ELTON JOHN - FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND iPad & Piano Tribute

Published on Jul 30, 2014 Bill Vincent

Note what he has to do at 1:42. How difficult would it be for manufactures to add a slot to rest your iPad in?

"This is my rendition of Elton John's 'Funeral For A Friend' using only an iPad 2, Axiom MIDI controller and my piano. I wanted to see if it was possible to recreate as closely as possible the intro to FFaF using just the iPad, and this is what eventually came of that. While not absolutely perfect, I think it gets the point across! :) BTW, NO sampling or recorded waveforms were used here - it's all synthesizer programming like the old days!

The synth apps used are:

Beepstreet Sunrizer (wind effect) [iTunes]
Moog AniMoog (howling sounds) [iTunes]
Arturia iMini (Bell) [iTunes]
Arturia iSEM (Main Brass-synth sound) [iTunes]
Bismark BS-16i (Strings, additional brass sound) [iTunes]
Baldwin L1 piano (real!)

Thanks for watching/listening!"

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