War Games: The Sounds I Made For The Film

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  • In this video I breakdown the FM Synclavier sounds/sequences I made for the 1983 movie War Games
    Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns, Internal Affairs, The Man From Elysian Fields, 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller.
    His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones, Jack Nitzsche, Lamont Dozier, Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.
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  • @WoodyBReal
    @WoodyBReal ปีที่แล้ว +201

    Dang this guy IS the 80’s! I can’t believe all the iconic sounds he’s responsible for 🤯

    • @therealc0rax
      @therealc0rax ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He literally made everything that's good in our lives lol

    • @WoodyBReal
      @WoodyBReal ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@therealc0rax for real, i feel guilty for calling him “this guy” like he’s just another random dude 🤦🏼‍♂️. These sounds filled my childhood and teen years. Amazing

    • @jennoscura2381
      @jennoscura2381 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Espen Kraft has the tag line "I am the 80s". But this guy might just have him beat on that.

    • @nickolasyounker
      @nickolasyounker ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea, its a W.O.P.R ! 🍔

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jennoscura2381 x1000%

  • @DX5
    @DX5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    These videos are priceless and a piece of history, Anthony. We thank you!

  • @LovevonMelenEkman
    @LovevonMelenEkman ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel must be one of the most precious resources on the internet

  • @AutPen38
    @AutPen38 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I knew the Synclavier was very powerful, for its time, in terms of its synthesis and sound design capabilities, but I had no idea of it's multi-timbrality and ability to play multiple sequences at once without using actual tape recordings. You must have blown people's minds with that thing. Thanks for the history lesson.

  • @timoruohomaki
    @timoruohomaki ปีที่แล้ว +44

    It was such a relief to hear you have backups of the floppies...there's so much of the soundscape of the 80's in there. About the sound, the combination of FM and the military spec DAC's of Synclavier is still sounding so very good!

    • @Flackon
      @Flackon ปีที่แล้ว

      Did they really build them with military spec hardware?

    • @dfglojkg
      @dfglojkg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember in the '90s when Apple introduced the G3? The military actually did shut down the project for a short interval. It's documented in 'zines like MacUser and MacWorld. Talk about the alchemy of lemonade from lemons! Apple - when finally given the commercial go-ahead actually used the anecdote about the Gov "shutting them down" to plug the G3 line.

    • @sounddroid
      @sounddroid 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, even the red control panel buttons came from military avionics, used on the B-52 bomber etc. That’s why they still work today! I have a 40+ year old Synclavier VPK controller that has never been serviced and still works perfectly.
      AMS Neve also used a lot of avionics parts on their DFC film consoles, and those buttons have been in daily use since the mid 90’s with very few (if any) failures. Also they have an unbeatable feel to them, just like the Synclav buttons.

  • @drigrid
    @drigrid ปีที่แล้ว +37

    That film is a masterpiece on every level, including the music. Perfect balance of nuclear anxiety and teen adventure. That's a tough tonal mix, but the music really hits the mark.

  • @jz2188
    @jz2188 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    As a teenager in the 80's and growing up immersed in the advent of consoles, gaming and movies like Wargames, Tron etc. this just triggered a flood of memories, thank you so much for documenting the tools and stories from when you were in the thick of making these impactful soundtracks etc

  • @johncarter2741
    @johncarter2741 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loved war games. I was only 13 when it came out and the soundtrack in the arcade scenes was great. Loved it. Cheers for putting this up on the choob.

  • @chenguefer156
    @chenguefer156 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You are very kind sharing this fantastic Synclavier and your music, it looks brand new!

  • @Legoflymaster89
    @Legoflymaster89 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wargames and Blue Thunder are my favorite scores of Arthur Rubinstein! You and Brian Banks were masters performing the Synclavier II!!

  • @laynehoward2870
    @laynehoward2870 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When the Synclavier came out, I was 18 or 19. I called them to ask about availability and price. Imagine my shock when the guy told me it was about $62,000.00.
    It was juuuuust a bit out of my price range.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol, imagine that guy answering multiple times the same answer over and over again to random people shocked and hanging up the call.

