Slider - Super Mario 64 (Deconstructed Oscilloscope)

I'm quite late again, but it's better than not uploading at all. The slides in SM64 took some time to deconstruct and reconstruct.
So here we go again.

[@jermfanaccount]

this has made me realise the slight delay some instruments have, like they're imperfectly in time with the rhythm and that makes Slider sound so much more organic and lively, as if it were being played by actual people rather than midi soundfonts. it's neat

[@mr.oscilloscope]

It's a smart way to take advantage of what limits that were there. I also find it very smart as well.

[@Linkdouble0zero]

It's likely it WAS played by hand with a midi board

[@hatenafrog8412YT]

​@@Linkdouble0zero yeah, Koji Kondo recorded some of the music's tracks by hand, an example of not playing by hand is Metal Cap's drawbar organ notes

[@annieoddo1475]

Nintendo: “check out this new sound capability! You can have insanely realistic sound samples! You could have a full orchestra! The sky’s the limit!” Koji Kondo: “whistling and banjo sounds it is”

[@mr.oscilloscope]

lol. gotta love the ingenious of the legend.

[@H128]

What about the main instrument? Can't seem to figure out what it is.

[@DarkSeal00]

@@H128A fiddle/violin

[@TheZombersLMAO]

@@DarkSeal00 it's a harmonica

[@sedion]

​​@@H128in the soundfond I downloaded the sound is identified as a fiddle

[@chriso1373]

Imma have this baseline stuck in my head all day

[@kingofbleh]

Listen to Running With the Devil's baseline you'd be stoked

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Indeed.

[@MishKoz]

I never realized there was piano in this song before

[@mr.oscilloscope]

didn't know myself until I started doing the Oscilloscope.

[@chimmychuck]

@@mr.oscilloscope how do you isolate these?

[@mr.oscilloscope]

@@chimmychuck I rip the Midi files using N64 Midi Tool

[@chimmychuck]

@@mr.oscilloscope do you know how to do it with snes games?

[@mr.oscilloscope]

@@chimmychuck Not yet

[@Caisadilla]

My God when the piano can be heard it goes really hard, man

[@DizzyEyes94]

I love the fact that the whistle is vaguely detuned. It really gives this song the psychedelic panic present in the actual game for this section

[@IanRulzU]

I just recently got into these types of videos and have been loving getting to hear many beloved songs unfold and come back together at the end being able to hear every instrument. Its like reliving hearing the songs for the first time but in a new light.

[@mr.oscilloscope]

That's how I first felt when I discovered Oscilloscopes. It felt like I was stepping into a whole new line of genre of videos.

[@wawazx5215]

Literally same. And I am obsessed !

[@Escanimations]

Am I the only one who thinks 8:26 is INSANELY good?

[@eggtvbr5779]

no

[@Bluefire397]

The satisfaction of playing through the song on your head during bits without the main melody and getting the timing exactly right

[@saintgelatin]

i love seeing videos like this because it makes me appreciate just how tight the composition was in SM64. given the limitations of the time, everything still sounds really nice on its own, but still meshes beautifully into the final song. you can recognize every individual element on its own as slider, but you still don't really GET slider until they all come together, which is incredible to me

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Couldn't agree more on that statement. Nintendo was the one to not dissappoint, espically when it came to their music.

[@RuckusHuckusYT]

hearing the actual individual instruments separately *really* makes me re-think old style game music. Also shit brings me back to the golden days of N64 childhood :3

[@jesse4437]

I never realized the first note of the melody is actually 2 notes. My life is a lie.

[@maeveelizabeth9739]

as an autistic person who grew up with this, this itches my brain in THE NICEST WAY POSSIBLE thank you so much for making this

[@maeveelizabeth9739]

also never realized how much the piano ties this song together! I didn't even know there was a piano in there until now

[@emileoxd6602]

@@maeveelizabeth9739 same

[@EM88005]

what does being autistic have to do with anything lol

[@TheRealBatabii]

Why do I remember the banjo being a lot louder

[@ciudadri]

Me too, this video has the percussion channels too loud or something

[@blackdog5186]

There’s more Bass in the ds version

[@TheRealBatabii]

@@blackdog5186 yes but I played 3D All Stars more recently than 64 DS

[@mariotheundying]

to me at least, the first time I bothered to hear more things that are not the main melody, the banjo is always one of the 3 that pop out more

[@ArialWingdings]

You know, I got a tin whistle and thought this song would be fun to cover-though I doubted I could find the backing track without any whistling. There's some assembly required, but I guess this works out!

[@BerdlyGaming]

I’m SO glad this exists!! I was giving this song an actual good isolated listen with headphones for the first time, when I suddenly noticed there was a sick ass piano undertone on the offbeats at 5:03 that I had never heard before. It became my new favorite instrument in the song to kinda latch my brain onto while listening, and I came to this video in hopes to hear it isolated. This is everything I dreamed of and more. Thank you!!!

[@WindowsXPguy_NTSC-U]

0: Bass 1: Banjo 2: Accordion 2 3: Piano 4: Percussion 5: Accordion 1 6: Whistle

[@Tommy-pv1vh]

I think they are violins not acordins

[@jakeferrison2487]

​@@Tommy-pv1vhFiddle

[@Yozo_official]

I love when music is de-constructed like this.

