bizarre Guitar sitting on my bookshelf here. I almost always using something from those libraries when I work on music. I just love those sounds so much. This video, agh, it fills me with joy!
Very cool!
woahhhhh!!!! Trip down mwmory lane!!! I have both 1 and 2!!! Listening to you playing it today gives me goosebumps!!!!!!
Nice one, Claudio, thank you!!! I don't have 2, but I'll get it!!
Oh yeah doctor mix!
Ethereal has been my go-to pad for at least a decade
And it's not in Omnisphere? I just didn't find it.
I thought I have it all... I feel so incomplete again...
@@karmaindustrie I’m pretty sure it’s a omnisphere sample. You can find those if you have clicked the sample button on a osc in omnisphere
@@UCILaGtQaYAh3wnkvg4Rxzqg Do you have Omnisphere? I challenge you to find it.
Trip-hoppin was used for "Inside Lord Jabu Jabu's belly" from Zelda Ocarina Of Time... great stuff as usual Paolo big thanks!!
Those pads are legendary. It was all over TV shows and video games in the early 2000s. Excellent video. Exploring old, I mean, vintage CD sampler is a very good idea! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
The 1st Russia channel used Ethereal pad for many IDs and clock. Probably, this sample was used in the "Magic mirror of the reality" series of IDS with real copy of logo of channel 1 Russia
This was used almost heavily in Channel One Russia in early 2000s
Exactly.
Ha ha that’s true😂😂😂😂
It's shame
Megapad sounds purely harmonious. Like it’s from heaven itself. It seems to exude pure emotion and it’s only job is to be pleasant to the ear and make us feel relaxed and filled with joy. Ethereal sounds much the same tbh. They both go hand in hand. Absolutely beautiful sounds. Pure joy and bliss incarnate.
Eric Persing is an amazing sound designer, and person
stopped 1/4 in because this made me want to write a song. Thanks, Paolo! \o
Same.
I wonder if that was meant to happen.
Eric probably put subliminal tones into the audio.
Wow that Ethereal pad!!! so amazing! Another great upload brother keep them coming
These sample CD libraries are fascinating! They were so expensive back in the day so I was only able to buy very few, and none of the stellar, top-notch ones. Please do more of these explorations! Thanks!
Finally a video of this classic, i was waiting for that so thank you to share this. :) I found that we did not talk enough about these CDs at the moment! yet many sounds that have been recognized in movies, games or music. EPIC!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing this! As someone just getting into synths and hearing a lot of this growing up in the 90s, I’m surprised that so many sounds I’ve heard come from the same CD library!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a coincidence, I was looking or researching some old songs and it led me to this sample CD yesterday and here you are playing the sounds off th s760 and the first sound I instantly recognize from my all time fav album from 97 which was made by my fav producer, who was using the s760 and 750 as well...I gotta have this CD now...thankss!!
Everyone's mentioning recognizing stuff, but the moment you triggered "Distressed" I was sent through a tour of every industrail / noise indie show I went through on the 90s. Omg. Wonderful stuff!
Idk if anyone's mentioned this yet, but this CD was heavily used for the Silent Hill games-it basically was the soundtrack for it, tbh.
Love this, Paolo. Thank you.
Thanks for listening!
Ciao Paolo, thanks for the demo. Inspiring as always
Glad you like it
I remember all Those CDs ads in magazines.... luscious!!!!..... really inspiring and superb sounds. Still looking for all the SRJV80. Thanks for giving us such good content. My best regards!.
That Lost Horizon sound at 5:50 is out of this world.
Michael Cretu used the "Iceland 1" and the "Cricket Choir" sounds at the very beginning of ENIGMA's third album "Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!" Also, the "Insomniac" sound was used by Cretu in the composition "Almost Full Moon" from the same album.
The third Enigma album is beyond genius! :-)
I always thought that sample was taken from Peter Gabriel's song Washing of the Water - which came out 3 years before this sample CD. Maybe they were inspired by it.
This video is a little gem. Grazie!
Many thanks!
16:47 - Channel One Rus clock theme
16:52-Used in TV-clock of Channel One Russia.(2000-nowadays).
And what?
Solia is literally the Twilight Realm
This is soooo coooool! I’m such a junkie of these 90’s sounds... Thanks for sharing it with us. U R the best. I’m pretty sure that the “Insomniac” drums were used by Moby in one of his track...
Absolute Fifth Element vibes there. Eric's work is timeless and outstanding.
Thank you for this!
My pleasure!
Man, this stuff really does get the imagination flowing, incredible after all these years
Awesome! More like this please!!!
I'm slowly learning that these sample CDs were the sound of the '90s and 2000s
These are still absolutely great sounds.
Iconic. I heard a lot of these sounds as a kid!