    • @ericMT
      @ericMT ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was crazy how much the new gear was. I had the same experience but with the Fairlight CMI. It just wasn’t accessible to “normal” people like it is today.

  • @joej7431
    @joej7431 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was working as a broadcast radio tech, the radio station always had movie premiere tickets available, I saw War Games and its always been a favorite movie of mine. I got into electronics because of synths in music and movies and now I 40 years later I can appreciate where the sounds of the sound track came from. I appreciate all Anthony's you tube informative videos! excellent!

  • @rosalindwebb7729
    @rosalindwebb7729 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The sounds and music is wonderful.

  • @jenn8147
    @jenn8147 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So it was you, do you realize you defined my love for electronic music for a life time with your sound track ? THANK YOU !!!

  • @DavidSmith-ne1zp
    @DavidSmith-ne1zp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Anthony! I grew up listening to this music, and now at 60yrs old, Im thrilled to be learning how to play and recreate this music! Vintage synths are so cool!

  • @mateosmusiclist2119
    @mateosmusiclist2119 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anthony, couldn’t agree more on how this can add to our modern music palate. Love your site!

  • @dbroche
    @dbroche ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Be the artist” - best advice of all time 😎

  • @jayceeloop
    @jayceeloop ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I can’t believe you’re behind this iconic song from this iconic 80s movie 🎉 omg so amazing ! Thank you very much for sharing this! ❤

  • @cleekersneaker
    @cleekersneaker ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My heart jumped when Anthony grabbed the floppy out of the drive.

  • @johnnybegood2693
    @johnnybegood2693 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is something amazing you are working on showing to the Next Generation.. 🖖 Thank you!

  • @personalwatching9312
    @personalwatching9312 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Boy these sounds really are so early 80s huh. Come so far in the last 40 years. Crazy to think we could do a hundred times this on our phone now.

    • @pierrenic.7682
      @pierrenic.7682 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But you miss the point..l you can play and edit stuff in your phones … but tried to mix an album with your phones…

    • @personalwatching9312
      @personalwatching9312 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @pierrenic.7682 nah I'm making the point of how far tech has come. A little Luke talking about the computer power they used to send people to the moon. :)

  • @RobbieStrike
    @RobbieStrike 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    History Lesson is one of my favorites. I have it as my ringtone on my phone for years.

  • @curtisunit
    @curtisunit ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really enjoyed the detail you share with us tone dorks. You’re a gem. Today I’m just learning about you by pure chance whilst looking up iconic bass lines. You’ve heard it thousands of times but this is what the tube is all about in the best sense.

  • @JamesMyddelton
    @JamesMyddelton 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fascinating overview, thanks Anthony !

  • @emveeoh
    @emveeoh ปีที่แล้ว +13

    For us audio nerds, it would be fun to hear your experience working with Bruce Swedien. Maybe, share with us some of his techniques that you might have observed? A video where you talk about the studios of the '80s and the '90s would be fun. Thanks again for sharing!

  • @RomainBigeardGuitar
    @RomainBigeardGuitar ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As a big fan of Wargames and all things 80s, this is awesome

  • @rosalindwebb7729
    @rosalindwebb7729 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love old school technology.

    • @oholm09
      @oholm09 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too

  • @paultuffy
    @paultuffy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is pure gold. Thank you Anthony

  • @mwright80
    @mwright80 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude! I remember seeing you in Keyboard Mag. I was stunned when I saw the Synclavier. A producer I knew had one in his tiny apartment. Thanks for showing how durable floppies are!

  • @periurban
    @periurban ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the great pleasure of using a Synclavier at the BBC Studios in Edinburgh back in the 90s. They had a gigantic array of hard disks in a thing the size of a fridge. Each hard disk was 12". At the time I was using an Ensoniq ESQ1 to do the same job, and it was pretty clear that the whole space was moving to computers. But the old hardware was great for the time.

  • @AlmaLibreStudios
    @AlmaLibreStudios ปีที่แล้ว +53

    ​The fact that you remember all that you did, when I can't remember what I programmed yesterday its mind blowing and inspiring!

