One of the best songs from Lemmings! I always considered the Sega Genesis port to have the most well-arranged music of all the Lemmings ports. Whoever did the arrangement on that version really nailed it.
Lemmings! YES! I loved this tune and game - spent many an hour ripping my (then young) hair out trying to rescue those little buggers. Brings back memories! thumbs up :)
dash8brj I have the game myself since 1992 when my dad built a 286 back then with a Sound Blaster 1.0 installed and it came with some games, like Lemmings for DOS. The diskette still works and I use the joystick to use the commands for the Lemmings.
There's one song I definitely correlate with this game (it was the only song you'd hear on the Psygnosis PSX demo disc which had four Lemmings levels on it), ... Can-Can as made famous by Jacques Offenbach :)
Top work! This video reminded me that I have (or had) all of the Lemmings music as .mod files on some old Amiga floppies. The mods were actually taken from the Acorn Archimedes version of the game; not as good as the Amiga version but much much easier to rip. After some rummaging around in my dad's attic I found a few of the disks and took them home. Checked them for mould and they seemed ok. I got myself a "SuperCard Pro" to copy the disks to my PC but during reading various mechanical failures occurred, resulting in most of the magnetic material being scraped off the plastic disc.
The AMIGA one of the track was so much better but for a keyboard version I guess it was a good idea to base it off of of the MS-DOS one as that was the closest to a Yamaha chip because it was one I guess baseing it off of the Megadrive one would have worked too.
Very nice. I can't wait to see all your future videos that will without a doubt be amazing like always! You have an amazing time doing this stuff because I'm sure your having as much fun as i am. :D
i played lemmings when i was young on my dads quadra and later also on a g3. good times. I always like the cancan 8-bit version and didn't even know it was a classical song until much later.
I loved the song! I listened to both versions of the Lemmings song and they were both great! Admittedly I haven't played the original Lemmings. I did play a version called Pingus on Linux which was like Lemmings but you were trying to get penguins to safety.
0:44 Actually, the DOS version doesn't give it names. Its "official" name, at least in the Windows and SNES versions, is just "Lemming 1". 1:44 The more he goes on, the more it sounds like the Amiga version.
Okay I found out why it's called Pachelbel's Canon. Apparently it's just a name that was given to it by some sites, but isn't actually its official name. In the files of the DOS version, it's just called lemmings1.mid.
I've thought about getting the sa76 to play in bed or on the couch or on vacation. Any other one you could think of ? Something light, 49 ish keys that's new and decent size keys maybe even sensitive keys?
+HOKMAPHSTORE I don't have a website. Maybe you mean "spellunkish" that I use for the credits in my videos. It's only about 15 seconds long. I never really developed it out any further, at least not yet. So I never bothered to upload it.
Transposing... Wait, isn't there an octave switch on the SA-76? If not, I might want to try to circuit bend an octave switcher onto the one I bought in the future.
This song was also used in a game called Pac-Guy (specifically the Christmas edition), which is a sort of Pac-Man inspired game. It also steals tracks from Star Wars and Megaman.
...Let's Go! Lemmings music was actually good, you didn't even need to turn it off to make the game bearable. Just last week i heard the strange science item that there's a type of ant that explodes itself as a tactic and they mentioned the game Lemmings in reference. Maybe Bombardier Ants is the name?
Excellent stuff! It is the ground bass from Pachelbel's Canon, just with the actual canon parts replaced by something else, so that makes it... not sure what, but calling it Pachelbel's Canon really doesn't seem right!
One more thing, I think you are a guy from another time on computers, but many of us also love midi sounds of pc's from the 90's, most of them from soundblaster cards with OPL3 chip, it would be awesome if you could help us to find the best way to achive that kind of sound, so we could compose actual songs, just like the other video about best equipment for DOS games. What I see for todays computers is soundfonts that sound nothing like the real thing. Thanks man, you do a great work here.
Hi Mr. 8 bit. Are you going to putting the sheet music on your website? Also didnt they create a C64 keyboard that overlayed the C64? Yse that for a video!
+Jack Johnson - Actually, I'm no good with sheet music (either making it or reading it) Plus I don't actually have a website setup. But one of the things I strive for in my videos is clear presentation so the viewer can see exactly what keys I'm pressing on all of the different parts of the song. So hopefully anyone who wants to learn the song can do so just by watching the video. And Yes, there was a keyboard that overlayed on the C64. A friend of mine used to have one of those back in the day. I do not currently have one, though.
