There are many timbres out there in famous songs, movie/TV themes which haunt us either because they’re so cool that we become obsessed with finding out how it’s done, or because although annoying we couldn’t avoid them because every producer on earth felt compelled to use the same trendy sound. If you’ve ever been curious as to where these famous/infamous sounds come from, check out the research done by synthmania.com.

“Famous sounds” are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status.