On top of that, I would say most, if not all, of these cries were semi tones too. So if a cry started on a tone between C and C#, I used my own judgement to play whichever one I thought sounded the closest!
whats interesting is that the evolutions all create a sort of harmony with eachother, repeating the same phrase or a variation of the phrase either in a different key or sometimes in a melodic movement, its really cool
Thanks to limitations with the memory they had available, a lot of cries in generation 1 are modified versions of others. Some are direct copies, but for many they took a "base cry" and played with values to adjust pitch, duration, playback rate, and when to shut off certain sound channels. Retro Game Mechanics Explained has an excellent in-depth dive if you're curious, and they even set up a website where you can play with those values yourself to create your own cries.
Unless it’s the anime where Bellsprout and Weepinbell sound like they look if that makes sense. Victorybell strait up just screams like a woman about to be murdered😹 Like where the hell did that come from? Game cries are more consistent at least. There’s probably an odd one but for the most part the pitch or something has changed when the Pokèmon evolves
Rhyhorn and Charizard have the exact same cry too. I think Poliwhirl or Caterpie share their cry with another Pokèmon too. But like was said before, Game Boy had its limitations
Some of the more resonant cries are so close to the original its hypnotic for someone who has heard them before. This tickles my brain juuuuuust right. Seadra was insane to listen to.
There's some cries that just stay with ya, even after twenty something years. The starters, Pidgey, Caterpie, Spearow, and many others I didn't have to check to compare, and they all sounded great
I really liked Drowzee, and Hypno. They sounded like their actual in game cries the most, though a few others did stand out too, like Spearow and Mankey.
There were a few that sounded a bit off from the actual cry, but imo that made them so much better, just because the notes on an instrument sound so much better than static noise
Part of this challenge was that a lot of these were in semi tones. I had to make decisions whether to pitch them down or up, but I think they all still turned out well!
The very specific way the electric piano buzzes and reverbs with your audio setup quickly reminded me of old-school flip phone ringtones. My brain actually started processing each cry as if I was picking a ringtone and I had to manually clear my head and remember what I was watching, lol. Very well done on all of these! Especially want to shout out Kadabra and Alakazam, truly the pinnacle of melodic Pokémon cries.
This is incredible! When I saw the video title on my front page I didn't expect the cries to sound *this* spot on. Absolutely amazing work! It's hard to pick a favourite honestly.
Those early cries were kinda fascinating, a lot of them sounded eerily similar to other cries of completely different Pokémon. Victreebel and Porygon for instance.
Hey, man, I'm overextended with a full time job, full time school, physical fitness maintenance, and trying to spin up a comedy special, losing my sanity in the process. You gave it back to me. Keep making content.
I actually wanted to do the exact thing but then never did it, thought that it wouldn't pay off but I was wrong apparently. So interesting, that one could actually recognise the pokemon crys from the extracted notes on the piano. Greatly done and love paras and parasect, sounds so mystical.
These are so cool!! You did a great job, seems like a lot of hard and dedicated work to transpose everything. They sound like jazz 😄 you could make covers like- bulbasaur to venosaur jazz evolution cover HAHAHAH
No worries 😄 as I listened to these, I immediately thought of Peter and the Wolf where each character had its own unique instrument. You did a really good job with all these distinct cries 😄 could make a Pokemon symphony with battles and everything hahahaha
Damn, you took the hard way to turn a bunch of Pokemon cries into MIDI piano and it paid off, they don't sound like keyboard sma- 2:33 Oh! There it is!
The first Pokemon game to allow for piano tones was R/S; you can reasonably replicate sounds with just the GB channels, but it... would still just be better to have the original cries if you're going for that
My favourite ones are Weedle, Spearow, Dugtrio, Drowzee and Chansey. Also I love how in Kadabra, Alakazam, Gastly and Haunter you just slam your hand on the piano.
