"Black Knight 2000 (Pinball/YM2151+DAC) - Main Theme" [Oscilloscope View]

Music by Brian Schmidt, Dan Forden and Steve Ritchie.
Ritchie can also be heard as the eponymous Black Knight, while Stephanie Rogers and Glo Van Vlack contribute the "Choir of Angels".
Chips used: YM2151 (FM, 8 channels), HC-55516 (DAC, 1 channel), MC1408 (DAC, 1 channel).
While the DAC chips aren't technically supported in the VGM format, ctr was able to substitute them with the YM2612's sample channel and the 32X's PWM chip to create the VGM files this oscilloscope view was recorded from. Check it: vgmrips.net/pa...
Oscilloscope visuals created with nyanpasu64's corrscope program.

[@Tail_Beagle]

DAC VOICE JUMPSCARE 0:11

[@Eye-am-Metalchip]

Was just about to comment the same thing! 😂

[@BrianSchmidt-GameSoundCon]

OK, this is way too cool! Thanks for posting!! Amazing to see the individual tracks (8 FM, 1 drum, one vocal) in oscilloscope form

[@marklincadet]

Glad you liked it!

[@JimHawkwind03411]

Brian Schmidt, one of the composers for BK2K, wrote an article about how he and Dan “Toasty!” Forden did the music, and how programmer Ed “Mortal Kombat” Boon had to do some program trickery to play the singing vocals while the music is playing.

[@marklincadet]

The article is "Interactive Audio in Black Knight 2000: The Importance of Integration" on Game Developer, right? Love reading about this kind of stuff, thanks for sharing!

[@JimHawkwind03411]

@@marklincadet I just didn’t know the name and website of the article on the top of my head. Thanks!

[@JimHawkwind03411]

@@marklincadetThe same “program trickery” I mentioned might have been used in 1990’s Rollergames and Riverboat Gambler, which Forden also did the music for, as well as Back to the Future, which is done by Schmidt; it was used for the song “Back in Time”. Speaking of BTTF, that pinball was done by Data East Pinball, and had different sound hardware (6809, YM2151, OKI MSM5205 ADPCM, but missing the DAC for the drumbeats).

[@BrianSchmidt-GameSoundCon]

@@JimHawkwind03411 Correct about DE. I definitely missed having the DAC for drums on the Data East system. Doing a YM2151 kick/snare just wasn't the same!

[@Jon-thecomposer]

man, sounds great, I always loved the FM Sound in general and Ym2151. It has many possibilities to make differents type of songs. 🕹️❤️

[@EnigPartyhaus]

Please put the individual stems up somewhere, I have been wanting to stereo mix this for years now

[@darronmecak5720]

how good is this

[@64_three]

amazing, this is a track I'm definitely remixing

[@summerlaverdure]

heck yes

[@jbponzi1]

This is so amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@ashkirby8896]

Nice oscilloscope view of the song!😄🤩😎👌

[@forple8930]

banger osc view for a banger pinball game

[@WanderWorld909Cosmic]

this is what they used in street fighter II

[@rendderview5236]

nice! this oscilloscope view it was excellent I just think I needed a little more amplification on the left dac but other than that, it was perfect

[@marklincadet]

Thank you! The left DAC isn't as amplified as it could've been because the drums right at the beginning are much louder than the rest of the song, but that's something I think I could've fixed with a bit of work. But otherwise, I'm pretty happy with how I got the FM channels to trigger :)

[@Automatik234]

Amazing!

[@pinwerks]

This is awesome. Can you please do the same to "Swords of Fury"?

[@the_norfee]

If you're still waiting for it, @soundshock5110 did the main play of SoF a little while ago!

[@pinballwiz45b]

I wonder how FunHouse would look with this viewpoint.

[@JimHawkwind03411]

FunHouse used the WPC motherboard and with it, a revised sound board, using a YM2151, DAC, and a Harris CVSD sound chip, all powered by the 6809 CPU. The WPC sound board is different from the System 11 sound board, which used a music board (6809 + YM2151 + DAC + CVSD) in conjunction with the onboard sound hardware on the S11 board (6808 + DAC + CVSD).

[@phy4901]

Wow. Can you rip each channel out individually so they can be played on their own so they can be sampled?

[@marklincadet]

yeah, that's how I got the visuals done on this. Any specific part of the song you want to sample? I could upload a vid of just that bit

[@sullysullivan1282]

@@marklincadet I want the choirs, honestly.

[@GriffinsConspiracy]

@@sullysullivan1282 Me too!

[@Gray_Mess]

Hate to join a beg thread a year late, but me three!

[@havelava]

unless im missing something, you should all be able to download the vgm linked in description and extract the channel individually ?