How Toby Fox Composed the Music of UNDERTALE 

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“Hi, I’m not a dog.” Thank goodness, we were all curious.

so weird to hear someone describe undertale as "nostalgic" and "apart of their childhood" when it feels like it only came out last year

Now that I have now only heard Toby’s voice from this video The first thing I hear of him is “hi, I’m not a dog” This man is truly a genius And Also just that this guy in the video is doing this by ear is such a flex

As an aspiring music producer who adores undertale and has felt lost and like the only real info is buried under classical music training I never got as a kid and can’t afford now, This is genuinely an incredible video, and I really really appreciate that you made this. I’m so excited to go and make music with some of these things!! Thank you so much 💕

The fact that sans’ voice recording is literally taken from a clip of spongebob is perfection.

The fact that you did this all by ear is incredible.

For "just" 18k subscribers, the quality of this video is insane! Loved every second of it. 6:50 haha, love this part

My favorite track has always been "Last Goodbye" just because the end is just a really nice touch with the live recorded piano

Wow, this video is insanely quality and super intriguing. Especially the editing! A ton of the recreations are super close, which is insane!

Crazy well explained!

This is an extremely well-made video. I have 6+ years of experience in FL Studio and I actually began by creating works inspired by Undertale's soundtrack -- I am already familiar with nearly everything presented in the video, but I was still entertained by how efficiently everything was put together. Seeing thoughts from experienced musicians who had no idea about this sort of stuff was definitely interesting. One thing I wasn't aware of was Toby Fox's "How do I get good at music?" post. The last bit in particular about people being inspired by Undertale really hit close to home, as Undertale has been a huge inspiration in my projects and creative endeavors in general (despite how dissimilar they would seem at first glance). The chances that Toby Fox will interact with whatever I end up making is one in a million, but the thought of the people behind your inspirations interacting with your content is very nice.

Still feels so wrong to say we played this game in our childhood when it feels so new and refreshing. I'm making changes in my life, I have goals now, goals that are partly inspired by Toby and I'm gonna do my best to not let anything get in my way because I'm sick of it, I let people I trust turn me from my desired path, no longer, I understand now that it isn't too late to follow my dreams, it never was and never will be, I understand now that if I want to be capable of succeeding, I need only to want it, really want, if anything, the hardships I went through to make it back to this path have only fueled a stronger passion to pursue it. Toby was one of a few who helped me discover the path I wanted to take, due to depression and judgement I initially denied it, years later, not long after overcoming my struggles, I decided to play Undertale again, it rekindled the dreams of my past and presented me with a future, a future that involves more than just wasting my life away, waiting for it to end, so here I am, now equipped with the tools I need and a burning determination inside of me, fueled by passion, ready to achieve my dreams even if I will never fulfill them because the journey is far more exciting than the destination and without the journey, the dreams are hollow. I can imagine someone reading this and thinking "it's only a game" and yes, it is. Make no mistake, I am not an Undertale fanatic, you don't need to be to still have been influenced by it. Tonnes of things and people influence you on the daily basis and some more than others, I'm just very aware of what I consume as I'm quite observational so I am only showing my appreciation. It's crazy to think about how different people can receive the same piece of information, where I can see a beautifully crafted painting which I can relate to on an emotional level, the very creator of said painting may have put no thought into it and just liked the colours... this idea represents many things in life

Man this was so good.

I was puzzled when you mentioned that this was a pivotal part of your childhood. Then I realized that Undertale was released 6 YEARS AGO. Time flies

3:24 I was so ready to jam to Metal Crusher but it never actually started LMAO, what a lovely video though x

I wasn't aware you could get demonetized for using Toby Fox's music, I thought it was one of those things where he didn't mind.

"I'm just another person who played Undertale and had it become a huge part of their childhood" Me, 24: *crumbles into dust*

The McDonalds commercial really got me it reminds me of how in the movie industry folly artists have to do really creative and wacky shit to create some of the most iconic sound effects

yo watching this has honestly taught me more cool intricacies of music + made me want to make music more than any other tutorial i've watched lol

I started crying knowing how possible you just made these kinds of compositions for me, in my 6 years of using FLStudio I had never heard of these sound fonts or had the idea of copying them, I always messed around with fresh synths. Thank you from the bottom of my soul for creating this video and bless you

so what did we learn here? well i learned that toby is a freaking chad who can make fl keys sound good.

