Streets of Rage 2 - Expander - Oscilloscope Deconstruction

[@Yuzoboy]

This song showcases the technical achievements with the sound on Streets of Rage 2. Major credit to Motohiro Kawashima on this.

[@arcball33]

didn’t expect to see you here Yuzoboy

[@metalgamerjonny6410]

i thought this was yuzo that made this

[@gonzo7758]

@@metalgamerjonny6410 motohiro kawashima is incredibly underrated, he made some of the best gems in SoR2 and SoR3

[@maxrichards5925]

It’s cool to see you here.

[@losnamerales3403]

Definitely didn't expect to see you here Yuzoboy, as a producer and DJ I loved all the remakes and sonic/MJ mashups you did bro

[@jamesm4970]

It's amazing how literally every single note of this is phenomenal even on its own, the sound design is that good

[@SirBopALot]

It is really awesome! Plus, we get to see how the track is structured, by seeing each channel individually. This is why I love soundtrack deconstruction. It’s very fascinating.

[@kavahreejones]

STREETS OF RAGE 2 YEEEEEEEESSSSS

[@mfcrocker]

now this is using the whole damn sound chip

[@RWL2012]

plus the graphics chip (PSG core haha)

[@cshairydude]

The whole two sound chips - don't forget the SN76489 ;)

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

This track uses both the YM 2612 and SN76489 PSG chip.

[@losnamerales3403]

That Yamaha chip is being harassed by Yuzo and Co 😅

[@jonespianist3189]

The first time I heard this track, my immediate response was "Oh, I'm sorry, composer. I didn't realize I was playing Streets of Rage *3*."

[@DenkyManner]

It's easy for fans of the Genesis to think "why is some genesis music so bad whenthe machine could do stuff like SoR2?". Then you see the deconstruction and realise you had to be a genius to get the best out of it.

[@snatcherofpeachs]

Yeah seriously. I think I remember learning that there were some dev tools with pre-made instruments that ended up becoming pretty popular. A lot of developers ended up opting to use them instead of really learning to work with the chip but they all sounded pretty bland at best downright ugly at worst.

[@ikagura]

​@@snatcherofpeachsThe infamous GEMS giving many western genesis musics that twangy sound.

[@ryanisstuckin93]

Definitely took inspiration from the rave scene in Europe where people would make records on crappy beat up amstrads in their garage.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Blame the infamous GEMS sound driver that was supposed to help make it easier to compose music for the Mega Drive but it just made developers lazy and they chose to stick with the crappy FM patches presets thus giving the Mega Drive a bad name for sound.

[@SuperVada]

Expander, the music where sh*t is about to go up(down)!

[@baloonfart8082]

puremadness

[@JackyJCR]

4:42 Enjoy this

[@sebastianperez8023]

I'm unironically using this as a sound test for my earphones because they keep breaking and I have to buy a new pair everytime

[@DonVecta]

Motohiro Kawashima at his finest. He was so ahead of his time and simply brought a lot of the electronic scene of the 90's. In other topics, do you think would be cool to deconstruct Moon Beach from SOR1? Now you'd make my day with that!☝️

[@XionAzura1]

Motohiro Kawashima? Wasn’t this Yuzo Koshiro?

[@DonVecta]

@@XionAzura1 nope, Expander was composed by Motohiro.

[@Balefactor]

1:10 that waveform is metal af. Yuzo Koshiro is a God. Thank Christ tools exist to extract patches from VGM files.

[@supermariobro93]

That's actually Motohiro Kawashima that composed this one. But yeah, those waveforms!

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

Also thanks to the limited instrumentation of 90s consoles.

[@MusouSan]

4:41 Metallic Elevator Zone 2

[@maxrichards5925]

This song sounds so out of this world coming from a genesis. Truly a masterpiece.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

The Mega Drive was capable of this kind of quality in the right hands. Even SNES fanboys can’t deny its quality.

[@maxrichards5925]

@@Adamtendo_player_1 That’s true. If only it was easier for developers to learn how the sound on a genesis works

[@jtg55]

Ooh! I see you added a stereo effect! Nice job! If SoR2 is up for deconstructs, I'd love to see Slow Moon and Go Straight! (I'm pretty sure the SN76489 did not support stereo sound, though).