    • @GlacierSound
      @GlacierSound ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He must have photos or something right???

    • @VarionJimmy
      @VarionJimmy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally agree! 😁

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@GlacierSoundyou do realize how photos were made in the 80’s right?

    • @unduloid
      @unduloid ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JH-lo9ut
      I think they used these things called "cameras."

    • @bentinho
      @bentinho ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@unduloid i mean, he would've had to take the pics. drop them at the lab and wait 2 weeks hoping they turned out 😂

  • @shamusbob7969
    @shamusbob7969 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's so funny. I just saw Wargames back in July and have been fixated ever since. Turns out you uploaded this video right when I saw it. Been looking up BTS footage and interviews. Thanks for making this and talking about one of the best 80s movies providing one of the best scores of the era.

  • @bobsmith3790
    @bobsmith3790 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are really fun to watch, and I appreciate all the knowledge you share. It’s fun to imagine what it was like sitting in a control room making all of this historic music. Thanks for this. It’s a wonderful treasure.

  • @michaelbauers8800
    @michaelbauers8800 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is SO cool! That you still have the disc. And a working Synclavier! I have been watching some of your videos, and they are so great, as I will never own one of these, and it's so great to see what a working musician has done with it. As a child of the 1980s, and a fan of the movie, that was great to. I even ended up working on software in Colorado Springs, home of the Cheyenne Mountain complex, referenced in the movie. I can totally hear the video game influences on this piece of music. Cool video game synth pop.

  • @DarrenSangita
    @DarrenSangita ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wow! Phenomenal insights. Had no idea you contributed to this awesome film. It was very influential in our lifelong computing journey. You had a hand in so many important productions! Thanks for the show.

  • @pijanola
    @pijanola ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really enjoy this channel! 😍. I read that the Score for John Carpenter's Starman was almost entirely made on the Syncavier, sounds programmed by you and Banks. That angel choiry theme made my hair raise, and still do. I would love to hear that made and performed here.

  • @issiewizzie
    @issiewizzie ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I got my first computer after watching that film .... also fancied Ally Sheedy😀

  • @mwnciboo
    @mwnciboo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wargames needs bringing back - either a reboot or follow on.

    • @EmilyKresl
      @EmilyKresl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They already did a reboot but i refuse to watch it.

  • @pierrenic.7682
    @pierrenic.7682 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The interest you mention is still active nowadays with SYNCLAVIER world. I had built these months a psmt Monster with 100 mo and 128 voices. It’s for me like an vintage analog digital workstation with master double converters and analogue vca paths with that sound so pure and large ; the interest to have everything in the same place and brain is crazy… just have to load or save a sequence by rtp/SYNCLAVIER 3 and all sounds are there

  • @fakshen1973
    @fakshen1973 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got into post-production audio in 1994. It was almost the perfect time. It was at the cross-roads of digital vs analog. We were hot-shizzle with 12 channels (mono) of Pro Tools on a Nubus Macintosh. Plus we had an assortment of 2" tape, 1/4" 2 track that could sync, an Adam Smith Synchronizer (I loved that thing)... oh and three ADATs in all their glory and infamy. Locking up three tape-chewing ADATs was like needing 10 seconds of lock-up time just to get everything to play.
    I do miss the amount of technical skill and prowess it took to keep everything in sync and working. I think we had a couple of Sample Cell cards and a copy of Studio Vision Pro running on a different boot drive than Pro Tools. They didn't like to live together on the same system. Man was that crazy.

  • @knaagi
    @knaagi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel the urge to play Galaga - very cool Video!

  • @Rr0gu3_5uture
    @Rr0gu3_5uture ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My uncle took a weekend job as a projectionist when our local cinema reopened in 1982. Whenever a new film came in, I got to help out when he was splicing the 35mm spools together. My reward was a bottle of Coke and popcorn and getting to watch the first screening in the best seats in the empty theatre. War Games holds quite a fond place in my heart as it was one of the first films I saw in a double bill along with Clash of the Titans. I think it was around the same time that I began noticing and loving the punchy, staccato, futuristic sounds of instruments like the Synclavier II, DX7, Oberheim DMX, and TR-808 that were starting to appear in movie soundtracks.