Ahhhh I've always wanted to know which soundfonts he used! Loved this video, really good insight on Toby's mindset that I could stand to takeaway myself. Keep it up!

I'm genuinely crying after your video man. This is the first vid of yours I've ever seen but those ending words got to me. I'm studying to be a game designer and although I'm pretty confident in my ability to code, things like art and music are all new to me. I've been trying to learn music and drawing so I can make my own game. I really hope to be that kid who grew up with Undertale and makes a cool new game for people to enjoy, although I don't know if I'll be able to surpass it. I know you posted this a year ago but thank you, this video was just what I needed!

Songs Used In Video: 0:01 - Chill [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 0:34 - Enemy Approaching [Live On Piano, Undertale OST] 0:39 - Enemy Approaching [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 0:47 - It's Raining Somewhere Else [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 0:58 - Ruins [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 1:45 - Jolly Roger Bay/Dire Dire Docks [Live On Keyboard, Super Mario 64 OST] 1:58 - Snowy [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:07 - Ruins [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:13 - Home (Music Box) [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:25 - Fallen Down [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:29 - Amalgam [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:35 - MEGALOVANIA [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:40 - Uwa!! So Temperate♫ [Live On Keyboard, Undertale OST] 2:48 - Uwa!! So Temperate♫ [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 3:23 - Metal Crusher [FL Studio, Undertale OST] 3:38 - Tem Shop [FL Studio, Incomplete, Undertale OST] 3:45 - Tem Shop [FL Studio, Complete, Undertale OST] 4:07 - Pathetic House [FL Studio, Undertale OST] 4:41 - Your Best Friend [FL Studio, Incomplete, Undertale OST] 4:52 - Your Best Friend [FL Studio, Complete, Undertale OST] 7:07 - Shop [FL Studio, Incomplete, Undertale OST] 9:01 - Shop [FL Studio, Complete, Undertale OST] 10:00 - The Choice [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 10:10 - Undertale [Transition from "The Choice", Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 10:37 - Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 10:55 - Finale [Pre-Recorded from "Undertale", as Heard In-Game] 11:05 - Hotel [FL Studio, Undertale OST] 11:34 - Patient/Another Medium (Beta Version) [Pre-Recorded] 12:01 - Good Night [Pre-Recorded, Undertale OST] 12:37 - April 2012 [Pre-Recorded, Deltarune: Chapter I OST] 12:45 - Sugar Star Planetarium [Pre-Recorded, OMORI OST] 13:00 - Shooting Star Summit [Pre-Recorded, Paper Mario OST]

You really went put there and answered ALL my questions regarding the soundtrack, thank you so so much!!!!!!

Honestly this video made me want to learn how to make music for games. I’ll probably have to start with learning how to play the piano first

this video is just perfect and for some reason i cannot stop watching it, and this video right here has inspired me to learn to make music I mean i already was a huge fan of Toby Fox's work but this is something else thank you man

If i were to see Toby one day, i will clap to him and say “Your music is amazing!”

2:53 Samples used in games like Earthbound are just compressed samples from actual keyboards, so using the soundfont in a commercial product is perfectly legal

As someone who's been recreating Undertale's music for years now I can say you've nailed how Toby composed these pieces. Also fun fact: Out of all the songs in the Undertale OST, most of them are not that hard to accurately recreate apart from Megalovania, which has taken me 2 years of recreating to even getting close to how the original sounds.

Brother, you are a frickin’ legend! You’re the guy who rebuilt Undertale songs from scratch and you did it perfectly! You’re my source of inspiration and I aspire to be like you in the future.

I love how genuine you are, and how well the video is made. Also great work with the recreations! :)

You know this person is good at recreating Toby Fox's music that he gets demonetized But besides that, this videos really explains how the music is made.

You have no idea how helpful this video was for me as an aspiring composer! Toby Fox was the entire reason why I started writing music, and so seeing a deep dive like this helped me understand more about how he does what he does! Also, that OMORI reference at the end was beautiful.

I watched this video a year ago, and I just want to thank you for getting me to take the final push into music production. Your video has changed my life fr, and I thank you for making an informative, in depth demonstration of/explanation of, as well as how to use soundfonts.

This video was so insightful, I have always loved Undertale, but the production in it is something else. A breakdown like this that goes in depth down to the exact VSTs and sounds Toby used is so awesome. Amazing work!

