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Wondelful presentation! Is your D50 keybed broken or why do you use another keyboard to control it? The D50 blew me away when I tried in 1988. I especially liked the "Choral" sound using the Chase effect. I still remember sound nr.65 was a nice brass sound that sounded very dynamic as aftertouch could be used to change it from mellow to bright. But I ended up buying the D10 since it was multi-timbral. ----------------------------------- But why does the D50 sound better? Some say he A/D converters play a part, but I read the synth engine has two LFOs. The D10 could only use the LFO to modulate the vibrato. What does the extra LFO do on the D50? Sometimes the LFO can modulate the filter to open and close continuously, creating that ethereal sweeping sound. But unless using aftertouch, I don't hear that sound on the D50. They both use four elements/partials to make a sound. And the samples are mostly the same. So what makes the D50 sound better? ----------------------------------- Funnily enough, the string sound with the mix of a sampled attack and synth sustain made it hard to hear the attack sample and sometimes it sounded better with the synth element muted. This can be heard at the end of "Out of blue come green" by a-ha is in this clip.ru-vid.comUgkxBbZC-_mxpnMRFf8GsS_zLu_NXmpB-5vL?si=e2VIRK4GxmUSlBy_ Maybe they muted the sustain but I believe there was another version with just the attack on a sound card for the D50. ----------------------------------- It's ironic that back then the sampled snipets were the big thing but now the synth engine seems much more interesting as it can be tweaked in much greater detail. I always thought samplers are like cameras with their realism while synths are like having a full palette at your disposal. ----------------------------------- My favorite group a-ha used the D50 extensively on the song and album "Stay on these roads". Also, Jean Michel Jarre used it on "Revolutions". He used the presets as they were and I have learned that was the case with some sounds from "Zoolook" with the Fairlight. I had always thought that he tweaked and made his own sounds and felt disappointed to learn that wasn't always the case. ----------------------------------- Sad that the era of legendary synths and gear in general is over as people do everything on their computers nowadays.
Hi @chrismossy9774 Thanks for your reply I used a mother keyboard as it shows off the D-50 with much more expression - the D50 keyboard works fine D10 vs D50 - I think whilst they can potentially sound the same - because they are set up differently - you have to program differently to get the same sound. Also - I believe that some of the loops (digital native dance) are different too Lastly - I think the D50 has fx on that need to be disabled to get closer to the D10 Lastly - D10 is 32 note polyphonic - D50 is 16 note polyphonic Synth sample eliminated - yes - then it becomes more like a digital synth pre samples like a DX7 The sample snippets were revolutionary & now have been so superceded - they are now the charm of the D50 - likewise - the synth engine is an early version of digital analog synthesis “I always thought samplers are like cameras with their realism while synths are like having a full palette at your disposal.” Completely agree - a digital synth is a photo of an analog synth - for 1 second at one time. Analog synths change constantly - as the analog oscillators warm up & cool down - & work against each other. Synths like the Jupiter 4 & CS80 have individual voices that all sound different - & lastly - each CS80 sounds different to the next one. How can you copy that with a one time snap shot for your digital copy? The D50 is hard to program - but I did master it. Re the Era being over - that’s why I have this channel Thanks for feedback!
Great comparison! Mono synthesisers sound very organic in the way the tone moves around and changes with legato and portamento in the manner of a singer or a flute.
I saw the dry video first and this is just night and day. I actually remember playing the CS-80 in the 70's at music shops and trade shows. I was never impressed and thought that it sounded just Ok. But with a bit of reverb and eq, it really comes alive. I still think that a Montage or Kronos could copy these sounds pretty easily, but I see why the CS-80 was considered a classic. Incidentally, Blade Runner had a LOT of reverb. I think you could have added a bit more and it would have been closer to the original.
Also stevie wonder plays on his albums but not on songs in the keys of life he had gx1 dream machine large polyphonic synthesizer with three keys like a organ then he had cs80 late 70s through journey secrets of plants and 1980s hotter than July Jermaine jackson let's get serious
Funny you should say that but you are right. I remember back in the late 70s Stevie Wonder used a synth that was "unavailable" to us mere mortals - which I later found out to be the legendary Yamaha GX1! Well spotted - & yes - Wonder used the CS80 for about 8 years after purchasing it shortly after completing "Songs in the Key of Life"
ELO's synth sound in the early 70s was mini moog.. if you make a new video about mini moog, a good example to recreate from ELO and Mini moog is the song Daybreaker.. here you can see ELO in 1974 playing this song live and you can see our admired and recently deceased Richard Tandy playing that song with his mini moog.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-62luSpy8tN4.html&start_radio=1 greetings
Hola. Por favor, necesito saber el título del minuto 02:05. Es interpretada por Jon...Ha sido una casualidad oír este tema, después de tantos años y queriéndolo buscar, sin recordar título ni intérprete.
this is - 02:05 Jon & Vangelis I Hear You Now Main Theme - thanks for watching - to hear it with fx as originally done - go to - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uhGZS1OO0uk.html - 09:46 Jon & Vangelis I Hear You Now Main Theme
@@AndyWhitmoreMuchísimas gracias. Desde 1983, no he vuelto a escuchar este tema. Tenía una pequeña melodía en mi memoria y no sabía quién la interpretaba. Ha sido una casualidad al ver su vídeo, interpretando ese pequeño fragmento, al que me ha hecho volver a recordar este tema. Lo bueno, nunca se olvida. He tenido suerte con usted. Muchísimas gracias de nuevo.
