How the Roland JP-8000 shaped the Half-Life Soundtrack(s)

(Hi Knockout!) The long awaited follow up to my previous video about how the Roland MC-303 was used in Half-Life 1’s credits theme ( Here, we talk about a popular virtual analog synth, the Roland JP-8000, and how, aside from being a very popular choice in the trance genre, also helped contribute to the Kelly Bailey’s work from Half-Life 1, to 2 and the Episodes, all the way to Portal and his VR game Vanishing Realms. These finds and more have been noted down in the VGM Sound Sources sheet: #gid=710667713&range=A20523:G20523 The patches discovered here were 2 years in the making, utilizing the JP-8080, the rackmount version of the JP-8000, and tweaking extensively to match up as close as possible to the BGM. Some of the edits mentioned in the video can be viewed here: (keep in mind this is NOT an emulation VST, but is