Matrixbrute: Tangerine Dream & Chris Franke 

You can download the sequence and patch programs for free from the Arturia Matrixbrute FaceBook user's group. I talked with Chris Franke in 2006 when he visited the Analoguehaven synth booth at NAMM.

​@@wedream2...did you ask him, why not or if there will be new material offer to the public from him ?!

@@gerdschoppenhorst1154 Chris Franke has a RU-vid page that has about 45 new playlists of material, often electronic, that he composed for possible TV/film use in recent times.

Thank you!

You welcome, by playing so many tangerine dream which I love from 70s and 80s, all good tracks is incredible. I am listening them for days.

Thank you!

Thank you. Great synth for TD's music.

Worth every penny. My Minimoog just sits in the corner and stares.

My Sub 37 IS Also Weeping@@wedream2

Thanks, but it took a lot of "takes" to get a relatively mistake-free recording on each track. I'm a sound designer, not a musician (unfortunately).

Thanks. I agree, the Matrixbrute is really special.

Since you asked, I'll make them available soon.

@@wedream2 Hi did you ever get aroiund to posting the files on the facebook page ??? cheers Kev

@@kevinbaker1873 There were posted April 14, 2019 as a project file under name Tangerine Dream-Franke. I just checked, and it's still there.

All my patch/sequence files are available on the Arturia Matrixbrute facebook users group. This particular one was uploaded 4-19-19. You can find it by Franke's name in the file name.

"One for the Books" from Miracle Mile (starts at 9:21)

I haven't been doing "covers," just using songs to illustrate what the MB can do. I'm mainly trying to work out the sequences and the leads for each piece. Sorcerer was fairly simple compared to later, more complex TD songs. I don't have albums of any of the titles you mentioned (other than Sorcerer). I don't recall Risky Business having any additional TD songs other than "Love on a Real Train," "The Dream is always the same," and the very beginning of Tangram. I actually have not heard "Heartbrakers," "Near Dark," or "Shy People." I'll have to check those out. I'll consider doing more, especially now since the MB just got a serious firmware upgrade.

@@wedream2 just type the albums in youtube they are FREE all the soundtracks tangerine dream did, I went on Wikipedia to find out the names of the soundtracks tangerine dream did. RU-vid has all the soundtrack albums. I have been listening to your tangerine dream videos I would like more youtube videos on heartbreaker, near dark, shy people, etc would be really nice.

@@wedream2 Risky Business also had a remix of Exit called “No Future (Get Off the Babysitter)”, an excerpt from Force Majeure (“Lana”), and the music from the pursuit sequence (“Guido the Killer Pimp”, starts as an excerpt from Cloudburst Flight but then evolves into something slightly more in the style of Dr. Destructo). One of my favorites soundtracks by TD is Firestarter, it has some nice sequences too (e.g. in “Charly the Kid”).

@@TangerineTux Thanks for the info. I forgot about Lana, and had heard the Cloudburst Flight motif from Guido before. Didn't know about No Future. Nice sequence in Charly the Kid. More TD trivia: the 3-track sequence in Sunset Drive from the Wavelength soundtrack is identical to that in Remote Viewing from the Exit album except for an added 4th sequence track . The leads are completely different. The bass melody in Running out of Time from the Miracle Mile soundtrack is almost identical to the lead in Love on a Real Train. My favorite TD soundtrack is Sorcerer--dark, sinister, minimalist.

Thank you!

If the sequence isn't transposed from the keyboard than only the lowest key is assigned to the left side of the split. If the sequence is transposed, then the split is assigned to the highest key of the transposition. In either case, the majority of the keyboard for leads is on the upper part of the split.

@@wedream2 I understand how to work a piano. Song of the Whale part 2, no problem. Part1, forget it.

@@HalfDeadGeezers Part 1 is fabulous. I love the huge snare sound. One of TD's best , along with Logos.

@@wedream2 Ditto on Logos and Song part 1. And the passage you did from White Eagle. 'Thief' got me into TD because I heard 'Confrontation' on college radio, which was actually Craig Safan. So the Thief soundtrack got me into both Tangerine Dream and playing guitar. People don't speak much of Edgar's guitar abilities and some just plain felt it did not belong in their music. I loved his playing and tone. Although a pioneer of electronic music, always on the cutting edge of technology, I always loved h I s guitar playing. Don't even get me started on Christopher Franke.....

@@HalfDeadGeezers Froese's guitar playing was perfect for the TD music, just as Gilmore's was for Pink Floyd. When I was demo'ing the MacBeth M5 synthesizer at the Analoguehaven booth at NAMM in 2006, Chris Franke showed up. We had an interesting chat.

For one thing, I'm just one person to TD's 3. And more importantly, I'm a sound designer, not a musician. I couldn't play a sequence in time if I wanted to. I'm demonstrating my sounds in split mode. I suck at playing the keyboard.

@@wedream2 Hi - I appreciate your reply, It's just that as a listener of EM for almost 60 years, I find that lots of modern players have a tendency of using continuing chordwork instead of short bursts - which TD KS KWerk Jarre Kitaro used. TD's Chronzon being a typical example. I also see the likes of Jon Lord P Moraz et who had such keyboard majesty - they were just amazing to watch - more recently - Rachel Flowers. Just Wow! It's just that I find it so disheartening that we do not see keyboard skills like that with fine sequence dexterity in today's synth output. Plus, the loss of the solo keyboard is rare now - one of the finest of this is Kitaro - how that guy can use one note - one key to amaze us is just awesome. How come we do not see that today. Me - I am an analogue man and think that digital has robbed synth players of so many skills and tasks. One of my fave opening from a solo artiste has to be Drunken Mozart in The Desert...of how it just flows. And the other - by contrast - is 'A Classical move' by KS - what amazing entrances. Look - good luck with your continued soundscaping and I will look in again some day. Stay safe - keep it synth.

@@bigjimtanguk7525 I envy keyboard skill. You're right, Rachel Flowers is amazing. Since I just don't have that kind of talent, I focus on what I can do--creative sound design. Thanks for your response.

@@wedream2- You do it well sir. Maybe if Big Jim would try playing his own synthesizer he would stop criticizing everyone else.

Il y a dans certaines séquences des basses très profondes que j’adore et des accompagnements arpégés qui sont sympa … j’ai moi même un MatrixBrute mais je crée mes propres morceaux et je pars des Presets d’usine que je transforme à ma sauce lol! car pour moi, partir d’une simple sonorité pour faire du Sound Design je ne maîtrise pas trop, c’est plus simple pour moi et beaucoup plus rapide de partir d’un son d’usine faisant partie des 256 Presets…