Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambiance - Oscilloscope Deconstruction

[@TurboPikachu]

2:00 reverb-heavy bass like that is one of the reasons I love Super Nintendo music so much

[@x0r1k]

The sound is not generated on the Super Nintendo (like or Sega or NES), it's pre-recorded sample.

[@СергейМайер-п3ф]

​@@x0r1kyeah, it's called wavetable synthesis

[@Yosh-wt4lg]

​@@x0r1k Still, would have been impossible on other consoles

[@jeremyknight9980]

1:23 OMG that sounds so good, this was always my favorite part of this amazing song.

[@ChristerMr6414]

0:00 this intro took 44 seconds. And it's still peaceful. 7:08 EVERYBODY NOW!!

[@BenjaminSteber]

David wise programmed all of these waveforms into the sequencer by computer keys in hexadecimal. Just think about that.

[@aycc-nbh7289]

But doesn’t something similar exist on other synths?

[@Cola_Kalashni774]

he is a Genius of Music, better than Kōji Mondo in other words, what he managed to do with the Super Nintendo Sound Chip Capability is to be applauded

[@SuperJet_Spade]

This song is actually from the first Donkey Kong Country game, not the second one. Edit: video title has been corrected.

[@AntR803]

CreepimusGaming Probably cause it matches a song from that game

[@jaggass]

David Wise was heavily influenced by the Korg Wavestation so he sampled tiny waveforms and sequenced them. It took him 5 weeks to do it. It was a clever way of overcoming the limitations of the audio ram which was just 64kb. PS I'm covering Aquatic Ambience with at least 80% of the sounds coming from the Wavestation, drum and percussion samples from Roland R8 drum machine and a Harmonica patch from a Yamaha DX7. Although it won't sound identical it should be close. Update im planning to deconstruct the masterpiece in full and re record some parts that David wasn't able to play on the Wavestation back then.

[@nintenghost84]

Sick, this is honestly one of my lullabies. Calms me down so much

[@superdean9966]

I like your vibe Why? Cause you have Mr. Saturn as your pfp.

[@JohnGames-gz7ue]

@@superdean9966 sup ness I think

[@superdean9966]

@@JohnGames-gz7ue yup, I use Ness. "Cool, huh?"

[@frannielmartinez]

Fun Fact: This was David Wise' favorite song to work with... and Stickerbush Symphony

[@nebulatheowl]

Didn't realize this was one you could deconstruct, I definitely would have requested it otherwise! Thanks for the gift of the workings of a timeless classic!

[@jorgitoislamico4224]

Well probably you know this by now but pretty much every console back then used soundchips with individual voices

[@jaggass]

But back then gamers couldn't separate individual channels.

[@pastorjoelbussi4312]

Man, this music track in all of its decomposed glory!!

[@DenkyManner]

Bass line at 2:00 is some straight Depeche Mode-ness.

[@Yosh-wt4lg]

enjoy the silence

[@jaggass]

I've now recorded track by track by playing the level. I split the tracks that were bounced onto one and split them. There was 19 multitracks but got it down to 15. Even the strings were seperate .

[@GregoryLTaylor]

Ahh! Yes! Definitely some great music on the SNES! it's so atmospheric even though it's a song for being under water

[@TheSuperPlayer707]

My favourite underwater theme ever! Great deconstruction!

[@renc7305]

It's Ambience....but IN THE WATER

[@lightwarrior7091]

Do stickerbrush symphony :'D

[@jtg55]

Fear Factory or Treetop Rock next! Or maybe F-Zero...

This is where peace is.

[@farleyecclesgaming4706]

This is my favorite video game song / track ever

[@DonVecta]

I really wanna scuba dive while listening this... It's pure bliss🌊

[@Cola_Kalashni774]

Game Donkey Kong country (ｽｰﾊﾟﾄﾞﾝｷｺﾝｸﾞ) Year Released December 1994

[@TankMarko]

SNES stuff? AMAZING! I have a few suggestions. -Anything from Dracula X (bloody tears would be great) -Forest Maze from Super Mario RPG -CV4 stuff (library theme for example) -Flower garden from Yoshi's Island

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

Description says it's from DKC2, but it's from DKC1. :) I SAY YES TO FEAR FACTORY.

