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The Terminator: Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album that Brad Fiedel composed and performed on synthesizer for the 1984 film The Terminator. Fiedel described the film's music as being about "a mechanical man and his heartbeat". Almost all the music in the film was performed live.

The Terminator theme is played over the opening credits and during certain scenes at varying tempos, including a piano version during the love scene and a slowed-down version when Reese dies. It has been described as having a "deceptively simple melody" line and "haunting synthesizer music". It is in a time signature of 1316, which came about as Fiedel experimented with the rhythm track on his music equipment, a Prophet-10 and an Oberheim. Originally intending the meter to be something simpler like 78, his finger was rushing when he activated the loop; however, Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of 1316 and decided to keep it, not even realizing the number of beats because he didn't write any notation.