I find Shazaming a Windows OS midi song that was re-recorded on vinyl playing on a modern record player the most ammusing thing lol. Truely a testament to technology
@@cubedtothex Yeah, we all time-travel in one direction at the same rate. You know what I meant, seeing the future before you're supposed to then wanting to go back to your own time.
As a audio nerd I can't describe how weird it is to be completely happy that a midi track is pressed to vinyl. I'm glad this video exists and by extention you, Nick, for making this video. I want this vinyl sm. Also shoutout to Hover, the strangest game I spent many hours playing as a kid.
as a brian eno fanatic hearing his name sent shivers down my spine, did not know he made the boot up sound Eno is incredibly underrated and it’s amazing hearing that he’s the same guy who’s made some of the most iconic sounds of Windows
Hah, I didn't know someone still didn't know The Microsoft Sound was composed by Brian Eno. Hefty irony comes in the fact that while The Microsoft Sound represented exactly all the adjectives that were specified in the ordering contract, and also other sounds and generally the design guidelines overall on Windows operating systems followed them till into XP, after it began the steep downhill worsening on release after release, and since 7 at least (don't remember about Vista due to little experience) *all the sounds are awfully depression-inducing.*
@@tokumei99 this was a year ago i wasn't really that smart then joking of course, but in the 2020's he's not really as known as he was (and underrated doesn't necessarily mean unpopular)
I'm so glad this record has made it into the hands of a truly worthy collector! For a while I was pursuing a legit pressing of this, because there was a lot of interest. I was concerned about legal action from Microsoft, so I contacted their licensing department to make it official. However, they said they do not license any of their sounds, so I opted not to do the pressing. :( Thank you for this video and for linking to the post where folks can make one for themselves 🙌
I actually expected this to be official merch. There was so much random Windows 95 merch for that product launch. I remember Borders Books even sold "Windows 95 Blend" coffee at their cafe.
I seem to remember MS hiring 90s alternative/grunge bands to do promo spots for it (implied Seattle connection) but can't find these. It was a weird time.... all of American business was prepared to surrender to conquering Gates the Barbarian
Wondering why the power bill is so high then rembering you left the table turned on when you weren't using it Also just hiding the plug would be kinda annoying and would limit where you can have it placed Still want one though lol
Never knew the pinball game had a soundtrack until now, the one I played only ever had sound effects. Sounds a bit like the soundtrack to a dungeon level in a videogame lol
It has music, sound effects, or both. I don't remember what the button is / was to toggle through the different sound modes? But it's probable that you hit it at some point and accidentally turned off music and never knew lol
@@avena5919 I've never preferred analog and never will, but then again I've been working as a mixing/production technician for 15+ years so I supposed I'm biased toward quality rather than plastic waste
3:56 I also listened to all the default windows sounds I constantly tweaked them and downloaded alternatives from AOL. The most memorable was changing the Recycle Bin into a toilet that made a flushing sound when emptied.
Yeah that Windows 95 OST isn't complete without two other songs that came with the CD version. Those two are Weezer’s Buddy Holly, and Edie Brickell’s “Good Times.” They were included to demonstrate the Window's Media Player.
The smooth jazz in the background, the glass of wine I’m drinking while watching this….. it all just feels so classy. Thanks for the lovely evening, Nick. 😄
I love stuff like this. The vinyl and the table. "Hey we have some of the greatest technology to ever exist that make carefully controlled, precise, delicate movements controlled by robots running on sophisticated software. What do we do with it?" "Ball rolling through sand!" "We can perfectly preserve music and sounds now." "Cool, lets stick a bunch of digitized music onto an analog vinyl medium." And I'm being serious here. Like when people use sophisticated computer technology to make a device that runs as fast and smooth as something of today and stick it in the body of an old graphing calculator. Just to have a device that looks like an ancient thing but has orders of magnitude more functions. Or using an emulators screen filter to perfectly recreate on your HD 10 billion pixel lcd monitor the look and feel of a tv from 30 to 40 years ago.
