How to program synth strings on any synth 

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Absolutely

Yes please. Thank you so much for this video

Would love that too!

Add me to the chorus who would love to see more sound design content from a master. Thanks for this one, Matt!

It also sounds like it has reverb on it due to the lush release

​@@mrkeeny thats just the P5 for you , definitely no effects on this :)

Agreed, my P10 is the most heavenly thing I’ve heard.

@@mrkeeny Yes !!! One day a DJ came to visit me, and I was just adjusting the sound on my Prophet 8. He asks, what kind of processing do you use? I told him: no processing, release dude

Agree, but for the same reason I find the P5 has to be eq carved a lot to sit in the mix, much more than my Juno.

Its like running through the list of ingredients to a dish we all love.

Get a Prophet REV2. It is much more versatile. I own both, and as it was said in the video, the Prophet 5 is a very basic synth and there‘s nothing you couldn’t do with the REV2.

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@@deantiquisetnovis And in Prophet 8 ( I have ) you can do almost everything. But the capabilities of Take 5 are captivating. He can do what others cannot. And it has Sine. Which is rare for analog synthesizers. There is also Poly Avolver, but it is now a rarity, unfortunately.

Yes. A really nice electric piano sound for the Prophet would be awesome. I've found some pleasing piano like sounds on the Prophet-6 by twiddling but a real classic EP sound would be great.

Maybe I will!

Brass definitely please 🙏

Oh it WAS gary numan... I gotta stop commenting before I finish watching videos

I was looking for a coment for the exact same minute haha. Only in my case the reference i catched was Godspeed from Frank Ocean. Amazing video as always

I wanted the show the sound raw as I feel it's too easy to reach for a chorus in these situations. Of course that would sound great!

you have to use yours ears don't rely on visual cues

The Prophet 600 and Bro800 are darker sounding. I actually like the filter, but it's a bit different. Knob positions will be different with any two different synths.

That live in 81! video is my favorite! It sounds better than the album!

Lemme guess, fast attack, release probably pulse wave.

Hi, that's interesting about those old Yamahas. I'm a sucker for that vintage string machine sound too, but I think synth strings can sometimes suit the music better. But it's great to have options!

@@lundsweden I'm not completely sure, but think those effects is BBD effects. It came in some of the minor CS Synths after the CS80 and their "combo" organs and Synths and made it into the Electone organs too. the Symphonic effect is similar to chorus with a subtle LFO and has a slightly different texture than a standard Chorus that fattens up an otherwise little thin and boring single Osc. synth voice if you ever played those 70's electronic organs with cheasy sounds like violin, trumpet etc. And yes if you just needs a "filler" sound in the background a synth string or pad, prefearable analog is often much more organic and blends much better than eg even a good sampled string sound. I remember fighting to get the DWG wavetables in the Korg M1 and T3 to sound just reasonable like the DW8000 but the digital filters was just not up to it. It always boggled me why Korg never took the hybrid design up again. The DW8000 is a much under estimated Synth that never got the love it deserved. Really a jack of all trades combining Analog Filters with the stabillty of Digital oscillators. I traded my DW8000 (wich was my first Synth baught 2'nd hand) with an EX8000 when I baught the M1, cause I couldn't get the nice string sounds in the M1, and to this day the EX8000 is the biggest regret today that I ever sold, together with a TX802, Even there is a FM engine in the Kronos with far more possibilities Its just not the same "sound" as a Yamaha, even it reads standard DX7 sysex. It can still do much more than just the standard DX sound tho. The problem with the Kronos is you need a Haward degree to fully comprehend all the things it can do. But stuff like the old Analog machines like the Prophet 5 is you have a knob and switch for every thing you can modify right in your face ... no 10 deep multy screen menus, or tiny 3 digit displays to show a single value at the time when programming it.

The sound of a good string ensemble generator (such as the Eminent / Solina sound) is unique, and can't be recreated using multiple oscillators. It's particuarly noticeable when you play a low note on a string machine - you get more of a 'sizzling bacon' sound, rather than the cyclic 'unison' sound of a multi-oscillator-per-voice polysynth. There are technical reasons why this is the case, but it's mostly because of the way the 'spike' in a sawtooth wave overlaps in a semi-random way in an ensemble generator, rather than the predictable, cyclic 'beat frequency' of two detuned oscillators. Even a good stereo chorus unit (like what you would find on a Juno) can't achieve that classic string machine 'sizzle'.

@@utdgrant The technical difference is it's paraphonic instead of polyphonic, the filters and Amp EG's don't restart for every note you play legato or with multiple notes. The organs and Stringmachines can technical produce as many tones as you have keys, but as you only have typical 1 filter and Amp EG when you play melodic lines with several notes the EG does not retrigger unless you lift all fingers then it will restart on the next note. That is why the sound is different and the fact that you have 12 oscilator boards one for each note and then they use eg 4 frequency dividers for each board, for a 4 octaves keybed. That is why you get a more rough sound as you go thru more dividers for each octave you go down. It would be fairly easy to emulate this in either software or FPGA as the circuits is building on kinda basic sound generation techniques. But sadly most software remakes of classic string machines is usually based on sampling which simply don't give you the "real" sound over a certain range of keys

​@@mrdali67 I too love paraphonic architectures, but I would still argue that the ensemble generator is the single most critical factor in recreating that classic string machine sound. I developed a series of modules for Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular, called the "Stringer 76 Paraphonic Construction Kit". It consists of a Divide-Down Oscillator Bank, a four-stage Phaser (inspired by the Small Stone), and an Ensemble Generator (inspired by the Solina circuit). It's the Ensemble Generator that really is the secret sauce. I also developed a completely free-of-charge module called "Micro Stringer" which runs under Voltage Modular Nucleus (also free-of-charge). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tz_4zhvnn9c.html

give it a go!

Reface CS is excellent - so quick to dial in sounds that I'll often pick up my CS just to keep things happening. Give it a try for sure because a number of its texture and mod settings are actually multi-oscillator waveforms.

I don't think so, they said they were going to send one but never did

@@MattJohnsonJamiroquai ah too bad! I guess I'll put a message on the forum to encourage them.

The 6 is very reliable in my experience

@@MattJohnsonJamiroquai thanks, lets see in a weeks time with the ob6👍

Yes

Yeah, you'd use whatever synth you have... or else there's the Behringer Solina or Pro-800, or for software, String Machines. And 100 other options. Nobody needs to go out and buy a Prophet 10 in order to get this sound. It's a nice synth, though.

Exactly. You can even use a simple plugin as well.

You need a degree for that!