I feel like I'm the only one who thinks it didn't sound too bad with the FM percussion. Michiru Yamane just knew how to write a perfect soundtrack, and she's my favorite female chiptune composer I've ever listened to. While the FM drum choices may be questionable, what really matters is the music itself. And this game's music is OFF THE HOOK. Enough said. By the way 8-Beats, you did a good job. I really dig this.
Was about to be very sad when I didn’t see Sinking Sanctuary on the tracklist...then I noticed the Bonus Track! My favorite piece of music on the entire game
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this. It was the only Bloodline track, along with Old Sinking Sanctuary, that was played at that live orchestra concert from a few years back. They did wonderful renditions and Michiru showed up right after those tracks.
Love the PCM drums and feel that it could be brought up yet another notch by adding PSG as well. Sort of what it could sound like on the Sega CD using all three soundchips.
A wonderful masterpiece, this whole video. Bravo, well done, thank you! You have made me appreciate the Bloodlines OST even more, which I didn’t think was possible. 500/10 🤘🙌🙇♂️
Only thing missing here for me in the prelude theme a vision of dark secrets This game actually had my favorite ost on Sega and is probably one of those OSTs that got me obsessed with game OSTs along with film OSTs and orchestra genre as a whole.
That's how it should have sounded. I do not know why they wanted to save space by not using DAC samples. I know it was more expensive in those days to add more memory to accommodate more samples of sound, but in older games like the Ninja Turtles (also for Sega) they did use audio drums samples completely.
Especially since there are a bunch of different samples they use for the bosses in the game. Maybe they didn't have enough space to fit the drum samples in the cartridge.
Yeah, unfortunately that is not in the original version of the song. A lot of these have sections not found in the original. You should check iut the Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth version if you haven't already, that one is my favorite
I still prefer the Genesis version of Reincarnated soul, the echo sound effect somehow makes it better. The drums are obviously better but it sounds a little muffled here.
If I knew how to program shit and came up with a remastered version of this game. I would recruit you to do the soundtrack. Damn if it doesn't sound phenomenal!
Both this and the original Bloodlines OST without the PCM Drums sound kick-ass. Just beat this game recently, and almost done Super Castlevania IV - I don't get it. People claim the music and gameplay and graphics are all better on Super IV, but as someone who TYPICALLY prefers the SNES, I wholeheartedly disagree. I really like the darker, grittier and yet cleaner-looking graphics of Bloodlines, the music sounds far more.. Castlevania and less.. whatever the fuck that muffled organ-riddled mess was on Super IV, and I find the gameplay much more challenging and satisfying in Bloodlines. As far as I'm concerned, this game and its music whoop Super IV in the ass. I get the bloodlines songs stuck in my head, and almost all of them pump me right up and make me want to play. Super IV was hard on the eyes, hard on the ears, and too easy to beat. Pretty telling too that they hired the composer for THIS game for Symphony of the Night.
Hi, 8-Beats VGM, I've been hearing your remastered pieces and I've loved them, Great job!! Casually can you remaster the Blade Theme from ETERNAL CHAMPIONS, please? THANK YOU, Greetings from Mexico!!! :D
@@8BeatsVGM Hello, buddy, only for ask you again, do you have the Blade theme from Eternal Champion remastered? Really I wanna hear it, your work with sountracks are so cool!!! Thank you... And if it's not a molesting, I wanna hear the Dragon Pass (Beast Theme) from Shaq Fu from SNES, please....
@8-Beats VGM. This is very fascinating to listen too. Did you experiment with other types of drums before settling on this one? A lot of Mega Drive games had some solid percussion instruments both sampled and synth.
Yes, i messed up with other samples and this one fillted well. They are from Double Dragon (neogeo), is the same as Genesis Shinobi 3 but cleaner....which S.Genesis is capable as well, DD was also my reference to set the volume of the drums.
It's funny that they chose all 4 castlevania first stages from each of the 4 games Vampire Killer(Castlevania), Bloody Tears, (Castlevania 2), Beginning(Castlevania 3) and Simon's Theme from SC4 (Super Castlevania 4)
am i the only one who would love to see a jojo battle tendency game done in the vein of castlevania bloodlines? several elements are common in both IPs, although you might want to cheat and let young joseph sport hermit purple for the whip, although that would probably be best left to lisa lisa and her scarf.