[@mutantemolina3708]

Channel 5's solo is mind nourishment. I love how every instrument overlaps and how that solo brings the song to a full circle. Sublime, subtle; yet extremely fun and playful. Thanks for sharing.

[@takeshitatnall5496]

Time-stamping 5:00 because it hits like crazy

[@GProgress]

This channel has a criminally low amount of subs. A+! This scratches an itch I never realized I had. Instant sub.

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Thanks! The MIDI/Oscilloscope community is honestly underrated.

[@causticarmadillo]

These videos tickle my brain in juuust the right way.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

I did NOT remember slider having such a banging drum kit. Kick drums? In my mario 64?

[@onyxx300_]

something i noticed about mario games in the 90s is that the percussion in a lot of them went super hard

[@Oathkeepaw]

The piano is so good omfl-

[@MaggieMay3922]

I have every part memorized on their own because a while back I remade this song with noteblocks in Minecraft (not very well because the timing was off lol) so it's very interesting finally hearing it separately and not me just doing all the work in my brain lol. Please keep making these!! They're so fun!!

[@devtec31]

[06:13] - It's whistle time again!

[@venosito]

5:00 DAYUMMMM

[@SubroOrbus]

Channel 4 goes hard, God bless!

[@stevengoomba6490]

This is super cool! I always try to whistle along to the song but the last part it’s a little to high for my register. Like others have said, the jazzy piano is super nice and I wish it was easier to hear in the full song.

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Yeah, everytime I try to whistle to the high part, I drop down an octave so I don't get light headed. The piano really should've been a bit louder. I honestly didn't know that it had piano originally until I played the game again and heard it.

[@Knjives]

You’re literally the goat this is exactly what I was looking for

[@matias9978]

The bass made me so happy omg 😍

[@Charred_Foxy_Boiii]

Sounds like super Mario 64 kitchen

[@pikmaniac1557]

Amazing. I love the kind of banjo playing on channel 1. I'd love to be able to listen to it by itself.

[@deathpie24]

I've been listening to these types of videos for a while and someone mentioned these could make great ringtones And I very much agree

[@absolutenobody1secondago431]

0:54 as someone with headphones i can confirm this hurts my ears

[@AlexStrook]

So satisfying

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Very much so!

[@hatenafrog8412YT]

Channel 0 - Acoustic Bass Channel 1 - Banjo Channel 2, 5 - Fiddle Channel 3 - Acoustic Grand Piano Channel 4 - Percussion Channel 6 - Whistle

[@etetgg1364]

This is really good.

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Well, I'm flattered! thanks!

[@4kChannel]

These are great

[@HH-in3qg]

3:18 WE BEATING KOOPA THE QUICK WITH THIS ONE 🔥

[@Fern_125]

I just fucking love the bass here, i know i heard it somewhere else and i found this video, i would like to find a video that is only the bass from slider. Also, great video man.

[@DonnieTheCroccy]

Ahh, so this is how Silvagunner makes all their slider rips.

[@ethanmerrikin1544]

Very cool.

[@kirbo-de-metal_2.0]

I love Channel 4 (I don't know what instrument it is) in this music. This is why I prefer the In-Game version over the OST Version.

[@Wolfie15]

awesome

[@Nyaalexi]

Waow, I never realized that Nintendo 64 music used these types of waveforms. I just thought that Sega Genesis music was interesting lol.

[@toniee98]

Very good job, but it's missing a channel, the piano notes were supposed to have higher pitched ones in the stops, and those happen in a separate channel

[@cassidyclassify7810]

Learning the whistle part😭😭

[@jimbobsclayworld2439]

This made me realise how ahead of it’s time the n64’s sound chip was…

[@1yoshipatty]

The n64 doesn’t have a soundchip. The CPU does that.

[@jimbobsclayworld2439]

@@1yoshipatty wow…

[@Awesomefortnitegaming100]

Haha, time for ytpmving, thank you so much.

[@GMKGoji01]

I've never heard a piano in this song before! What?!😮

[@yanoesappletastico8260]

I have been corrupting mario 64 enough to have made this myself and know it still really awesome, im also right now doing what i call “instruments swap” where i don’t fuck the music, just get the instrumental set changed randomly on all songs

[@Dylanimado]

Subscribed, please deconstruct more Mario themes!

[@Coolaidjammera]

Best loop at 0:00 and to 9:06 best thing!

[@rudjsjq]

I'd rather listen to this work of art than ponk

[@beamngfanatic2913]

You should deconstruct SM64’s endless stairs theme to see how the Shepard tone was implemented into it.

[@OGNFace]

this video made me appreciate the slider ost even more

[@edmervlewis660]

2:14 penguin cafe orchestra vibes

[@Lucy-qc3ke]

With certain instruments cut out it sounds like something from super mario B3313

[@exmaister3]

Did you enhanced the sound in anyways? Because I swear that piano is beraly hearable in the original one. This is pretty cool

[@ToonyKid]

How you do these descontructed oscilloscopes?

