Ep20: Synth Sounds of Minimoog: Parliament, Pink Floyd, Dr. Dre & More | Reverb 

This is like watching the cooking channel for synth heads. BAM.

you sound like snoop if he was 20% less high

Reverb, whatever you're paying this guy - double it!

"That's not a g thing, that's a Volkswagen thing" - this line made my week!

3:53 - are friends electric by gary numan 6:36 - nuthin but a g thing by dr. dre 10:02 - smart patrol by devo 15:06 - shine on your crazy diamond by pink floyd

This dude is so cool he could air condition a room by standing in it

“We’re gonna turn the range down to 32. It’s at 16 already...so BLAH DOW.” - William Kirk, synth regulator (1:16)

“The Minimoog kind of became my M16 rifle. That’s the synth that, to this day, you could blindfold me and say ‘All right, we want a white-noise puffball with one sine wave wiggling at about 90bpm through the middle of it,’ and I could sit there and dial it in. I learned it that well." (Mark Mothersbaugh, 2010)

Truth being told, i'm gonna sample the shit out this video :)

This guy knows how to make demos fun and informative. Dear Reverb, whatever you’re paying this guy, it ain’t enough.

I had the opportunity to speak to Bernie Worrell once and he said he did three tracks of bass for Flashlight. Track two was track one doubled an octave lower. He did fills on the third track

I must be living under a rock, because I have never heard someone say "noon o'clock". I am stealing that one.

Yes. Richard Wright was a genious! May he rest in piece. Congratulations for that synth sound. It was very close! It almost made me cry.

These vids are the reason I subscribed. And I'm a guitar player. (ok maybe because of Andy too)

The difference in his energy from the Gary Numan song to the Dr Dre track was fucking hilarious.

Captain Kurk is a legend.

That's a soccer mom thang! Haha! This is great and love the personality that comes through.

Glad Numan is getting some love he’s an absolute legend

This makes me want to sell all my guitars on Reverb & buy a Moog. Great stuff.

It's like Snoop and Dave Chappelle vocal boxes had a synth guru baby. I love this tutorial and the host. Reverb, please keep making these videos, they are fantastic! Everything was solid but the Shine On synth patch had too much LFO/modulation (sounded more like a patch that Vangelis would have used), the song's original brass synth is so smooth, no harsh fluttering. But if that's the biggest criticism, then you are doing a bang up job amigo! Very nice!

I was given a hand written sheet from a Roadie of Devo on how Mark Mothersbaugh does the Smart Patrol sound, its all in the glide and using a reverse sawtooth wave... As for resetting the glide to go back to the first note without fully gliding back down, i've found a glitch in my Sub Phatty (The Moog i own and use for these sounds) to where if you release the high note first, before hitting the end note, it resets the whole glide exactly like the album... Mothersbaugh's synth however, was modified to do this without a glitch, and was modded with a reverse sawtooth, which is now present in most newer Moogs, and in the Behringer Model D... However the glide trick is hard to do without mods unless you find a glitch that does exactly that, like i did :)

Fun review, nice moog...checks ebay...going for a behringer lol

"That sounds like an Impala comin' down the block!" This guy really punches up this video, I love it.

Excellent work on a difficult Devo part! I bet they did that live in the studio, the crazy geniuses! We (a band, Temporal Comet) Love Devo, Numan et al! Bravo! 💥

I had the tremendous honor of working with Bernie Worrell on a film score back in the 90's. We worked together for 3 weeks. I must have asked him 24,000 questions. I even had to score grass for him, because that is the way the master works!

Finally some homage to Gary Numan! I love it

Great vid. Just did the “Are friends electric” settings on the Behringer model D and was surprised how accurate it sounded.

Came here for Pink Floyd.. Not disappointed. Richard Wright imo is the greatest keyboardist in music of our time. He could write and compose like no one else, and could ENGINEER sounds like most have never done. The Leslie on the grand piano in echoes.. all of our beloved organ sounds.. the synths all over wish you were here.. the live recreation of the studio synths and keys, on the run (even though I think Roger came up with it), the division bell, and of course the endless river.. Unf. We miss you Rick.