Great lmao, I'd love to see you make a song based on their cries; a lot of them have similar ideas and could work as harmonies/bass. Great vid lol, glad to find you on my algorithm just now
Poliwrath, Krabby, the Drowzee line, they sounded exactly like the original cries XD also I like how we have all these random elemental monsters with such musical cries, then we have the family smarter than a supercomputer and their cries are just like *crash krrsh bang* XD
3:31🎵Sun is shinin' in the sky There ain't a cloud in sight It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play And don't you know It's a beautiful new day? Hey-ey-ey🎵
I’ve definitely played too much Pokemon over the years because I can recognize an overwhelming majority of them without looking🤣🤣 Good job my dude! Just subbed : ))
My first videogame ever was Pokemon FireRed. I played it until there literally were no more Pokemon in my version of the game I could have caught. I actually caught them all. This has always placed the Kanto games in a special place in my heart. So much of this was nostalgic for me, and incredibly satisfying. Thank you for sharing your gift of music. My favorite ones to rediscover were the Nintetales and Parasect evolution lines. Snorlax was also so cute. Nice job on the Mewtwo btw
I desperately need a version without the intro and outro, and with less of a break between each cry... Turning this into one nonstop song that I can add to my playlist for the express purpose of confusing my family when it comes on.
I'd love to see these arranged into a melody. The evolutions tend to make these lovely melodic strings that'd sound great without the pauses between them.
It's actually stunning how musical these motifs are. Sure they're super chromatic, but I can totally hear how something so individually cacophanous like some of these are could be used in an ensemble.
From working on this project, I've learned that a lot of them are often centered around C as well (or at least, semi tones and quarter tones near C). So you could really experiment with combining some of them into tunes!
Fearow's cry has been a flawless masterpiece since 1996
Underrated cry and Pokémon for sure!
Thought Paras & Parasect were surprisingly beautiful
Almost eerily beautiful!
they sound like a sound effect in a horror game when you find a key item!
Parasect's call is just the rhythm of JENOVA's theme played backwards
Imagine hearing that in Legends Arceus lmao, the BOTW Guardians of PLA
Given how macabre their fates are, it's definitely fitting
INCREDIBLE. All I need now is the original cries side by side comparison
A good idea that I'm considering!
Please do@@ElementalityStudios
If you're not on mobile, you're welcome to open up the cries on UA-cam in a second window
@@ElementalityStudios That would be awesome for next time,. I'd even watch a reupload!
With sheet music please!!
Linking all of them together in order without pauses in between each one would make the ultimate contemporary piece
Listening to it 2x makes them sound almost like the original
So cool! 1,5x even better imo?
Yass...❤
I love how these sound like Breath of the Wild jingles now
Yeah i can hear that too
Yeah i hear it
Wouldn't be suprised if the jingles derived from these sounds.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. But also pissed that you stole my comment. Damn Psychic Types
Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it.
I find it interesting how many cries are built off of the tri-tone
On top of that, I would say most, if not all, of these cries were semi tones too. So if a cry started on a tone between C and C#, I used my own judgement to play whichever one I thought sounded the closest!
I liked how the Alakazam and Electrode lines were just a slamming of the piano.
whats interesting is that the evolutions all create a sort of harmony with eachother, repeating the same phrase or a variation of the phrase either in a different key or sometimes in a melodic movement, its really cool
Thanks to limitations with the memory they had available, a lot of cries in generation 1 are modified versions of others. Some are direct copies, but for many they took a "base cry" and played with values to adjust pitch, duration, playback rate, and when to shut off certain sound channels. Retro Game Mechanics Explained has an excellent in-depth dive if you're curious, and they even set up a website where you can play with those values yourself to create your own cries.
@@ryguy7227 Most obvious might be Vulpix to Ninetales which appears to just be slightly stretched and pitched. Super cool fact, thanks!
Unless it’s the anime where Bellsprout and Weepinbell sound like they look if that makes sense. Victorybell strait up just screams like a woman about to be murdered😹 Like where the hell did that come from? Game cries are more consistent at least. There’s probably an odd one but for the most part the pitch or something has changed when the Pokèmon evolves
Rhyhorn and Charizard have the exact same cry too. I think Poliwhirl or Caterpie share their cry with another Pokèmon too. But like was said before, Game Boy had its limitations
The piano version of poliwrath's cry ends up just sounding like its normal cry, I love it!