[@RWL2012]

correct, the Mega Drive/Genesis PSG is the Master System variant which is mono. Only the Game Gear has the second speaker output register on its PSG. Only the YM2612 is stereo. Maybe the uploader couldn't find a way to make the FM and DAC views stereo but the PSG views mono.

[@PeterLawrenceYT]

@@RWL2012 "The YM2612's DAC channel is also mono" false, you can hard pan left and right it like the FM synths. Source, I make chiptune for the thing.

[@jtg55]

Yes! So do I, and the DAC is stereo, yet it's not as fully stereo like the SNES. It's either 100% left, 100% right or centered.

[@RWL2012]

oops, I stand corrected!

[@jtg55]

@@BurnedNoodle i assume you're talking about my comment on the DAC's stereo. yes i suppose, i don't make music for the paula chip so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@BladeShadowWing]

GRAND UPPER!!

[@losnamerales3403]

Corkscrew Kick

[@neilmclean1527]

Wow this game sounds like no other. Wouldn’t have thought it possible if I hadn’t heard it myself.

[@RWL2012]

Yuzo Koshiro's custom FM driver with converted YM2608 patches on the YM2612, and TR909 samples on the DAC channel :)

[@losnamerales3403]

@@RWL2012 that's very specific info fam thanks for sharing, as a producer that wondered wtf and how is yuzo making the sega sound engine sound so polished before I even started music I really appreciate the way you put the specs out

[@Viral-Cell]

Wow, I was searching for the deconstruction of this tune 2 weeks ago! You're a mind reader, thanks!

[@paullovinicius]

I guess this is the first stereo deconstruction from your channel and it looks amazing.

[@carpathia808]

The first would actually be the first time I tried out DS music and did the kirby canvas curse drawcia soul music kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ7bo3tparyosMk

[@RWL2012]

DAC & PSG only need to be mono views though as only the FM channels can do stereo (the Mega Drive/Genesis only has the mono version Master System PSG not the stereo Game Gear one, and DAC sample playback on the YM2612 is also limited to mono).

[@Stedman75]

I saw this out of the corner of my eye looking for something else. goddamn i clicked so fast!

[@streeterville773]

Same!

[@RadgardDelgatti]

Can't wait for In The Bar at some point!

[@olearywashington3374]

Me too💯

[@Pandaboss1]

Same

[@chaozZX3]

This was amazing! You gotta do back to the industry!

[@curryscreech667]

Yesssirrrr streets of rage decomposing

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

This breakdown of the “Expander” track shows what a brilliant, creative and technical mind that Motohiro Kawashima has and a treatment to his skill with the Mega Drive yahama 2612 sound chip and proves once and for all what a capable chip it is in the right hands.

[@jp5125]

YES SO EXCITED FOR THIS OST

[@MechaGod]

I literally use 1:27 to test my speaker setups stereo output

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

The smoothest DAC ever

[@RWL2012]

TR909 samples apparently!

[@WickerBasket9]

Hot take: Streets of Rage has gotta have the best Genesis soundtrack! Motohiro knew what he was doing with the Sega Mega Drive's sound chip!

[@XionAzura1]

Carpathia808 does it again! We were all waiting for this OST and you didn’t disappoint!

[@T-Wade1993]

Oh yes. I needed more SOR2 like this. I'm so glad you did another one.

[@superdean9966]

expander of what? DONGS?

[@EruzErdene]

that random *beep* is actually not random :0

[@GRIMLOCK07]

Watch it from beginning to end. And enjoyed every second it.

[@pop.c.0519]

Holy nuts what's up with Channel 2 & 3?

[@FuzzyVids]

You know what's up with it.

[@aperson6955]

@@FuzzyVids *them

[@K8TR]

I always thoght that that 'beep' in this song was a mistake, to find out its actually part of the song 🤯

[@losnamerales3403]

@Carpathia808 Please do SOR2 back to the industry deconstructed, that song is so busy I'd love to hear the riffs and how it comes together as it's such a busy song

[@ChristerMr6414]

Time to kick some... well... 8:12 EVERYBODY NOW!!

[@jtsmusic1218]

Good god they had no buisness making the beat go THAT hard

[@jtg55]

Hey man, this is Motohrio Kawashima. He can do what he damn well pleases.