I thought the “Sans is Patrick” revelation was bad, but “Flowey is Ronald McDonald” is somehow worse...

as someone who’s not naturally musically inclined but is interested in making it, this was incredibly insightful!

Please keep making these types of insightful videos. It’s utterly fascinating.

I love how you recreated the shop theme!! Seeing all the instruments you mentioned made me appreciate that song even more 💜

god hearing undertale and childhood together makes me feel so fucking old and im only 16

i always end up coming back to this video. it’s really helpful seeing what makes up the songs i love and how they’re made. it helps keep me motivated; makes it feel so much more possible that i can make songs like this someday. and i really like your commentary in it, as well; it’s really nice and comforting. thank you for this video, i’m sure i’ll be coming back to it again sometime soon!

still one of the best videos of all time. I think about it constantly and it renewed my desire to even save favorite videos at all

I bursted out laughing at the fact that sans is voiced by patrick

8:28 "We're also panning them left so you'll hear them more in your left ear" *Starts playing in my right* Yeah I now know I had my earbuds in the wrong ears

THANK YOUUU!! This is so cool and intriguing. I've always wondered exactly how Toby made the magic :)

This video has been such an inspiring and beautiful part of my life! You inspired me to learn composing and power through the difficulties that come with it.

My friend, Ashley is actually working with toby for some of the tracks for the next chapters, she also uses FL studio, so even though I don’t have the application myself, I can see myself making some music after watching ash work on some of the greatest shit I’ve ever heard

This video is seriously underrated.

your voice is so calming and it makes this whole video perfect cause it totally matches the vibe

thank you for making & posting this video i'm so happy rn i could cry

holy shit; it blows my mind how incredibly close, if not identical, you got with many of these recreations. excellent work mate ❤️

It's crazy how this person can re-create the music so accurately and make it sound even better

This was such a great watch dude. I just started getting into making my own music and this was such an INSANE burst of inspiration you have NO IDEA!! While I haven't read it yet, I know that twitlonger from Toby is going to be *very* helpful, so thank you for linking to it!! 💗

This was well made and I enjoyed watching it through the end, really.

If someone put these audios over a gameplay, i honestly wouldn't tell a difference

I hate how talented you are LMAO it blows my mind, good stuff!

I keep coming back to this video because it's overall rlly enjoyable, but watching u remake the shop theme is really fun!

Awesome, thanks so much for this. This was the video I needed to see, I was always fascinated to know how the soundtrack was made. Nice work figuring it out. Also, I love how you even mention omori at the end, that game is amazing too.

3:39 Okay but the simplified NES version of Tem Shop actually sounds really nice.

"-a part of my childhood..." Me: *ages instantly* Dear God I'd just become a legal adult when undertale came out, y'all make me feel so old! Jokes aside! Lovely video! I love seeing the inner workings of how this sort of thing is put together. I love music a lot but digital production has proven to be very difficult to even learn the basics for. I'd never have guessed he used an NES set of sounds, the alterations and additions made really bring it to life

As someone who's always wanted to learn at least the smallest things about music, this video and others of yours had helped me see into what it takes to create these wonderful pieces in the media that I love. So glad I found your channel yesterday!

Hey you are the literally one of the most useful teachers for production ive seen and you haven't uploaded a video since this! Dude if you ever find the time and passion keep this channel going!!!

Wow I can’t believe undertale can now be considered of apart of someone’s childhood! The game aged perfectly it feels like and it feels so replayable.

He made one song and then made 9999 epic remixes out of it Boom, soundtrack

Toffee it's been more than a year since your last video and you have talent and ability I just discovered your channel and I love it so don't stop now keep going you can do great things I know

Just experienced Undertale few days ago and I'm super glad that I took the initiative for it. Ty Toby for this piece of art and ty Toffee for doing this video. Feel like all my life's path has changed because of everything related to this game. It inspired me so much broooooooo

Re: legality of soundfonts, in case someone else hasn't already covered this Using a soundfont is not the same as sampling bits of music from a game and using it in your own. It's more akin to sampling the *instruments* that were used to compose a game's soundtrack, and using them to compose your own soundtrack. The SNES's sound chip is basically just a digital sampler (massive oversimplification but bear with me), and the samples that you hear in SNES games actually came from hardware synthesizers. For example, there's an interview with Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer of Chrono Trigger, where he mentions using an Akai S-3200 and a E-MU EIII during the Super Nintendo days. So, if you knew what hardware synths were used to compose what game music, you could feasibly get your hands on one, or find a sample pack uploaded by someone who has one and sampled it, or find/buy a digital recreation of the synth in question, and get an almost exact recreation of that classic sound in higher quality. This is how people are making resampled versions of classic tunes. Some older consoles like the Genesis use actual synthesizer chips (the Genesis specifically uses a Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesis chip) which means you can theoretically mod a Genesis to accept MIDI inputs and turn it into a synthesizer (and people have done it, look up megadrive synth).

