Getting a Silent Hill Sound With the Original Samples

[@brain_drops]

I think "Shudd" is in my nightmares. Like permanently. It just sounds like something large slowly inching toward you in the darkness.

[@rolanddeer6212]

It's almost as if Eric Persing and Peter Maunu unconciously read Akira Yamaoka's pleas for an ethreal, rich and psychologically psychedelic sonic atmosphere. Truly amazing.

[@dfghj241]

i've never created music in my life but i feel like i need this deeply. SH soundtrack is my favorite thing ever and i feel like just placing one of those samples playing forever to see what i get.

[@CoryPelizzari]

Yeah, I was initially hesitant to buy Omnisphere, but when I found samples in there that have been used on literally more than half of my all time favourite soundtracks, I was stoked. Sometimes I'd just sit there, holding the key down listening to nostalgic sounds.

[@juaniriarte1193]

Did you make somethinhg?

[@dfghj241]

@@juaniriarte1193 i am making a game

[@kakie784]

Can I play it

[@AntonioThugga]

@@dfghj241 i wanna see

[@frederikbendsen8012]

Just got omnisphere a few weeks ago, it was pretty mind blowing finding out some of my favorite tracks ever was made with sounds from this

[@CoryPelizzari]

They just released the 2.5 update. Spectrasonics is by the far the most generous and attentive sample provider on the market.

[@frederikbendsen8012]

Cory Pelizzari indeed, and that 2.5 update is available for download if you own omnisphere?

[@CoryPelizzari]

@@frederikbendsen8012 Sorry for the late reply. Yes, but you would have found that out by now!

[@frederikbendsen8012]

Cory Pelizzari for shure. BTW i have a problem With my omnisphere, my tracks Cannot play I fl studio while I have the Omni sphere tap open, it simply stops playing any sounds, I have to click away from omnisphere to play my tracks. This is very tedious when listening through many sounds, and tweaking them. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks.

[@rituparnakonwar9103]

@@frederikbendsen8012 just click that calculator type thing in the top right

[@toead4186]

Fuck it just hire this man to do the music of the series, he fundamentally understands what makes the music from silent hill what it is. I love it homie.

[@alex-qn5xp]

Bro has no idea what a sample is lmao

[@JustinRM20]

@@alex-qn5xp bro really thought this mfer created all this in 6 minutes and 20 seconds

[@Korosareta]

5:12 transition was really nice

[@goosemeister12]

Man - the sound at 3:50 is exact to the track, makes me super giddy! Great video! Been looking for something of this sort for a good bit.

[@mutcholokoW]

3:03 David Lynch also used that for the third season of Twin Peaks! I knew I had heard that sample before when watching

[@zackurban]

You mean angelo badalamenti, he highly inspired akira yamaoka's work though.

[@SlyHikari03]

@@zackurbanyup

[@SafwaanMohammad-s7v]

@ what?

[@redhexagonsun]

This was a great channel. I really wish we got to see and hear more from you. Rest in peace, Cory.

[@MrMikkyn]

Wow these samples are so beautiful and so proto-silent hill

[@c.albrecht]

"Nepal" is part of the "28 Days Later"-Soundtrack ("The Beginning").

[@Baelish-fx7ew]

Holy Jesus 64GB... your not kidding its a galaxy

[@tannera.3359]

WOW! What a beautiful sample of the raw power of Omnisphere.

[@onlyafoundling]

god, that Shudd sample. unmistakable

[@Jakeos2]

This video has opened my eyes! damn!

[@BLUEJAYMusic1994]

this changed the GAME (pun-intended haha) can't wait to apply this to my silent hill cover i'm working on! thanks for sharing all this.

[@IDE217]

ПРОСТО ОГРОМНЕЙШЕЕ СПАСИБО ЗА ЭТУ ИНФОРМАЦИЮ!!!

[@CoryPelizzari]

Я рад, что помог вам. Однако я не говорю и не читаю по-русски...

