Orchestra hit

Beginning of the Infernal Dance by Kastschej from the Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky as a model

Orchestra Hit (Abbreviation Orchehit u. A .; German: Orchesterabschlag ) is a sampler instrument or a sampling sound source that was produced by a combination of orchestral instrument sounds and in which the orchestra simultaneously with a staccato tone or sound like a tutti - A chord or flourish sounds in a classical orchestral piece .

Orchestra hit is assigned number 56 in the assignment of the General MIDI (GM) program slots (in the ensemble group).

The original version of the orchestra hit was accidentally recorded from a vinyl record. This formed the ORCH5 of the Fairlight CMI , the first digital synthesizer with sampling technology. It was the opening chord of the "Infernal Dance" from Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite .

It has since become very popular in pop , hip-hop , and techno music as a dramatic and percussive component since the 1980s, and manufacturers of various synthesizers added similar samples to their devices. Today it is contained in almost every sample library (sound library) in different variations.

"Orchestra Hit" is z. B. can be heard in the song "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by the group Yes .

synthesizer	sample	Curve progression
Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3 (VSC3)
Yamaha CS1X

See also

• Roland Sound Canvas
• Stick (music)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Philharmonia Orchestra conduced by Josef Krips (Classics for Pleasure CFP 40328)
2. ↑ cf. Orchestra Hit Presets Fairlight CMI
3. ↑ cf. Fink (2005). - It was sampled by David Vorhaus.
4. ↑ Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

literature

• Robert Fink: The Story of ORCH5, or, the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine . 2005, Popular Music 24. 3, pp. 339–356 ( cambridge.org jstor.org )
• Immanuel Brockhaus : Kultsounds: The most defining sounds of pop music 1960-2014. Bielefeld 2017 ( partial online view )

Web links

• Orchestra hit
• The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars
• Musicologist on "cult sounds": In search of the DNA of pop

Wiktionary: Orchestra hit  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Orchestra Hit (alternative names of the lemma)
Orchestra hit; Orchehit; Orchestra tee; Orchestra tee; Orchestra Hit; Orchestra staff