I've heard that VHS video looks better on the old CRT screens than on modern flat LCDs. That's why I keep a 30-year-old TV in operation. Why emulate when the real thing still works.
@@R3TR0R4V3 why? It's a cheap record player for people that don't listen often. I have vintage turntables that run more tracking force then even the crappiest crosly. You should see how rough an old gramophone is on records 😂😂 ounces of tracking force on mine.
@@jeromeglick do they really though? Have any studies been done on that? Is there vinyl dust on the crosly when you're done? I have records that are well over 30 years old been played hundreds of thousands of times and they still sound great. It's actually pretty hard to wear out a record.
Hey, the process of sound design for user interface elements is no joke. The Brian Eno story is pretty cool, I think the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast went into it at some point.
I did like that quirky time when it was just impressive that a computer could make a noise at all, so you just got a whoooooole mess of sounds to use to apply to any interaction. Now they're all these subtle clicks and pops if anything at all. We're definitely in the era of UX brutalism. I'd even take frutiger aero over what we have now, although i didn't really like the kinda harsh "glassy" sounds of a lot of those effects from that era.
04:31 CORRECTION: As indicated on the vinyl cover itself - these features were available after installing Windows PLUS! which was a Windows add-on, sorta multimedia/fun package.
kunaki is fucking awesome fr, as long as you can get behind the low print quality of the vinyl just for the novelty of having your own custom vinyl then they are the best option.
what many people don't know is that the Windows Vista soundtrack was made by Robert Fripp who first invented a thing called Frippertronics in the 80s (basically a delay with a very long decay time, he used a tape looper at the time), and in th early 2000s he was doing a advanced version of Frippertronics called Soundscraping. Also Fripp and Eno made an album together called No Pussyfooting. Also that vinyl isn't yet on discogs afaik, maybe you could add it? (after you talked about it I think I know why it's not added yet, altough discogs lists bootlegs too)
The year is 2034, somewhere in the world a dad puts a vinyl record in his record player: “The Complete Sounds of Windows 95” His son: “Dad what are you listening to?” Dad: “The music of my childhood”
4:31 um ackshually (lol) Hover and Pinball didn't come preinstalled with Win95. Hover was on the Companion CD (that also had music videos for Weezer - Buddy Holly, and Edie Brickell - Good Times). Pinball would have (I believe) been included in the "Microsoft PLUS! 95" pack that also included a bunch of custom themes (complete with cursors, sounds, wallpapers, and screensavers) Thanks for coming to my TED talk 😂 5:11 oh no, that "nice sound" is the startup theme 5:27 isn't exporting from Movie Maker, it's the "shutdown" theme Fuck, I'm old... Come children, gather 'round and let me tell you about the days of 90's computing and before...
I love you. I can't express how nerdy and cool and passionate and knowledgeable of a person you are. I would kill to have a friend like you. I've never experienced this kind of connection with someone who cares about utterly useless and silly things like I do. Truly this is a transcendental experience. Thank you. Thank you for even sharing this silly piece of your personal collection.
2:43 wait till you find out they hired Robert Fripp, guitarist of King Crimson to make windows vista sounds , there's even some footage of them working on it!
This video was full of amazing stuff. I also leaned 3 new things an remember hearing that pinball song forget it because it never played past 2000. Definitely a gem of a video
3D Pinball Space Cadet has been patched to work on 32 & 64-bit versions of Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. More info is on groovypost I'm running it on 7-64 with no issues.
5:24 Ding.wav, Tada.wav, and some other system sounds are actually from Windows 3.1 and were simply included again with Win95. The "Plus!" add-on came out in 1996 and was mainly a bunch of desktop themes with crap SFX replacements and horrible mouse cursors. However Plus did have some system enhancements (mainly PowerToys options, I think) which made it worth it.
