Help me identify this crazy sound

[Rico]

Hi,

I'm not really looking to remix Metroid Prime, but I've always been curious about that high pitched flute-ish noise from Chozo Ruins. It plays a repeated four note appreggio around the middle, and then a solo later on.

The problem is, I have no idea what it is (someone said piccolo flute) or how to approximate the sound. Anyone have an idea or preset?

Thanks in advance!

edit: apologies if this should have gone in Sample Request, I only just noticed the thread.

[Yoozer]

If it's not a piccolo, it could be just a simple sinewave... which you can make with pretty much every synthesizer or plugin out there.

Is the melody A-G-C-E-F-E-A-C#-D-C-F-A-C-B ?

[Cyan]

Sounds like a pure sinewav to me, with a little bit of portamento going on, I think.

[Rico]

No, it's the other instrument. It's solo is at 2:53, something like:

G3---C---G4-F-Eb-D-Eb-D-C-Bb-C-G3
G3---C---G4-F-Eb-D-Eb-D-C-Bb-D-C

It also does the stuff around 0:50 (three-note appreggios, sorry)

Strangely enough I tooled around with sine waves and portamento and got a pretty close sound, but it's not perfect. Thanks for the help though!

[OverCoat]

Yeah, it's pretty much just a sinewave with portamento


p.s. I want to play around with the Metroid Prime choir sample. They are so obviously sampled but I don't know where Yamamoto got the choir sample from.