Blake Robinson
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Blake Robinson |
| Born | London, UK |
| Genres | Soundtrack, Orchestral, Classical, video game music |
| Occupation(s) | Music software developer, Composer |
| Years active | 2001–Present |
| Website | www |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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