I worked with the guy that made the original xbox360 ui noises, like the blades wooshing etc. I still can't get over it. I remember wooshing the blades back and forth as fast as possible for fun. When I first got it all I had was that and Hexic 😆
Brian Eno has talked in great detail about the process of writing such a short song and how he broke down the 3 and a half seconds into equivalent beat and bars by ratios. Also it is soo good to see Clouds! Clouds was a song from a Easter Egg. It was composed by then Software intern Brian Orr. Brian Orr is now a very successful engineer and has been doing for Sony for some time. I actually did a cover of clouds.
As much as I enjoy the old OPL FM synth sound, Canyon.mid and Passport.mid on something like a SC-55 was truly incredible to hear. Sample based MIDI hardware and sound cards like the AWE32 were widely available and affordable during the Windows 95 era. I personally had an XP-50 in 1995 and it made every MIDI file that came with Windows sound like a high production studio recording.
"sounds that you remember" vs best state-of-the-art at the time. it's also weird (as a genXer) to see rare vinyl played on what seems like a modern take on a fisher-price record player.
i am not a 9s kid im bearly a 2000's kids. but that fact that this exist and that theres is someone out there who love it as much as you and I makes the world so much better
6:15 is the only reason I scrolled back up to watch this. Fucking nostalgia as a kid accidentally finding this while snooping around the Windows folder trying to figure out what files I needed to swap between my 98/ME pc and my parents xp pc to get the XP look. I found too much 0.0 became a nerd
Thanks for the video. I remember it well. There were actually people who said they could use it to install Win 95 on their PCs. Not a lie. I worked as an admin, they really asked me about it.
Hey if u add 1 in 95 in the “windows 95” you’ll find a vaporwave artist I really recommend their “the enchanted instrumentals and whispers” album it’s very good 👍🏼
George Stone (born January 19, 1965) is a musician and educator. He had composed and arranged music for instrumental and vocal ensembles, with the bulk of his material for the big band format. He is best known for his 1990 MIDI composition "Canyon".
When you talked about hearing sonic spinball on vinyl, and then said you hadn't played it yet, I laughed.. and then when I saw that turntable with built in speaker, I laughed even harder. Trust me, any sound coming out of that is not what vinyl can sound like.
I always saw that table on those websites that sell “cool and unique” modern stuff that you never know if it’s gonna be a scam. Cool to know that it’s actually real!
"I didn't have a lot of games, so I'd listen to those for fun" - this hit home for me... we didn't have internet as it was considered a luxury in the mid-90s in my country, so as a past time, I would either browse through File Explorer, paint in MS Paint, play with fonts on Microsoft Word and most of all, wait every month for the demo CD that came with the only PC magazine my local store used to sell and install every video game demo and bloatware the CD came with, cause I couldn't really read or speak English back then haha
Also, this whole soundtrack was sampled from the AdLib sound card which had the Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2) FM synthesizer chip on it, when most of us had the more affordable SoundBlaster cards back in the day which only produced GM sounds, thus sounding much much thinner
Also Canyon was produced by non other than George Stone of Passport designs. Passport designs was an early creator of music production software. They were releasing multi track recording software long before we were all using Cubase or Protools. Also keep in mind Midi was a relatively new protocol then (we still heavily use it today in the music industry) and being able to show off your composition in a new technology on a flag ship operating system was quite the music geek flex.
I saw the title and had to watch. I thought that maybe this was some kind of fun troll and it turned out that someone actually made this, and people apparently bought these vinyls. Anyway, not disappointed at all. This was bizarre and enjoyable. Still surprised that vinyls of Windows 95 sounds existed, and more surprised that people bought those.
Whoa, I saw this in my subscriptions, and when I came back to watch it, I was so surprised to see you pop up on screen... I hadn't looked at who posted the video, I just assumed it was LGR! You had the jazz music and everything!
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If I could pinpoint one person in the entire world who would own a vinyl of the Microsoft Windows 95 OST, it would definitely be Nick Robinson.
or Clint Basinger/LGR
Most definitely
mattkc
Nah I didn't expect this tbh, I would've thought someone like LGR
Or Michael MJD, LGR is a bit more old school.
