That pattern/rhythm with the clock sounds...!

Koori-kun · 11:09 AM

Now that I remember, there's something I've always been eager to find out and never found anyone who's been able to answer me...

OK, there's this pattern/rhythm with clock sounds that I've heard identically in various songs and I've always wondered where could it have come from, and maybe why is it.. uhh.. "popular" for lack of a better word.

I'll link the songs I remember that have those clock sounds:

Toshiro Masuda - Survival Examination (from the OST of Naruto) [At the beginning of the song]
YouTube - Naruto OST 2 - Survival Examination

Nobuo Uematsu - For the Reunion (from the OST of FF7:AC) [Starting at 1:08]
YouTube - FFVII Advent Children Music - For The Reunion

Chikayo Fukuda - Title (from the OST of .hack//GAME) [Starting at 0:10]
YouTube - .Hack Infection~Title

**The-Real-Link** · 10-23-2009, 03:48 PM

From what I can tell they are a looped rythem pattern that uses specific instruments. With my limited percussion knowledge I can discern what I believe are claves, timbales, woodblocks, bass drums, and maybe crotales?

Koori-kun · 10-23-2009, 08:30 PM

ahh.. err I think I didn't explain myself well :C

what bugs me is that I want to know where'd that clocky loop come from, not how is it formed instrumentally... I mean, if it's a loop used in an anime series, a videogame, and a movie based on a videogame, while all three are unrelated to each other, it must be like, something famous or created by someone famous or something, what interests me is the origin of that loop o_o

morallyobjected · 10-25-2009, 10:30 AM

well, as far as I know, it's not from anything famous or anything. it's possible that they were just borrowed from whomever created it first. but there's always the chance that I just haven't heard whatever inspired it, too.

on a side note, TRL, which one were you using to get the instrumentation?

Koori-kun · 10-25-2009, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by morallyobjected

on a side note, TRL, which one were you using to get the instrumentation?

uhh, wait what?

**The-Real-Link** · 10-25-2009, 05:16 PM

I listened to the first two. I can't be certain, but that's what I thought I heard (at elast some of those anyways) They are, of course, synthesized. They may be a percussion loop universal to certain MIDI sequencing programs that are popular in Japan. (Such as the famous "Frog" noise used by Shimomura, Kondo, Uematsu, and others...not sure what program or pad though.)

morallyobjected · 10-25-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Koori-kun

uhh, wait what?

sorry, I was asking The-Real-Link (TRL) which versions of the songs he listened to in order to get the instrumentation he proposed

I think what you thought was woodblock is actually castanets. it's definitely castanets in the Naruto one, and I'm pretty sure it is in the Advent Children one too, but that one is harder to discern. I'm not trying to be presumptuous or anything--just thought it might help for the future.