Dark Passenger - The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, also known simply as The Synthetic Orchestra, is the pseudo-name 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.

YouTube
Blake frequently releases orchestrations of popular video game music on YouTube. His channel features titles from just about every genre and era of gaming history from Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Sega Master System to Alan Wake on the Xbox 360.

Composing
Blake 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. Blake has also extended his influence outside of YouTube, releasing several albums of original music composed by himself. Blake has recently joined the independent record label, Joypad Records, where he releases a collection of his video game music orchestrations.

Sample development
Blake'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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.