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OH right also i have to mention the vibraphone, i can't not mention that. Vibraphone is my favorite 'real' non-synth instrument, so unsurprisingly i really love hearing synth versions of it too! the vibraphone layer feels so satisfying to me when it comes in, just the perfect texture to sprinkle on top of these computery 16th notes. all the space cadet pinball songs have really great instrumentation to me. I love the muted guitar and synth bass 1 choice too---this brings me to that old memory again. when i first heard the space cadet track 1 on that mysterious computer...i had NO idea which instruments were "supposed" to be which, i was too used to opl3 and soundblaster live to have any idea which patch numbers they'd have! for me midi patch numbers are like synesthesia-level tight to my memory, i see the number 29 and a opl3 fm muted guitar starts playing my head and i see a red-pink gradient. This is probably very uncommon but: i learned to count through general midi sequencers on an old computer, so i just...am like this. but this made it a crazy experience to hear a midi on a new soundset i'd never heard before! it was pretty exciting to later on finally learn what the midi sounded like on the older soundcards i was more familiar with, and be like "ok YEAH of course that was that computer's version of synth bass 1!" and stuff