Birth name Blake Robinson Years active 2001–Present | Name Blake Synthetic Role Musical Artist | |
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Occupation(s) Music software developer, Composer Website www.syntheticorchestra.com Albums Super Metroid Symphony Similar People Minako Hamano, Kenji Yamamoto, Smooth McGroove, Peter Hollens, Video Game Orchestra Profiles | ||
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The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, also known simply as The Synthetic Orchestra, is the pseudonym for a British video game music composer and orchestrator Blake Robinson, who has developed a substantial following on YouTube, primarily for his orchestrations, recreations and remixes of popular video game music.
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- An unhealthy obsession the blake robinson synthetic orchestra original
- Inside your brain original music by the blake robinson synthetic orchestra
- YouTube
- Games development
- Composing
- Sample development
- In popular culture
- Discography
- Video game credits
- Awards
- References
Inside your brain original music by the blake robinson synthetic orchestra
YouTube
Robinson frequently releases orchestrations of popular video game music on YouTube. His channel features titles from a large variety of genres and various eras of gaming history from Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Sega Master System to Alan Wake on the Xbox 360. He is also known to play live streams every Sunday starting at 6:00 P.M. GMT. The songs included in his playlist includes most of the songs on his channel, plus a few exclusive songs, only featured in his live streams.
Games development
Robinson began a career in video games development as a tools programmer and web developer for Electronic Arts. As music became a bigger interest in his life, he turned his focus to making a career of it, leaving EA and becoming a freelance music software developer and composer. While he is no longer a full-time games developer, Robinson still spends his free time designing and developing independent video games.
Composing
Robinson is a keen user of Image-Line's FL Studio and is listed as a power-user on their website. He frequently posts tutorials and walk-through videos on his primary and secondary YouTube channels and is known to go into great depth about the processes and tools he uses to create his music. Robinson has also extended his influence outside of YouTube, releasing several albums of original music composed by himself.
Sample development
Robinson's primary career is audio software development. He is currently part of the Spitfire Audio development team, a collection of composers and engineers that create sample libraries for the Kontakt sampler by Native Instruments.
In popular culture
The Stanley Parable appeared during the third season of House of Cards, where President Frank Underwood is being shown the game by a novelist and video game reviewer who is writing his biography, with the puzzling nature of the game used as a metaphor for the current politics in the show's fiction. Robinson's music from the soundtrack accompanied the scene.