The Samples Used in The Legend of Zelda 

Seriously!!

Couldnt agree more, its a revelation

Sacred texts behind what made Zelda music legendary...thanks for doing this! I've discovered something similar with Pokemon 3D games too

when I was younger I thought it was adult links voice like disembodied or something

@@Twitch380 same

@@Twitch380what a nightmare fuel you have in your head 😵‍💫

Look up thomas game docs He just made an interesting video about that

I suppose they also had to stick to as few sources as possible because of copyrights constraints, the more different sources you use the more royalties you have to pay

@@gao1812 normally yeah, but not with these cd’s.

@@lemonadegaming8165 That's probably what I watched a few days ago... (Is RU-vid recommending people the same videos by any chance?)

@@Tazerboy_10 its probably youtube seeing us watching oot content, and recommending us similar videos

they both took some inspiration from twin peaks too, particularly majoras mask

I mean, Majora's Mask definitely has a horror flavor to it, so it's not too far-fetched.

These are not albums, they are sample packs (CDs with a lot of different sounds) made for producers and musicians so they use them in their compositions. That's the easiest way to deal woth copyright too.

Here's another fun fact. The music slowed down in the water temple is actually practically the same as the forest temple

@@LilKiwi2240 It's not. they use the same sample for the main instruments but beyond that they are entirely different compositions and use the sample differently

i appreciate kids media that isnt afraid to get scary

@@shaobues Right? The scariness kind of humbles you in a way.

No one ever said it was a kids game. The developers just wanted to make an artistic piece of media as requested by the company. For marketability reasons they had to cut a bunch of stuff to make it appropriate for children and the game was marketed as such because that's where the money is. The end.

iirc the Spyro series also sampled from the Distorted Reality pack! Fun for the whole family!

How is Zelda a kids game? Ever seen an actual kids game? Something that's also suitable for kids doesn't make it something only for kids.

nope, its lazy

@@tribemaster101 I guess Koji Kondo was just so much lazier than you are, right?

@@MachinaOwl yes, your musician boyfriend is lazy for using samples.

Yeah! I heard it's also in the theme for Stone Hill in the original version of Spyro The Dragon, and it's even a sound effect in Wind Waker!

IKR? I was so surprised when I discovered that.

The final result in the “last day” theme became a incredibly deep song, sometimes I just can feel the sensation of despair and ending of world through time

I noticed it's also on the mission start of Devil May Cry 2

@@michaeljfan9720 Yup, finishing the first boss battle on Dragon Roost had me not even wanting to enter the warp to the entrance cause it is that sound. lol All that nostalgia and the feeling of death conveyed by Majora's Mask had me sitting there feeling some type of way...

It sounds like that’s because the original track is literally just going up and down the harmonic series (the different pitches created naturally by/in/through a tube based upon its physics) and the finished product is in equal temperament.

There's nothing distorted about the original state of the song and it's still a melody.

one called african 29-6 in particular

Are these sample cds possible to get anywhere?

@@OdinComposer Ethnic Flavours can be digitally purchased from Zero-G's website, but if you want to find Ethnic Vol. 1 you're going to have to do some digging.

Not sure about the no royalties part

The series can be a fever dream at times.

How does that make sense?

@@NibirBaishnaboverlapping distorted reality?

10 years later I'm starting to get weird dreams about the music from these games

Probably people that also work with sound design and checking sample discs found something that "Hey! That played in OoT".

As ghenetto said. Sometimes producers look for older sounds and download 90's samplepacks and eventually find out the game's samples out of pure luck or coincidence.

I've heard the same stock sound effects appear in other media and always found it fascinating, some people take it farther and actually dig through sound libraries to find their origins. Some people who work in audio engineering also grew up playing these games.

The G-Saviour game and soundtrack from 1999 I think used the Iceland 1 sample from the Distorted Reality 1 album.