Great Video, thank you so very much. I tried to get that Gary Numan Sound some years ago. It is fabulous to see that other people see Tubeway Army as I do ... :) It is simply a band that made a great sound but they are underrated like the Small Faces, the Kinks, Talk Talk, to name a few ...

dude I love how your doing a sample of Gary Numans Are Friends Electric? cause that's a good song that everyone should know about.

This reminds me of the days of entering free patches from the pages of "Keyboard" magazine into my DX7.

It was the late 70s and early 80s they didn't have post-production like Pro Tools, Mark M. was just that good!🎹🎧💫😵🙈🙉🙊👲

"That's a soccer mom thing, this is a G thang right here." haha

Also how about the whistle-like synth solo in Michael Jackson's "Rock With You"?

It's so good to see some lesser-known Devo songs get some love. Love it.

It's about time there was another synth video. Keep em coming (forever).

Are you sure FlashLight hasn’t got a squarewave in its osc?

what happend to your hair also some amazing touching of the ivorys(plastics) wow thanks for the 30 likes can you do some simply red songs

Very cool! Could you tackle that synth lead from Summer Madness (Kool & the Gang)? I have seen TV shows where the keyboardist is playing an Arp 2600 but I'm not sure what was used on the record.

Surprised that nobody mentioned Rick Wakeman. One of the first to popularize the Minimoog. He used three of them on stage in the early 70's.

I remember when Keyboard magazine would occasionally have a few patches you could enter manually from a page of instructions into some popular synths of the time.

Am I the only one who thinks the first patch sounds off? It sounds nothing like it. I definitely hear some square-wave in there.

If a guitarist selects your video as the first of the day to watch you are doing something right. Always entertaining!

This guy is god, can we pls get a breakdown on ELP - from the beggining?

The Synth part in Dr.Dre's "Nothing but a G Thang" was sampled from Leon Haywood's" I Wanna Get Freaky With You." The whole intro of I Wanna Get Freaky With You is the whole song of Nothing but a G Thang.

Richard Wright was a true genius.....many thanks for this vid.

Absolutely classic choices. Thanks for giving Smart Patrol props.

Synth sounds of jamiroquai, please!

that "Are friends electric" is insane!! whew

William Kurk is captivating. He's such an engaging teacher. Peace captain.

“Or you get this, and that’s NOT a G thang” lmaoo

Funny. I would have assumed the Flashlight Bass was based on a more rectangular waveform rather than triangle

The first patch is incorrect; it’s not a sawtooth, it’s a square. However your personality definitely makes the video more enjoyable!

Will, you spoiled us on this episode! 👏

Please, more of this guy. MORE!

SMART PATROL Ok, enough people have sent this to me, I feel like I should offer to show you how it’s done… especially since I’m old enough somebody might have to replace me some day…. Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO

I about spit out my coffee when he said, “That’s not a G thing.”

Just FYI DR DRE only sampled the the track well... Credit is due to the original track created, recorded and performed by the late great Leon Haywood the song is entitled "I want to do something freaky to you". Classic Hit RIP my good friend.

I remember when I first hear are friends electric due to one of the need for speed games, carbon maybe? I instantly fell in love with those sounds lol. I wasn’t expecting to hear that song, takes me way back. I wish I had one of these damn things and not the virtual ones I want a real one

Hahaha Obviously he never had a minimoog...hahaha... Jeepers, you don't just put an oscillator tuning knob in the middle! You tune number 2 and 3 to number 1 by ear... . Believe me folks a Minimoog can sound much better than this! He seems like a really nice guy, but, you don't just stick the tuning knobs about in the middle...WOW sounds terrible... Please tune that thang!!

Excellent! Some of my fave synth tunes. I got to see and hear the fantastic Mr Worrell at a Moogfest or two. And nice job on the Smart Patrol arp glide thing. The Mr DNA half of the song is the peak of geek funk.