I find Shazaming a Windows OS midi song that was re-recorded on vinyl playing on a modern record player the most ammusing thing lol. Truely a testament to technology
Shazaming it on a smart watch no less
Imagine some kid from 1995 time-traveling to 2022 to witness this craziness...
@@jeromeglick Hi there. I’m a kid from 1995, I just time travelled to 2022 at a rate of 365 days per year, sometimes 366 😂
@@cubedtothex Yeah, we all time-travel in one direction at the same rate. You know what I meant, seeing the future before you're supposed to then wanting to go back to your own time.
Wasn't passport.mid also the background track to Theme Hospital?
As a audio nerd I can't describe how weird it is to be completely happy that a midi track is pressed to vinyl. I'm glad this video exists and by extention you, Nick, for making this video. I want this vinyl sm.
Also shoutout to Hover, the strangest game I spent many hours playing as a kid.
@Don't read profile photo why do you keep posting “Don’t read my name” in the replies?
@@avena5919 its a bot
Can confirm. I own the Old School RuneScape sound track on vinyl. It's bizarre but great to hear MIDI sound fonts on vinyl hahah.
Same
@@Trevz Well, email TH-cam to stop it then!
I am going crazy for the table
sadly you would immediately shatter it
How does Sr Pelo have only 1 reply and 9 likes???
We all are, buddy
Oh hi pelo!
I wonder if I can even get it here in LATAM
This feels like it would be a great collaboration with LGR.
a collab we absolutely need
And he could tell you exactly what sound chip was used to play it too
Techmoan
Right down to the jazz music!
I could 100% hear "Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing" in my head during the intro lol
the vinyl we never knew we wanted, but needed
I didn’t even knew this existed!
I think „never knew I wanted, but I needed“ is a good summary of this channel’s concept!
@Don't read profile photo You again!?!
YESSS and is that a gorillaz fan i see :0
If you like owning MIDIs on vinyl, I highly recommend the Runescape Original Soundtrack Classics album.
Yep
Same
@Don't read profile photo ok
@Don't read profile photo i won’t
Wtf why does it cost like 200 dollars.
Based RuneScape enjoyer
Also whattup fiji
What you REALLY need in that collection is the “Michaelsoft Binbows” soundtrack...😊
as a brian eno fanatic hearing his name sent shivers down my spine, did not know he made the boot up sound
Eno is incredibly underrated and it’s amazing hearing that he’s the same guy who’s made some of the most iconic sounds of Windows
Hah, I didn't know someone still didn't know The Microsoft Sound was composed by Brian Eno. Hefty irony comes in the fact that while The Microsoft Sound represented exactly all the adjectives that were specified in the ordering contract, and also other sounds and generally the design guidelines overall on Windows operating systems followed them till into XP, after it began the steep downhill worsening on release after release, and since 7 at least (don't remember about Vista due to little experience) *all the sounds are awfully depression-inducing.*
And guess what? He made it on a Mac!
@@PhillipRaymondGoodman beautiful irony
Underrated?? Lol he’s one of the most famous musicians on earth
@@tokumei99 this was a year ago
i wasn't really that smart then
joking of course, but in the 2020's he's not really as known as he was (and underrated doesn't necessarily mean unpopular)
This is a work of art. Finally, this is what we’ve needed.
yes
I do food videos while high af on my TH-cam channel. I’m more raw & authentic than most on here ☝️
you from opposite land?
I'm so glad this record has made it into the hands of a truly worthy collector!
For a while I was pursuing a legit pressing of this, because there was a lot of interest. I was concerned about legal action from Microsoft, so I contacted their licensing department to make it official. However, they said they do not license any of their sounds, so I opted not to do the pressing. :(
Thank you for this video and for linking to the post where folks can make one for themselves 🙌
@@RyanMercer you can dude lmfao
"worthy" >proceeds to play records on a Victrola
@@vitalik38815 exactly
How much does it cost to make one like nick?