    • @russ254
      @russ254 ปีที่แล้ว

      protectionists are always overshadowed by the more glamorous projectionists - you guys are great!

  • @drewamongstus
    @drewamongstus ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s so cool you still have the disk and everything

  • @yeshello2528
    @yeshello2528 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    synclavier is actually insane. I definitely need to get onto Arturia one

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They are also producing a new hardware model, all handmade by the original creator.

    • @benanderson89
      @benanderson89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@KRAFTWERK2K6woah, what!? Any news about that you can link to?

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@benanderson89 it's called the Synclavier Regen. Some synthesizer testing folks here on youtube have been testing it a few months ago and i think the creator of it has a TH-cam channel too :=)

  • @mechanicjay
    @mechanicjay 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Okay, this great. Love that you're still running with the floppies, and shout out to the old PowerBook as a serial terminal. This is right up my alley -- one thing that's really interesting to me is this transitional time when electronic workflows were in their infancy and the DAW wasn't really a fully baked idea yet.
    I gave a whole demo at a show recently on the proto-DAW that came with the Alpha Syntauri Synth, c. 1982. I keep giving the demo to people, just haven't managed to record it yet.
    Did you ever cross paths with an Alpha Syntarui? I know Herbie Hancock used one for some sounds on the Rock-It album and one was used to generate some sound effects for Tron and Star Trek II.

  • @MarcoStrano-bt6np
    @MarcoStrano-bt6np ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for your great videos. Layering FM and Analog sounds, I will try that here myself.

  • @thesrabbit
    @thesrabbit ปีที่แล้ว

    Huge fan of the movie, music, sounds, video fever, hell yes! Now much later in life I’m a huge synth nerd. This is incredible. Thank you so much for this video and all of your contributions! I’m still livin’ in the shade of a video arcade!

  • @emveeoh
    @emveeoh ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for sharing these videos with us Anthony! Hearing this song from War Games affected me more than hearing the Thriller stuff. I never knew your name before doing these videos, but now I realize you pretty much defined my learning years with your sounds. 🎉

  • @jennoscura2381
    @jennoscura2381 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool. I use an Arturia KeyStep Pro for sequencing via MIDI. So it's not uncommon for me to have just one track in the DAW that has my vintage drum machines, Yamaha FB-01 for bass, and something for a lead. The audio runs into a 24 channel console. So it's all mixed before it's recorded. The KSP only has 4 tracks on it. So if I need more I can have say the bass and drums as a single track in Reaper. The KSP can sync with the DAW. so any additional sequences will be in time with whats already recorded. Thanks to the backwards compatibility of MIDI I can use my KSP from 2021 to sequence and arpeggiiate my drum machines and synths from the 80s. I love the hybrid workflow of old school and moderm.

  • @lmoore3rd
    @lmoore3rd ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As soon as I heard that opening riff from War Games my mind went back in time to my early childhood in the 80's watching it on VHS. Great memories.

  • @FLH3official
    @FLH3official ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting. In the next episode I would like to see the sound programing in the synclavier, how it's different from a DX for instance.
    And also all the details about the hardware. Not just the sequencing side.

  • @ooxx1xxoo927
    @ooxx1xxoo927 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic! Anthony thanks so much for sharing this, it's the soundtrack to my youth. My mind is blown!
    I'd love to hear about History Lesson, and how you created the patches. That track is my fave ❤

  • @MPDLR
    @MPDLR 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The music and soundtrack were and are awesome BUT the sound effects----man, iconic and so memorable to this day.

  • @CrankyOldNerd
    @CrankyOldNerd ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great stuff. Thank you for sharing, movie was a big reason I fell in love with computers so early in life which paid off career wise for me.

  • @ischmidt
    @ischmidt ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Amazing. I watched WarGames so many times on VHS in the 80s, and those sounds were a huge part of making the movie feel right.