[@guido7095]

i absolutely gonna buy omnisphere, i make synthwave, but i want to move to ambient, this would be the perfect tool for it

[@seladore]

i didn't want this video to end ! i need to know everything related to the content of this video T_T thank you so much i'm so glad to learn about this

[@6wishesfordeath]

Insane bro. Huge Respect. Thank you

[@senjikenkryomasa2361]

Ohhh I need this!. This is what I wanna be doing stuff like this as I’m die hard SH sounds and music for it’s ambiance unlike any other games.

[@cruxxxmusic]

have omnisphere since a couple of years and didnt even know about those souds :D

[@LosMSR]

Overdose is a topic in the whole saga, the influence of White Claudia is in the entire saga, even in the western games too. This music sounded like that, dreamy, ethereal, magical, out of this world. Ironic Team Silent is basically Yamaoka, and Masahiro Ito, the others members changed from one game to the the next.

[@mulanmiller5000]

Man these sounds… hovering above everything…

[@itinerantghost]

Gerat job on this video, friend!

[@DrzStudio]

Awesome work!!!

[@Hazel1312]

Great video! These sounds are dead on.

[@kakVsePloho]

awesome video!

[@simdrew1993]

This is amazing! Great video, very cool. I only got into Silent Hill recently and played Silent Hill 2 and love it. The atmosphere of these old games is unmatched. I have a question, would you say Omnisphere is still worth it in 2024? I've been wanting to get it for the longest time but the price puts me off lol.

[@kerrydiculo]

this was amazing, thank you

[@erikkumitsubashi1048]

3:04 - 3:42 Really bursted my bubble

[@not_who_you_think]

this is amazing

[@Drakengard82]

No way! Id really like to know how those sounds are made

[@soopysalles]

Eric Persing, the creator of the Distorted Reality pack (and Omnisphere, and a bunch of other things), goes into the process from this old Sound on Sound article: www.soundonsound.com/people/eric-persing-creating-spectrasonics#para7

[@Drakengard82]

@@soopysalles thanks a lot :)

[@TheChnecht]

i love you man

[@xXpivotvideos123Xx]

Hi, I recently purchased omnisphere and I was very interested in what you did to give such a soft and echoed sound to the bells/keyboard from "Warmup The Old School Rhodes" on your demo, I find that mine end up coming out quite harsh, even when playing with reverbs etc.

[@stevezac_cptlpnshmnt]

Go into the Osc settings (A/B/C Tabs) and adjust the ADSR settings on the bottom right... The A (which stands for attack) will give you control of how hard the initial attack of the key hits.

[@Eduardo-ku9hb]

Omnisphere seems amazing in every way. I would like to ask if somebody how Yamaoka got the piano tune in some of his tracks like Laura Plays the Piano, True and Promise. I've tried a few romplers but not close enough. I tried adding some effects and it helped not quite there yet. Does Omnisphere has anything similar to that piano tone? Any suggestion would be appreciated

[@135SolidSnake]

Watching this has inspired me to try making music like this, but I have no experience at all. Will buying these sample packs come with recording software? If not what programs do you recommend? Also would I need an expensive keyboard or could I get away with one that's cheap but responsive?

[@hazardouslegend937]

Thank you for this 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@AFXSnares]

great video this is interesting stuff

[@waneukem]

Samples from Distorted Reality / et Bizarre Guitare : "Lapland" / "Nepal" / "Sedation" / "Verbonics" / "Daybreak"

[@angryheretic]

very cool

[@KitsunePlays]

How did you make Warmup the old school rhodes sound so mellow? 5:14

[@officialfranco]

hi cory, thanks so much for unearthing this! Was just wondering if you knew a bit more about Persing and Maunu's involvement in the SH games. I'm looking at the game's credits and neither of their names show up....and also just realized the original Omnisphere was released 5 + years after the first 3 silent hill games....just a bit curious as to how you think Akira Yamaoka used the samples is all!