I would like to be able to download your remixes as a album with properly separated tracks. Any chance of convincing you to upload the music as ogg vorbis files?
Can't help but wish you tackled the very few songs left that had drums in this OST for a complete set, like Bounds of Brave Men, and Six Servants of the Devil. This is still great though.
Listen to The Adventures of Batman and Robin for Genesis, that shit is mindblowing xD , Gensis did have a better audio chip overall than Snes, but Snes was wayy more popular in the end , both consoles were freaking amazing if you ask me
I know. Sunset Riders and Rocket Knight Adventures has the same soundfont with fm percussion, but i kinda like the snares the way they are in the rocket knight.
Sunset Riders (genesis) don't have any of those effects that are in arcade or snes version, yet I still think genesis version is superior. So adding them manually would make it even better and it would be lot of work as well.
@@8BeatsVGM I wonder why they didn't use the same FM drum patches some Rocket Knight Adventures and reuse it for Bloodlines? They're both made by the same company, but maybe the same composers had to be there for it.
Hello, i know it´s been a while since you make this remasters, but i want to make a similar work, i have all the instruments except the PCM Drums. Where do you obtain the PCM drums? If you have the PCM Drums or the link where you obtain the drums, i will be very gratefully.
@@8BeatsVGM You record the samples using a rom or extracting directly by vgm? Because i want to do that. Another question. Where do you obtain the midi for the Castlevania Bloodlines Songs? Are you transcript the songs?
@@8BeatsVGM Please, if you can't give me the samples (I understand if you have conflicts for that, more in TH-cam), just teach me how I have my own samples from Neo Geo Games
Not Michiru Yamane's fault. She was composing under sound driver constraints. That's programmer territory. She did a great job with the tools at her disposal, the tools Konami supplied...
Hi, Zane, gym files are s.genesis emulated music, you can find these files on project 2612 website. But the gym is just the source of the original music, i did this remaster through wave audio.
I think these snares is a good replacement on Bloodlines cause the original fm one is kinda noisy (IMO), but despite s.riders being pure fm as well, is very good the way it is.
Yeah, but keep in mind that channel 6 also forced a decision between FM and PCM samples, so you'd be losing an entire FM channel for the sampled drums. I believe Bloodlines used all 6 channels solely for FM.
@Alanzin Yeah but it would sound really distorted. Listen to the voice samples in SMS games like Street Fighter II, After Burner and Space Harrier and you'll see what I mean.
Now I want a proper rom with this percussion. It sounds infinitely better. I always thought their original percussion sounded like hot garbage. Like they cheapened out on it.
I’m generally for this, but the toms you picked to replace sound almost like FM toms anyway. I wonder what it would have sounded like had you picked a more love sounding kit.
Well the castlvania FM patches for percussion are pretty weak, but it doesn't mean that the FM isn't capable of produce great percussion, just listen the Hitoshi Sakimoto's Terpsichorean driver, (Midnight Resistance, Gauntlet IV especifically) Phenomenal kick, hat, snare and almost realistic toms, GOD DAMN IT THOSE TOMS. I have my own FM patches on Deflemask that I create myself, a full set drum patches, that to me sounds like something you can hear or compare with the samples of that era
You can download TH-cam videos (separated image/sound) with jdownloader. I even create music playlists and when they are big enough I can download all videos with it.
@@8BeatsVGM damn. More people need to experience what you've done here. Truly impressive mate. Bravo. I didn't even think I gave a shit about this stuff. I was trying to see a video and stumbled upon this, now I'm fixated. I'm tempted to play this brutal game and have my phone on my shoulder blasting the music into one ear.. in fact . That's what I'll do lol
@@8BeatsVGM homie! I found a tutorial! Can you provide me with a link or something to your music files here and I'll make the rom with your enhanced music infused and upload it to CDromance website on your behalf. I'm not sure I would suggest you direct linking it because I don't want your channel to get removed or something
I agree, the game was missing some power in the percussions. Otherwise the game was great.
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Sounds like the original... JUST MUCH BETTER! Sadly Mega Drive's sound chip wasn't that great. Worked fine for some specific instruments and music genre. But it had both wet and dry fart noises... SNES's sampler was so much better!
