Nice demo🔥, it would have even been better if he had given a few indications on the kind of parameters he was modifying when mangling the sound. Thanks for recording and sharing!
😂 This was the early 80’s computer hardware was very expensive and not many people even had access to that hardware let alone have someone to put it all together. We now laugh at this stuff but we lost all our creativity due to having too much more than what we need!!!
Hi, some are stil used today by professionals in the music and sound design industry. Nothing can beat the ergonomic of the VPK, such a great product !
@@llemaire1 Yes the issue is only a few people now are using them due to the cost of servicing them and available parts. Mass produced components these days are not the same as they were decades ago with little variances that gave them their own life. Creativity is based on the max hardware you have available, when you have the world in your hands all the little spots are not seen, this is why with all the tech available today we are basically sampling 1970's and 1980's synths. We have become a disposable society and this leads to inferior products including vehicles, houses, computer hardware, musical instruments ( acoustic guitars atrocious in 2024), barely any synths made these days with a new sound or character. We have reached the end of the line in product development which is what is leading to this stagnation in the Movie and Music industry. It is so bad that I can predict 2 seconds before any interview cut, background blur shot occurs before they even switch to it on television interview segments. In fact it is so predictable that I can watch a 15 minute interview interview and predict every single full blur, half blur or camera switch motorized pan, dual shot prior to the cuts. This is why I stopped watching the news, tv shows it became a bokeh loaded festival with idiotic blurring of backgrounds thus taking you away from the full scene, making it very boring to watch.
Depends. Once the Atari ST came out in 85 you could sequence much cheaper in conjunction with Akai samplers and MIDI. Also the Fairlight could do the same and the DX7 had FM synthesis. This machine however was unique in all aspects until that time.
and you're right... appart the "Polyphonic Sampling" chapter, all the videos were done using later version of the Synclavier II, with MIDI, Sample-to-Disk, VPK, etc...
We had a Synclavier in college probably worth a good 250k back in 1987. The key thing I remember is it didn't attenuate bit-rate based on volume so had a fantastic "bottomless" sound quality. I'm not even sure that's even done now. It was hugely capabable, it looked cool and no corners were cut. Not to mention the user interface was genius and with a bit of time you could figure out at least the basics pretty quickly.
A computational marvel for just 8 bits. Modern platforms can not “justify” 8 million words! In all seriousness, such a pleasure to watch this and step back in time. Thanks so much for posting!!! Very timely with the new hardware unit being released. I wonder how many vintage users will upgrade? Thanks again, really enjoyed this! ✌️🎹🎶
What's crazy is that what costed tens of thousands of dollars back then can be duplicated now by a kid with a cheap home PC and a few free or cheap plugins
A fun video! I can see where a lot of the late 70’s and 80’s synths and work stations got their design foundations from. (Pay Metheny demo’d his to us in Dallas. I remember him saying he could buy a house with what it cost him)
Wow -- the Winchester system allows a "much larger" storage capacity, from 10 to 40 MB. As I sit down in front of my PC with 14TB of storage space . . .
Salut, j'ai connu un Laurent Lemaire il y a...un bail, Lorenzo ou Popi, un excellent guitariste....si c'est toi, jette un oeil à mon Facebook, tu me reconnaitras. Manu
