Sonic CD JP Instrument Sources Part 1

In this video I show various Sonic CD JP instruments and where they come from, as well a recreation of each one. I'm planning making more 2 or 3 parts. I don't know exactly when they will be ready, I like to transcribe everything as much accurate as I can, so is possible it will delay a little.
I'd like to say a huge thanks to Nuclear for the Korg 01/W recordings.
He is a musican and researcher who also does restorations, please check his awesome work:
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00:00 - Palmtree Panic Present Saxophone
00:27 - Palmtree Panic Bad Future Piano
01:05 - Palmtree Panic Bad Future Saxophone
01:19 - Final Boss Piano
01:36 - Quartz Quadrant Present Saxophone
01:58 - Quartz Quadrant Good Future Acordeon
02:36 - Quartz Quadrant Good Future Saxophone
02:55 - Quartz Quadrant Bad Future Piano
03:06 - Stardust Speedway Past Saxophone
03:18 - Tidal Tempest Bad Future beeps
03:22 - Stardust Speedway Bad Future Piano
03:41 - Stardust Speedway Good Future Acordeon
03:49 - Stardust Speedway Good Future Pad

[@CollisionChaos]

Correction: All the Korg M1 and EX expansion sounds here are likely from a Korg T2 instead. We talked with someone who worked with Naofumi Hataya in 90's and according to him they had a Korg T2 in SEGA. Considering how the Korg T2 = Korg M1 + EX in a single synthesizer, we believe a T2 was used instead of the M1 and EX. Anyway the sounds are correct, you should be able to find all those M1/EX sounds in Korg T2.

[@trCD210]

Another correction: The accordion at 1:58 was likely also used in Quartz Quadrant Present. I would know because I listened to the soundtrack. Also, you spelled accordion wrong. Very great video though.

[@ryboff49]

1:42 my favorite

[@Redhot_speed]

Someone needs to make soundfont with these

[@SonicsGamingHub_YT]

Fr

[@yahshua1073]

Agreed.

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

all the samples, loops and patches are still commercially available, even for modern DAWs.

[@LongSinceDead1]

This channel is amazing. As someone who has been obsessed with Sonic CD’s JP soundtrack for years and has experimented with making music in that style, you can’t begin to understand how amazing your channel has been. Thank you so much!

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you so much for your comment!

[@ZphyZphyer]

same

[@zebitus5731]

Ive always loved the palmtree panic bad future piano at 0:51 giving that hopeful feel and being able to hear it without any of the other instruments is bliss

[@evbev4708]

Im pretty sure thats the same piano from the good future

[@zebitus5731]

@@evbev4708 There in both Bad and Good, I notice it more in Bad as it brings out hope in a unhopeful scenario.

[@Sammytheflaaffyfan]

Honestly, some of my favorite segments from the given tracks are probably PP BF's piano, and QQ P's saxophone. PP just gives off a feel of familiarity, but one that's rapidly deteriorating and being destroyed, and QQ's gives a feel of the outside segment and the rushing waterfalls and beautiful scenery. Seriously, Quartz Quadrant is one of my favorite tracks from the entire Sonic series. The godly piano mixed with that drumbeat and base, just really good. Especially love the theme of duality that not only starts there, but in the futures too. You ever notice how the bad future is based mainly on the first segment, and the good future is based on the second segment? Really great idea there. Idk, that's just my two cents anyway, hehe.

[@nwcr_]

The piano is also my favorite part about Palmtree Panic Bad Future, it makes an otherwise chaotic and loud song, into a strangely beautiful (and groovy) one

[@axtonganha]

Well Quartz Quadrant Present and Tidal Tempest Present are mostly my favorite instrument sometimes in QQ i hear the instrument its take me back when i child waterfalls.. mexican style... also the most thing i love is when Acordeon note is playing in Quartz Quadrant Present.. such peace beautiful place

[@matildo1]

Lol i prefer wacky workbench haha

[@Kani_7798]

THANK YOU FOR THE STRADUST SPEEDWAY BAD FUTURE PIANO! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT FOR SO LONG AND NOW I FINALLY HAVE IT! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@kidnamedfingor]

Where did you get it

[@ZphyZphyer]

​@@kidnamedfingorRead.