I had a really cheap keyboard as a small kid. I might find it somewhere in the basement but I don't think i will. ---- I know you've created this channel for "shitty" keyboards but do you think you will review actual keyboards and synths on this channel someday?
8-Bit Keys That's cool. I also thought more that direction. "Vintage" is a very strechable term though. For example: When looking up the MC-909 on Ebay for example (especailly on the German marketplace) it is often described as "vintage" or "retro". WTF! Some of these devices are not even ten years old!! I'm so frustrated about this. Anyway, I would really appriciate something along those lines.
Maybe it differs from version to version, but i think the Pchelbel's Canon song in Lemmings has the correct chord progression, only transposed to C. Could be wrong though...also 7 years late to the party 😅
So beautiful! Well done! Is this the same song? ua-cam.com/video/mgP2NqngSjY/v-deo.html Does anybody know where I could hear the entire song played like this?
I suspect they called it "Pachelbel's Canon" because it uses the same (or a slight variation of the same) chord progression, and all the rest of the song is basically an improvisation over that basic chord progression. I can kind of understand why you missed it; the chords from Pachelbel's Canon have become so commonplace nowadays that they don't really stand out as being from that piece anymore, especially if you listen to a lot of music. All the same, the name is still lazy (and possibly misleading). If every song that used this chord sequence called itself "Pachelbel's Canon", there'd be literally hundreds of songs with that same title.
After listening to this song a few times I realized it does have a resemblance to Canon in D. The chord progression is the same, but the melody is different. Compare the rhythm in this to the bass notes in the original song.
I have the Casio SA 77 which is exactly the same as this one (same look, same instruments with the same number,...), I belive the only difference is that mine has a European Mainland AC Adaptor because I'm European :)
One of the best songs from Lemmings! I always considered the Sega Genesis port to have the most well-arranged music of all the Lemmings ports. Whoever did the arrangement on that version really nailed it.
i can see why it was called Pachelbells canon, Because there are several parts of it played in the background
I wonder how he can not hear that, it's quite obvious :D
Cannon Rock
Favourite version is PlayStation
man that brings back memories , lemmings was so addictive in the day.
Lemmings! YES! I loved this tune and game - spent many an hour ripping my (then young) hair out trying to rescue those little buggers. Brings back memories! thumbs up :)
tell me about it, used to have one on the apple computer back in the 90's
dash8brj I have the game myself since 1992 when my dad built a 286 back then with a Sound Blaster 1.0 installed and it came with some games, like Lemmings for DOS. The diskette still works and I use the joystick to use the commands for the Lemmings.
I definitely hear a large portion of the Pachelbel's chord progression. It's not exact, but I can see where they found the comparison.
Well david is a boomer, it has to sound EXACTLY like the original or it shares no similarities with it.
There's one song I definitely correlate with this game (it was the only song you'd hear on the Psygnosis PSX demo disc which had four Lemmings levels on it),
...
Can-Can as made famous by Jacques Offenbach :)
Top work! This video reminded me that I have (or had) all of the Lemmings music as .mod files on some old Amiga floppies. The mods were actually taken from the Acorn Archimedes version of the game; not as good as the Amiga version but much much easier to rip. After some rummaging around in my dad's attic I found a few of the disks and took them home. Checked them for mould and they seemed ok. I got myself a "SuperCard Pro" to copy the disks to my PC but during reading various mechanical failures occurred, resulting in most of the magnetic material being scraped off the plastic disc.
Adding the sound cloud channel! Great memories from playing lemmings in the PC and in the Amiga
i would like you to do a review on the sa-76
The lemmings soundtrack brings back so much childhood memories.
The MSX cover of your intro is GREAT !
The AMIGA one of the track was so much better but for a keyboard version I guess it was a good idea to base it off of of the MS-DOS one as that was the closest to a Yamaha chip because it was one I guess baseing it off of the Megadrive one would have worked too.
Wow, I think the Amiga version of this track is particularly weak, actually. I hate that it doesn't go up all the way at the end.
the amiga version is killer
Very nice. I can't wait to see all your future videos that will without a doubt be amazing like always! You have an amazing time doing this stuff because I'm sure your having as much fun as i am. :D
Haha what a tune, so many memories of playing Lemmings on my Amiga.
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!!! I used to work for Fry's Electronics, I quit on April 13th!
Was it a Friday?
Nope, Wednesday.