As someone who operates tangential to the space, once you see/hear a technique or sample, and are actively using it yourself or have tried to demo it you really start seeing it everywhere. Like it becomes blatantly obvious that "oh this came from this sample" or "oh they're using this rendering technique rather than this one"

Right!

why would you lie about it

don´t worry dude, that Zelda track owes way more to Jean Michel-Jarre and 70's synth music that to the Distorted Reality album.the sample only fills the treble portion of the harmony... it could be anything else. perhaps if other sounds or instruments or samples were used the track wouldn´t have endend that good, but the difference wouldn´t be totally huge.

also used in terraria (the eerie theme specifically)

WE FUCKING LOVE THE MINDS EYE

Nice

It's because the need for samples kind of died with the N64 for the most part. They needed to sample as they relied on midi soundfonts due to cartridge size limitations, whereas everything after this could just use 44.1kHz (CD) audio directly rather than relying on soundfont creation. You may be wondering why this is relevant especially given their presence in later games: well if you can bake them out to direct audio files, you get far more creative control over what the sample and track as a whole over all the channels sounds like. Basically you're no longer limited to what the hardware itself can manage in terms of transforms, as much as you are limited by your workstation's DAW. Which ends up making it extremely difficult to isolate these sounds compared to before, as they literally blend into the rest of the track versus just being an isolated PCM or part of the soundfont, AND they can become far more unique from the source.

@@TheFriendlyInvader twilight princess was full of samples from the same cd's too

Same. Also Wahoo

That sounds cool. If you haven't already, so back them up on an external hard drive. I learned the necessity of that the hard way.

@@gilamasan right. Should probably do that... Ps. Found the sample from City in the Sky. It’s from Ethnic 1, (same CD as the flute from forest temple) and the file path is “Partition C -> AFRICAFEMALE -> UGANDA LOOP”.

Well well look who's here

@@OdinComposer ayy

I did too. It was in fact used.

Most likely, that’s a nice catch bro

It's from Zero-G Ethnic, the same library used for the Forest Temple sound

It’s called UGANDAFEMAL3 on the same album as the previous commenter stated. It’s shortly after the Forest Temple sample if you watch the first video that comes up of the album on RU-vid.

Not quite. This amount of sampling is normal for video game OSTs, and the composters still wrote the melodies themselves.

i feel like a lot of fans dont know about that first one

@@shaobues I disagree, I think that’s actually the best known usage of samples in OoT

We get it, you watched a video one time about the Islamic chants, who cares.

@@goodguyguan3412 For completion's sake. Got a problem with that?

@@goodguyguan3412 I do.

ikr :(

I thought it was forever

I TOUGHT IT WAS! Always thought it was like a se sort of reference of how the childhood days were gone

@@dekugh64 i think it sounds enough like it that you can take it like that, there was at least one developer who thought the same thing

It’s interesting to see how the voice that bled into the sample warped people’s perception of the game’s world. Personally, I thought the voice represented ghosts that were haunting the temple, but I guess the human mind can invent all sorts of different interpretations of what the sound is.

100% correct imo. Sounds just like it.

It might've actually been a direct sample from the Roland D-50 which is where the Fantasia sound originates

@@xerxes8014 This. Kondo had one of these during the development period of both games.

Sounds like it

i think it's also used a lot in mario galaxy for menu buttons

I'd be willing to address any mistakes if I were to make another video on Zelda samples. What errors did you see?

@@gilamasan Tha sample "Hal_Ahh F2" Is not from "Classical Choir" but rather "Hallelujah". All samples from Both New World Order Journeys are from the Sounds Good release. The PowerFX release is missing some samples, mainly the Dark beast ganon tribal drum loop you showcased has extra percussion added whereas the one used does not.

@@AdelAlmas Thanks. I'll be sure to make a revised version at some point. I've found more samples I hadn't included before, so It'll be more than just corrections.

Is that so?

@@CrossiGacha I'm 80% sure ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g21M5IBvboI.html , if it's not then it must come from the same source

@@Yanis2 yep! 100%

The irony being a TON of these sounds are in omnisphere…but you can get these for free on the internet 😂