[@E10Kguy]

You’re amazing, I love Sonic CD’s soundtrack and I like hearing the isolated instruments! You’re one of my favorite channels!

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you ^^

[@axtonganha]

Damn this great Naofumi Hataya an beautiful composer!, i can't wait part 2 and part 3 too

[@Sol_Z]

Yay Quartz quadrant good future samples finally!

[@hermanojunior1641]

"The power you possess is incredible!"

[@plushifoxed]

He doesn't stand a chance!

[@CollisionChaos]

What?

[@CollisionChaos]

@@plushifoxed What are you talking about?

[@plushifoxed]

@@CollisionChaos we were both quoting the lyrics to the boss theme? at least, i think he was, and i definitely was

[@CollisionChaos]

@@plushifoxed Ahhhhhhh LOL sorry, i completly forget the boss theme lyrics haha english is not my native language so is hard for me to understand the lyrics

[@shadic1988]

I want to see what Wacky Workbench Present's melody is alone. I'm curious. Same goes with Quartz Quadrant Acoustic Guitar too.

[@ZphyZphyer]

the guitar is from roland jd800 apparently

[@ZphyZphyer]

theres some other quarzt quadrant stuf in jd800

[@axtonganha]

Good one!

[@bucko0627]

The fact that Sonic Mania also uses Korg M1 makes it more authentic to a mega CD-like game

[@neeedlemouse]

I like this a whole lot

[@ShoHidari]

Stardust Speedway Bad Future's piano bops

[@zachduperron8543]

I’m glad you found the origin of the piano in palm tree panic bad future because I wanted to know why it sounded it so good

[@CollisionChaos]

it was one of the best piano sounds back in 90s! because it had a interesting feature: depending on how soft or hard you press the keys, it would uses a different sound, which makes it very expressive

[@zachduperron8543]

@@CollisionChaos dang that’s a pretty ahead of it’s time feature

[@Nic_2751]

Glad to see another upload

[@YgorG]

Nice work!

[@nwcr_]

You posted this video exactly when I started messing with the Korg M1 VST, thank you so much!

[@CollisionChaos]

Woah, such a big coincidence!!

[@jorgitoislamico4224]

Bro keep doing this work you're amazing, thank you so much!

[@RealAGuy]

This is pretty sweet!

[@megablueman]

You are a freaking God send for these videos

[@salmin320]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE VIDEOS! I love the soundtrack and i want to make music in a similar styule to this amazing soundtrack, thanks again!

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you, i'm glad you liked it :)

[@jomon324]

I have been wanting to know what these were since I was around 10 years old and accidentally installed the JP OST to my PC Sonic CD by switching the music tracks that came with Sonic & Knuckles PC Collection into the install directory because I noticed they had the same names. Now I can't play Sonic CD unless it's JP/EU OST. Whatever the "hit" or "crash" in Metallic Madness Good Future is, is my favorite sound in music. Thank you so much for doing these videos.

[@AS42100]

4:03 4:23 The pad is so beautiful! ❤️❤️

[@CollisionChaos]

One of my very favorite sounds from the OST!! Is so sparky and atmosferic, is beautiful.

[@davidstardusst]

@@CollisionChaos You've been doing some awesome job

[@CollisionChaos]

@@davidstardusst thank you soo much!!! :D

[@ratmeat161]

I love the sonic cd JP ost a LOT! This channel is really cool!

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you!

[@ish_ish288]

Congrats on 1K! It’s inspiring to see your channel grow so fast!

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you so much!

[@Enthusiasm441]

Naofumi Hataya is such a God with music. Best game music composer ever, i swear.

[@kawai286]

A true GIGACHAD

[@bfvet117]

Don't forget Masafumi who composed, little planet (Dubious Depths R2) metallic madness, wacky workbench and collision chaos

[@kawai286]

@@bfvet117 he didn't do metallic madness

[@bfvet117]

@@kawai286 I misremembered but he did compose a huge amount of tracks for CD but is often overshadowed by Naofumi another track I forgot to mention is Tidal Tempest which is also a classic

[@kawai286]

@@bfvet117 i know that triggers me too

[@ThisGreenDingo]

Ohhh mannn this is hype

[@eliasjeitk9457]

Finally a new video!