[@thefilmfrontier6822]

Do more Donkey Kong Country. I would love to see how they made the pieces. Like Simian Segue or Bad Boss Boogie!

[@TurboPikachu]

Donkey Kong Country and Kirby Super Star deconstructions are the ones I’m most interested in on the Super Nintendo side ❤️

[@danyventura5143]

Esto es una belleza, un Orgazmo para mis oídos.

[@jacobesterson]

Sometimes DSP 4 looks like ocean waves, which is kinda fitting.

[@AntR803]

Please do Gangplank Galleon

[@bencox5994]

Freagin sweet

[@jerredchouseman]

This is a far stretch question, but could you possibly email me all the individual loops to this song please!!

[@haromanuel]

please do Cave Dweller Concert. there is a part that lasts 20 seconds, it sounds like heaven!

[@rassilontdavros3004]

I’m sure you’ve gotten this already, but this is from DKC1, not DKC2.

[@codycorkins]

Why does the one part sound like sonic 2s ending cutscene to me lol

[@blankChunk]

How do you personally deconstruct audio into their basic instruments like this? There's the cheap and low-fidelity AI method, but I'm assuming you're doing this manually?

[@thepickleman912]

Is there a specific reason you can only do 16 bit stuff?

[@bigboomer1013]

Can you please do the DKC3 sound track gor both the SNES and the GBA?

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

Megaman X - Armored Armadillo. Or Sparked Mandrill. NOOOO. BOOMER. KUWANGER. 😳😁😁😁

[@Nimta]

How about Silver Screen from Chaotix next?

[@Kousaburo]

I'm confused as to which tracks are the Korg samples and what is generated by the Super Nintendo?

[@Turbulation1]

All of it is sampled based so there's nothing the Super Nintendo is specifically doing, but most of the samples do come from Korg.

[@jaggass]

At least 75% is sampled from a Wavestation. It's why it doesn't sound like anything else.

[@enrimc8454]

That was deep , cool . But this song are from the first game

[@KingKDS88]

Can you do one shinobi 3?

[@TestPlayer5]

0:50 its sounds like the laugh from the Deez Nuts meme

[@nateonytube]

is there anyway to know what instruments are used

[@jaggass]

I asked David Wise that question and he doesn't remember.

[@flexseal111]

Sounds like a cut Def Leppard song

[@Muzart]

What song?

[@flexseal111]

@@Muzart like a song that doesn’t really exist but can be clearly imagined. If I had to compare it to an existing Def Leppard song I’d say it has some parallels with Love Bites

[@wizzenberry]

Lovely, sky high zone? :)

[@gengoldx4701]

2 ¿ ? ,Bruh .... Like

[@AIexanderthefake]

Can you make a umm. Well like this song or like 16 bit or 8 bit songs, with DTMF tones and sound cancellation? I use parrot, Hertz, DTMF tones generator, and a couple other frequency generators and play polyphonic rhythms and frequency sorts and on my guitars pickups with an ultraviolet light, black light, and it makes them all congruent with each other, amalgamation. And like, if I play my pianos, it changes the keys too, and . If you burn a tall candle with something that generates itterance the candle will burn white, and augment the perspective and a long like 2 foot skinny flame will shoot up and around to frequencies, and, like, you can see the piano notes like fettering. But my guitar has a lot of haptic feedback because I play my boss me33 pedal with delay on it, for years. Well I did before the war lol, now, it's just gunning down castratos at the grocery store all day. But yeah, so I'm like thinking, well.. What if we made music that sound cancels frequencies and is minimalistic? Thanks dude, see you after all this bs. Everything is the same, but better, no one died from diabetes it's from narcan in a spray in the nose, fentanyl overdose, they put people in faraday whatever, in whatever, I've been hiding out, killing people with electric bs. Dude . Ok, get a radio from mfing Goodwill, that costs 9.99... and it's extremely heavy. Play something.. And well.. theremin.. magic finger bs. Conductor... The music plays to your hand movements. Mfing jazz hands!? I was gonna have a kid with my wife!!!! I got an STD!?