Some MORE of my sound/synth demo videos. Use headphones

[davlippo7]

[davlippo7]

Staying alive, staying alive ha ha ha ha staying aliiiiiiiiive.............

[Gunnar J]

Huston..... do you read me???

Interesting, and certainly quite different than the 'usual' way those of us that let the fingers touch the autocomparrangerkeyboards does it.

[davlippo7]

Here's where I wrote an interesting piece that was lost forever explaining in detail concerning my demo style. I might write it again but not at the moment as I'm not finished crying over it being lost.

[davlippo7]

I'll attempt to recreate my long winded lost post.

I was trying to come up with a method to demo all these synths and spontaneously venture through many voices to provide a broad comparison in random fashion. Unscripted if you will and there are trillions of combinations of sounds between the boards and effects etc. so it's quite a task but it's what I like to do to entertain myself so I thought why now record these and post them.

For whatever it's worth and I know arranger folks probably don't care and there are a lot of those on this site. An arranger post can get hundreds or thousands of hits but I'm wasn't trying to achieve hits or subscribers necessarily just doing it because I'm already doing it anyway. I guess I'm more of a sounds enthusiast.

No arranger is going to give anyone sounds like these being all analog and thank goodness analog is back and relatively affordable. Sampled sounds are great too as I have the M8x, PA5x, YC73 & SeqTrak but there's nothing like real analog sounds swirling around in the atmosphere and in stereo changing & morphing in real time. Then I demo'd (2) separate PRO800s each on L/R channels which is like dueling swords.

I don't think I've seen many videos like mine and might not be what the people want. It's odd getting 200 hits on the post but only 40 views on the video. That means most people aren't watching them but it's there for some who are curious or should I say courageous?

One music tuber got 29,000 hits in 3 days and it was an off-topic thing so who knows the answer. I do suppose if I posted the same thing on Yamaha Synths (does that even work anymore) I'd get a bunch more. Not going for numbers anyway but I hope someone likes it. The sound quality appears to be excellent on my test just using a Zoom camera with direct line in running through my system.

Let me know if it doesn't interest you so I can get a feel. My next video I'll turn on the PA5x and do some DJ time warping, ear bending & morphing of styles and flip though drum kits in real time mixed in with analog goodness. Let the games begin. That analog RYTM MKII is so insane, I've never kept any drum machine, I've always hated them but this thing is unlimited fun. The PA5x is pretty good as well with capacitive touch shuffling through kits is a blast. I'll do that next video maybe tomorrow.

The reason I turn off/on the effect so often is because the analog fans like to hear it dry in comparison, that's a tough crowd.

[sonic2000gr]

I read your initial post before the glitch took it down.
Good thing I didn't answer immediately
The reason the arranger videos get a lot of views is not only because we have a lot of people with arrangers now, but also because the tunes are more recognizable, covers of known songs.
Now if you were to play something like a J.M. Jarre piece cover or at least something inspired by it you might get more views.
As far as arrangers go, yes they won't really produce the exotic sounds of most synths, they are mostly oriented in reproducing natural instruments faithfully.

[amwilburn]

Nope, you aren't the only one, don't worry

Like I'd said in another post (somewhere): do you want to do endless covers, like I do (which I really enjoy doing), get an arranger.
Like this:


Or do you want something like this:

Get yourself a synth (or 2 or 3)

Both are cool!
Which you already know since you already have synths and an arranger

Mark

[davlippo7]

My Christmas analogy goes something like this:

With a purely random and spontaneous spirit of investigation and exploration on analogs using however many units you have is like Christmas morning every time you turn them on.

So it's Christmas morning and the tree is surrounded in presents all with your name on them begging to be opened. So if that circumstance excites you then you need analog gear, as much as you can get. OR perhaps even like Halloween when after you return home from your adventure you go through your bag of goodies.

It's totally different from the arranger (more like your mother making you do your chores ) and I have a predetermined bass, a lead, a string, brass etc. and you're playing a show tune. It's not ever going to be as real as the original, you can tell it's not the original or a real orchestra or band and you could just hire a DJ to play the original which would be more realistic.

Not to mention all the effort to select voices that match what you are attempting to replicate.

True that in a live situation you can make money because people like and will pay for that experience but it's still never the same as the original.

What if they played the original tune and "the band" just pretended to be performing live? Some do

Well obviously we all probably like doing both but when I play my trumpet to a tune it's more like work and when I play my trumpet ad-lib it's more like fun. Most paying humans only want to hear what they already know and not something they don't know I guess that's human nature.

So maybe I hear a fantastic player on an arranger play something popular and then it just makes me go back to the original and play that instead of playing his again. Singing is the same typically we want the original and rarely does a replicant exceed the original. It is certainly a lot of work to try.

[sonic2000gr]

In the end, it's what makes everybody happy, relaxed, etc.

You are happy exploring analog synth sounds. Others enjoy playing covers. And so on.
I have a soft spot for arrangers as this is how I started 35 years ago.
And you don't necessarily have to play covers on them anyway. The accompaniment is a huge source of inspiration. Choose a few and jam with your stuff for hours. Many of the Montage presets that come with arpeggios and drum patterns are close to this experience (but not exactly there).
I enjoy programming sounds on the GAIA2. I like the overall timbre of this synth and the many controls make it a breeze. So in esence this is my equivalent to your analog explorations (though on a digital synth). But I also enjoy playing known songs (many times just playing along with YT or spotify), playing my own stuff and playing piano.
Why limit your experience and pleasure to one thing

[sonic2000gr]

Many of the Montage presets that come with arpeggios and drum patterns are close to this experience (but not exactly there).

So here is an example of me disturbing the neighbors with the Shaking trees (buildings? ) preset on the Montage. Multiple arpeggios can really make something simple standout.

jam.mp3

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[amwilburn]

Sonic
1) that sounds great
2) it was probably unintentional, but you ended up with essentially the Major variation of the Vincenzo Soundtrack's Doomsday track :p
It sounds related enough that yours could be the music for the dvd extras menu of Vincenzo


Mark

[sonic2000gr]

Sonic
1) that sounds great
2) it was probably unintentional, but you ended up with essentially the Major variation of the Vincenzo Soundtrack's Doomsday track :p

Thanks!
I've realized more often than not that when jamming you are many times playing variations of stuff you've heard before and you might not even know. It's completely subconscious and the effect is certainly magnified if you use arps (or styles).

[davlippo7]

I do have the Korg PA5x so I do DJ improv jams a lot.