@@TheSgtCyrus If I remember correctly it comes out to $40ish with shipping in the US
I definitely recommend the record Now Thats What I Call Midi - a bunch of 90s classic songs in midi format pressed onto vinyl.
Takes me back to the SimCity 2000 soundtrack. That was surprisingly influential to my musical tastes.
simcity 2000 was a great game with an even greater soundtrack!!!!
@@TimeMovie93150 Getting nostalgia vibes?
Theme Hospital used these midis right ? passport and possibly canyon?
I actually expected this to be official merch. There was so much random Windows 95 merch for that product launch. I remember Borders Books even sold "Windows 95 Blend" coffee at their cafe.
I seem to remember MS hiring 90s alternative/grunge bands to do promo spots for it (implied Seattle connection) but can't find these. It was a weird time.... all of American business was prepared to surrender to conquering Gates the Barbarian
they still do random merch, Windows 11 had it's own ice cream
@@waynehough13were can I get the windows 11 ice cream?
And I believe it significantly contributed to the vaporwave aesthetic...
not gonna lie, that table probably uses an unreasonable amount of power for being a table.
I want one.
Wondering why the power bill is so high then rembering you left the table turned on when you weren't using it
Also just hiding the plug would be kinda annoying and would limit where you can have it placed
Still want one though lol
Not gonna lie, this table makes me want to go get a job.
@@neetscholar4149 Same, I want to get a job and make enough to buy that table
Never knew the pinball game had a soundtrack until now, the one I played only ever had sound effects. Sounds a bit like the soundtrack to a dungeon level in a videogame lol
It has music, sound effects, or both. I don't remember what the button is / was to toggle through the different sound modes? But it's probable that you hit it at some point and accidentally turned off music and never knew lol
@@StormBurnX Which would you prefer today: vinyl or digital?
@@avena5919
I've never preferred analog and never will, but then again I've been working as a mixing/production technician for 15+ years so I supposed I'm biased toward quality rather than plastic waste
@@StormBurnX Well, I respect your opinion. 😊😊😊
3:56 I also listened to all the default windows sounds I constantly tweaked them and downloaded alternatives from AOL. The most memorable was changing the Recycle Bin into a toilet that made a flushing sound when emptied.
Yeah that Windows 95 OST isn't complete without two other songs that came with the CD version. Those two are Weezer’s Buddy Holly, and Edie Brickell’s “Good Times.” They were included to demonstrate the Window's Media Player.
this is so surreal. No-one could have called this going back through the development of EITHER format.
Not even watch the video yet but I know is something extremely niche that he will obsess over. And I am here for it.
it always is
The smooth jazz in the background, the glass of wine I’m drinking while watching this….. it all just feels so classy. Thanks for the lovely evening, Nick. 😄
The Dial-up sound that plays is still truly one of the best out there.
I love stuff like this. The vinyl and the table.
"Hey we have some of the greatest technology to ever exist that make carefully controlled, precise, delicate movements controlled by robots running on sophisticated software. What do we do with it?"
"Ball rolling through sand!"
"We can perfectly preserve music and sounds now."
"Cool, lets stick a bunch of digitized music onto an analog vinyl medium."
And I'm being serious here. Like when people use sophisticated computer technology to make a device that runs as fast and smooth as something of today and stick it in the body of an old graphing calculator. Just to have a device that looks like an ancient thing but has orders of magnitude more functions.
Or using an emulators screen filter to perfectly recreate on your HD 10 billion pixel lcd monitor the look and feel of a tv from 30 to 40 years ago.
I've heard that VHS video looks better on the old CRT screens than on modern flat LCDs. That's why I keep a 30-year-old TV in operation. Why emulate when the real thing still works.
I'm pretty sure it said in the bible "Thou shall not play digitally composed music on an analog player"
No Nirvana? Alice in Chains? Wheezer? I can't play my voyager golden record any more? Piss on that.