@edek And with TMNT, they meshed samples together and compressed them, so that the drums and orch hits could play chromatically together. Another Konami game that uses both FM and DAC drums is Lethal Enforcer.
You are generalizing that "Genesis sound ship sucks" thingy. FM synthesis isn't easy to learn, and there are tons of good sounding games for the system, specially japanese ones because they had more experience with that kind of hardware. western developed games tend to sound pretty bad because they where lazy to learn or because crappy tools to work with. And seems most people just forget that FM wasn't mean to do realistic sounds, it is a synthesizer.
0:02 map / arduous journey
0:14 reincarnated soul
3:06 iron-blue intention
6:10 calling from heaven
8:53 classic tune 1 / beginning
12:09 classic tune 2 / bloody tears
14:05 classic tune 3 / vampire killer
15:40 classic tune 4 / theme os simon
19:19 area boss / messenger from devil
20:27 nothing to lose
22:28 final battle / the vampire's stomach
24:06 ending theme / together forever
Bonus Track:
26:02 the sinking old sanctuary
Pretty cool, what drums did you use? And how is it made?
No "a vision of dark secrets"? O.o
This is how it should have sounded. Great versions!
Thank you, Yuzo!
YUZO MY BOY!!!
I feel like I'm the only one who thinks it didn't sound too bad with the FM percussion. Michiru Yamane just knew how to write a perfect soundtrack, and she's my favorite female chiptune composer I've ever listened to. While the FM drum choices may be questionable, what really matters is the music itself. And this game's music is OFF THE HOOK. Enough said. By the way 8-Beats, you did a good job. I really dig this.
You're not the only one, I always thought this soundtrack sounded awesome...fast forward 20+ years later and my opinion hasn't changed
It sounds amazing! Michiru Yamane started really strong in the franchise. She knew what she could and couldn't do with the Mega Drive sound chip
I like the FM drums, but I always thought it could be better, like the Time Trax drums or something like this.
I like the original with FM drums, but the DAC drums enhance the arrangement imo
Messenger from Devil sounds even more evil now.
Probably the most underrated boss theme in the series.
The improved percussion in Reincarnated soul hits real hard. I love it.
Soooooo sick❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Was about to be very sad when I didn’t see Sinking Sanctuary on the tracklist...then I noticed the Bonus Track! My favorite piece of music on the entire game
This version of Calling From Heaven is beyond badass!
15:41 the masterpiece begins!
I think you meant 0:00.
"Calling from heaven" has always been my favorite track from Castlevania. Doesn't get the credit deserves, imo. Well done, man
thank you very much!
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this. It was the only Bloodline track, along with Old Sinking Sanctuary, that was played at that live orchestra concert from a few years back. They did wonderful renditions and Michiru showed up right after those tracks.
One of the best OSTs out there for one of the finest examples of side-scrolling action.
Now the soundtrack is complete, the pcm drums is way to go. Good job
Holy shit, this sounds amazing. Gotta give credit to Michiru Yamane though, she knew the limitations and ran with them.
The Sinking Old Sanctuary remix sounds gorgeous. I see why it was saved for last.
Love the PCM drums and feel that it could be brought up yet another notch by adding PSG as well. Sort of what it could sound like on the Sega CD using all three soundchips.
A wonderful masterpiece, this whole video. Bravo, well done, thank you!
You have made me appreciate the Bloodlines OST even more, which I didn’t think was possible. 500/10
🤘🙌🙇♂️
Only thing missing here for me in the prelude theme a vision of dark secrets
This game actually had my favorite ost on Sega and is probably one of those OSTs that got me obsessed with game OSTs along with film OSTs and orchestra genre as a whole.
That's how it should have sounded. I do not know why they wanted to save space by not using DAC samples. I know it was more expensive in those days to add more memory to accommodate more samples of sound, but in older games like the Ninja Turtles (also for Sega) they did use audio drums samples completely.
I use to think about the same thing....both The Hyperstone Heist and Tournament Fighters have DAC samples
Especially since there are a bunch of different samples they use for the bosses in the game. Maybe they didn't have enough space to fit the drum samples in the cartridge.
@@theshyguy1580 That is a very good point and I actually didn't think of that.