[@EccoMixes]

@@jtg55 No it wasn't, Motohiro Kawashima did Expander. Put some respect on his name yo!

[@jtg55]

@@EccoMixes _Oh damn!_ How'd I forget that?! Hold on, I fix it.

[@RWL2012]

I guess it said Yuzo Koshiro before. They both seem like legends!

[@sleepyNovember_project]

4:40 insane

[@Studioterrel]

HELL YEA BRING ON THE SOR2.

[@BoredGeese]

As a 7 year old kid who played with his cousin at this level, we were like “oh noooooooooooooo”

[@Morpheus414]

Hosting a fucking _one-man rave_ over here... 🤘🤘🤘

[@Cyber-Akuma]

Beautiful!

[@Threshroge]

yayayayayay Streets of Rage 2 and moonbeach and the other ones the elevator and all them yeay

[@tatarialucard1394]

YAOOOOOO BRUTAL !!

[@combatking0]

3:30 but out of context.

[@monetizacao6607]

The DAC line seems to be unaligned with the others

[@m.mproductions2461]

it even looks good wtf

[@UserSniper]

hey i have a request do the cutscene theme from the genesis version of toy story: the game it's one of the few tracks on the system to use every single channel at any given time

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

Not a bad idea.

[@RWL2012]

of all videos to request Toy Story on you picked SOR2 Expander haha.

[@UserSniper]

@@RWL2012 seriously though if you look at a single channel in that game, it's just a giant mess of sound combine 'em and you get a decent music track

[@pythagore243]

He's a genius.

[@NoblePunk]

I wish I knew the notes to recreate and flip this masterpiece

[@EchoFaustMusic]

Bar stage deconstruction when? It's probably my favorite track from this game

[@crizsonny9523]

TEMAZOOO BIEN AHÍ!!!!!!!!!😄👍⚡

[@losnamerales3403]

My biggest question is.... is Carpathia808 remaking all these riffs? or is he just using a program to break down down the riffs individually then recombining them? Or does he just have the midi data for the song and is just picking the correct instruments? Someone let me know

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

He uses Foobar2000 which is a deconstructer and mp3 player (kinda)

[@losnamerales3403]

@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 thanks for letting me know bro

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

@@losnamerales3403 Sure. However, the layout he made for deconstructing is not in there. He made it himself. I tried, but I couldn't find it.

[@gerardgeer642]

Pretty pretty please do Back To The Industry

[@CrispsCrispulent]

nice

[@link6000]

do more streets of rage series plesse

[@streeterville773]

Love that PSG

[@Threshroge]

Its unsure whether you would like help doing this or whether it's easily teachable or not

[@gamegod4977]

I like to request that you can upload the SFX for Ghouls n Ghosts (Genesis)

[@Bashento]

soltero carlos perez

[@losnamerales3403]

Actually please do SOR "the last soul"

[@gabrielb.1454]

PSG is amazing!

[@jacobybennett8163]

I see a stereo effect on the oscilloscope.

[@advanced1000]

Yea me too i see that like 2 channels in 1

[@limelad37]

Yeah, I've seen that sort of stuff in other oscilloscope view things, but they usually display the "2 in 1" channels above each other rather than beside one another.

[@RWL2012]

only those FM channels can do stereo though so it's a bit redundant on the DAC channel and the PSG as well.

[@segaking5846]

Cool

[@sunscraper1]

This song would've been better for the particle/molecule fight

[@paullovinicius]

THANKS!!! And thanks, Yuzo Koshiro!

[@EccoMixes]

Expander was completely made by Motohiro Kawashima, not Yuzo Koshiro.

[@paullovinicius]

@@EccoMixes good info, thx!

[@blind_t2]

Uzo did his big one on this one.

[@Joniclol]

I have a recommendation: Can you make some Friday Night Funkin Deconstruction Videos?

[@_EricEDT_]

Yeah. If it's possible to. In short, he pretty much can't.

[@Natah_DN]

You can. Kawai Sprite actually uploaded the stems for some songs, so you can deconstruct them.

[@_EricEDT_]

@@Natah_DN Fascinating. Well, thanks for the update.