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[Sacred Synthesis]

Jason, that was quite an achievement, a beautiful little masterpiece.  Wow.  I'm stunned at the polished quality of the piece.  And you had quite a few things happening at once.  I also liked the eye-balling between you and your daughter at the end.  That was cute.

[markwilkins]

Jason - That is absolutely beautiful. I loved loved it. The playing and the vocals are fantastic. Thanks for posting this!

[Manbird]

Wonderful, Jason. Thanks for making this and posting it. And all best to your daughter as she sets off musically adventuring in South Korea!

[Jason]

Sacred Synthesis, Mark Wilkins, and Manbird: Thank you so very much for your kind comments! Working on videos for YouTube can be a little tedious and frustrating at times. Comments like yours are very motivating and keep me going. I will share them with Megan.

I think I'm going to do a "Making Of" video demonstrating keyboards and sounds from the video for those of us who like to chat about such things. The Hydrasynth is a newer instrument for me, and it has some nice touches. I programmed some of the leads first on the Rev2 and then programmed them into the Hydrasynth and was fairly happy with how good they sounded on the digital instrument. Obviously, I wish the Hydrasynth was analog, and yet an analog Hydrasynth would probably be out of my price range.

I really liked that I could frequently play the bass and strings with one hand, especially with a really long release time on the bass. Notice too, the Rev2 module in the upper right hand corner, which is giving that beautiful stereo effect.

Thanks again,
- Jason

[Sacred Synthesis]

Yes, a "making of" video would be interesting to us synthesizer nerds.

[Jason]

Yes, a "making of" video would be interesting to us synthesizer nerds.

  I found my people! Who in the real world can we talk to about programming synthesizers? I hope to get to that soon. I used about a dozen sounds, most of which are original. 

I have one "Making Of Video" already for Blade Runner End Titles, which you can find at the end of the video. I think that one used even more sounds than this one.

[Soundquest]

Count me in as a viewer too Jason.  You nailed the reverb and effects just right.

 PS> I have those same windchimes

[Jason]

Count me in as a viewer too Jason.  You nailed the reverb and effects just right.
 PS> I have those same windchimes

Many thanks Soundquest!
I was fortunately able to borrow the wind chimes over the summer vacation from the school where I teach. Had I not, I probably would have decided to buy them, as they add so much, and I can't find anything that sounds as good with my keyboards. I have great samples of most other percussion on my Yamaha Montage but nothing that would have worked well. I also recorded them a little for a future project or two. Thanks again.

[Soundquest]

The real ones are best, but I've had some reasonable luck with making the standard (4 tube hang from your porch) windchime sounds on the Pro 2, then some LFO varying the delays fast to slow.   You can mess with sample n hold pitches too.

[Jason]

Video talking about sounds of the above cover of "Rachel's Song" by Vangelis.
Discussing using the Hydrasynth to cover Vangelis/CS-80 (and how it can be used to give Prophet Rev2 polyphonic aftertouch). Using Prophet Rev2 for MiniMoog bass and strings of VC-330, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0NrmczQN8

[LPF83]

Video talking about sounds of the above cover of "Rachel's Song" by Vangelis.
Discussing using the Hydrasynth to cover Vangelis/CS-80 (and how it can be used to give Prophet Rev2 polyphonic aftertouch). Using Prophet Rev2 for MiniMoog bass and strings of VC-330, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0NrmczQN8

In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.  I've never played a real CS-80 so I can't directly opine on authenticity, other than to say the updated versions of Arturia vintage synth plugins are in a completely different league than the originals (Arturia has really gotten their game together in that regard).  Their entire vintage collection is worth owning, but several of the newer ones including CS-80 are real standouts.

[Jason]

In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.
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I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo

[LPF83]

In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.

I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo
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You can also try demos for most plugins, including the CS-80:   https://www.arturia.com/component/com_myarturia/id,145/view,demo/

I have sort of a love-hate thing with softsynths -- to my ears, most of them seem to have a specific sound profile to them that puts me off.  They *can* sound great, but in addition to the user-experience advantage hardware has over them, analog-modeled soft synths, at least to my ears, typically miss that last 5% in the sound itself that seems to make 95% of the difference to my inspiration.  With time thoughplugins have been getting better, and are often emulating not only the synth sound generation but DAC characteristics.  Even my highly discriminatory ears were impressed when I heard the CS-80 plugin, and it became more important considering how far out of my budget a real CS-80 was.  When the cost/affordability disparity is THAT large, getting 95% of the way there seems like a worthwhile tradeoff. 

[Soundquest]

Well I'm always thinking about what make a neat wave form from sounds you might hear every day.   So, my latest concoction, seeks to outdo my teapot wavesource in strangeness, and is using the Novation Summit oscillators loaded with sounds of a hair drier !   I was expecting such a waveform to look like mostly noise, but actually there's a high pitch whine that gives a cyclic pattern, thus making it usable.    The wave import on the Summit is pretty easy using the editor.  Also, microtunings and scales can be changed, so on this one I'm using a scale called "Mersenne Lute circa 1635".  Of course bass, percussion, and main piano are using just regular waveforms, but you can hear the wispy sound during the intro, then again on the whole ottro after 3:35.

https://soundcloud.com/wavescape-1/steady-wind

[LPF83]

In search of CS-80 sounds, and if not opposed to softsynths, the latest Arturia CS-80 plugin may be worth a look.. it is one of the better plugins I've heard.


I need to keep this in mind and try to give Arturia a try, perhaps in a store. I don't have a logical aversion to softsynths, (especially when compared to digital synthesizers!) but I have never used them. I guess I do have an extra computer that I could try to hook up. I saw Eddie Jobson (U.K.) a few times, and he was using Arturia CS-80 V Software. That's a great endorsement given what he did with the CS-80.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvpKtsK2Vo

You can also try demos for most plugins, including the CS-80:   https://www.arturia.com/component/com_myarturia/id,145/view,demo/

I have sort of a love-hate thing with softsynths -- to my ears, most of them seem to have a specific sound profile to them that puts me off.  They *can* sound great, but in addition to the user-experience advantage hardware has over them, analog-modeled soft synths, at least to my ears, typically miss that last 5% in the sound itself that seems to make 95% of the difference to my inspiration.  With time thoughplugins have been getting better, and are often emulating not only the synth sound generation but DAC characteristics.  Even my highly discriminatory ears were impressed when I heard the CS-80 plugin, and it became more important considering how far out of my budget a real CS-80 was.  When the cost/affordability disparity is THAT large, getting 95% of the way there seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.

[Manbird]

I posted this a couple years back, but given that (a) yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the release of "Love Me Do" and (b) my version features the Prophet 5 covering the bass line, I figured no harm in reposting! Thanks for indulging me...
https://soundcloud.com/anton-barbeau/love-me-do

[shiihs]

It's been a while since I've posted in the forum but I haven't stopped using my rev2
Here's a little Gregorian chant harmonized on the rev2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqRtlTwXlpo

[Sacred Synthesis]

That was an interesting combination.  The patch was soft and reverent and the chords were fairly smooth.  The only "bump" was the change to a major chord at the end, which altered the Church mode.

[Elric]

Super old K2000 sequence. Maybe some TX81z and K1r..

https://soundcloud.com/ronlussier/got-punch

[Sacred Synthesis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WuQ9lVyqw