Pokemon Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:51 Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
0:57 Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard
1:02 Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise
1:06 Caterpie, Metapod, Butterfree
1:10 Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill
1:14 Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot
1:18 Rattata, Raticate
1:20 Spearow, Fearow
1:24 Ekans, Arbok
1:28 Pikachu, Raichu
1:31 Sandshrew, Sandslash
1:34 Nidoran♀, Nidorina, Nidoqueen
1:38 Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking
1:43 Clefairy, Clefable
1:46 Vulpix, Ninetales
1:50 Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff
1:53 Zubat, Golbat
1:56 Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume
2:00 Paras, Parasect
2:07 Venonat, Venomoth
2:11 Diglett, Dugtrio
2:15 Meowth, Persian
2:17 Psyduck, Golduck
2:20 Mankey, Primeape
2:24 Growlithe, Arcanine
2:26 Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath
2:31 Abra, Kadabra, Alakazam
2:38 Machop, Machoke, Machamp
2:43 Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
2:46 Tentacool, Tentacruel
2:49 Geodude, Graveler, Golem
2:54 Ponyta, Rapidash
2:57 Slowpoke, Slowbro
3:00 Magnemite, Magneton
3:04 Farfetch'd
3:05 Doduo, Dodrio
3:09 Seel, Dewgong
3:11 Grimer, Muk
3:14 Shellder, Cloyster
3:19 Gastly, Haunter, Gengar
3:25 Onix
3:27 Drowzee, Hypno
3:32 Krabby, Kingler
3:36 Voltorb, Electrode
3:40 Exeggcute, Exeggutor
3:45 Cubone, Marowak
3:47 Hitmonlee
3:49 Hitmonchan
3:50 Lickitung
3:52 Koffing, Weezing
3:55 Rhyhorn, Rhydon
3:59 Chansey
4:00 Tangela
4:02 Kangaskhan
4:04 Horsea, Seadra
4:06 Goldeen, Seaking
4:10 Staryu, Starmie
4:14 Mr. Mime
4:15 Scyther
4:17 Jynx
4:21 Electabuzz
4:23 Magmar
4:24 Pinsir
4:26 Tauros
4:27 Magikarp, Gyarados
4:31 Lapras
4:33 Ditto
4:34 Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon
4:42 Porygon
4:44 Omanyte, Omastar
4:47 Kabuto, Kabutops
4:50 Aerodactyl
4:52 Snorlax
4:53 Articuno
4:55 Zapdos
4:57 Moltres
4:58 Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite
5:04 Mewtwo
5:15 Outro
5:35 ????????????????
Doing God's work 😄👏🏾
I can't believe you timestamped all of these, you're incredible!
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Some of the more resonant cries are so close to the original its hypnotic for someone who has heard them before. This tickles my brain juuuuuust right.
Seadra was insane to listen to.
Starmie’s was very twinkly, it was fitting 🌟
Right?! Starmie was one that turned out better than I expected it to!
Definitely
Yea, thanks for the time stamp
The cries of beauty.!.!
There's some cries that just stay with ya, even after twenty something years. The starters, Pidgey, Caterpie, Spearow, and many others I didn't have to check to compare, and they all sounded great
I really liked Drowzee, and Hypno. They sounded like their actual in game cries the most, though a few others did stand out too, like Spearow and Mankey.
The Seadra was on point too.
Agreed I was just about to say that about those two
There were a few that sounded a bit off from the actual cry, but imo that made them so much better, just because the notes on an instrument sound so much better than static noise
Part of this challenge was that a lot of these were in semi tones. I had to make decisions whether to pitch them down or up, but I think they all still turned out well!
I lost it at Alakazam! 😂 I loved the twinkly sound of Clefairy and Clefable
hahaha glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing!!!
Paras and parasect sounds really like a Botw sound
The very specific way the electric piano buzzes and reverbs with your audio setup quickly reminded me of old-school flip phone ringtones. My brain actually started processing each cry as if I was picking a ringtone and I had to manually clear my head and remember what I was watching, lol.
Very well done on all of these! Especially want to shout out Kadabra and Alakazam, truly the pinnacle of melodic Pokémon cries.
This is incredible! When I saw the video title on my front page I didn't expect the cries to sound *this* spot on. Absolutely amazing work! It's hard to pick a favourite honestly.
2:04 this sounds like a "Secret Discovered" Jingle - and I'm all for that!
I could definitely see that!
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom be like:
i dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing that i could hear the cries in my head as you played them, amazing work
🫡
Drowzee and Hypno always had my favourite cries. Creepy, ominous, mysterious, and fitting to their appearance and powers. Here was no exception.