[@CoryPelizzari]

Eric and Peter made those sounds long before the Silent Hill games came out. Back in the nineties the sounds were released on discs as single packages named Bizarre Guitar, Distorted Reality and many others that were used in films and games countless times. Alongside East/West they were among the first ever sample library publishers that paved the way for all the companies and devs you see today.

[@officialfranco]

@@CoryPelizzari thank you for clearing this up! I used to have a few folders that contained 90's samples from CD's back then containing breakbeats and other things. Doesn't take away from Akira at all but it's good to highlight the pioneers!

[@FoVision]

Thank you - do you have any idea what the the source sample in the white claudia and ice song. There is a chant / singing piece in both. I'm trying to determine the sample origin. Thank you

[@Baracapybara1]

I want to get into ambient and industrial music like this, can you recommend me more stuff?

[@CoryPelizzari]

There's not a lot in the way of comprehensive ambient packages, but some I've found to be worth a buy are libraries like Wraith, Slow and Colourform from Frozenplain. One of my favourites for tonal ambience is The Blue Zone from Hideaway Studios, then for more abstract stuff there's Haunted Spaces from Soniccouture (but it eats CPU).

[@keepertortoise5247]

Swans

[@nickkerinklio8239]

Does omnisphere come with these sound libraries automatically?

[@qwertyui4526]

Hi, thanks for the video. Please tell me, maybe I'm doing something wrong ... The Spectrasonics website does not have this library in the Omnisphere 2 patch list. It is available in LEGACY LIBRARIES in Akai / Emu, Roland, and audio formats. Is it possible to get the library now?

[@CoryPelizzari]

All of the original sounds and libraries are hidden in the core sounds folder, which you can get to if you make a new blank patch and click on sound "a" in the GUI, then click on the little box in the middle of that GUI. It'll take you to the core sounds folder, which contains all the original libraries. It's a bit convoluted to say the least.

[@qwertyui4526]

@@CoryPelizzari Thank you .. And my God, they are there at all without treatments

[@РоманСвиридов-е6б]

Did you know tubular bells sample source, from claw finger?

[@Komakaji]

great video, I was wondering many sounds have harmonia active how do you figure out what scale you are in ?

[@alfieeast6231]

I'm looking to try out making some SH-esque music myself using this, but the $500 price tag for Omnisphere seems a BIT steep for someone who doesn't even plan on making money from this sort of thing. I just want to see if I can even do it. Is there not an alternative for none-profit usage?

[@CoryPelizzari]

It's hard to find a collection of sounds in one library that really gives the Silent Hill vibe. Usually you have to go digging into multiple libraries for ambient content and nods to Akira's work. I'd say go to Loot Audio and look up ambient libraries for Kontakt - but you'll likely need the full version of Kontakt 6 for a lot of these libraries. If you do happen to have the full version of Kontakt 6 you can download the library I made for getting a Silent Hill sound at my video "Getting a Silent Hill Sound With My Voice".

[@alfieeast6231]

@@CoryPelizzari Would something like FL Studio (Fruity Loops) be okay? I'm not sure I'd wanna spend upwards of $300 for something that's little less than a hobby than a profession.

[@CoryPelizzari]

@@alfieeast6231 If you're looking for a cheap DAW you can download and use Reaper at no cost for as long as you want. If you do want to buy a license for it, it's dirt cheap.

[@fabio2811]

Hi Cory, just in case you don't know exactly which library the sample "Thrush" is in, I looked several times but I still can't find it.

[@CoryPelizzari]

It's in Omnisphere in the core sounds (not the presets).

[@SecondWizards]

Originally it’s on Distorted Reality sample CD

[@jume1441]

Hey man, I have a question, i am trying to make the song The Day of Night of Silent Hill 2 with the SLEEPcycle2 Sample, but i dont get the same tone of the song, despite that is the same sample, do you have any idea if akira used another plugin to get that deep and low-pitched sound?