[@Camparsero]

Hey man, amazing vid, how do hoy decompose every instrument? Do you create every instrument or is it from the game itself?

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Thanks! I use a soundfont that uses the game’s instruments, and I rip the sequences from the game using N64 Midi Tool. Though I heard VGMTrans could work.

[@Camparsero]

@@mr.oscilloscope cool man, thanks!

[@shadesoftime]

Couldn't recprding individual channels from the actual game work? Like, recording the song in an emulator channel by channel and then lining them up

[@someobscuremusicchannel]

@@shadesoftime the framerate might not be perfect then, the recording might have lag in it

[@blackdog5186]

The bass made the song

[@SpaceFighter2004]

I didn't realize that was a violin playing the main melody. Idk what instrument I thought it was, but I didn't think it was a violin

[@ThatGuy-te9wh]

You gotta do Waluigi Stadium

[@BroadCastPlanet]

I think you were an employee at Nintendo from 1994-1996 as a Music Specialist for Super Mario 64

[@Tronked]

0.5 the voices are coming

[@judef]

How does the oscilloscope manage to keep a zero crossing in the center at all times

[@SmaIlHum]

i don't think these are just 6 channels perhabs they should be called packages or clusters or something

[@AintOnAutoPilotSon]

I cannot fathom why would anyone be shocked that there was obviously a violin in the first place? It's the loudest instrument in the theme..

[@The_epicchicken]

sounds kinda creepy at the start buut also good

[@deusexmaximum8930]

2:25 5:00 7:29

[@notube8441]

Can I do the same with other songs? Like instrumentals from songs

[@yachiiepascual4992]

Ya me to

[@piptune]

How do you deconstruct songs like this?

[@AcousticJammTheGamer]

So how do you decide which combinations make it into the video, anyways?

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Whatever sounds good together/doesn't cause slience over a certain amount of time, really.

[@NORAMA01]

Why are some of the channels playing multiple notes at once

[@meowistforlife]

Stupid Penguin get out of my way

[@AcademicJaedon]

5:00

[@user-cv4wu3qd3s]

smile precure cure happy cure sunny 5 cure peace 0 cure march 2 cure beauty 6

[@user-cv4wu3qd3s]

cure happy 4

[@mushmello526]

Channel 2 sounds so sad

[@khatj_]

BRUH THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD 5:01

[@remi9789]

How do you split them without noise ?

[@mr.oscilloscope]

Oh, I just ripped them out from the game directly.

[@madebyalon3]

1:17 wasnt this same instrument used in the mii channel

[@san_d9995]

I think it’s a different instrument with a Similar sound

[@mrchicken-eq3oo]

Hmm is that is created music piano and flute

[@ayazozmen8013]

slider without the intense part

[@leandross777]

:3

[@Adiee5Priv]

They added noteblock instrument to mario 64 💀💀

[@YetanotherMinecraftFurry587]

Theres a violin in this???!!

[@withthescienceteam]

you actually used the wrong piano for the piano in this song, the piano you used was the grand piano, the slider actually uses a similar, but different piano

[@chrisdbest1516]

Is Channel 6 a real person whistling or it's just an instrument?

[@djpeterg4531]

it's probably a synthetic whistle. due to the N64 using midi files, a note can be stretched very long, so unless they looped the sample of (whoever) whistling at a specific section, it's more likely they just went with a synthetic whistle sound. hope this helps!

[@chrisdbest1516]

@@djpeterg4531 okay thanks but it sounds so real I thought it was a person wrestling in real life because I don't think you can use real life recordings in a oscilloscope or can you?

[@pedrobui.669]

@@chrisdbest1516 I mean, all of these instruments are probably recordings from a keyboard with samples (Yamaha, Roland, etc), played with midi. An oscilloscope isn't an audio chip or anything, it's just a way of visualizing the sound.

[@BaconBoi90]

2:31 one of the instruments sound like a Minecraft note block

[@gui12w93]

Damn man Never knew about this Now if i get to know a little and try doing this I CAN FINNALY MAKE A REAL 5.1 MUSIC (since i have like, 0 knowledge in making music but 40 in audacity (yes, i made 6:,50 min of 5.1 (made from stereo) one piece and man, that got NUTS)) HAHAHHAHAA That will be incredible (i may do this, but you guys probably won't know if i will ever get it done (or not, who knows?)) ( i know you guys don't care 😎)

[@Yozo_official]

6 month 1,28k subs 1,2k likes

[@marcoz8293]

This is seems amazingly impossible

[@marcoz8293]

0:02 channel 0, 6, and 7

[@marcoz8293]

1:17 channel 5, 1, and 7

[@marcoz8293]

2:31 channel 1, 3, 4, 7, and 2

[@marcoz8293]

3:46 channel 0, 4, 5, and 7

[@marcoz8293]

5:00 channel 0, 2, 3, 6, and 7

[@eradicator6986]

make this into a downloadable file

[@lethiagames9208]

it sounds sad

[@marianacocora9221]

slider but i forgor

[@conntoons_4848]

I hate it but I also love it

[@thedabmaster287]

i think the drums are wrong