OK BUT YOU DIFFERENTIATED EVEN BETWEEN CRIES THAT WERE EXACTLY THE SAME!!!! Like caterpie and goldeen each had a unique take and that is true artistry
I think using these as an intro to a song involving a battle between two pokemon would be really cool
Love this. Especially: Weedle, Parasect, Victreebel, Cloyster, Drowzee, Hypno, Krabby, Jynx, Zapdos.
You can really tell what game freak was trying to convey with the personality of a Pokemon when its on piano
Breath of the Wild OST Piano Cover
Featuring Bokoblin Cries on Piano!
These sound like they'd be useful in a Pokemon musical.
What an interesting idea, and very well-done! :) I didn't know that the Pokemon cries were so harmonic!
It's definitely surprising how many of them do sound harmonic!
And then there's Voltorb and Electrode...
@@ElementalityStudiosWe don’t talk about Voltorb and Electrode.
Playing at 1.25x is almost verbatim. Well done!
WHOA you weren't kidding! The 1.25x versions would be SUCH a cool easter egg to include in some kind of music-based pokemon game.
It stands out even more that there were just like eight or so base Pokémon cries that all got pitch / tempo shifted
Sounds like a Stravinski suite. What a great project! Very nicely done.
This is great. I thought I would need the original cry before listening the piano rendition. But I'm so used to the gen 1 cries. You totally nailed it
I was literally gonna comment what about mew.
I was swiftly proven that I should just watch the whole video before commenting lmao
Gottem!
Those early cries were kinda fascinating, a lot of them sounded eerily similar to other cries of completely different Pokémon. Victreebel and Porygon for instance.
I loved the tonal shift from the Poliwag line to the Abra line
weird nostalgia of going thru the cries one by one when i was a kid
Hey, man, I'm overextended with a full time job, full time school, physical fitness maintenance, and trying to spin up a comedy special, losing my sanity in the process.
You gave it back to me. Keep making content.
Play through this at 2x speed, and they sound so close. Well done :)
It’s amazing how I can hear the gameboy cry in my head as you play it on the piano. Amazing.
Watching at 2x speed brings back memories
This is one of the neatest videos I've watched in recent memory. You did an amazing job!
They really don't even try on some of em.
And completely fitting of mewtwo to come out "Evil"
I went into this thinking “lol never” - then I shut my eyes and listened. Recognised every single cry. This is fantastic.
this is so very niche and entirely my thing. NICE
edit: 1:34 the nidorans and their evolution lines sound SO GOOD
Amazing video, I found Ninetales to be elegantly spot on! Krabby was hilarious as well loool
The Poliwag line is so close to perfect in that tone
I have never forgotten pokemon cries on the spot so fast..
Paras and Parasect's (as well as Mewtwo's and Mew's) cries sound like something out of a horror movie.
Farfetchd & Jinx stood out the most, such a cool idea
This is awesome Jon, look forward to gen 2. Drowzee more than any of them hits the nostalgia. I guess it has the most distinctive cry
Thank you CK! Drowzee seems to be a fan favorite!
I enjoyed that way more then I'd thought.
Spearow, Haunter, Parasect & Jynx all made me smile or laugh. Love them
I actually wanted to do the exact thing but then never did it, thought that it wouldn't pay off but I was wrong apparently. So interesting, that one could actually recognise the pokemon crys from the extracted notes on the piano. Greatly done and love paras and parasect, sounds so mystical.
One of the underappreciated parts of this video is how long it must have taken to add all 151 images of the Pokémon at the top of the screen.
These are so cool!! You did a great job, seems like a lot of hard and dedicated work to transpose everything. They sound like jazz 😄 you could make covers like- bulbasaur to venosaur jazz evolution cover HAHAHAH
This is a fantastic idea! I may try it out!
No worries 😄 as I listened to these, I immediately thought of Peter and the Wolf where each character had its own unique instrument. You did a really good job with all these distinct cries 😄 could make a Pokemon symphony with battles and everything hahahaha
Damn, you took the hard way to turn a bunch of Pokemon cries into MIDI piano and it paid off, they don't sound like keyboard sma-
2:33
Oh! There it is!
Listening on max playback speed really makes it sound closer
Hopefully someday we’ll hear the legendary Kriketune cry on piano. I wait with bated breath
The plan is to go in gen order. Hope you can hold your breath long enough!
Sounds like a free jazz composition
HOLY SHIT JIGGLYPUFF WAS PERFECT
I can imagine these notifications on the phone, good job!