That place sucks as a salesman.
madcat789
...not surprised!
that was sweet love the lemmings game back in the day
i played lemmings when i was young on my dads quadra and later also on a g3. good times. I always like the cancan 8-bit version and didn't even know it was a classical song until much later.
The ground bass from pachelbel's canon is one of the core bits of the song, you even play it in isolation at 1:55...
can you please do a full review on this keyboard
He said he intended to in the very video you're commenting on :P
the Mac version on Mac OS 9.2.2 on a iMac g4 lamp model sounds amazing
I mean... Oh boy, that's a man Who absolutely knows his stuff
In the store the keyboard under the one you bought (in the green box), is the one I own, lol
Lemmings had great music
Very nice done!
Thank you for posting. I appreciate it.
Look into the Casio HT-700. Great 80s keyboard
I have one of these keyboards, and they are very nice.
Do a review of that keyboard.
I loved the song! I listened to both versions of the Lemmings song and they were both great!
Admittedly I haven't played the original Lemmings. I did play a version called Pingus on Linux which was like Lemmings but you were trying to get penguins to safety.
Both versions? There are at least 20 versions of the Lemmings soundtrack.
Loved Lemmings and its soundtrack. Originally played it on the Mac Powerbook.
you are the best!!!
lovely !
Awesome vid! Keep up the good work! :D
This video is 6 years old but where did you get those lemmings sprites on the thumbnail
0:44 Actually, the DOS version doesn't give it names. Its "official" name, at least in the Windows and SNES versions, is just "Lemming 1".
1:44 The more he goes on, the more it sounds like the Amiga version.
Okay I found out why it's called Pachelbel's Canon. Apparently it's just a name that was given to it by some sites, but isn't actually its official name. In the files of the DOS version, it's just called lemmings1.mid.
Omg memories....... memories everywhere...... :O :D
You can press two buttons (Tone and Pattern) together and tune it down 99 cents (99% of a semitone). It'll work.
I have the Casio SA-76
You should try the Casio CTK-491
Trio did da da da on that little keyboard, i think
I've thought about getting the sa76 to play in bed or on the couch or on vacation. Any other one you could think of ? Something light, 49 ish keys that's new and decent size keys maybe even sensitive keys?
Sounds like a General MIDI arrangement. I wonder if they shared some samples with Roland.
Casio always shared the same Sounds from Roland and some others just for some of their Keyboard models. They had to cheat I guess?
Can you play more songs on this model pls
can you do a review on the Casiotone MT-500?
+CollinG Tech I don't have that model currently. Is it historically significant?
it might im not sure i'll check ebay for a good price ok?
the best price is about 80 bucks on ebay and it has everything with it
+8-Bit Keys just for reference, it came out in 1986
i can't find the ending theme on your website!
+HOKMAPHSTORE I don't have a website. Maybe you mean "spellunkish" that I use for the credits in my videos. It's only about 15 seconds long. I never really developed it out any further, at least not yet. So I never bothered to upload it.
that's bad, i think it's a really good piece, think about developing it!
+8-Bit Keys What happened to your website?
f***
Transposing...
Wait, isn't there an octave switch on the SA-76?
If not, I might want to try to circuit bend an octave switcher onto the one I bought in the future.
This song was also used in a game called Pac-Guy (specifically the Christmas edition), which is a sort of Pac-Man inspired game. It also steals tracks from Star Wars and Megaman.
How to record audio???
A cool episode would be to compare the music between most of the machines at the time.
What are the notes on the keys? does it start as F,G then so on, or C,D,E?
do you have a Casio CTK-330
...Let's Go! Lemmings music was actually good, you didn't even need to turn it off to make the game bearable. Just last week i heard the strange science item that there's a type of ant that explodes itself as a tactic and they mentioned the game Lemmings in reference. Maybe Bombardier Ants is the name?
The bass is canon...
very cool
Excellent stuff! It is the ground bass from Pachelbel's Canon, just with the actual canon parts replaced by something else, so that makes it... not sure what, but calling it Pachelbel's Canon really doesn't seem right!
Is this skull some sort of old school humanist thing?
Try the Doom level 1 theme!
My instrument :), is it just the headphones out to the interface?
One more thing, I think you are a guy from another time on computers, but many of us also love midi sounds of pc's from the 90's, most of them from soundblaster cards with OPL3 chip, it would be awesome if you could help us to find the best way to achive that kind of sound, so we could compose actual songs, just like the other video about best equipment for DOS games. What I see for todays computers is soundfonts that sound nothing like the real thing. Thanks man, you do a great work here.