[@CollisionChaos]

Yeah haha

[@cyan.6399]

these are very interesting findings. id hope that part 2 may feature more drum samples that aren't full loops

[@CollisionChaos]

Thanks for the suggestion! I actually was planning to do that, but was about to give up because i though people would not find it much interesting, but I will try to include that in future parts

[@cyan.6399]

@@CollisionChaos mhm, yea while its a very niche audience i think that most people interested enough in cd's musical style to be seeing this may also be looking for the full spread of findings for personal use

[@CollisionChaos]

Thank you again for your suggestion. After thinkin about it I get the conclusion it was a awesome idea and made a part 2 showing some drums, i hope you enjoy ^-^

[@bfvet117]

I think I might have found the bass preset for that Godly bass line in Stardust Speedway Good Future it might be the famous preset from the Yamaha TX81z called Lately Bass this preset was used on so many famous songs in the 90s spanning different genres so I wouldn't be surprised if Sega had one lying around their studios

[@CollisionChaos]

stardust speedway good future bass is from Waldorf Microwave (Moog Bass 2 preset)

[@bfvet117]

@@CollisionChaos ah ok good find

[@trinsthefoxremasted2891]

3:06 Saxophone [soundfont: Sonic CD Past]

[@midi_feline]

Explode

[@user-qv2pe1lr1q]

No way, I just checked your channel after months and you uploaded TODAY

[@CollisionChaos]

wha WOAH :O

[@Mateoaweonaso]

u are back

[@theivace9705]

I really couldn't tell most of these were synths til now! My brother sent me this video to prove a point.

[@RazzlemeDazzle1]

Always wanted to know what piano was used in PP BF, loved this

[@dantefloressq]

I've found my niche. Subscribed.

[@dereksilva06]

Yay!!!! another video in collision chaos radio :3

[@CollisionChaos]

Yeeeeeess :DDD

[@frannielmartinez]

Ok, now i like this

[@wolfgangmysticalformerlykn3330]

I feel like my life is complete after watching this video

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

dear god the ppbf sax is so much more intimidating in stereo than mono like holy shit

[@foxemerald9437]

0:40 AHHH I LOVE THIS

[@ASOtheprO]

S O U N D S S O P R E T T Y

[@jess648]

it’d be nice to have a release of patches/samples for music production software like FL Studio or Ableton Live once all the samples have been located

[@CollisionChaos]

There's emulation for Korg M1 and Roland JD 800. And sample libraries for Korg 01/W and Roland D70. Still i'm hoping we will have a korg 01/w vst emulation soon.

[@ZphyZphyer]

@@CollisionChaos maybe C5 note samples of these

[@Camera-Obscura]

Finally a upload, hello!

[@ilychanin7652]

In Stardust Speedway GF i didn't know that the star sample from past and present was

[@srparkerusa]

🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@xeeynamo]

I would like so much to have the entire Sonic CD JP soundtrack open-source, where people can collaborate to tweak the sequence and instruments to get as close as possible to the source material. It would help so much for preservation and documentation purposes. Did you use any online reference to find some of the instruments for your restoration projects? That said, I can not wait for a Part 2 of this video.

[@CollisionChaos]

Oh, that sounds like a awesome project and is something I actually would like to do someday. About your question, this video in specific was made with my own research. I have been researching about sonic cd instruments and samples for various years. Various of my findings were done by listening synthesizers demos here in youtube and also in a site called SynthMania. In future videos i'm planning to also put some findings that other people made (with credits of course).

[@AS42100]

4:03 In the past I mentioned I really like this pad. Any chance I could get my hands on that instrument somehow?

[@CollisionChaos]

Roland Concerto Anthology 1990 (Roland D-70 library) and Roland JD-800 emulation can both be found on official Roland website

[@AS42100]

@@CollisionChaos Roland Anthology 1990 was discontinued. :( Does that mean I'll never be able to get that pad?

[@mattheos9209]

someone need to make a sample pack with this

[@muzzleflash2483]

i swear, the moment we get a Sonic CD sf2 is the moment the sonic fandom explodes more than usual

[@javadude9324]

What are you planning to do when you get all the samples? Are you going to make a soundfont or a sample pack?

[@CollisionChaos]

I would like to do something like that. But what I most would like to do is to recreate the Sonic CD style with the same instruments and to recreate all the songs very accurate.

