The Music that Inspired Crazy Bus

[@JakZie]

Came for a shitpost, stayed for a legit documentary. GST is a master in his craft.

[@mahj]

If we're talking about randomly generated music, I'd like to mention "a mind is born", a commodore 64 demo of only 256 bytes. Despite this absolutely tiny size it generates a very catchy tune. The seed value of the generator was chosen carefully so the randomly generated tune sounds pleasing to human ears. This all from a program that's shorter than this comment.

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

That's an extremely cool C64 demo but there's one really important distinction between that and crazy bus: the generator and its seed value were very carefully chosen

[@d4t4b4s3f4c3]

If were talking pleasing to the ears, Don't forget BallBlazer

[@TheIccy]

what i learned was that all songs that are really just variations of crazy bus thank you as always gst

[@dylansparrow6169]

Don't forget what might be the first use of this sound in popular music, that being the intro and outro of "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo. That was done on an Oberheim OB-X8. From an interview: "The voltage-controlled amplifiers on the Oberheim were very unreliable - they hadn’t sorted out some of the voltage problems. But it was just the effect we were looking for.”

[@QuintusCunctator]

The best kind of April's Fool: interesting and informative at the same time. Thanks!

[@narayanbandodker5482]

Your Pentatonic version is still the best one I've heard

[@Damian_1989]

Yuzo Koshiro really was ahead of his time when he made SoR3's music

[@PingerSurprise]

At least 2 years before the song by Oliver Ho we hear right before in this video.

[@AWISECROW]

😄 That was great and I learned something. Can't wait for next April.

[@maxrichards5925]

This is music to my ears!

[@AWISECROW]

Sweet Sweet Music👂🏽

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

Your channel is amazing, and your videos are top notch.

[@BewbsOP]

🎵Crazy bus, Crazy bus🎵 🎵Riding on a crazy bus🎵 🎵Riding up, Riding Down🎵 🎵Driven by a funny clown🎵

[@dantefloressq]

This legitimately explained a lot of interesting features of synths i never cared enough to look them up myself cause also they seemed complicated and it intimidated me. This channel is one of the best I've seen.

[@Slash0mega]

I think you may be overthinking this, it was just random... (reaches 3:33) wait, when was this uploaded? was it April first? indeed it was, well played XD. very cool to learn a bit of history about electronic music all the same.

[@AEGYOKILLER]

Detroit baby

[@ashthedragon]

Im happy to pay for this

[@chitan1362]

It's very well known in the music industry that Mozart was heavily inspired by Crazy Bus when he made his music.

[@blueelectric05]

Crazybus is a banger

[@OnlyWednesdayMu]

perfection

[@styno9295]

The title is spot on. I'm losing my mind.

[@d4t4b4s3f4c3]

GST. What a weirdo. Fantastic.

[@DaVince21]

This was wonderful. :D By the way, I think the chords are all the exact same length if you want to make it sound even closer!

[@sketchysketchu]

Now here's an ap first video I can get into

[@hyaenaGemah]

GST naking the best april fool's by taking something so serious you can't help it but to ask if the man was being serious or not. It is genius. So when are we getting Detroit inspired Crazy Bus remixes?

[@prinzbach]

Daniel Fisher did a pretty good job on this jam > Modular seems to be his jam.

[@retrospiel]

best april fools so far

[@bitblitz]

Yo this is awesome

[@mysfarbror]

Amazing

[@DrowseProductions]

Thought you were going to dive into the history of non-tonal music and composers who avoid the 12 tone scale in this video for a second. An overview of modular synths was pretty cool too though .

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

The modular synthesis lineage is much more apparent, though there's still some additional parallels you could draw

[@IridescentAudio]

I learned things today.

[@SparkyLurkdragon]

So... hm, is the white noise aspect the reason why if you play multiple instances of the Crazybus intro at the same time, it eventually cancels out into a silence that you can kind of feel in your teeth?

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

No, the reason that happens is that the most popular upload of Crazy Bus's music actually contains a DC offset, meaning that playing multiple instances will just choke out the sound instead of turning it into a mess of clipped distortion

[@SparkyLurkdragon]

@@GSTChannelVEVO Fascinating! Thanks for explaining.

[@kyugull]

Have you ever heard the name entry music from Cubivore?

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

it's beautiful, but definitely a different approach than crazy bus.

[@Nikku4211]

Bro you just ported CrazyBus to the Atari ST?

[@geminielectro]

Oh my god! It's genius! I think I'm going to throw away all my video game OSTs, starting with Nobuo Uematsu's, and keep only the one for Crazy Bus.

[@Alianger]

It was inspired by freedom

[@Torchkas2]

okay, but let me ask you this: is the crazy bus song in 3/4 or 4/4?

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

I'd argue that it's in 1/8

[@Torchkas2]

@@GSTChannelVEVO i might be crazy here, but i can hear these little passages in the randomness that span 3 notes sometimes. the song is also always the same from start-up, so i reckon this merits deeper musical analysis!!

[@analoq]

Shame you did not find my analysis of the Crazybus music before making your video; it’s not as simple as to be recreated with only oscillators and sample & hold. It is more interesting than that!

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

yeah true, lol I think I found your video shortly after I posted this one. it's really good! this one's extremely tongue-in-cheek, but I stand by it, or at least the part that says "crazy bus isn't some musical anomaly" :P

[@jju00]

Came for an April's Fool joke. Left with new music albums to listen

[@JoseSanchez-xz5wt]

Oh. I thought this was the crazy bus from Arthur

[@tverdyznaqs]

Wait, so is it seeded randomness or true randomness? If I were to rip this game's soundtrack multiple different times, would each one have a completely different melody

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

iirc, Crazy Bus used badly seeded randomness. so it's technically different each time, but incredibly easy to get the same seed since the console startup conditions are the same each time. I think if you press the reset button, you'll get a new seed.(?) it's been a while since I've looked into it though... 😅

[@tverdyznaqs]

@@GSTChannelVEVO Fascinating!

[@Juuhazan_]

Only when discussing chiptunes can you use the menu theme of a shitty homebrew game to discuss modular synthesis 101

[@bsdims]

Eyo GST, how're your ears?

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

I love sounds

[@bsdims]

@@GSTChannelVEVO even harsh high-octave square-waves? Music to my ears

[@Mentalbox52]

How to make a rock sound interesting

[@BubblegumCrash332]

The music of crazy bus is how you feel if you take to much LSD

[@sushikorpse7979]

I LOVE VENEZUELA!!!1!!11!!11!!11

[@EsperHubb]

lol 10/10

[@kaykitsune]

Meta-irony thanks.

[@ForestWhitakerTulpa]

And because it's random every time, you can't just rip the soundtrack for other mediums, the only way to hear it new every time is on the mega drive, truly ahead of their time. Kraftwerk wished they could put this on their next album but couldn't, they have been outdone.

[@Bestmann3n]

what's the source of randomness on the megadrive? it for sure isn't true randomness.

[@ChaunceyGardener]

Actually Crazy Bus title theme is a structured composition and loops around the 8 hour mark.

[@livvy94]

0/10 no mention of Jerry Temporary by Paul McCartney

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

oh shit, I can't believe that slipped my mind. I love that song! it would've fit comfortably next to the SoR3 example, but with more weight because Beatles.

[@touchly]

this was a joke?

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

crazy bus

[@drezzylol]

Plug that shit into a ring mod

[@RabbinzonMeloman]

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