And perhaps more importantly, "Thou shall not ever purchase or use Victrola or Crosley "turntables", _ever!_ Amen."
@@R3TR0R4V3 why? It's a cheap record player for people that don't listen often. I have vintage turntables that run more tracking force then even the crappiest crosly. You should see how rough an old gramophone is on records 😂😂 ounces of tracking force on mine.
@@alec4672 Cheap vintage turntables can wear out your records but on the better quality ones you can adjust the tracking force to the proper amount.
@@jeromeglick do they really though? Have any studies been done on that? Is there vinyl dust on the crosly when you're done? I have records that are well over 30 years old been played hundreds of thousands of times and they still sound great. It's actually pretty hard to wear out a record.
Hey, the process of sound design for user interface elements is no joke. The Brian Eno story is pretty cool, I think the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast went into it at some point.
I did like that quirky time when it was just impressive that a computer could make a noise at all, so you just got a whoooooole mess of sounds to use to apply to any interaction. Now they're all these subtle clicks and pops if anything at all. We're definitely in the era of UX brutalism. I'd even take frutiger aero over what we have now, although i didn't really like the kinda harsh "glassy" sounds of a lot of those effects from that era.
Man, that 95 opening jingle. I got chills.
I just ordered one of these for my dad because he loves records, it’s gonna be the best Christmas gift he’ll ever receive
hearing the error sound from a vinyl player sounds like out of nowhere
Turntable is now upgraded to Windows, analog edition.
04:31 CORRECTION: As indicated on the vinyl cover itself - these features were available after installing Windows PLUS! which was a Windows add-on, sorta multimedia/fun package.
I'm glad there are still innovators in the table industry
Omg the sonic spinball and windows 95 music takes me back!!! Love it.
kunaki is fucking awesome fr, as long as you can get behind the low print quality of the vinyl just for the novelty of having your own custom vinyl then they are the best option.
Your obsessions are capturing my attention deeply. It's so fun knowing your interest through this videos
the more videos like this that are made the more money I'll be spending
Fun fact: Hover still works on Windows 11, you can just open it up from the Windows 95 CD-ROM and it'll just work.
I need to buy this now, I have so many regular vinyls, but love buying weird vinyls once in a while.
If you find it somewhere let me know
@@HEX_17 nvm, he said it in the video
@braingazer... go cry about it
@braingazer... “im giving you free education” 🤓
what many people don't know is that the Windows Vista soundtrack was made by Robert Fripp who first invented a thing called Frippertronics in the 80s (basically a delay with a very long decay time, he used a tape looper at the time), and in th early 2000s he was doing a advanced version of Frippertronics called Soundscraping.
Also Fripp and Eno made an album together called No Pussyfooting.
Also that vinyl isn't yet on discogs afaik, maybe you could add it? (after you talked about it I think I know why it's not added yet, altough discogs lists bootlegs too)
I didn’t know I needed this in my collection until now
Better go buy it then!
@@avena5919 you can’t!
@@HEX_17 Why?
@@avena5919 like you cant buy it retail anywhere you have to custom order it from kunaki
@@HEX_17 ohh… I did not think of that.
This is definitely something LGR would own.
I think he does :P
as a person who's used kunaki its incredibly helpful with getting vinyl of your own music fast and easy, 10/10 reccomend
The year is 2034, somewhere in the world a dad puts a vinyl record in his record player: “The Complete Sounds of Windows 95”
His son: “Dad what are you listening to?”
Dad: “The music of my childhood”
Also that pro max in the background naked screen down on the table legitimately gave me shivers
4:31 um ackshually (lol) Hover and Pinball didn't come preinstalled with Win95. Hover was on the Companion CD (that also had music videos for Weezer - Buddy Holly, and Edie Brickell - Good Times). Pinball would have (I believe) been included in the "Microsoft PLUS! 95" pack that also included a bunch of custom themes (complete with cursors, sounds, wallpapers, and screensavers)
Thanks for coming to my TED talk 😂
5:11 oh no, that "nice sound" is the startup theme
5:27 isn't exporting from Movie Maker, it's the "shutdown" theme
Fuck, I'm old... Come children, gather 'round and let me tell you about the days of 90's computing and before...