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +2

      VHS: Very Horrible System!

    • @russ254
      @russ254 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@lundsweden VHS was great when the alternative was nothing at all (yes, I know about betamax). It made possible the pron industry, and you could record the Dukes of Hazzard and rewatch it as many times as you like.

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@russ254 True, I remember when VHS became popular in the 80s, I thought it was so cool, and a lot of my pocket money went to buying blank tapes. VHS was still viable until the early 2000s, but then DVD, TVRs and Web based video kinda took over. I got rid of my tapes around 2006, gave them all to a neighbour!

  • @naneek2
    @naneek2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is fantastic, I'm subscribed and looking forward to seeing and hearing more. this was very informative. I just started using a yamaha sy99 fm synthesizer and need to integrate the diskettes back into my workflow haha. I grew up in the early 90s so I haven't used diskettes in years.
    It's also very cool to see the synclavier still working perfectly and sounding great.

  • @wttw4942
    @wttw4942 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work! The sounds are perfectly in tune with the concept of the production. Thank you for sharing this video! Synclavier programing architecture was a lot more complex than the DX7. But same type of concept. It was a big deal during the '80 . But everything evolved and other instruments like the ENSONIQ SQ80 enter the game and offered kind of the same type of features like an 8 track sequencer and an easier to deal with programer. It also had a built in floppy drive and something called MIDI SYNC in/out that you can use as some sort of a time code to synchronize stuff together, even tape recorders. It was less precise as the standard SMPTE code. In general terms It was a lot less complex than the Synclavier system. And it sounded beefy too. Synclavier sounds got its own character. I like it but honestly I personally prefer the FM power that the TX-816 offers. But definitely Synclavier was like the Rolls Royce of the keyboards industry of its era. Not everybody could afford to own one. Eventually it came with the sampling option that allows you to record direct to disk digital audio. They were around $200.00.00 per unit, "full loaded". Some artists like MJ used two of them on stage. You can heard the one with sampling option in the Manhattan Transfer "Brasil" record. I believe the entire record was done in a Synclavier. Thank you again Mr. Marinelli for this video. Pretty interesting. Cheers!

  • @TridentCapital
    @TridentCapital ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When he put the floppy disk in, I was expecting the computer to read back "Would you like to play a game?"

  • @Charlottesville798
    @Charlottesville798 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for one of the soundtracks that modelled my career..... peace & Love...!

  • @Rhythmicons
    @Rhythmicons ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I've watched that movie a lot over the years.

  • @Wizardofgosz
    @Wizardofgosz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did you do the Library sequence too when Broderick was doing the research on Falken? I love the music in that part.

    • @EmilyKresl
      @EmilyKresl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes that song is called "History Lesson" and it lives in my head rent free.

  • @cleekersneaker
    @cleekersneaker ปีที่แล้ว

    My vote is for a breakdown of how the "explosion" sound was generated on the Synclavier

  • @cortical1
    @cortical1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such an important movie in my own personal development as a kid in the early 80s! Really enjoying the channel, Anthony. Thanks and keep 'em coming! Cheers from San Diego. 🌊

  • @QQIQ24170
    @QQIQ24170 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this! This makes me smile. Keep up the great work. Also can we ask questions?

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW i had no idea a NED Synclavier 2 was used for this movie. I did hear its sounds a lot in "Blue Thunder", "Starman", "Buckaroo Banzaii" and especially "Flight of the Navigator". SOOO amazing to see the talent behind the sound of War Games :D I really thought there would have been one of Yamaha's early commercial FM Synths like the DX1 and little bit of sampling (not sure if the Synclavier 2 already had that feature that was later added to compete with the Fairlight CMI). So awesome you still have the original 5 ¼ Inch Data Floppies :D Good to hear all of them still work. Speaks for how well you kept them and also kept your floppydrive clean and well maintained. Thank god you do redundancy backups. Did the Synclavier 2 have dedicated outputs for each track or was it all one combined signal? Always loved the snowflake sound with that glassy attack and breathy noise decay :) SOOOO cool to hear all those sounds on their own!!! The sounds you created on this machine, as well as the whole vibe and feeling, REALLY captured the whole atmosphere of early Videogames and homecomputers really really well. This is also why the soundtrack works SOOO fantastic with the movie itself. I would love to see the Soundtrack of War Games getting a re-issue. Original mix preferred or at least remixed in a way that it's like the original mix. Really baffles me how many voices the Synclavier 2 has when it plays all tracks at once. It's like multiple Synths in one Device. FM really sounds amazing on this machine. I think it really is the way it is mixed internally with all tracks that really makes such a big difference.

