How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996)

Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by qbasic_forever on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:17PM (#31564965)

IIRC Eno was really into the Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer around the time he did the Windows 95 sound, it was almost certainly created using that hardware and then later someone mastered it to a wav file (perhaps using a pirated copy of soundforge).

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by TonyTrapp on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:12AM (#31567162)

For what it's worth, the DX7 isn't capable of producing most of the sounds heard in the Windows 95 sound. If it was used at all, it would be one out of several synthesizers.

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by the-rc on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:32PM (#31565031)

No, he used SSEYO's Koan software

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Re:How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (1996) by jmmcd on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:45AM (#31567315)

He was involved in creating that, but he definitely didn't use it for this 3-second piece. It's not suitable for micro-management at all.

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