Hell yeah my eyes were glued to this in your last video and it raised so many questions
The amount of nostalgia this made me feel is absolutely insane
I love you. I can't express how nerdy and cool and passionate and knowledgeable of a person you are. I would kill to have a friend like you. I've never experienced this kind of connection with someone who cares about utterly useless and silly things like I do. Truly this is a transcendental experience. Thank you. Thank you for even sharing this silly piece of your personal collection.
2:43 wait till you find out they hired Robert Fripp, guitarist of King Crimson to make windows vista sounds , there's even some footage of them working on it!
This video was full of amazing stuff. I also leaned 3 new things an remember hearing that pinball song forget it because it never played past 2000. Definitely a gem of a video
3D Pinball Space Cadet has been patched to work on 32 & 64-bit versions of Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. More info is on groovypost I'm running it on 7-64 with no issues.
5:24 Ding.wav, Tada.wav, and some other system sounds are actually from Windows 3.1 and were simply included again with Win95. The "Plus!" add-on came out in 1996 and was mainly a bunch of desktop themes with crap SFX replacements and horrible mouse cursors. However Plus did have some system enhancements (mainly PowerToys options, I think) which made it worth it.
I worked with the guy that made the original xbox360 ui noises, like the blades wooshing etc. I still can't get over it.
I remember wooshing the blades back and forth as fast as possible for fun. When I first got it all I had was that and Hexic 😆
Brian Eno has talked in great detail about the process of writing such a short song and how he broke down the 3 and a half seconds into equivalent beat and bars by ratios. Also it is soo good to see Clouds! Clouds was a song from a Easter Egg. It was composed by then Software intern Brian Orr. Brian Orr is now a very successful engineer and has been doing for Sony for some time. I actually did a cover of clouds.
5:15 WHY IS THE REFLECTION OF THE WINDOWS LOGO SPINNING AT A LOWER FRAMERATE THAN THE VIDEO ITSELF?!!
As much as I enjoy the old OPL FM synth sound, Canyon.mid and Passport.mid on something like a SC-55 was truly incredible to hear. Sample based MIDI hardware and sound cards like the AWE32 were widely available and affordable during the Windows 95 era. I personally had an XP-50 in 1995 and it made every MIDI file that came with Windows sound like a high production studio recording.
"sounds that you remember" vs best state-of-the-art at the time. it's also weird (as a genXer) to see rare vinyl played on what seems like a modern take on a fisher-price record player.
i am not a 9s kid im bearly a 2000's kids. but that fact that this exist and that theres is someone out there who love it as much as you and I makes the world so much better
6:15 is the only reason I scrolled back up to watch this. Fucking nostalgia as a kid accidentally finding this while snooping around the Windows folder trying to figure out what files I needed to swap between my 98/ME pc and my parents xp pc to get the XP look. I found too much 0.0 became a nerd
Thanks for the video. I remember it well. There were actually people who said they could use it to install Win 95 on their PCs. Not a lie. I worked as an admin, they really asked me about it.
i love how nick is talking about a windows vinyl disc, and he's using a macbook through the video.
love ya nick!
this feels like it will be a really good series, cant wait for more!
literally never stick through any youtubers adreads tbh, but that table is so sick. def on my wishlist
Damn Hypnospace Outlaw really replicated this sound perfectly.
Tuning in for the best channel on the site once again, hope its a banger
Edit: is a banger
dood those sisyphus tables one of the coolest things Ive seen in a long time... if only i had disposable income.
I need this in my life.
And it only costs lile $45 including shipping, plus kunaki can do cds, dvdz and blu rays. Truly beautiful
The pinball on Windows XP was where it was lit sounding music
OK but how does this connect to the Michaelsoft Binbows lore?
