{"id":150280,"date":"2025-09-10T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=150280"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:39:19","slug":"how-to-make-70s-80s-synth-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/09\/10\/how-to-make-70s-80s-synth-soundtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make &#8217;70s &#038; &#8217;80s Synth Soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creating 1970s\/1980s synth and electronic soundtracks.\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lsroDMBGGkM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his latest video, composer &amp; synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thatsnicemusic\">Adam Znaidi<\/a> offers his take on how to make music inspired by classic &#8217;70s &amp; &#8217;80s synth soundtracks.<\/p>\n<p>Znaidi citest classic scores of John Carpenter, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith and others as inspiration. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Topics covered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n01:36 Getting Inspiration<br \/>\n02:04 Composition<br \/>\n02:48 Equipment<br \/>\n03:46 Bass<br \/>\n04:44 Chords<br \/>\n05:26 Arp<br \/>\n05:54 Noises\/FX<br \/>\n06:34 Final Piece<br \/>\n09:24 More Thoughts<br \/>\n10:06 Plugins and VSTs<br \/>\n11:54 Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Are you into classic synth soundtracks or making music inspired by them? Share your thoughts on the video in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at how to make music inspired by classic &#8217;70s &#038; &#8217;80s synth soundtracks.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/09\/10\/how-to-make-70s-80s-synth-soundtracks\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Make &#8217;70s &#038; &#8217;80s Synth Soundtracks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[3161,35894,1650,636],"class_list":["post-150280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recording","tag-composition","tag-retro-synthesis","tag-scoring","tag-soundtracks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/retro-synth-soundtracks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150282,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150280\/revisions\/150282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}