Hi!

Some may know I did a reorchestration for T2 to use with the Pinsound Board. It will be available soon via the Pinsound Community Forum.

The next project in line is Indiana Jones. After that it will be White Water. IJ is 30% done at the moment. It will be a almost perfect match to the original soundtrack Chris Granner did back in the 90's. Not just the OST cut but also all the FX and Fanfares redone in HD.

For White Water I contacted Chris to find out who was the voice of Wet Willy. It's actually Warren Davis who is best known for Q*Bert and other Videogames.

He is willing to rerecord all the speech for White Water. He asked for $100 expense allowance, which is an awesome offer. Since my reorchestration is completely for free (it will be around 200 hours of work because of programming instruments and using the real once like guitars, bass, drums), I wonder if some of you like to help me out with a small donation to pay Mr. Davis to cover the expenses.

I don't use a penny for myself on these projects. I do it for the community and for the fun.

If anyone likes to help me out, please contact me via PM.

I will keep you guys informed about the progress of the project.

Olli

Here is the List of backers (I'm thinking about a small reward for those who helped out):

Jam_Burglar ($20)
Dmod ($25)
Oyvind Moll ($55)

$100 Dollars collected! Awesome, THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH. This will all go to Warren Davis. If you still want to donate, it will be saved for future projects.

http://www.pinsound.org/

The Pinsoundboard is a replacement for your soundboard in many many pins (please checkout the Pinsound page to see which machines are supported).

You will be able to replace all the soundsamples (Music, FX, Singles, Speech and Jingles) with anything you like. For example: You can have the original soundtrack from the movies in your Terminator 2 pinball machine.

My goal is to reorchestrate the existing, original soundtrack/fx/speech/etc of the pinball machine in CD-Quality stereo sound. I'm a professional audio engineer and have access to very good equiptment.

All you have to do is get the board, load my soundfolders onto the flash drive, plug it in and go.
For stereo sound you will have to rewire the soundsystem and I also recommend a speaker upgrade (broadband speakers for the backbox). Pinsound hopes to offer you a complete plug and play set in the future for you to just plug in.

You can checkout my Terminator soundtrack here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2932654/T2%20Reorchestrated.mp3

ps.

rom support for the original sound rom files will be a feature. You can switch between multiple mixes via the volume control. If you have any question, please visit the pinsound webpage or hit me up.

For copyright reasons you can't listen to the samples on Pinsounds webpage anymore. These were just up for naming purposes. You still can get some of the legacy mixes on pinsound-community.org!

I was in France to meetup with the Pinsound team. This is a very very ambitious project and $400 is not very much regarding it's developtment time and what it's capable of. The board is made by 2 brothers, not a huge team. It was in developtment for years and still is. They try their best to keep the price as low as possible. It's a very advanced piece of hardware and gives you a EQ, Line Out, easy to use software and much more. That's worth the price alone! Actually my Subwoofer now reacts almost like a shaker.

People are willing to spend the same for a Color DMD (please don't get me wrong, I have two and I love them). After you buy it you have no way of changing anything you don't like about it... like colors that were chosen by the creator of the rom or even making your own color pallette for a pin that's not yet done. With the Pinsoundboard you can do whatever you want. You can use my reorchestrations (and those of other people) and simply replace what you don't like about it. You can play instantly with headphones if you want (it's awesome!).

I never thought how much impact the sound has on the game just until I had the board in my hands. When I was playing T2 with the OST I was blown away. Same goes for my reorchestration when you first hear everything in HD quality and Arnie is easily understandable (Thanks Joe Gaudet )

Just a reminder: This is my personal opinion and I'm not part of the Pinsound Team! So nothing of what I say is representative for Pinsound.

You can hear my Terminator 2 Sounds I made for them:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2932654/T2%20Reorchestrated.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2932654/T2%20Reorchestrated%20OST.mp3

Everything is new, including the Voiceacting made by Joe Gaudet.

I'm a musician for 15 years and a professional Audio Engineer for 5-6 years. I'm working with metal, punk and rock bands most of the time. So I will play all the instruments or programm them for the music. That's what I allready did for T2.

You can't pull single instruments from the rom files. What I did was: I had Wav files of the original Music/Speech/FX. I imported them into my DAW (Cubase 7.5). For the music I made clicktracks that matched. After that I started programming the drums like the original, playing bass and guitars etc..
Of course you could do everything with virtual instruments and I did use them here and there (not for guitars though). It's simply a matter of taste.

ITS A LOT OF WORK. It took me 200 hours for T2. You can hear both versions I did above. (OST and Reorchestration )

Exactly. Since I'm doing all the work for free I hope for backers to pay Mr. Davis. It's just $100, so not very much. It's not just about the speech. I will also redo all the Music and Fx. Don't forget you will need a Pinsoundboard to use them. I also recommend a speaker upgrade for Stereo 2.1!

They have videos for Taf and Tz around. You can listen to my T2 versions that I just posted

Post #6. Copyright issues. The only reason Pinsound had them online was for naming the events! Please go to Pinsound-Community.org to download the packs.