Cool and generous showcase as always! I remember being blown away when I first listened to the Distorted Reality ambient (and pad) sounds, they evoke rich soundscapes some almost otherworldly. I have no recollection of the fairly terrible drum sounds you just demonstrated! After putting my lightly used E-MU EOS sampler in storage I had no problems importing the CD's into NI Kontakt, not everybody knows Kontakt is a pretty powerful sample cd ripper! Big Fish - Alien Guitars was another one of my favorites clearly inspired by Distorted Reality unless I got the timeline wrong.
4:58 I swear I've heard this in the original Spyro 2 soundtrack.
Yes, Distorted Reality was used a lot in the Spyro 1 - 4 soundtrack. Presets like Lumanize are the homeworld music for Winter Tundra from Spyro 2.
The Solia sample is also used in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as part of the soundtrack that plays when you are exploring the Twilight.
Wow I think that Taj Mahal patch might be used on the first track of Sigur Ros first official album, and bonham burn on the Aphex Twin track used by Nike or Adidas for a commercial, these sounds are amazing!
I love this sample CD. It was one of my first forays into making music after I got it second hand in 2008. God, I was fifteen back then. Super nostalgic.
I'm sorry if I'm repeating what you've already said Paolo, I just breezed through the vid in a hurry. I wanted to mention that Spectrasonics are the team behind the marvellous Omnisphere plug-in synth which has long been hailed as a classic. Deservedly so. I believe it started life as Atmosphere. Grazie, Ciao.
Channel One Russia Clock Theme
Stunning stuff, the holy grail
Fantastic sample collection! You can hear this all over the SY-FY channel programming! Love to get my hands on a copy! :)
Awesome, thank you!
wow, sounds amazing
I instantly got shivers when you started playing. Such an intense atmosphere… takes me back.
3:23 I cannot tell you how long I've been searching for this sound!!! I finally know it's name! Iceland 1 has been used in so many of the soundtracks from my childhood! Amazing! So hauntingly beautiful.
It's included in Omnisphere 99,9%
Omg the yt recommended vids hit me with this. 💞 this is definitely not helping with my insomnia lol
love this collection, can be found in Omnisphere!
I couldn't find alot of these patches in Omni..
@@antoniog2854 There are 420+ samples of Distorted Reality included. Go to Omnisphere’s Patch Browser and type “Distorted Reality” into the search field in the upper right corner. Voilà!
@@PantaFlux Thanks! I'll try that! : )
Great video dude i like. please make more videos showing those cd of spectrasonic
Thanks! Will do!
A classic, wonderful sample library. And let’s show a little love for the Roland S-760....
Heart of Africa! Used it back in the day and still love it
Please demo all spectrasonics CDs! Especially Asia!
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"this one is called Iceland 1"
Me: F E A R!!
You know a game is iconic when you don't even play the same note but I can recognize it. Who knew that sample could give me absolute nightmares of a gigantic falling moon with an eerie face.
İ just bought an e5000 ultra with this sample pack. Was auditioning it whole evening with a drink.
What a masterpiece!
I came here for Civ 2 music and the first one I click onto is Iceland 1. Took me straight back to Majora's. Wild.
Love these
I only bought Distorted Reality 2 on cd-rom
But almost all these classic Spectrasonics libraries are in Omnisphere also
These are beautiful sounds for an almost 30 year old sample CD. Some of the ambient sounds are pretty much what you get from modern granular synths
I remember listenibg to this library, distorted reality 1 and 2 and the bizarre guitar. Those sounds were plastered all over late 90s music, tv series, film and computer/video games. Eivind aarset’ electronique noir was a favourite
Ah, Distorted Reality...
Ya see this one a lot on VGM instrument sources spreadsheet!
damn these sound frickin awesome
Its a shame that Spectrasonics doesn't sell this and v2 as a downloadable sample pack.
You can get them online if you know where to look
@@darrenhirst9900 I found it. Along with a lot of other great classic sample packs.
Wooow! I want this "megapad"! This is a dream sound! Wooow...
Very nice Paolo.Erick persing equals quality.still have it on wav and akai format
I still have the FX card but the samplers went last year along with some keyboards, no space . .. lol
Thanks again and take care.
Thank you Synthmania for this job, i've just bought an Emulator IV with 23 cd rom like Heart of Asia, Distorted Reality and EIII factory sound, .... So for me this video is very interesting !
Glad you enjoy it!
wait, this is mindblowing to me. i've heard of these sample cds from spectrasonics before, but i always assumed these were like raw audio loops, like most sample packs today. they were actually playable samples?
"creepy" was used in the song "Disappear" by Dream Theater... Many others are also strangely familiar 😮😊
spectrasonics top of their game. especially in the 90s!
vangelis always comes to mind with those soft sounds
3:25 The legend of Zelda Majoras Mask ❤
04:15 This Sound used in russian Channel 1 before night broadcast!
16:54 used in russian Channel 1 News intro and in background of evening clock
How to get this library? Thanks so much for answer!