Sparkster also did have DAC drums
@@8BeatsVGM compressed however sunsetriders
Bloody hell, dude! This is freaking amazing! Thanks!
Honestly I think it sounds pretty awesome with both FM drums and PCM/DAC drums.
HOT JAM, this remaster is fantastic! 8-beats, you've outdone yourself again! Well done!!
Amazing version! I wish something like this existed for Battletoads and Double Dragon on the Genesis.
Hot damn, this is 100x better. Incredible.
My first time hearing castlevania music and I love it already my favourite is reincarnated soul I really love the part between 1:39 and 1:46
Yeah, unfortunately that is not in the original version of the song. A lot of these have sections not found in the original. You should check iut the Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth version if you haven't already, that one is my favorite
calling from heaven a favourite and u did it great
Oh my god! This is love! Such a simple change but great results.
THIS IS GOLD!
I still prefer the Genesis version of Reincarnated soul, the echo sound effect somehow makes it better. The drums are obviously better but it sounds a little muffled here.
Same, I love the FM´s crispness
+1
If I knew how to program shit and came up with a remastered version of this game. I would recruit you to do the soundtrack. Damn if it doesn't sound phenomenal!
thank you very much for your comment, man, best wishes!!
This is absolutely masterful
Both this and the original Bloodlines OST without the PCM Drums sound kick-ass. Just beat this game recently, and almost done Super Castlevania IV - I don't get it. People claim the music and gameplay and graphics are all better on Super IV, but as someone who TYPICALLY prefers the SNES, I wholeheartedly disagree. I really like the darker, grittier and yet cleaner-looking graphics of Bloodlines, the music sounds far more.. Castlevania and less.. whatever the fuck that muffled organ-riddled mess was on Super IV, and I find the gameplay much more challenging and satisfying in Bloodlines. As far as I'm concerned, this game and its music whoop Super IV in the ass.
I get the bloodlines songs stuck in my head, and almost all of them pump me right up and make me want to play. Super IV was hard on the eyes, hard on the ears, and too easy to beat. Pretty telling too that they hired the composer for THIS game for Symphony of the Night.
Thank you for the great work! Highly appreciated.
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Thanks!
Thank you very much, Clodda1982!!
Now, THAT'S A Whole Lot Better~!😃😊😁😉😆
Hi, 8-Beats VGM, I've been hearing your remastered pieces and I've loved them, Great job!! Casually can you remaster the Blade Theme from ETERNAL CHAMPIONS, please? THANK YOU, Greetings from Mexico!!! :D
I have a lot of tasks right now but i'll put your request in a notepad. Greetings!
@@8BeatsVGM Hello, buddy, only for ask you again, do you have the Blade theme from Eternal Champion remastered? Really I wanna hear it, your work with sountracks are so cool!!! Thank you... And if it's not a molesting, I wanna hear the Dragon Pass (Beast Theme) from Shaq Fu from SNES, please....
Hello, buddy, how're you?
Nice work! I like the redone percussion!
Had to redo my accounts, I thought this channel was gone. Happy to find it again.
There was no reason for Bloodlines not to use the PCM and this sounds a lot better as to be expected.
agreed
This is great!
Wow, nice clean up. Doing gods work!!
AWESOME! a complete genius 8-beats , thanks for sharing!
thank YOU for listening!
Reincarnated soul sounds great
15:40 The legend himself, Simon Belmont lashes out!!!!!!
Like it SHOULD have been! Only a few minutes in, but this sounds fantastic!
This is excellent , very nice
AMAZING work!!! I love it
@8-Beats VGM. This is very fascinating to listen too. Did you experiment with other types of drums before settling on this one? A lot of Mega Drive games had some solid percussion instruments both sampled and synth.
Yes, i messed up with other samples and this one fillted well. They are from Double Dragon (neogeo), is the same as Genesis Shinobi 3 but cleaner....which S.Genesis is capable as well, DD was also my reference to set the volume of the drums.
Any chance we can get the songs uploaded individually? Would love to add some of these to my YT Music playlist
it's an idea....and i'm considering taking it
Lets just splice this audio to a rom and were golden 😋
It's funny that they chose all 4 castlevania first stages from each of the 4 games Vampire Killer(Castlevania), Bloody Tears, (Castlevania 2), Beginning(Castlevania 3) and Simon's Theme from SC4 (Super Castlevania 4)
DAAAAMN those are so sweeet
Mega, Love it 🥰👍
This is all fantastical work, 8-bit. Is this available for download?