  • @PorchBass
    @PorchBass ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely to see.

  • @dafunkycanuck
    @dafunkycanuck ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! You worked on WarGames too? I'm amazed at how those floppies have held up. I love the 8-bit character of the song. Was that done by design or rather a feature of the synclavier? Very inspiring advice at the end too. Thanks.

  • @mathumphreys
    @mathumphreys ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's true, I used to program a whole nights performance (40 songs) for my cover band in the early 90s and it felt so much more direct and connected than what I do now with my DAW.

  • @torbjornandersson5997
    @torbjornandersson5997 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doctor Click! You have a Garfield Doctor Click! Wow!

  • @andrewbonica
    @andrewbonica ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my favorite movies and soundtracks! Thank you for making the soundtrack as well as this video! ☺️🙏🎹🎵🎶

  • @KingMJForeverAndEver
    @KingMJForeverAndEver ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So cool ✨✨✨

  • @trashyraccoon2615
    @trashyraccoon2615 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Thanks for the encouragement and ideas. I’m creating music for my own documentary about the 1980s, so will try some of these techniques. Also today I learned it’s not pronounced “sin CLAV ee AY” lol

  • @paulschilling2996
    @paulschilling2996 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love it 🤩 Have seen this movie so many times. I included my take on two of your WarGames sounds in my factory bank for the Regen, as a tribute to your Synclavier work (Principal’s Office Echo and New Grade Lead) 🙏

    • @paulschilling2996
      @paulschilling2996 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/yBPC_4lgndk/w-d-xo.html

    • @Bent6
      @Bent6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Paul - I'm really digging your patches in the Regen (really enjoyed your patches in the Sync V too!). They're serving as a great tutorial for me to build my chops up! Thanks!

    • @paulschilling2996
      @paulschilling2996 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here is my “New Grade” lead for the Regen th-cam.com/video/yBPC_4lgndk/w-d-xo.htmlm43s

  • @robertholtz
    @robertholtz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thoroughly love your channel. So much of your work is a big part of the soundtrack of my life. Thank you for your generosity, not just in allowing us to relive these good memories by hearing these sounds again, but also sharing their rich histories and backstories. You’re adding a whole new dimension to these works and giving the world a new appreciation for them. War Games is especially close to my heart and this track in particular is etched strongly in my soul. I’m thrilled to learn you were behind its creation. Is there any way I can buy the full track? Does that exist in any form of recording I could obtain just for private use as a listener? In any case, thank you so much for your talent and your art; then, now, and into the future. Cheers.

    • @anthonymarinellimusic
      @anthonymarinellimusic  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Robert, thank you for your kind words. I appreciate your support and contribution to the channel. It means a lot to me. I don’t know at the moment about getting individual tracks from films but my team has been looking into it. If We do find a way you’ll find out on the channel. I would like to have them too. Nice to meet you and best luck in your endeavors! Stay in touch.

    • @robertholtz
      @robertholtz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonymarinellimusic Nice to meet you too, Anthony. My genuine pleasure. Thank you for the thoughtful response. Be assured, I’m subscribed and will be tuned in to your future developments for sure, especially for any merch or special media. If I can ever be of any aid to you or your team specifically (not sure if you know my background) please do not hesitate to reach out any time. Nothing would make me happier than to help you achieve your next steps in any way I can.

  • @blkrbbt
    @blkrbbt ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love if you would stream a session of you composing in the way you described at the end.