The whistle synth line was invented by the Ohio Players - Funky Worm.

Love the sound for Rick Wright, definitely one of the best pianist/keyboard players in rock

That high pitch at 13:00 was so beautifully sounding like Robert Mason on "Stardrive". ❤

Love your enthusiasum! Sorry, hope I spelled that right! Is this a newer, or older model?

I'm probably not the only one who's going to try this out on his Boog ;)

To really capture that true vintage feel, the picture showing the position of the controls should be a Polaroid photo of the front panel, with the sound name written across the bottom in black permanent marker.

Regardless of how great the tutorial is, this dude seems like the coolest chillest guy ever. Great stuff

It has to be possible to recreate the mysterious arpeggio sound from 'Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA' by Devo on other synthesizers, it just has to!

Thanks for keeping the series going brother! Even got yourself a fresh Members Only jacket! Nice!

I so wish I could get my hands on a Minimoog for "Smart Patrol" alone. Mark said one time that he uses both forward and reverse sawtooth in the song, and that he had Moog modify his Mini to include reverse sawtooth.

You DO realize that the lead line (actually all the music except for the drums) from "Nuthin But A G Thang" was from Leon Haywood's "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You"

Dude you are so much fun to watch. The best thing Reverb did was hire you to make your vids. Thanks again for another one.

Pardon my language reverb,but this series is fucking magic.

the behringer model d isn't a budget minimoog compromise. in some ways it's an UPGRADE for a tenth of the price. get one.

For those of us who don't have a minimoog, it would be helpful to hear the sounds evolve through each setting instead of just hearing the finished product.

Guitarist here who loves analog tubes and blues. This is a GREAT video. Thanks for the information and the humor!

Not bad- but a little lazy on the osc tuning, there was beating where there shouldn't have been; the Dre hook isn't the only one requiring attention to that.

It'd be really cool if you kept playing while turning the knobs! It's always cool hearing things morph.

TIL Moog is pronounced like MOHG. My entire life I said "mooog" and so did all of my musician friends.

You handicapped yourself with the DEVO sound ... the Minimoog has a footswitch jack for Glide On/Off so you don't have to flip the switch manually. Much easier to do that sound if you use a pedal. However, I think the jack on it is like 3/16th inch instead of 1/4 inch so it might be a bit difficult to find footswitches that work with it nowadays (without modifying the jack, plug, or both). But still, this is a super great set of Minimoog patches. Kudos!

Flashlight uses a saw and square for the oscillator settings with very slight detune

Iit sounds good, but the waveform seems more sawtooth than the original. Maybe they EQ's that out?

The Parliament bass sounds like shit. Nothing like the real thing.

Must be nice to be able to mess around on a minimoog. One day...

hi william, love the channel, i have a sub 37, would a behringer model d be worth getting or is the sub 37 capable of most of the d sounds? just a home player but love the old sounds from the 70s, cheers from sheffield england.

This is probably the best synth video I've ever seen... ...And I've been obsessively watching synth videos since about 2012... So, yeah. This guy needs his own channel.

I think that the synth sound for the g thang by dr. Dre the sample came from funky worm by Ohio players the fact I know that's where it came from

I wanna have coffee with this dude and just watch him mess around with synths.

Dave Chappelle does music now?!?

that doesn’t sound like the bass tone for flashlight

OWF off was the best! Thanks for a helpful and fun video

Synth sounds from all the music I like.

You are a great teacher! Really make it easy to understand! I have a Moog Sub 37 and love playing around with it. Lot's of new ideas!

that devo sound is amazing!!! thanks for this!!!

You have no idea how much I appreciate your correct pronunciation of MOOG......peace and blessings to you brotha...

Are Friends Electric? is made with a Polymoog isn't it? You clearly hear the notes overlap.

Loving these vids! How about some Jimmy Jam + Terry Lewis or Al B Sure? :)

I am DIGGING that red Members only jacket, bro! VERY eighties. 🤘❤💯

Hey! You can’t just show up after months of not being here without your flat top!!! Cmon man!!!