Yay! VL-1 : D
"Let's GO!" ✛
cool video :)
how did you pronounce tchaicovsky?
The "Voice Ahhs" sample sounds like it's taken directly out of a Fairlight. Hell, so does the synth bass.
Fry’s Electronics probably loves you, Mr. 8-bit man. Hope they help pay your mortgage!
We are using this keyboard in music-theory in school!
Very cool. :) CASIOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo.......!!!!!! :)
can you do Proyect x on the amiga with several synths with your friends maby i think that would be awsome
I like the VL-1
That voice aahs are much more familiar for me
what did you use to record it on to your computer? give details.
You know what 80's and 90's Yamaha PSR have that Your new Casio SA keyboard didn't have. The systhesizer and YM3812
Hi Mr. 8 bit. Are you going to putting the sheet music on your website? Also didnt they create a C64 keyboard that overlayed the C64? Yse that for a video!
+Jack Johnson - Actually, I'm no good with sheet music (either making it or reading it) Plus I don't actually have a website setup. But one of the things I strive for in my videos is clear presentation so the viewer can see exactly what keys I'm pressing on all of the different parts of the song. So hopefully anyone who wants to learn the song can do so just by watching the video.
And Yes, there was a keyboard that overlayed on the C64. A friend of mine used to have one of those back in the day. I do not currently have one, though.
Jack Johnson No efense, but, your coment could use some editing...
c64 lemmings music rules
it starts at 3:20
Definitely some Pachebel in that baseline. the main melody changed a lot but the baseline is definitely from Pachebel.
I had a really cheap keyboard as a small kid. I might find it somewhere in the basement but I don't think i will.
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I know you've created this channel for "shitty" keyboards but do you think you will review actual keyboards and synths on this channel someday?
+derLPMaxe Maybe.. but they will be vintage professional synths if I do.
8-Bit Keys That's cool. I also thought more that direction. "Vintage" is a very strechable term though.
For example: When looking up the MC-909 on Ebay for example (especailly on the German marketplace) it is often described as "vintage" or "retro". WTF! Some of these devices are not even ten years old!! I'm so frustrated about this.
Anyway, I would really appriciate something along those lines.
This keyboard has the same sound chip as the casio ht-700 synth
It's PCM though, not analog
It´s the Pachabel´s Cannon!
What do you use to record the keyboard?
The headphone jack on the keyboard.
3:43 - There is a wrong note played there...
i just want her to sit there playing while all them all walk into the ocean and fail to float.
This 50 dollar keyboard from Amazon? A friend of my mother’s has one of these.
I have the same Casio keyboard
Maybe it differs from version to version, but i think the Pchelbel's Canon song in Lemmings has the correct chord progression, only transposed to C. Could be wrong though...also 7 years late to the party 😅
i have that keyboard and use it sometimes
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So beautiful! Well done!
Is this the same song? ua-cam.com/video/mgP2NqngSjY/v-deo.html Does anybody know where I could hear the entire song played like this?
+TheDenix8 Sure enough... same song.
@@8BitKeys is it Canon in D Rock with Lemmings music. Or not excalty.
3:20 harmo-nique
This brings back memories. I like your version apart from it sounds a little 'busy' in the background/percussion.
I suspect they called it "Pachelbel's Canon" because it uses the same (or a slight variation of the same) chord progression, and all the rest of the song is basically an improvisation over that basic chord progression.
I can kind of understand why you missed it; the chords from Pachelbel's Canon have become so commonplace nowadays that they don't really stand out as being from that piece anymore, especially if you listen to a lot of music.
All the same, the name is still lazy (and possibly misleading). If every song that used this chord sequence called itself "Pachelbel's Canon", there'd be literally hundreds of songs with that same title.
After listening to this song a few times I realized it does have a resemblance to Canon in D. The chord progression is the same, but the melody is different. Compare the rhythm in this to the bass notes in the original song.
Why are you looking at the DOS version??? The Amiga version is the original and should have been used.
i forgot how to play key instruments.
3:02
It will transp-- lpfftllt- transpose...
1:52 sounds like Windows Messenger
In 1:52. It looks like you got two messages on Windows Messenger.
I have the Casio SA 77 which is exactly the same as this one (same look, same instruments with the same number,...), I belive the only difference is that mine has a European Mainland AC Adaptor because I'm European :)
the amiga still rulez ;)
in brazil this keyboard the price is R$390,74
Lovely, should have been longer than 41 seconds though.