That quote at the end, it really hit me specifically. Because Undertale is what made me want to make games, and write out my stories, and make music

Really great video! Loved the explanation and felt really engaged throughout the whole thing!

I re-found this video today and wanted to thank you for making it :). I felt very low and it absolutely brightened my day, thanks for showing off the cool tricks toby used, this is very inspiring!

Okay holy shit THIS is how tutorials should be made. Huge respect for you my dude!

9:50 "that recreation was so good it got me demonetized." This is literally the best case of "weird flex, but okay." I've ever seen in my life up until this point. holy fuck.

Legitimately one of my favorite videos ever i've watched it so many times now

This video has single handedly got me into music creation! Thanks so much dude!

I'll never unhear sans being Patrick and Flowey being Ronald mcDonald the flippin clown...Jeez, Toby, you're one fascinating Dog! And that quote about Undertale being an inspiration in 10 years? Man I kinda teared up. Toby's such a cool person...

There’s something so satisfying and awesome seeing you recreate these songs almost exactly the way it was originally composed. This definitely inspired me to pick music back up

This video actually made me smile and as a creative person myself, inspired me to attempt making recreations of songs and made me listen to most of the ost myself. Glad I’m not the only person fascinated by this stuff

This was super great! Thank you for making and sharing it!

Toby's music is incredible, he really is a legendary composer and game maker, artist, just everything.

Wow this video is so inspiring... I've had a fascination for sampling in music for some time, but I've always discarded the idea of making my own music. I could just go and learn a bunch of stuff, the things I make don't necessarily need to be good. My motivation to learn could be based solely on my love for music, to get into the technicalities that I would otherwise never learn about..

This video appears to me every once in a while and it always reminds me of how much I love Undertale and how impactful it has been to my life Thank you, Toby!

bro u did an amazing job nailing these songs on point figuring out exactly what toby did to create them u have an amazing ear and i’m sure you already know that, ur awesome

His music just makes me feel good, and extremely nostalgic even though I’ve only been into the game for maybe 2 years

10:54 knowing where this sound came from made me go “o0OhH” out loud Great video, im going to be referencing it a lot

You just inspired me to work and improve an Chiptune/Complextro EP that I'm currently working on, Toby Fox is a genius and I learned a lot from you, thank you Toffe!

this was very insightful, thank you for making this

YES! This is EXACTLY the type of breakdown I’ve been wanting on Toby’s work, thank you so much! PLEASE keep up this amazing work.

I'm making a game inspired by undertale. I've been working on it for about a year now and it's coming along really well. The core concept is where every NPC is treated as an actually character/ person rather than just a computer program, they will remember your actions and will react differently depending on how you interact with them. Using this, I was also able to create a system that makes it feel like the game is writing itself which will determine the ending you get and how your character will develop. I feel that this project has potential and I hope that I can inspire others in the future

I love his music and thanks for linking to the Music guide of his! I will check it our tomorrow! Thank you for this cool video!

This video has no right having SO MUCH QUALITY, excellent work and video, grabbed that sub outta my soul

Oh man, as someone who's been trying to get into music production, this was really insightful as you were hoping. That ending though, my eyes widened as I heard Sugar Star Planetarium and thought "no way" to myself. Is this a teaser for a How Omori music was made??

I rarely comment, but I wish I could like this video twice. Its very insigtful and reawakened so much nostalgia. Thank you for showing the way these iconic songs where made! (And if you ever make music of your own, I’ll be there listening… thank you!)

This is better than what I was expecting. I enjoy learning about production details, recreating sounds, and the like

This is so cool, thanks so much for making this.

So Flowey actually is the reincarnation of Ronald McDonald?

Your editing is always so good wtf Youre so fkin talented

Amazing channel dude. So passionate and thoroughly researched. I learn tons.

I love this video, this gave me so many inspirations for my future music creation. Thanks a lot and greetings from Germany.