Ahh - I did this in 2 takes - several reasons - 1 - I have better seperation for mixing - 2 the Leslie is triggered twice meaning you get a stereo Leslie & the sound - in my opinion - surpasses the original - 3 - I could get it perfect in one take! - Thanks for watching
I think he meant that the attack should be softer both in terms of the volume (VCA) and filter (VCF). It sounded a bit too harsh to me as well. I also think the brass lick from "Chariots of Fire" would have benefited from such a setting with the use of aftertouch to gradually open the filter. I made a cover of that theme and know that the brass lick is a bit tricky to get right because each note varies the usage of the filter in slightly different ways. The filter must be controlled live via aftertouch if possible or by tweaking the filter controls. Simultaneously, the vibrato might sometimes be varied in a similar manner, at least for "Blade Runner". So all in all, volume, filter and vibrato are controlled at the same time which is very hard to do but you are lucky to be able to use the aftertouch to help you out here. The Danish Symphony Orchestra played the "Blade Runner" theme but the filter envelope setting was fixed so that the filter opened up the same for each note which made it sound bad and less smooth and dynamic. For both "Blade Runner" and "Chariots of Fire", the sound should imitate a brass instrument envelope. So, on the long notes, after the initial attack which should go from soft to a bit brighter quickly and the fall back to more mellow, the filter then opens again but later and more slowly than one the short notes. And then the filter closes at the end so that the sound is always moving or pulsating. When one plays this, one should think of the sound as a wind instrument and not just play it as a piano. Feel and shape the sound as if you were blowing wind into a trumpet or flute. This goes for all sounds on a keyboard. String sounds must be played with the phrasing and voicing of a real string orchestra to sound realistic. Same with guitar sounds and so on. One must know how the real instrument is played to emulate it well. I hope you might find my thoughts on this helpful.
@@AndyWhitmore send me the CS-80 and will do. Meanwhile check some other videos on you tube where some people use other synths and play the Blade Runner theme
Well Sorrry!! no offense - but I'd never heard of SAGA - having said that - I have done some research & can see that ames Gerrard Gilmour is a talented player & well worth a tribute! Look out for Saga in my next CS80 video - thanks for watching!
Reverb is what air is for etheric oils and without sniffing on the bottle itself : this micro-drop scents needs to be spread out into space and combined with the air itself. Only in this way it gives literally oxygene to that scents which than can travels through the rooms. For me reverb is not an effect but something that is crusial embedded into and for every sound(design) itself as a sonic sculpture. Any sculpture needs a space to be put in and to reveal itself... This fact is also true for sonic sculptures. In reality, "dry sounds" don't exist, except in the world of sounddesign-synthesizer machines. For any performance it would be better to give it that... oxygene... Just a thought. But hey : don't get me wrong : very well reverse engineered re-sound-designed (on the level of the dry sound)! Awesome!
@@AndyWhitmore I’ve recreated the bass before and have a video up of it if you’d like to hear it. Currently working on an even better version. It’s also played slightly differently than you have here, which seems to be based off of a studio interview with Peter Howell where he strangely played it wrong, likely as it had been a while since he recorded it originally. Another thing is that the opening sting sound is a chord, which can be seen in the same video, though whether it’s the correct chord is hard to tell.
@@AndyWhitmore I’ve recreated the bass before and have a video up of it if you’d like to hear it. Currently working on an even better version. It’s always played slightly differently than you have here, which seems to be based off of a studio interview with Peter Howell where he strangely played it wrong, likely as it had been a while since he recorded it originally
Actually I think this video demonstrates that a truly great synthesizer can hold its own with no added effects. Yes, I'm used to hearing these riffs drenched in reverb, but they still sound rich and alive and organic coming directly from the CS-80s line out. Just try that with any VST or modern clone.
Yes - the raw power of this synth - out of the box - is amazing - not bad for 1977 - & the vst sound the same - but don't feel the same - the beauty of analog synths is they add a thickness to the mix that digital synths can not achieve
I deleted my old disgusting comment and i have to apologize. This video is actually really really good and shows how important FX's like a chorus, phaser, flanger or even a reverb or delay is. Your sound designing and playing is actually really good. Sorry again for my old comment.
I always wondered what sounds from the cs80 were used on duke by genesis thanks for the demo ! Although are you sure about behind the lines cos it sounds a lot brighter and bigger on the album and i read in an interviews that tony used it sparsely on the album and mostly on turn it on again and dukes travel ?
Hi - thanks for your feedback - I have done 2 videos on the CS50 Sound demo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-94a7HQScEkQ.html Sound Fx ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kzPWclL6hj8.html I hope this is what you are looking for
I know people like to hear how the synth sounds dry - there is a video with FX. here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uhGZS1OO0uk.html
@@jaggass the CS80 has it all! sub oscillator has sine - the best ever! - both oscillators have sawtooth & pulse width - pulse width gives all variants inc square wave
@@jaggass HI - I can give you a few pointers: 1 - CS80 has 16 individual oscillators with 16 individual signal paths - most synths (eg - Prophet 5 Rev 3, OB-8) us a chip (Curtis chip in the Prophet & OB-8) that has 10 oscillators & 16 oscillators in one chip meaning they all sound the same - & then they are processed as one. So the CS80 does literally sound like 16 individual voices. 2 - CS80 has 2 individual synths - synth 1 & synth 2 - so you can set them up as 2 different sounds - even the Jupiter 8 has both banks of oscillators going through one set of processing. 3 - the pitch bend strip is seen on very few other synths 4 - there is glissando & Portamento 5 - it has 5 LFOs for modulation routes (like the other CS synths) meaning it has much more flexibility for vibrato type effects - the Jupiter 8 has 2 & the prophet 5 has one - unless you use the 2nd bank of oscillators as a LFO 6 - Polyphonic After touch 7 - The best ever ring modulator 8 - Tremolo that speeds up like a real Leslie speaker There is more - but this is the main ones Thanks for watching!
