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Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 16 Mar 2014
by Alekossowski
Do you think that Akira used VST pianos to make the OSTs? I really dont think that he actually used real pianos. But... the piano of "True" is amazing, for example. And that soundtrack was released, i think, in 2001. I believe there were crappy VST at that time... Anybody knows the VSTs that Akira used for his OST?

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 31 Mar 2014
by Alekossowski
Not even a clue?

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 01 Apr 2014
by peronmls
More than likely used VSTs. No tell which ones though.

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 12 Sep 2014
by HeresJohnny
Was listening to a few Akira tracks on Pandora today. This question popped into my mind as well.

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 14 Sep 2014
by Nisto
I highly doubt he used any VST for Silent Hill 1. VST technology was still very new at the time (2 years).

For Silent Hill 2 there are only a handful of tracks where there's even any possibility of him having used any VST, because most of the tracks in SH2 are sequenced (played back with actual notes and samples) in-game. The movies (in pre-rendered 3D) are pretty much the only place he could've used any VSTs, because those tracks are not sequenced (but rather streamed, similar to how MP3/WAV/etc is).

I don't know about SH3 and later though. But pretty sure I saw some VST in the Making of SH4 video.

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 14 Sep 2014
by VIVIsect
Yamaoka never used an actual acoustic piano on any of the SH recordings. He has always used either hardware samplers or software.

During the time Silent Hill 2 came out, there were plenty of VSTs around. SampleTank was released in 2001 and was really popular at the time. There's a SampleTank piano preset called "1920s Upright Piano" that, with a little tweaking, sounds nearly identical to the piano used in "True".

Nisto, I don't know exactly what goes into programing sound for playback in video games, but I assume that the original music tracks would have been composed/recorded/mixed in a DAW (such as Logic, for example). The MIDI information and individual samples would then be exported and the game engine would use that to recreate the composition (in instances where it's not just streaming audio). Either way, the sounds have to originate from somewhere. He could have used VST instruments.

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 15 Sep 2014
by Nisto
Well yeah, I know there are some ways to get samples from VSTs even if there is no direct way of exporting them via the interface, but I assume he meant VSTs he used directly. Anyway, there are also some peeks of his workspace in Making of SH2, maybe you'll spot something there.

Re: Akira Yamaoka Piano VST

Posted: 23 Sep 2014
by HeresJohnny
'Your Ruin' was playing on Pandora this morning from SH4. First time I have listened to the entire song.