Thursday, March 22, 2007
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How are you doing the drums?
ReplyDeleteLike, I see you playing, but is the Virus doing the drums? Or something else?
ReplyDeleteHey Dude! I think your name is Dave right?
ReplyDeleteI found your video of Hot For Teacher the other day.. and it seems like every synth search I do now, you appear! You ROCK man. What awesome talent you have.
I had to go grab my wife and make her watch you play the Hot for Teacher song.. that blew me away. I think you play it better then Eddie on the guitar!
Well, anyway.. I'm a struggling keyboard player too.. I'm just down to one Ensoniq VFX-sd right now. I used to have a Roland Juno-106 too! It's amazing I ended up owning the one that inspired me to take piano lessons. My choir teacher in Jr High brought one into class when it was brand new .. I was MESMERIZED. And by chance ended up owning the same one years later.
Anyway..enough of my boring stories.
Take it easy.
Rick
Man, this guy's the best at synth karaoke!!!
ReplyDeleteHi there...
ReplyDeleteDok, I programmed everything on a Korg 01/W back around 1995 or so. It's a step editor so you can imagine how much fun that was. Every drum roll, etc., as close to Neil Peart's performance on "Signals," was hacked away at the best I could.
Ahh, but now we have the wonderful general MIDI resources at 2112.net! I plugged YYZ into Garage Band and had a decent enough mix to jam along with in no time. I won't video that one... there's not enough merit in videoing a Garage Band jam... so my next vid will probably be another "01/W keyboard karaoke" instead... probably another original tune. They're more fun to noodle out with...
Thanks for watching everyone...
And Rick I loved your boring Juno-106 story.
ReplyDeleteMine: I saw a JX-3P in the music store and was mesmerized by it. I talked it up around the house, and one day Dad comes home and says, "let's go buy that keyboard!" He got some humongous bonus... the only time he'd ever bought me anything for more than $100 (and not even at Christmastime... I crapped myself).
So we get to the store, and there's a new board sitting next to the JX: the Juno-106. Twice as many patches, ten times more editable (without an external programmer), and $400 less to boot. We got that one. I took it home and loved it, but was disappointed in its not having a sequencer, sync, random LFO settings, and overall analog tone. What an ungrateful 14-year-old bastard.
But Axel-F and Jump still sounded good enough for the high school bands, and I still have the board to this day (minus one burned out voice).
--D
My first synth was the Matrix-6 of course, hence the alias and the name of the site. It was between that and a DX-7 in 1986. I saved up some allowance, combined x-mas and my birthday gifts and begged. I managed to get one brand new in the box for I *think* $1100 or so out the door. My best friend at the time got the Yamaha DX7 which was a little more. We had the Analog vs. Digital debates back then before the debates even began, but it was more about each of us trying to justify our own synths.
ReplyDeleteHere's my boring story:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 14, in about '88, I hated synths and synth music. I thought most of the bands of the time based on synths were for wimps (I liked punk rock), but I had been playing piano my whole life. I saw a guy demoing the Korg 01/w at Guitar Center one day, and it blew my mind - changed my whole outlook. "You can program drums in that thing?"
Anyhow, I somehow convinced my dad to get me one for Christmas (the guy at GC said "You know you have the coolest dad ever, right?) and I subsequently spent the next 4 years programming every song I knew into that sequencer, step by step. Drums, bass, guitar - everything.
Still have that 01/w today, but rarely bust it out. Maybe I should. What sucks is I've lost all of the floppys that had all the sequences I made. I would love to listen to those again...
Ok, settle this for me folks:
ReplyDeleteRAW-land or ROLL-land?
I've never heard anyone pronounce it RAW-land before.
Sort of like multi-TIM-bral vs. multi-TAM-bral. I don't see an A in the middle there, but apparently I'm supposed to. ;D
YUCK. butchering an old analog track, please get the obxa like rush had, that was the sound, the virus sound like poo, lacks high end transients and cut.
ReplyDeletebah.. please play with real analogs. YUCK..
me?
ReplyDelete"roll-and"
and... lets get back to the "my first synth" stories. they are much better than any Dave bashing.
my first analog was an SH-101 that I got at a garage sale in 1998 for $50.00 (I was 21 at the time).
when I was a kid I played all the Realstic Casio's I could get my hands on and didn't even know what a synth was until I saw the band Brainiac play in 1993.