  • @gsprings43
    @gsprings43 ปีที่แล้ว

    back then ,,,,,,,,,very,,,,very few people had access to this kid of tech,,,,amazing what a tiny sd card today can hold compared to that much bigger floppy

  • @flowmaka
    @flowmaka ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not only is the guy responsible for War Games but so much responsible for the great sounds and programs of Michael’s synth sounds! Amazing dude!

  • @Myoldnameiscringy
    @Myoldnameiscringy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anthony, I've been trying to recreate "History Lesson" in VCV rack for a while now. To me, that is the sound of concentration and hard work. It is what motivates me to go to work and do the best job I can in whatever I'm doing. I would appreciate any tips you could give in how to recreate some of those sounds & tambors in VCV/Modular/Euro Rack. The only thing I can figure out is that there is an envelope which closes the filter on the pluck-y 16th note sequence...or is it an 8th note sequence with a clock-sync'd delay?...either way.

  • @MaxFury_Official
    @MaxFury_Official ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love FM! But i doubt i would like to program a real DX7. I like this channel a lot! Alltho i don't even own a "real synth". I have a Access Virus TI. Not sure if it counts. Probably not

  • @theokingshango
    @theokingshango ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just your appearance brings us back to 1983🤣

  • @saardean4481
    @saardean4481 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Shall we play a game?..."

  • @swanofnutella4734
    @swanofnutella4734 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was you??!!! Sweet. History lesson is so killer. The ultimate 'figuring out a mystery' montage song.
    Didn't George Michael use a Synclavier for 'Faith'?

  • @Tommygotbeats
    @Tommygotbeats ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are so detailed and inspiring thanks

  • @vulvaether5169
    @vulvaether5169 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a legend! Thank you for the great content.

  • @spincitynyc809
    @spincitynyc809 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His studio reminds me of a mix between Fueris Bueller and Wargames bedrooms. The bedroom of my dreams in the 80's.

    • @EmilyKresl
      @EmilyKresl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ferris having a sweet computer setup was definitely John Hughes giving a nod to wargames!!! "I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?"

  • @dfglojkg
    @dfglojkg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gosh it sounds tinny in retrospect. But the 5.5 inch floppies still hold up (much better than the crappy HDs of recent times). And the aesthetics/construction quality of the Synclavier II still stands. 'Reminds me of the Arturia Polybrute with its coca bolo wooden casing and its ribbon controller. Plus, the Arty has that raised pad with smooth wooden overlay that does like E-mu style Morpheus Z Plane stuff.
    'Notice it looks like you have a substantial rack of Erica Synths modules at the upper left. I've been thinking about why since maybe 2K15 it has been almost impossible to find anything in Eurorack or elsewhere that does Oberheim style matrix modulation. What about the Polybrute's Matrix vs. that of the Syntrix - or better yet - Erica's stand alone desktop matrix with like 512 digital patchpoints? Have you and Rob Rosen conferred with Tom Oberheim on this in recent years? Has there been much user base or industry pressure on Tom to build new SEM-style Euroracks or (given the OBX-8) an updated Matrix 12?

  • @mjsschad3776
    @mjsschad3776 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing all this priceless information! Amazing knowledge you have and you describe it perfectly

  • @DarkSideofSynth
    @DarkSideofSynth ปีที่แล้ว

    Pure gold!
    Shall we play a game?

  • @thirstyCactus
    @thirstyCactus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an amazing / beautiful machine. It must have been such a charge working with the Synclavier when it was the apex of synth tech. I feel that the 80's were the golden age of synthesizers, in terms of innovation (and lust). Thanks for sharing your stories and knowledge!

  • @ThomasKrueger
    @ThomasKrueger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I waites 40 years for this video 😂

  • @NullStaticVoid
    @NullStaticVoid ปีที่แล้ว

    Man you gotta get that floppy drive switched out for an SD card or USB reader.
    Floppy drives and floppies are all slowly deteriorating.
    Those may be reliable now, but magnetic media is just rust glued to a substrate. And the read head can turn into an erase head if the control board errors out.