Edit: also, favorite is Alakazam!
Thank you! Alakazam is just pure chaos lol
Spearow, Clefairy, Poliwag, Drowzee, hypno, Exeggutor, Jynx were my favorite musically
Now let’s try to make a song outta a couple of these.
When I heard that fearow, nostalgia of passing through victory road hit me. Good job dude u nailed the cries so hard
Someone has got to make a sound mod for Red and Blue with these cries.
The first Pokemon game to allow for piano tones was R/S; you can reasonably replicate sounds with just the GB channels, but it... would still just be better to have the original cries if you're going for that
I don't think a Gameboy would be able to handle that...
Imagine a silent film where these are used as sound effects
The spearow one was perfect. Like it was a HD rip of the original recording!
They all sound like tiny snippets from either modern jazz piano pieces or actual classical piano pieces
My favourite ones are Weedle, Spearow, Dugtrio, Drowzee and Chansey.
Also I love how in Kadabra, Alakazam, Gastly and Haunter you just slam your hand on the piano.
Also on voltorb and electrode he slams his hand on the thing, truly a work of art
@@CosmicTheGamer821 I just wasn't watching because a Fall Guys match finalliy started qfter 3 minut- OH CRAP IT STARTED.
That is pretty insane. XD I love how Alakazam is just a keyboard smash
I find it funny how Paras and Parasect sound like when you encounter Guardians in BoTW
Yeah it kind of does! Definitely has a similar vibe!
Poliwrath’s is so perfectly done
Fearow hits you with a hip wholetone lick, and then Paras and Parasect come at you with like, Liszt or something.
Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff’s cries feel like horror stingers for their sprites
Great lmao, I'd love to see you make a song based on their cries; a lot of them have similar ideas and could work as harmonies/bass.
Great vid lol, glad to find you on my algorithm just now
just here to say paras, starmie and mewtwo were so beautiful! like a Erik Satie melody 🤧nostalgia to the max, thanks for making this!
I love how oddly bluesy Exeggutor was for some reason
Poliwrath, Krabby, the Drowzee line, they sounded exactly like the original cries XD
also I like how we have all these random elemental monsters with such musical cries, then we have the family smarter than a supercomputer and their cries are just like *crash krrsh bang* XD
Honestly it's good enough that it sounds more like a midi than an actual person
Great work
I always though the gen 1 cries were more melodic, this is a great confirmation
3:31🎵Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day? Hey-ey-ey🎵
i never played the Gen 1 Pokèmon games but i just love how goofy some Pokèmon like Golbat used to look XD
THE NOSTALGIA
Jynx's was so nice sounding
Now I wanna hear a song from all of them played consecutively
Oh, how terribly delightful. Thank you for this wholesome content.
Glad to see Gen 1 still getting all the love it deserves
I’ve definitely played too much Pokemon over the years because I can recognize an overwhelming majority of them without looking🤣🤣
Good job my dude! Just subbed : ))
My first videogame ever was Pokemon FireRed. I played it until there literally were no more Pokemon in my version of the game I could have caught. I actually caught them all. This has always placed the Kanto games in a special place in my heart. So much of this was nostalgic for me, and incredibly satisfying. Thank you for sharing your gift of music. My favorite ones to rediscover were the Nintetales and Parasect evolution lines. Snorlax was also so cute. Nice job on the Mewtwo btw
Drowzee and Exeggutor were very satisfying
I desperately need a version without the intro and outro, and with less of a break between each cry... Turning this into one nonstop song that I can add to my playlist for the express purpose of confusing my family when it comes on.
Gastly and Haunter were the funniest. Just punch the lower half of the piano for the end of their cry lol, and it works perfectly
"but- but where's mew?"
*mew appearing in the bottom right corner*
"oh, there he is"
I'd love to see these arranged into a melody. The evolutions tend to make these lovely melodic strings that'd sound great without the pauses between them.
Poliwag almost sounded like the actual sound bite. Spearow was awesome to.
I really liked how Zapdos sounded!
It's actually stunning how musical these motifs are. Sure they're super chromatic, but I can totally hear how something so individually cacophanous like some of these are could be used in an ensemble.
From working on this project, I've learned that a lot of them are often centered around C as well (or at least, semi tones and quarter tones near C). So you could really experiment with combining some of them into tunes!