Hi, SRUFUS3D......Patreon only for now.
am i the only one who would love to see a jojo battle tendency game done in the vein of castlevania bloodlines? several elements are common in both IPs, although you might want to cheat and let young joseph sport hermit purple for the whip, although that would probably be best left to lisa lisa and her scarf.
I would like to be able to download your remixes as a album with properly separated tracks. Any chance of convincing you to upload the music as ogg vorbis files?
AMAZING!!!!!!!
Sounds good, just heard it in the rom itself! Where are the drum samples from? Sounds like an arcade game
You have very good ears! Double Dragon (neogeo version), which are the same used in Shinobi 3 but cleaner.
Can't help but wish you tackled the very few songs left that had drums in this OST for a complete set, like Bounds of Brave Men, and Six Servants of the Devil.
This is still great though.
"But Genesis does not have good music! Castlevania Bloodlines: Hold My Beer!"
Listen to The Adventures of Batman and Robin for Genesis, that shit is mindblowing xD , Gensis did have a better audio chip overall than Snes, but Snes was wayy more popular in the end , both consoles were freaking amazing if you ask me
Sonic 3 and Knuckles: Hold my beer.
Alien Solder and Gunstar Heroes: Hold our beers.
Gunstart Heroes : Hold my Gun
Methinks Hydlide 3 had great music too.
this is like cocaine for my ears, i can stop listening to the og stuff now. This is my jam
Although it is a very short song, I would love to see you give life to and reconstruct the Game Over song.
Where can I download the complete version? It'd be perfect as an add-on to the in-game soundtrack.
If you could somehow put the audio files into the games ROM that would be amazing!
Nice!
Cabosse... não bebo mais ouvindo brega ahhaahahah!
This makes me wonder what if Sunset Riders (genesis) have PCM orchestral punch and drums added into the musics.
I know. Sunset Riders and Rocket Knight Adventures has the same soundfont with fm percussion, but i kinda like the snares the way they are in the rocket knight.
Sunset Riders (genesis) don't have any of those effects that are in arcade or snes version, yet I still think genesis version is superior.
So adding them manually would make it even better and it would be lot of work as well.
@@8BeatsVGM I wonder why they didn't use the same FM drum patches some Rocket Knight Adventures and reuse it for Bloodlines? They're both made by the same company, but maybe the same composers had to be there for it.
Hello, i know it´s been a while since you make this remasters, but i want to make a similar work, i have all the instruments except the PCM Drums. Where do you obtain the PCM drums? If you have the PCM Drums or the link where you obtain the drums, i will be very gratefully.
Hello. I made the samples myself by recording from double dragon (neogeo)
@@8BeatsVGM You record the samples using a rom or extracting directly by vgm? Because i want to do that.
Another question. Where do you obtain the midi for the Castlevania Bloodlines Songs? Are you transcript the songs?
@@josmarneyraarellan6403 do you want i provide you a link for these drum samples? i dont use midi, the synths are the originals disassembled
@@8BeatsVGM I will very grateful if you provide me the samples. I want to make my own remixes of some VGM I adore
@@8BeatsVGM Please, if you can't give me the samples (I understand if you have conflicts for that, more in TH-cam), just teach me how I have my own samples from Neo Geo Games
No offense to Michiru Yamane herself, but goodbye, wimpy FM percussion!
I love it, almost sound like 909. :) So groovy nad meaty tones, but not this ,more on thsi one clip. th-cam.com/video/jEkJiBhN0jU/w-d-xo.html
Not Michiru Yamane's fault. She was composing under sound driver constraints. That's programmer territory. She did a great job with the tools at her disposal, the tools Konami supplied...
Matías D. She did an amazing job as a composer
Any chance you could post the .gym files for download? I'd love to hear them played back on my VA6 Genesis.
Hi, Zane, gym files are s.genesis emulated music, you can find these files on project 2612 website. But the gym is just the source of the original music, i did this remaster through wave audio.
