How to Nail the Faulconer Sound: Synth/Soundfont Tutorial
50Hello and welcome everybody! This is my first music tutorial on the channel and I go over how you can get the same sounds that Faulconer, Smith, Dobos, and Morgan used in Dragon Ball Z (Funimation). In this video, I mainly use the Ginyu Force theme to showcase the synths. This video won't go over composition or anything related to writing music for a scene or making covers.
If I did something like that the video would be even longer than it is now. I had about 10 hours of footage and I managed to cut it down to around 2 hours. There are a few things that I probably missed as this is a very comprehensive video.
This tutorial was going to be a follow-up to my synth video from the 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQTOo1LFKlA
Since many people have asked me about the synths and my previous videos were more of a showcase rather than a tutorial I figured I would clarify how to get the sound. I was thinking of doing this video back in August of last year but, I couldn't be bothered to record a video. Fortunately, I had the time to do it, however, my main cameras are on the fritz. My webcam was the only camera that I could use to record my synths and stuff, so sorry about that. It's also easier for me as I don't to mess around with SD cards and lighting :P
You should keep in mind these synths will cost anywhere from USD 200 to USD 1000 depending on the condition. Using Facebook marketplace and eBay will be necessary for this. I mainly bought my synths from Reverb which is a good site to use for acquiring used gear.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Preview
00:37 Intro
01:14 Hardware/Software requirements
04:41 The synths
13:54 Software route
33:04 Similar "Faulconer-sounding" synths
37:59 How to extract samples from CDs/ISOs
44:23 Brief FL Studio demo
46:14 Hardware route
53:16 Using QSEditPro
58:16 Using SysEx files
01:01:04 E-MU Proteus 1
01:06:39 Roland S760 and Zulu SCSI
01:08:05 The Roland S760 OP-1 Expansion card
01:23:22 Zoom 9050
01:32:38 Adding sounds to the Zulu SCSI and saving the OS
01:43:35 Recording the synths
02:00:02 Organization and rough mixing
02:05:09 Brief soft synth demo
02:07:34 Hardware vs Software
02:12:46 DBZ live guitar guide
Here are the many links:
Discord:
https://discord.gg/M55RWmH
Soundfonts and samples:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15B2VVd97jAGFpjD24AEmthPCd9Tamkwq
RSA Disk:
https://archive.org/details/roland-sample-archive
Roland Disks:
https://archive.org/details/roland-sample-cd-roms
Lots of 90's sample disks including the Roland ones (ISOs):
https://nnty.fun/downloads/other/90ssamplecds/
Faulconer sound chart:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WFPMewY_4Mjzqqf4wkUoksUZkg2ne6ivg4wl2fBUk7E/edit#gid=0
Ginyu Force MIDI:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1Ap9sHmcO9011cZoWxjgTXn0Rnjz_26/view?usp=sharing
All the Reaper project files I used in the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTnmRu8zesN4k_hikV1ulX0SBN7Th49V/view?usp=sharing
Classic Plugins:
https://www.madtracker.org/plugins.php?author=Kjaerhus+Audio
Reaper plugins:
https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
Sforzando:
https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html
Another soundfont player:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/bassmidi-vsti-by-falcosoft
Daemon Tools Lite:
https://www.daemon-tools.cc/products/dtLite
TX16W:
https://www.tx16wx.com/
Synth1:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1-by-daichi-laboratory-ichiro-toda
GTG Sputnik 2000:
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2200/
Cardinal:
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
CDxtract:
http://www.soundlib.com/cdxtract/
QSEditPro:
https://www.soundtower.com/quadrasynth/page.html
ZuluSCSI:
https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/ZuluSCSI-Mini-RP2040-p/zuluscsi-mini-rp2040-db25.htm
Even more links:
https://pastebin.com/Rw9mYnBS
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