I'm currently listening to this song from my childhood, and I find myself curious what synthesizers may have been used to create the theme song to "My Brother and Me." Mostly curious about the main melody 0:00-0:20 then again at 0:39-end. I have a feeling it is an old Korg or Yamaha preset, but I don't have the Korg Collection VST or any Korg keyboards. Anything I'm loading up from my virtual instruments just doesn't sound right. If any synthesizer scholars out there can identify any of the other sound sources for other pieces of this theme, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts. Thank you!

 

Sounds like a cruddy mute trumpet sample mixed with an even cruddier (possibly muted) trombone sample. So, I would suspect a cruddy 12-bit era sampler was used. Could be anything; the mute trumpet is probably pretty easy to come up with on something modern but the weird semi mute trombone might be a little harder; it might have been something that the guy sampled himself, who knows.

 

This has been extremely helpful and informative. Thanks so much, Trurl!!!

 

Try the Korg Triton extreme there are some presets which should fit very well.