[@CoryPelizzari]

Akira's version is EQ'd and compressed, but he also likely threw in a low pad from the Atmosphere selection for bass because the original sample doesn't have a bass tone. Just try out different low pad sounds in the Atmosphere section.

[@linknavi1]

Day of night uses Lapland in reverse not Sleep Cycle 2.

[@theshapex]

Do you know what organ is used on Not tomorrow? That is my favorite track from Silent Hill 1.

[@CoryPelizzari]

I'm guessing it's something from the Atmosphere section of Omnisphere and maybe the HZ Guitars. Not sure though.

[@8ava8198]

i have been searching forever for the one pad that plays near the end of Alone in the Town. if anybody knows please reply!

[@jtrskaos]

cheers

[@Clarity95]

Are all these sounds you mentioned included in the current version of Omnisphere 2.8?

[@jkjs3927]

What is the audio software You used?

[@TheBuckAK]

The bells sample from Clawfinger Silent Hill 1 is in there?

[@jkjs3927]

How can i get that collection? :(

[@JoshScheeter]

are these all available on the base Omnisphere 2?

[@CoryPelizzari]

Yup.

[@JoshScheeter]

thanks just bought.@@CoryPelizzari

[@sebastianubeda8363]

are the original samples in Omnisphere?

[@MarysAbyss]

are you cory from gemini guitars

[@CoryPelizzari]

I don't know what Gemini Guitars is. Why do you ask?

[@crazyFrankyy]

Hello Cory! i'm sorry bad speaking English, this librarry are available in omnisphere ?

[@CoryPelizzari]

Yeah everything is included when you buy Omnisphere.

[@crazyFrankyy]

@@CoryPelizzari Thanky you very much for answer and video! Maybee you find music like silent hill ? I very like alone in the town and fever chill !

[@shootercade1299]

i dont have $500 for a vst

[@CoryPelizzari]

Same here. I had to save up for half a year to get Omnisphere.

[@yungmentalproblems]

@@CoryPelizzari can't you just torrent it or sum.

[@CoryPelizzari]

@@yungmentalproblems No I prefer to pay for my libraries rather than steal someone else's hard work and make money from it.

[@t-bone45]

i totally understand. im pretty sure you can still buy distorted reality on cd for i think 100, i imagine it may be a pain to integrate it seamlessly with our modern day programs but it can be done. i pretty much bought Omnisphere for these types of sounds (the actual sounds akira used and so on) and dont regret it. i will say tho is omnisphere is like 50 gb's or something and with my set up it runs a lil slow, and wouldnt be suprised if that is a reason that ableton takes so long for me to start. But omnisphere has sooo much/ soo many sounds, etc i think it is worth it, my only thing is like i said it runs a little slow for me, so its hard for me to actually scroll through and listen to all the "sounds" i have access too. (what i mean is that when i am playing something and go to the next thing it takes a few seconds to load, and when we are talking about such a massive library its a pain. maybe when i upgrade from my alienware laptop to at least a desktop things will change. and i agree with cory, i like knowing that i have the right to use the sounds that i use

[@peytonhawkins157]

Make payments

[@jaxters667audio3]

Gotta be honest, this is pretty damning, Seems a lot of Yamaokas work is really other peoples

[@SilverLPs]

Not damning at all. Watch it from another perspective, everything these other people created is also 100% based on work from other people. This is how our world evolved, how we as a species improved, how all of our societies make progress, this is essentially how life in general works. It doesn't matter that your work is based on the work of others, what does matter is what you achieve by putting together another peoples work with your own. That has nothing to do with stealing, not at all, thats is a lie, established to demonize a part of this worlds nature, to force profit, that wouldn't be reachable otherwise. Copyright exists because many times there is a lack of alternative methods to earn money from your intellectual or creative work. But copyright is only fighting symptoms not the cause. And it's got a lot of negative side effects.

[@vulna9150]

Sampling is an art. This is how most music for video games like this was made.