I do have the board installed.

I don't have the time for an extended review YET but might do it in the future.

There is no lag that I could hear and I'm pretty sensitive about lags.

The board is easy to install, it took me 3-5 minutes maybe.

You can of course replace the repeated clips with full songs. You can use multiple files PER music/speech/fx that will randomly selected if you whish (I used many many speechsamples for T2, like 3-5 for each callout!). You can replace everything with everything It has to be 44.1 16 bit wav for the moment but Pinsound is working on supporting other formats.

You can have everything in 2.1 (you need to rewire the machine obviously and the soundtrack has to be in stereo of course)

You have a dedicated 2 band EQ for each channel (Cabinet, Backbox) and volume control, loudness switch... everything is VERY EASY to use.

You have a lineout for headphones that can be muted when you plugin anything (if you want!).

The board itself is very clean and everything fits. The packaging is very good and comes with a quickstart manual. It comes with an adapter for WPC DCS and Dataeast including all screws, a keyring, manual, flashdrive, pinsound stickers and a nice little handwritten card by Timothee and Nicolas from Pinsound

At bootup you will hear some beeping. Right now the board takes around 15 seconds to boot (the Prototype took twice as long) and the booting time will be shorter in the future.

Romsupport is planned so you can use the original romfiles to play the original soundfiles.

The software does have some small bugs that Pinsound is aware of and they work heavily on it (nothing that disturbs the actuall playing).

AGAIN: I'm just a user, I know the Pinsound Team but I'm not the manufacturers' representative.

Thanks! I want White Water to be just as good or better. That's why I need to work with Warren Davis!

Music: Will all be redone with real and programmed instruments. Songstructures, tempo, pitch etc. will match. This will be the music as you know it... just with real instruments in CD quality.

Speech: Will be redone by Warren Davis. Nothing else to say. This will be like the original in CD quality.

FX: I want to match it as close as perfect to the original. I'm not thinking about changing but enhancing the sound.

As a good example of what I do listen to the T2 reorchestration!

No, I don't think that's possible as they don't use a soundboard anymore. It's all on one board and I think they're emulating the sound engine. Not sure though.

I don't get it to be honest.

So I thought you were asking to use the Pinsound Board with MMR by PPS for example.Right?

What's different about the sounds of the MMR? I thought they're the same as the original?

edit: I see they're uncompressed... that's nice. Still mono though.

Very much appreciated!

YES You can of course just put a blank file in there (not sure what happens if there's no file at all). BUT I'm not sure right now if the Sound (explosion 5 in the folders) is used somewhere in the game. That would of course mean it's missing there too!

I don't know the reason why these Systems arent supported but I guess the structure of these were WAY different than the supported boards. But that's just a guess.

You will be able to customize the sounds as you want. No limitations. If you look at pinsounds webpage, you can see the filestructure and you simply replace any file you don't like with anything you want. It's really THAT easy. If YOU don't like it, I'm happy you will have a way to make it the way you like it. That's what the pinsound board is made for. Now we just need a CPU Board that's just as easily modifiable

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$100 got collected. Big thanks to the backers. I will now prepare the tracks for Warren Davis so he can record all the vocals. Of course I'll show you examples as soon as I get them.

In the meanwhile, I'm working on Indiana Jones. Please check this link if you're interested:

http://pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9

Guys, I'm really flattered by your support. Thank you so much!

Stern is not supported by the board I'm afraid. I don't own a Stern Pin but isn't there a software to inject music into the existing soundboard (maybe not compatible with this generation)?

I'm just making music. I'm not changing the music, I'm not making money on it. If I have to take it down... may it be. I don't see any kind of copyright infringement.

Yeah, I don't think this is any case of copyright infringement. I'm not hurting their business in any way or steal anything. And even if they want me to take it down: I can die happily because my projects are Chris Granner-Approved.

About Creature From The Black Lagoon: I think you are right. This pin definately suffers from very midi'ish sounds which is a shame. It's a great pin but I don't own it. So it's not on my priority list for now. That's of course not a NO NO NO. I might do it, but there are so many pins out there and I just got hit up on P-Roc projects that might be interesting as well.

The reason I do this has a very egoistic side of course... because I want to use my sounds and I'm happy others like them too

Thanks again for all the interest, you can always hit me up with question or contact Nicolas/Timothee at Pinsound, they're really nice guys.

I just wanted to let you guys know that the money and the files have been sent to Warren Davis and he will start working on it. As soon as I get something back I'll let you know and of course show some samples

Same goes for the Bigfoot Warren wasn't sure he did the voice for the Bigfoot. As the Bigfoot has the face of Mr. Nordman it's very possible he did the voice - but I'm pretty sure it got pitched afterwards.

Maybe someone in the forum wants to help out on the female voice and bigfoot.

I ask you guys and girls to be patient with this one. It will be a lot of work, I'm still finishing Indiana Jones atm. So this is not a matter of days but rather months (T2 took like 2 month from start to finish). I'm doing this in my spare time, I have a family.

I will update this thread with progress so you see I'm onto it