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I'm aware TBC create their own original music for their cartoons, but does anyone know WHAT they use to make the music? A program, maybe? If so, which program?
On a similar note, do you like the background music on the site that they originally compose?

They usually use an old electronic keyboard/synthesizer, I believe. And it's an interesting... style of music. Not that good, but unique, and it enhances the toons in its own special way.

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Are The Brothers Chaps the only people in America who still use an old electronic keyboard/synthesizer to create music?

I mean, it's interesting that they would never NEVER replace it with anything else. It's a real shame that this kind of keyboard is hard to find in music stores. I always wondered if it had more instrument sounds than the recent keyboards. Do you suppose it plays miscellaneous sound effects too?

i bleieve it has the same tune as one of them on my Yamaha PSR-75. listen to the intro to Jumping Jack Contest. on my keyboard, that one's called rock-and-roll.

Doesn't one of them play the Guitar for stuff like the Limozeen songs? They at least own a Guitar for that matter.

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I remember one of them mentioning that they were in a band when they were in college. For some reason though, I could have sworn that they said they both play the guitar.

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See the "Music and Video" section of the HRWiki Flashforward article. Apparently, they use either Audition or GarageBand, often with their Casio keyboard.

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Awesome.

TBC really needs to start blogging, so we can know more about them.

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Obviously you aren't part of any major underground synth pop scenes.

I love the simple MIDI music of Homestar Runner.

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The style of music TBC have really fits into the Homestar Runner universe. It would be disproportionate if the music was all polished and highly finalised.

OT:
Synthesizers aren't totally dead yet, btw. Sure it's not the 80's anymore, but if you look outside of the top-10 charts, you'll definitely find something. Besides, software-based synths are becoming more and more popular these days (even though they're still not as good as hardware digital or analog synths).

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I think that the simple toons we hear in toons are usually done with keyboards/guitars by the chaps themselves...

but I think TMBG come in and help them out with some stuff every now and then.

Yeah, its sorta like how Strong Bad always uses old computers

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Very obviously. I'm a musician/composer, and even though I'm not as much into that scene, I know of PLENTY of musicians who use old-school hardware to create their tunes. To them (and a lot of music hardware geeks), they understand that new and expensive isn't always "better"--it's just whatever you can use to make the sounds you want.

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I have to wonder who does the singing in songs like Trogdor? Cus singing isn't something easily produced on a computer

I'm pretty sure The Brothers Chaps do all the singing (except for Experimental Film and The Cheat Theme Song).

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If you look in your Strong Bad sings CD (if you have it) It says that all the lyrics are done by TBC and Missy. There might be a song that has backup singers in it (The Cheat is not Dead), but other than those minor things, it's all Matt and Missy.

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