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Rob Hubbard
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Rob Hubbard (born 1956, Kingston upon Hull, England) is a music composer for several microcomputers of the 1980s, especially the Commodore 64.
Hubbard went on to write or convert themes for games such as Monty on the Run, Crazy Comets, Master of Magic and Commando. Some of his most famous tunes include also Thrust, Spellbound, Sanxion, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Ricochet. The game Knucklebusters includes Hubbard’s longest tune that is 17 minutes long. The loading music for Sanxion, Thalamusik (named for the software house that published the game, Thalamus) still remains a strong favourite among his fans to this day.
After working for several different companies, in 1989 he left Newcastle to work for Electronic Arts in America as a composer. He was the first person devoted to sound and music at EA, and did everything from low-level programming to composing. He became Audio Technical Director, a more administrative job, involving deciding which technologies to use in the games, and which to develop further. After the Commodore 64 period he wrote some soundtracks for PC -games and Sega Mega Drive. One of his most famous C64-era compositions is the music featured in the loading sequence of the game Skate or Die, which features samples of electric guitar. Playback of samples was facilitated by exploiting a flaw in the SID sound-synthesizer chip: altering the volume register produced an audible click. Thus altering this register thousands of times per second allowed for a crude form of sample playback.
Hubbard went on to write or convert themes for games such as Monty on the Run, Crazy Comets, Master of Magic and Commando. Some of his most famous tunes include also Thrust, Spellbound, Sanxion, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Ricochet. The game Knucklebusters includes Hubbard’s longest tune that is 17 minutes long. The loading music for Sanxion, Thalamusik (named for the software house that published the game, Thalamus) still remains a strong favourite among his fans to this day.
After working for several different companies, in 1989 he left Newcastle to work for Electronic Arts in America as a composer. He was the first person devoted to sound and music at EA, and did everything from low-level programming to composing. He became Audio Technical Director, a more administrative job, involving deciding which technologies to use in the games, and which to develop further. After the Commodore 64 period he wrote some soundtracks for PC -games and Sega Mega Drive. One of his most famous C64-era compositions is the music featured in the loading sequence of the game Skate or Die, which features samples of electric guitar. Playback of samples was facilitated by exploiting a flaw in the SID sound-synthesizer chip: altering the volume register produced an audible click. Thus altering this register thousands of times per second allowed for a crude form of sample playback.
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Rob Hubbard Interview
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PREVIEW : CRAZY COMETS
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mat64 wrote:
GOD!
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SIDhartaC64 wrote:
Supreme. http://www.last.fm/music/N%C3%BCrnberg+Trial
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DrRgne wrote:
bringen back some memories :) http://www.6581-8580.com/ best hp for sids!
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BPenguin wrote:
Yes Monty on the Run is one of the best songs ever. We used to play it on repeat on our old C64...
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f0x wrote:
Sigma Seven :]
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pushingsquares wrote:
<3
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MexicolaSoul wrote:
The only four words you need: Monty.On.The.Run And no, you can't argue with me..
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HEPB wrote:
C64 8-)
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inphanta wrote:
The Delta in-game theme was a masterpiece, as was Lightforce.
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thenktor wrote:
@ deizi: Wow, great site :)
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deizi wrote:
i prefer http://www.se2a1.net:40000/soasc/index.php?t=C&s=rob+hubbard
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llxx wrote:
I heart the Commando theme.
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Slaggprodukt wrote:
international karate still plays in my mind every now and then...
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Deepspace_ wrote:
The Delta in-game music continues to inspire my in most of my music. thanks rob.
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OverCoat wrote:
Apparently the XMPlay Audioscrobbler picks up the .sid files with metadata. This is good.
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dj_manipulator wrote:
Thanks for the tip! I always felt bad listening to the not-really-well-emulated versions of Nemesis and Star Paws!
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radulescu wrote:
Well, http://sid.oth4.com has a clear advantage: the mp3 files there are genuine HardSID recordings, meaning they are recorded directly from a SID chip. Any emulated stuff isn't the real thing, sometimes the differences are quite striking. There's a lot of Hubbard there, the way it's meant to be heard.
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Eftos wrote:
sanxion, lightforce, nemesis the warlock - enough for a lifetime.
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DjGiana wrote:
Pitel (Tuesday 5 December 2006) Send a Private Message to Pitel http://sid.oth4.com A lot of SID music in mp3 here :) just get a .sid player and some tunes mutch easyer
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RobinMarcha wrote:
except for tunes with multiple subtunes it seems?
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