u/_CTRLR

When I’m not making my own stuff, I like to make some video game music covers. One of the games I’m looking at covering some songs from right now is F-Zero X for N64. It has such an awesome soundtrack. I love the retro video-gamey sounding metal guitar sounds from this game. Most of the time when working on these types of things, I record all the instrument parts with synths but for these particular covers, I want to incorporate some of those OG metal guitar sample type sounds in there. Right now I use a JD-800 for that type of sound in a lead context but I’ve never really got it to chug quite like a palm muted guitar (which is frequently used in these tracks). I know they used samples for the guitars in F-Zero and I’m wondering if there are any known or obscure synths/sampler hardware or software that have a feature/sound set focused around making those kinds of sounds. Thanks everybody!

I have been thinking of what I should get for live performances as I am not comfortable taking any of my studio synths outside. I want to hear from those of you that have experience with the Roland Axe Edge. How is using it? What do you like about it? Do you recommend other alternatives? What don’t you like about it? Are the sound expansions from Roland Cloud worth it and are there models available for it such as the JD-800 or Juno synths? Thank you!