I don’t know but thank Alf’s Room for bringing us to the meme that became famous!
i love you so much right now for starting this series
3:20 I'd love to hear the unreleased Windows 95 start-up jingles.
same! also nice commander keen icon lol
Hey if u add 1 in 95 in the “windows 95” you’ll find a vaporwave artist I really recommend their “the enchanted instrumentals and whispers” album it’s very good 👍🏼
I was expecting for this to just be cool, wasn’t expecting it to go this hard
I never knew I needed anything as much as I need this
So awesome.
According to MIDIs Wiki, the composer of Canyon.midi and possibly Passport.midi was George Stone.
5:55 I think this sums up the whole soundtrack in a nutshell tbh
I used to search Midi/wav too. It was endless exploration
George Stone (born January 19, 1965) is a musician and educator. He had composed and arranged music for instrumental and vocal ensembles, with the bulk of his material for the big band format. He is best known for his 1990 MIDI composition "Canyon".
i honestly love this ost and it’s the first time i’ve heard it
I now need my own copy of this for Windows 95 and 98. Because Nick Robinson made me want it. You’re the reason bro. Thank you for that throwback 😊🎃
I came for the win95 thing but what makes me really intriguated is the table
The cover art is aesthetically pleasing to look at
haven't seen the video yet but brian eno is a legend
YO! Legboot messaged me directly about this years ago. and now Nick is making a video about it.... internet is wild
The record and the table are amazing.
When you talked about hearing sonic spinball on vinyl, and then said you hadn't played it yet, I laughed.. and then when I saw that turntable with built in speaker, I laughed even harder.
Trust me, any sound coming out of that is not what vinyl can sound like.
This is the vinyl we never knew we needed
But did!
i love the old windows midi files a lot they're really cool secrets
I always saw that table on those websites that sell “cool and unique” modern stuff that you never know if it’s gonna be a scam. Cool to know that it’s actually real!
"I didn't have a lot of games, so I'd listen to those for fun" - this hit home for me... we didn't have internet as it was considered a luxury in the mid-90s in my country, so as a past time, I would either browse through File Explorer, paint in MS Paint, play with fonts on Microsoft Word and most of all, wait every month for the demo CD that came with the only PC magazine my local store used to sell and install every video game demo and bloatware the CD came with, cause I couldn't really read or speak English back then haha
Also, this whole soundtrack was sampled from the AdLib sound card which had the Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2) FM synthesizer chip on it, when most of us had the more affordable SoundBlaster cards back in the day which only produced GM sounds, thus sounding much much thinner
Also Canyon was produced by non other than George Stone of Passport designs. Passport designs was an early creator of music production software. They were releasing multi track recording software long before we were all using Cubase or Protools. Also keep in mind Midi was a relatively new protocol then (we still heavily use it today in the music industry) and being able to show off your composition in a new technology on a flag ship operating system was quite the music geek flex.
Bro what was that jazz at the beginning I need that
Nick's next quest possibility: finding the composer and inspiration for canyon, complete with interview
I saw the title and had to watch. I thought that maybe this was some kind of fun troll and it turned out that someone actually made this, and people apparently bought these vinyls. Anyway, not disappointed at all. This was bizarre and enjoyable. Still surprised that vinyls of Windows 95 sounds existed, and more surprised that people bought those.
7:53 for me it represents the skyline of chicago, new business with multimedia pc in the 90's etc
6:12 Yacht rock feeling for me :) very cool and relaxing in the day.. lol
little bit doogie howser. ?
The composer of "Trip Trough the Grand Canyon" was a gentleman named George Stone.
A Macintosh vinyl would probably be the startup sound and a loop of the "quack!" sound.
can't wait for the next episode nick :)
The ideal gift for a record collector of a certain age.
that story of the startup has to be the silliest thing i've ever heard
Whoa, I saw this in my subscriptions, and when I came back to watch it, I was so surprised to see you pop up on screen... I hadn't looked at who posted the video, I just assumed it was LGR! You had the jazz music and everything!