LOL.I have similar sounds in GarageBand
I used to rip the hell out of these cd's into soft samplers. As it happens i just have a cd3000 to play around, i'm definitely going to play them properly now, it just sounds so much cooler than an audio interface LOL Lovely machines
This was one of my favourite sample CD's back in the 90's! Particularly Iceland 1
5:56 got used in the Serenity movie multiple times
With all the 90's sample CDs, this one kept my attention with Method of Mayhem 2, for some reason. It's got a character i love, classy and badass in a scifi way.
04:56 Silent Hill 2 - Pianissimo epilogue
Cricket Choir has to to be a reference to the infamous "discovery" by Jim Wilson where he slowed down a cricket noise and made a Choir out of it.
to think all childhood memories can be triggered by one sample pack, a great one at that
TurboSynth by Digidesign was one of the instruments used on this CD-R. That was a fantastic software instrument. I miss it so much! Never understand why Digidesign stopped supporting it.....
The "Ethereal" one reminds me of the Wii Forecast Channel nighttime music.
Iceland 1 otherwise known as Last End (AKA Last Day) from Majora's Mask.
9:00 as heard on Leftfield - El Cid
The Solia sound is heavily used in (Steven Soderbergh's)) Solaris too.
Great upload as usual Paolo. As you asked for suggestions, I would really appreciate if you could do a synth compilation presets of bass, stabs, riffs and sounds used in 80s Soul music. For example, songs like;
Windjammer - I Thought It Was You
Real To Reel - Love Me Like This
Class Action - Weekend
Kashif - I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
Kerr - Back At Ya
Atlantic Starr - Love Me Down
Weeks & Co - Tunnel Of Love
If you could do this sometime I'd be grateful.
Added!
I'm kinda new to using sample discs. I was always under the impression you'd load the samples into a DAW and then manipulate them there, but playing them with a MIDI controller is much more appealing to someone a bit more old school. How does loading them up to play them work?
I've got a Roland JV1080, I'm curious if there's a way to connect a disc drive to it similar to what you're doing, but frankly I'm not sure what you're doing ha...
That ring-hopper sound sounds a lot like one of the standard drum loops that was included in GarageBand since it's first version. I played with that a lot back in the day!
Well, I guess it's the other way around actually since this is the original of course.
Lots of Distorted Reality is used in the Cube movie score, and also on Star Fox Adventures :)
I recognize Iceland1 from the video game _Majora's Mask_
Was also heavily used on the Score for the first "cube"
OMG. I so wanted that CD but could never find it.
3:18 "Final Hours" from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Hard Core 2 is used in the Spineshank's song "40 Below" from their Strictly Diesel album, I knew it sounded familiar.
Ethereal has a touch of the Brian Eno about it (an ending)
I believe some of these were sampled in the soundtrack of Walking With Dinosaurs and the Sea Monsters special spin-off, and probably in other Walking With...soundtrack productions, by the brilliant Benjamin Bartlett. I've definitely heard some of the effects used in Dinosaur documentaries like 'When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth' (e.g. 'Creepy') narrated (usually) by none other than Jeff Goldblum. There are a lot of bit-parts of ethereal ambience in old classics like Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) where I have never been able to put my finger on where the sound effect came from or where they sampled things from.
I even know what literal computers/computer models and musical equipment they (primarily Bartlett) were using, but I have an incomplete understanding of where all the sources were. I've only just found out about this one, for instance. Being a Palaeontologist, whom became one _because_ of Walking With Dinosaurs, I am an anorak on every little thing I can learn about them. I was too young when it released to know anything so in-depth of this back in 1999 or the early 2000's, though I've taken it upon myself to find them all.
If you watch the Walking With Dinosaurs series you'll hear the motifs Bartlett uses. He had the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at his disposal for a few days back in 1998 (amid their busy, strictly budgeted and limited schedule, and I'm sure Bartlett would have done a _lot_ more if he had just a bit more time with them) The very studio in London he recorded it in isn't even a recording studio anymore. There is so much lore behind it all and hidden knowledge I'm constantly looking for.
Even as I'm typing, hearing the first few seconds of Wild Ways is definitely used with the score for the Cruel Sea episode (Episode 3 out of 6) where the Cryptoclidus is sifting the seabed for pebbles to swallow as ballast. It shows up a few times. Bartlett was clearly integrating samples from common and more obscure sources at the disposal of the BBC Natural History unit in 1998-1999.
I'm sure the Cricket Choir was used in the Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee soundtrack!
And also in Channel One Russia technical difficulties ident(2007-…)
Excellent sounding samples! What kind format are these from technical point of view? Are they standard redbook audio cd format or are they data discs with an iso filesystem with wav/aiff files? I’ve heard some sample cd’s would only work with AKAI samplers.
This CD was offered in multiple formats back in the day. IIRC, there was a wav, Roland, and Akai format available. There’s also conversion software that allows you to convert it. The name is escaping me at the moment. Wait - Chicken Systems Translator!