At this moment I am completely flummoxed about the RU-vid algorithm. How has this video existed for an entire year without appearing in my feed?! I watch (and search for)countless Digitone and Rtym MKII videos. Maybe I can find comfort in the fact that it’s a sign that AI bots aren’t able to replace us. They can’t even deliver decent search results?! Outstanding Guac Dude! I subscribed without looking at any of your other videos.
I have watched thousands of gear videos over the past 10-15 years, and this is one of the best I've ever seen in terms of the preparation and execution. Props! The sound pack is also phenomenal.
Wow, you have put so much effort & time & skill into making these sounds, learning the songs, recording the tracks, filming, editing and you’ve come up with a great tutorial in music, fm synthesis, 80’s sounds & more. Thankyou!
have to admit I cannot actually play this Chick Corea tune at that speed ... recorded it at half the tempo into a Cubase MIDI track, then played back at double speed, recording the audio from Digitone at that speed. Combined this with the vid played back at double speed. Same with the Kenny Kirkland solo at the end (there, this “cheating” is also revealed in the captions :-)
Wow, you really nailed those sounds! Mostly on the Digitone I end up with wonderfully inspiring sounds, but I find it kinda hard to really replicate specific sounds for some reason. I'll load some of your sounds to the DT to see how you made them, thanks a million!
Wow, this blew me away. I feel like I’m totally underusing my Elektron gear! Great job! I loved every minute of it! So nice to hear real music with these machines. I can’t take anymore glitch/techno
Not to forget that Digitone can be played also without FM. It can be configured to play as 2 oscillators per voice analog synth. I think there was already some some sounds in this clip very analogish in nature although I can't be sure how patches were created. However very good demo of versatility of the DN.
Yes and no ... ANY Yamaha FM style synth can also be played without FM, if you only use carriers and no modulators. But on most of them, you will only get sine waves then. Some more modern FM synths offer additional basic waveforms. Digitone offers an additional waveshaping feature; but it has its limits. To my ears, you cannot get very close to an analog osc square or saw sound with this waveshaping. The classic FM trick of generating saw by same octave modulator with feedback, and square with one octave higher modulator with feedback, works much better for me on the Digitone. And you can do this same trick on the DX7, and even better, since stacking 3 operators can also get you a useable saw wave, and the DX7 can give you a stack of 3 operators PLUS a stack of 1 operator + 1 modulator w/ feedback. So, on the oscillator side, a DX7 can get closer to a 2 VCO per voice analog synth. However, the Digitone clearly wins in the filter department. Digitone has a decent virtual analog filter. And running two parallel carrier/modulator pairs (one with Feedback, the other with some waveshaping) into that filter can give you quite good virtual analog sounds. I created the “Money for Nothing” lead and the “Africa” synth brass sound in this vid that way.
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Interesting insights. I haven't got that much into FM. Usually finding new sounds is kind of trial and error. For me that is OK as many times I'm not trying to reproduce any specific sound just to find something interesting. I had to take my DN out to try and you are right that it is not that similar with true analog saw if you just run modulators parallel and dial waveshape to look like a saw and keep all ratios as 1. It seems to lack higher harmonics and also it has still little bit of that "bellish" FM timbre. That FM trick with feedback seems to do a better job. Setting waveshape to 0 (sinewave) and then fiddling with feedback and operator level can get closer to a true analog saw. With quick googling Africa's brass stabs were originally created with CS80 (analog) and that calimba with GS-1 (FM synth). Money for nothing intro's synth pad with DX1 but not quite sure about those stabs along the song. Anyways you did great job creating those analog style synths with DN and they worked great in musical context although they might lack character in closer inspection if compared to true analog synth. Usually they are few who actually listen actual sound of synths that closely that they are bothered with such small details.
Amazing video! And thanks for the music history lesson. I'm listening to Mild und Leise now, and it is incredible. I never knew that was a sample in Idioteque!
apparently Jonny Greenwood himself had forgotten it was a sample first ... according to de.wikibrief.org/wiki/Idioteque, he recorded 50 minutes of improvisation on a modular system including some samples, and gave the recording to Thom Yorke. Yorke found the piece that then became “Idiotheque” and loved it; and Jonny first thought he had also created the synth part on his modular. Later he realised it was one of the samples he had taken from the 1975 compilation “First Recordings - Electronic Music Winners”, which he had found in a 2nd hand vinyl store
@@damienwebb3689 My re-made version of those few bars from “Mild und Leise” is included in the Digitone project file that can be downloaded from the link in the video description text. The additional RYTM stuff I added for the Radiohead remake is not in the download, since my focus was on Digitone/FM here. It’s some analog drums and the sample from Arthur Kreiger’s “Short Piece”, which you can easily sample from here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ybBkrZZBdx4.html
Recreating the mild und leise synth sound is highly appreciated. It's not super complex sounds, but they are very refined sounds (which is a territory I usually end up blasting past and let everything modulate everything until crazy) Thank you so much :)
great work, these sounds are killer - and whether or not they’re perfect matches is besides the point, they’re great and i’ll get a lot of use out of them, thanks for doing this!
I pulled the trigger to son when I made my original comment “Nice Sounds” lol That was an understatement! One of the most impressive I’ve videos I’ve seen on RU-vid. Well done’ I will watch this one many times. Oh I love your channel name…Fun indeed.
Man, what an elaborate video / demo! I recently bought Digitone and I am currently in a learning phase, you made me excited about the purchase once again. You made it sound perfect.
I've personally tried to recreate the Mild und Leise sequence so I'm pretty much astonished by how perfectly you've done it. I believe you're the first person on the internet to fully close the case. Are there tools that helped you reverse engineer the sample into the distinct FM synth voices? Or is it all down to knowledge and a spectrogram? Thank you! 🙇
Hi Riley, thanks! No tools involved, not even a spectrogram, only my ears and about 45 years of making music 🙂 But yep, the DEXED software really helped me to learn FM, as shown in the vid ... being mainly a guitar player, I’ve occasionaly been programming synths since like 1988, but never really delved into FM synthesis until recently when I got the Digitone
thx 🙂 it was actually just playing around with the Digitone, running DEXED on my computer with actual DX7 sounds, checking how those were made, trying to recreate them on Digitone ... just experimenting and using my ears 😊
Fantastic work. I yet have to find a way to reproduce dx7 sounds with the digitone. I love my Digitone, but I always felt like I couldn't make it sound like an op6 or a dx7. But apparently I was wrong. Thank you
actually, you are completely right. You can get close, but no matter how hard I tried, I never got Digitone to sound exactly like any of the DX7 presets (emulated on DEXED; I guess it would be even harder with an actual hardware DX7). But I kinda got close at least to some :-)