  • @ssommerfeld
    @ssommerfeld ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is amazing. Keep up the videos and track breakdowns. Totally remember this movie. Thank you!

  • @TheRyanKirk
    @TheRyanKirk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Aside from everything else, what a lesson on maintaining your instruments, data, and backups.

  • @danfuerthgillis4483
    @danfuerthgillis4483 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Showing this to someone in 2024 "You mean you have to use your hands? That's for babies"
    Back then you had to learn everything about the machine in order to maximize what you could do with it, there was no google to half learn it.

  • @whollenbeck8
    @whollenbeck8 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're amazing.

  • @EmilyKresl
    @EmilyKresl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've never been so happy to see a floppy disc so hard before! I could watch another hour of you simply breaking down the history lesson song and maybe give us a little taste of the lyrics that were originally for the tune but were taken out. I had no idea you were the beepers! I love you guys!!! I've been that one person listening to the wargames soundtrack for the last decade on TH-cam.

  • @bradfordkeithmadison953
    @bradfordkeithmadison953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh how my heart leapt at seeing the floppy disk in use!!! And once again… FAR 2:14 more than just a “how to”!!! FAVORITE SHOW ANYWHERE!!! Now I’m inspired to go try resurrecting my E II and QX1 and see if I gear to hear that beautiful sound of loading floppies again!!!

  • @nkogliaz
    @nkogliaz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Beepers! Wow it's great to see this video, I loved the movie Wargames, it was the very first film I ever owned as a child on VHS back then (the second one being the Disney movie, 'Flight Of The Navigator', another film with incredible synth work!), I now own the film on VHS, DVD and Laser Disc, the soundtrack for it was so impactful on me as a child, and the songs by The Beepers had a huge influence on me on my early life obsession with music and specifically, synthesizers, when the synclavier hit the scene back then, I feel like it totally changed scoring and pop music (the EMU-Systems Emulator / Emulator II also!), it was such a powerful platform and literally tons of people were trying to get their hands on them (honorary shoutout to the Fairlight CMI also!), I'd read soo much about the production of this film over the years since the advent of the Internet, and so many things have fascinated the hell out of me about it, like Joshuas voice was actually recorded backwards and then cut up and sequenced to give it that really quirky monophonic quality to the sound of it, it is so cool now with the Internet that we can go back and reexamine films and music now with much more access to information now in 2023, it was much harder to obtain back then before the Net and it has changed so much about every aspect of life, I would have loved to have been able to read more about this film when I was a kid, turns out I only had to wait over three decades to get more insight on it, better late than never, haha!
    Thank you much for this video, it's awesome to see the sequences on the synclavier (I have become a total synth nerd / musician myself along the way), and hear the sounds on the actual hardware once again, I searched high and low for the Wargames OST and finally recentlly, acquired a copy of it, and it's been an absolute pleasure to go down that wormhole again, big respect to you Anthony, and thank you very much for the tunes!

  • @VIRGOLEGACY
    @VIRGOLEGACY ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man I’m so glad I discovered this channel and it’s good to hear anybody talk about the score for Wargames 👏🏾👏🏾

  • @Behnan
    @Behnan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i bet the baseline of smooth criminal was created on the sequencer of that beast

    • @anthonymarinellimusic
      @anthonymarinellimusic  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Coming soon ………

    • @FredF78
      @FredF78 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually just listened to the album version of Video Fever and the bass sounds more like a Moog to my ears. Would like more info on that. Perhaps this video shows a demo version, a draft sort of?

    • @Behnan
      @Behnan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonymarinellimusic 😵that will kill the internet🤣💥 plleeeaasse don't let us wait too long for that one....a dream would come true, finally

    • @bronxcartel6193
      @bronxcartel6193 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonymarinellimusic 🙏

    • @ZeconMusicUK
      @ZeconMusicUK ปีที่แล้ว

      The bass on ‘Smooth Criminal’ is comprised of four layers. All sample sounds in the Synclavier. Three of them are stock sounds from the factory sample library (two of them with chorus applied), the final one is a manipulated steinway piano sample.