KVR Audio

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:01 pm

It would be fun to look back at the very first KVR thread related to Xhip where I was a teenager and probably expressed myself in stupid ways when people complained the plug-in had no GUI

At some point, grave digging becomes sweet archaeology.

Oldest version of the plug-in I have is much later after VSTGUI was used in Dec 23rd 2004:

Get it here: http://xhip.net/synth/releases/xhip_beta_3.7z

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Fri May 08, 2020 9:21 am

BTW Currently i am having fun trying to replicate Carpenters Escape from New York main theme with Xhip.
Some sweet sounds, but it is a very early version so i won't post it here.

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Mon May 11, 2020 12:25 am

Mutant wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 9:21 am BTW Currently i am having fun trying to replicate Carpenters Escape from New York main theme with Xhip.

confusion wrote: Madness!

Modified DX- piano with DX- horns, the heavy reverb strings sound DX- too! The samples would be trivial if you had the dumped samples from the ROM source (whatever machine it is, LM-1 ?) and then some cheaper 80s style reverb, delay and compression effects.

It actually sounds to me like it was done entirely on a DX- synthesizer and I can't pick out any subtractive sounds at all In terms of accuracy; obviously the single modulator to carrier FM Xhip can do won't get you there at all, but a subtractive version might definitely sound cool.

If it was produced in 1980 they couldn't have been using a DX-7, so I wonder what the story behind that stuff is

I wonder if maybe the only versions I'm finding via youtube are remakes rather than the original.

This version that claims to be the original:

... sounds a lot more subtractive, but as if it's trying hard to escape from being subtractive

Still sounds like drum samples, but super short samples.

Kwurqx · Post by **Kwurqx** » Mon May 11, 2020 11:03 am

Escape From New York dates from 1981.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York

How the Escape From New York music was made (feat. Alan Howarth)

John Carpenter "Escape From New York" (Official Live In Studio Video)

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Mon May 11, 2020 7:02 pm

aciddose wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:25 am I wonder if maybe the only versions I'm finding via youtube are remakes rather than the original.

This version that claims to be the original:

Yes, i was talking about this version.

XHip--Please finish your synth!!