w e i v Re Now suppose that this amazing collection, which I calculate at over $650 (!), is priced at $169.95! Great Caesar's Ghost! I mean, Good Heavens! I love a bargain, but doesn't Zero-G have shareholders to worry about? Sheesh. This massive collection, Odyssey, is shown in Figure 10. Doctor? Doctor who? Yes, that's right. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was responsible for the theme for Doctor Who, a show that has run for generations. Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor (Figure 11), helped me stay sane during those stressful days of engineering school. Radiophonica is a return to the '70's and '80's when story came first, then effects, even though those effects were incredibly— but wonderfully—cheesy. In the Atmospheres group, Atmospheric Echoes and Soup are especially effective in bringing back those Who sounds.
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You would think that Ambiosis continues where Radiophonica left off, especially sampling the loops in the Vintage and Spacey groups. To me, however, they evoke more of the sounds of the '50's sci-fi flicks that made the local drive-in so popular. Well, that, and the snuggling. The elevated spirits of Light contrast vividly with the menacing tones of Dark. Something for everyone! An amazing collection, with twenty categories, Outer Limits has an enormous range of sound textures. I'm willing to bet that the Master of Xoxos would very much enjoy Chamber of Horrors, with its ghoulishly delightful collection of loops. Wild Wah Wah, in the Distorted Views category, is what the Scorpions would sound like, if they met the zombies— 46
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Figure 11 not the band, the brain-eaters. Any of the loops in the Surreal to Real group would work well in—for example—a dystopian-future anime, or a supernatural search-through-themaze first-person shooter. If, in space, February 2012
no one can hear you scream, the sounds in Outer Limits will make up for that. Highly evocative, highly effective.