[@libranocharly3502]

Lol 0:58 sounds like the Live on Rondo version of Ski ba bop da dop from John Scatman.

[@shalpp]

Do you know if any of your sample findings match the sequenced stage music for NiGHTS? I can only imagine how wild hearing spring valley sounds without having to bend over for the Saturn's ram limit

[@CollisionChaos]

Spring Valley... i think maybe it uses 01/w musette and d70 piano, i don't know anything else other than that, sorry :(

[@sourmemesonions2318]

I just got myself a 01/w and I'm playing the used presets I'm so happy (also do you know the preset number of the "yo" vox used in stardust speedway past? I know it's an 01 w preset but I can't find it?)

[@CollisionChaos]

WOAH that's awesome!! i hope one day i will have a 01w too!! the stardust past/collision chaos past yo is B88 vox dude

[@sourmemesonions2318]

@@CollisionChaos thank you! Hopefully you will find one one day ^_^

[@sourmemesonions2318]

@@CollisionChaos Sorry for asking but do you know any other 01 w presets that were used?

[@CollisionChaos]

@@sourmemesonions2318 in which song?

[@sourmemesonions2318]

@@CollisionChaos palmtree panic past?

[@a2lan123]

Goshdarnit retro synths have such a charm... (how much for the raw 01/w samples in wav format?) EDIT : nevermind, found the link.

[@edsontheobjectthingy6971]

0:14

[@kawai286]

This 0:44 sounds similar to 808 state 90

[@CollisionChaos]

808 state was possible one of the inspirations/references for Sonic CD music! I'd like to do a video about that one day. In fact, 808 state even do that mixing technique of putting tr-909 snares after tambourines/hats like they like doing in Sonic CD, i bet they got this idea from 808 state

[@kawai286]

I'm looking forward to that:D

[@intrarmediox]

could you upload the instruments? I want to use them for remixes of songs from sonic cd, I would really appreciate it :c

[@CollisionChaos]

To make this video I used Korg M1 vst, roland anthology 1990, roland zenology vst and a friend called Nuclear who have a Korg 01/w recorded some of the sounds, i can't upload those VSTs because they're protected by copyright sorry :(

[@ChilliusVGM]

What’s up with the release on the instruments? It sounds really weird here.

[@CollisionChaos]

LOL

[@ts-thespike7988]

is there any way to download those samples?

[@MushroomMaruchanSoup]

Where can i find the first sample? I have found one that sounds similar but doesn't have the correct pitch.

[@CollisionChaos]

Hi! You can find in Korg M1 vst and also in Korg T2. In order for it to have the correct pitch, you need to play the correct notes.

[@MushroomMaruchanSoup]

@@CollisionChaos actually, im in android and i kinda use the samples just to mess with various MIDIs, it isn't really important but yeah, that is the reason

[@theaxylusmusic]

Please dwps ahhh

[@keithmorrison8373]

Kinda feel like steven universe also used the roland d 70 the pad is exactly the same as in some of the soundtrack

[@Mr.Goldbar]

Any idea of sources of sounds from the US soundtrack?

[@CollisionChaos]

Aparently is most of the same equipament (korg wavestation, roland JD800, korg 01/w), some ensoniq sampler (EPS maybe) You can find more info here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJBlHHDc65fhZmKUGLrDTLCm6rfUU83-kbuD8Y0zU0o/edit#gid=808410874

[@Mr.Goldbar]

@@CollisionChaos I knew about the Wavestation, I found a guy who made a similar video to yours but about the US Soundtrack, but he only uploaded part 1... a year ago

[@ZphyZphyer]

i need sample libraries for korg 01w and ronald jd800000000000 lol

[@ZphyZphyer]

seriously can someone give me them

[@sleepyNovember_project]

@@ZphyZphyer found? I also want to know

[@ZphyZphyer]

​@@sleepyNovember_projectnope

[@ZphyZphyer]

​@@sleepyNovember_projectpretty sad

[@wiishopchannel8928]

how do you do that?

[@CollisionChaos]

I used FL Studio

[@alexd5736]

0:41 its sounds to... Salsa? Or a tipic song for south america

[@CollisionChaos]

Yeah, i believe sonic cd soundtrack has multiple influences from different styles, including salsa.

[@alexd5736]

​@@CollisionChaos ohh

[@edsontheobjectthingy6971]

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