Giorgio Moroder - The Chase (live all-Analog synth performance)
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[video=youtube;cH2guTTyX8s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=cH2guTTyX8s[/video]
Saw this pop up on an FB feed I follow about analog synths, posted link without fully listening in synthwave thread and after listening to the whole thing thought I would share it. The guy in this video is using thousands and thousands of dollars of all analog retro equipment. Seems to be having tons of fun doing it, and its a fun track to listen to of course. He only made a few minor edits, but this is nearly all live recording mixed with a bit of room ambience.
Gear list:
[QUOTE]Equipment used in this song: Logan String Melody II; MXR EVH117; Roland TR-808, Juno 60, Alpha Juno 1&2; Korg Polysix, Poly 61, Mono/Poly, Micro-preset M500; Moog Source; DSI Tetra; Jomox AirBase99; Touched-by-sound DRM1; Oberheim Matrix 1000; Marion Prosynth; Akai MPC2500 (only for MIDI sequencing), M-Audio Trigger Finger; Yamaha 01v96; Lexicon MPX500 & MPX550, as well as a midi patchbay and additional preamps for my mixer.[/QUOTE]
Idk, thought it was worth sharing in all its cheesy and fun 80's-esque glory and worth a watch but I'll let ratings probably tell me otherwise :v:
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;48357167]wow, that was really amazing. thanks for posting![/QUOTE]
Thanks! On a second watch I'm noticing how silly some of his movements are, but his energy is too damn contagious and he's having wayyyy too much fun to think much of that.
Still having horrible pangs of envy over that gear set though, some very rare finds in there.
If this is cheesy 90s then I'm cheesy as fuck because I still love it, and not only because of nostalgia-ears the synths are genuinely a pleasure to listen to.
[QUOTE=Bugga12;48357257]If this is cheesy 90s then I'm cheesy as fuck because I still love it, and not only because of nostalgia-ears the synths are genuinely a pleasure to listen to.[/QUOTE]
All of these synths have very distinctive sounds. For most of these, it was late 80's and early 90's dance music producers that made them part of the signature sound. They were seen as bad or imperfect, and so were cheaper in many cases- and thus the broke house musician or DJ picked them up to add to their hardware set for performing. For a while these synths were being sold for dirt cheap as the digital movement really took hold, but they're back now and prices are SKYROCKETING. Digital machines aren't always bad, but it is the imperfections of analog machines and their various problems that give them such an organic sound. Its hard to reproduce this in software (plugins for audio programs), and only slightly easier to do it on dedicated chipsets.
I have become a synth nerd as of late. Halofreak could make an appearance here, he's working on constructing his own analog synth right now. I'll leave a few videos showing off some of the machines used in the video in the OP:
[video=youtube;AAgEEu-jTXo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAgEEu-jTXo[/video]
[video=youtube;zABzTg4MGCQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABzTg4MGCQ[/video]
(heh)
[video=youtube;x3NvMk5OceA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NvMk5OceA[/video]
If you want to have fun you can watch demos of just about anything thats retro Roland, Rolands are my favorite. Moogs and Korgs are okay, but Rolands are (imo) the best.
[editline]2nd August 2015[/editline]
endless piles of this stuff on YT. italo disco, electro funk, synthwave, and that sort of stuff is best way to find it
[video=youtube;qYg8VWpge2o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYg8VWpge2o[/video]
Nice Jean Michelle Jarre Shirt.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Equinoxe_Jarre_Album.jpg[/img]
I loved this song the second I heard it on the radio in GTA Liberty City Stories. Great edit!
[QUOTE=paindoc;48357372]
I have become a synth nerd as of late. Halofreak could make an appearance here, he's working on constructing his own analog synth right now.[/QUOTE]
Well more just modifying an existing digital synth
Had an SA-2 laying around and it turns out that there are really well documented circuit bending guides for it, so I got a basic distortion knob set up
[img]https://i.imgur.com/LwVoUnB.png[/img]
Up next is building a low pass filter for it
I really love these synth videos though, this one is probably my favorite
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjfQYOQ9gSo[/media]
Some other ones:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2CEh66gTg[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUZ4YPXTUQ[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QSGOwJ5Rm4[/media]
I don't care how cheesy it seems, its kickass synth.
[QUOTE=Bugga12;48357257]If this is cheesy 90s then I'm cheesy as fuck because I still love it, and not only because of nostalgia-ears the synths are genuinely a pleasure to listen to.[/QUOTE]
the song he's performing was written in the 70s for a movie score
[editline]2nd August 2015[/editline]
that is where the genre really kicked off. think Kraftwerk.
[video]https://youtu.be/6QJH3wzcQ54[/video]
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