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Creating the Windows 95 Startup Sound ("The Microsoft Sound" by Brian Eno)
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| May 30, 2013
| Chris Higgins
Posted on 04/28/2015 7:17:34 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: Army Air Corps
heh heh heh,,, yup
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:14:23 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: the_individual2014
>
Ahhhhh thanks for eh FR man that posted this, I think I will mess with my Win 7 professional 64-bit OS to get this as my start up sound for Win 95 was my first windows OS in the 6th grade,... You are most welcome! Your suggestion inspires me to do the same with my Win7 system.
In fact, I wonder what it would take to graft that sound into my MacMini, to replace the Mac's "C chord" chime on powerup...? It's in the boot ROMs, not on the hard drive, though, so that might be impossible.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:21:27 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: BenLurkin; Chode
>
The slow is very cool Beautiful really. Yeah, I listen to a fair amount of ambient/meditation music and this is really quite compelling.
> But I am curious about the Nyan Cat that flashes on screen at around 2:09. Was that in the original commercial? Because if so then it would definitely have been subliminal.
I have no idea. In fact I didn't even see it until Chode pointed it out.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:23:21 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
what's the chance he simply took an ambient track and sped it up to 3.25 seconds?
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:25:47 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Chode
>
what's the chance he simply took an ambient track and sped it up to 3.25 seconds? Significant, I think.
Now, if he simply sped it up, the pitch would have gone into the ultra-sonic "dogs only" range. So if indeed he created it at the slow speed, when he shortened it he would have had to under-sample it and reconstruct it, to retain the proper pitches, while shortening only the time.
It's quite possible that's what he did. The beautiful complexity of the long version suggests to me that he did it that way.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:30:55 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:31:52 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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Here’s one of Justin Bieber’s songs stretched out by 800%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bidHnEekXpE It’s 800 times better than playing at regular speed! I agree. But I'm gonna need some better drugs, to last the entire 35 minutes of it!
This one is quicker: Justin Beiber 800x faster.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:41:21 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
More like 80,000 times faster!
ROFLMAO! Sounds even better!
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:42:22 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: tacticalogic
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Let me know if you ever run across a clone of the Windows 3.1 Hotdog Stand theme. This one, right?
Hard to believe nobody has made one up for a recent Windows... It's so famous and totally over the top.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:47:17 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored; tacticalogic
Actually, it kinda reminds me of Windows 8 Metro on meth.
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posted on
04/28/2015 8:48:22 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: Chode
Frosted Strawberry PopTart space kitty with rainbow exhaust shooting out the back! LOL
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:19:13 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less. - Freeper relictele)
To: tacticalogic
How's this?
Still too much gray in it, but you get the idea... This was just playing around with Windows Classic and Colors.
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:28:07 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
Want a great Brian Eno song?
Just Another Day One Earth. You’ll find it.
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:32:33 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Chode
I miss the flying toasters, myself
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:51:27 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.)
To: dayglored
Somewhere on a shelf in my home office sits my windows 95 upgrades to 98 compaq laptop that still fires up. Memories. :))
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:56:59 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/29/2015 12:35:47 AM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: dayglored
Wow that is so blatantly Macish.
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:30:37 AM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:30:59 AM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: dayglored
I used to use that on all the admin accounts.
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posted on
04/29/2015 3:16:07 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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