@@8BeatsVGM So this remaster isn't playable on real hardware?
Is there a way to download the new music in HQ?
Would Sunset Riders Genesis benefit being remastered this way?
I think these snares is a good replacement on Bloodlines cause the original fm one is kinda noisy (IMO), but despite s.riders being pure fm as well, is very good the way it is.
Will you release the tracks for downloading?
So, is theoretically possible for the game to have sounded this way on an actual Genesis?
Sure, its PCM drums like Konami did in Hyperstone Heist, Tournament Fighters, Contra Hardcorps
Yeah, but keep in mind that channel 6 also forced a decision between FM and PCM samples, so you'd be losing an entire FM channel for the sampled drums. I believe Bloodlines used all 6 channels solely for FM.
Surely it would not have so clear drum sample but close enough
@Alanzin Yeah but it would sound really distorted. Listen to the voice samples in SMS games like Street Fighter II, After Burner and Space Harrier and you'll see what I mean.
Now I want a proper rom with this percussion. It sounds infinitely better. I always thought their original percussion sounded like hot garbage. Like they cheapened out on it.
Can this hack be ported to the Megadrive using the XGM sound driver??
I don't know anything about that XGM sound driver, i can tell you this mix is a wave file rendered through a digital audio workstation.
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check out around the end of my last livestream. We spent some good time checking out your channel on the stream! Good stuff here!
10h live stream? youre a king! thank you very much this feedback, man!!
8-Beats VGM for sure. I have been listening to your castlevania remake over and over. Can’t get enough of it
I’m generally for this, but the toms you picked to replace sound almost like FM toms anyway. I wonder what it would have sounded like had you picked a more love sounding kit.
Well the castlvania FM patches for percussion are pretty weak, but it doesn't mean that the FM isn't capable of produce great percussion, just listen the Hitoshi Sakimoto's Terpsichorean driver, (Midnight Resistance, Gauntlet IV especifically) Phenomenal kick, hat, snare and almost realistic toms, GOD DAMN IT THOSE TOMS. I have my own FM patches on Deflemask that I create myself, a full set drum patches, that to me sounds like something you can hear or compare with the samples of that era
I know, FM drums sounds great on the right hands. Thank you very much, i hope you like the PCM drums anyway!
@@8BeatsVGM thanks for the arrangement bro!
Drum Hat is PSG Noise?
Is there a way I can download your soundtrack on an MP3 file?
You can download TH-cam videos (separated image/sound) with jdownloader. I even create music playlists and when they are big enough I can download all videos with it.
Is it possible for one to insert these amazing improved songs into a rom hack?
I wish....it's possible to create a msu-1 version though
@@8BeatsVGM damn. More people need to experience what you've done here. Truly impressive mate. Bravo. I didn't even think I gave a shit about this stuff. I was trying to see a video and stumbled upon this, now I'm fixated. I'm tempted to play this brutal game and have my phone on my shoulder blasting the music into one ear.. in fact . That's what I'll do lol
@@8BeatsVGM homie! I found a tutorial! Can you provide me with a link or something to your music files here and I'll make the rom with your enhanced music infused and upload it to CDromance website on your behalf. I'm not sure I would suggest you direct linking it because I don't want your channel to get removed or something
Sure, email me: danielmedeiros1980@gmail.com
wow. You are very good! I need songs from the simpsons arcade for the mega drive version we are doing. If you have something ready?
no, sorry =/
Six people never Beat the original game
I agree, the game was missing some power in the percussions. Otherwise the game was great.
Sounds like the original... JUST MUCH BETTER! Sadly Mega Drive's sound chip wasn't that great. Worked fine for some specific instruments and music genre. But it had both wet and dry fart noises... SNES's sampler was so much better!
@edek And with TMNT, they meshed samples together and compressed them, so that the drums and orch hits could play chromatically together. Another Konami game that uses both FM and DAC drums is Lethal Enforcer.
You are generalizing that "Genesis sound ship sucks" thingy. FM synthesis isn't easy to learn, and there are tons of good sounding games for the system, specially japanese ones because they had more experience with that kind of hardware. western developed games tend to sound pretty bad because they where lazy to learn or because crappy tools to work with. And seems most people just forget that FM wasn't mean to do realistic sounds, it is a synthesizer.