OP-X PRO-II: Retrotone Bank - Alphaville, Madonna, Marillion, Steve Winwood...

Published on Sep 12, 2019 virtualoberheim

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Demo of the new "Retrotone" bank for OP-X PRO-II. The bank can be downloaded for free on this site:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/u...

The video features the "Rack Edition Huge" interface version of the synth within Logic Pro X in an iMac 21 mid 2011.

Learn More about the synth's available interfaces on this site:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/i...

The midi keyboard's two knobs at the right are learned to the increment/decrement buttons which allows to switch patches remotely. Learn more about in on page 85 of the synth's manual.

The heard audio comes directly from the stereo outputs of OP-X PRO-II. No external effects or any other treatments of any kind involved.

The featured patches:

00:21 051 Forever Young
00:44 034 Eternal Pad
01:09 035 Genevieve LF
01:30 037 Live To Tell Strings
01:57 061 Pulse Sequence DL
02:15 069 Oberheim Soft Pad II
02:24 070 Oberheim Cream Lead II
02:36 065 Supersaw Pad
03:03 066 Prophet Unisync III
03:15 028 Marillion Lead
03:26 030 Sample Vib Pad
03:35 035 Electro Space ARP
03:56 079 Steve Winwood Lead
04:09 080 Industry Nation Lead
04:22 031 Supersoft Lead
04:35 052 Genesis Many Strings M
05:05 054 China Clang
05:20 055 Double Brass
05:32 056 Matrix-12 HP Pad
05:45 058 Minimoog Short Bass
05:54 059 Minimoog Short Perc
06:03 060 Minimoog Dirty Fifth
06:16 001 Synthmania Minimoog
06:32 002 Downsweep
06:51 004 Kochbeck Multimoog
07:13 005 Clear Lush Brass
07:30 008 Matrix-12 Modpad II
07:45 010 Oberheim Upsweeps II
08:05 012 Shine On Solo III a VEL
08:22 014 BJH Living Dark III a
08:35 015 BJH Wall Solo II DL V m
08:59 019 Lush Percsweep
09:18 020 Oberheim Strings
09:34 021 BJH Martyrs Solo II
10:00 022 Blade Runner Base
10:16 023 Double ARP Harp
10:35 025 Electrofunk Bass
10:50 027 Jupiter-8 Picked ARP
11:08 038 Meditation Ensemble
11:28 039 Meditation SH
11:54 041 Meditation SH ST
12:04 042 Meditation SH ST II
12:31 044 Warm Downsweep
12:45 046 Police Magic Moog
13:00 048 First Fourth Base
13:13 067 Obie Short Brass
13:23 068 Oberheim Pulse Lead II
13:34 073 Chroma Warm Cembalo
13:47 074 Fullanalog Saw Pad
14:08 075 Hipass Downsweep
14:20 076 Perc Pulse Lead
14:31 077 Metallic Sync Lead
14:44 081 Thomas Dolby Chord
14:52 082 Great Cities II
15:11 084 Double Brass II
15:18 085 Double Brass Damped
15:23 086 Double Brass Damped II
15:46 087 OB Lush Sweeps
16:19 088 Tears Voices
16:39 089 Floyd Learning To Fly
16:45 090 Pulse Mini
16:59 091 Mad Minilead
17:24 092 Borseti Pad
18:01 094 Freerun Upsweep
18:12 095 La Villa Oberheim Pad

Final bass: 037 Live To Tell Strings

Comments:

06:51 004 Kochbeck Multimoog
This sound is known from Carsten Bohn's famous original music for "Die drei ???". In his live project called "Carsten Bohn's Bandstand: Brandnew Oldies" the band's keyboard player George Kochbeck plays this sound on a Multimoog in the title "Minor majority". Check the video preview number 8 on this site:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/deta...

06:16 001 Synthmania Minimoog
A Minimoog sound inspired by this video from Synthmania:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Jlp...

08:05 012 Shine On Solo III a VEL
Inspired by the lead sound Rick Wright used on Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond in the live concerts

08:22 014 BJH Living Dark III a
Inspired by the studio version of Barclay James Harvest's "Live Is For Living"

08:35 015 BJH Wall Solo II DL V m
Inspired by the solo sound used in Barclay James Harvest's "Back To The Wall".

09:34 021 BJH Martyrs Solo II
An improved version of the pulse lead sound used in Barclay Harvest's "In Memory Of The Martyrs":

10:00 022 Blade Runner Base
Inspired by the music for Blade Runner by Vangelis

03:15 028 Marillion Lead
The lead sound used in Marillion's "Incommunicado"

01:30 037 Live To Tell Strings
The played chords are inspired by Madonna's "Live To Tell"

12:45 046 Police Magic Moog
Inspired by a sound used at 2:19 in "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" from Police.

00:21 051 Forever Young
Inspired by the chord sound used "Forever Young" from Alphaville.

04:35 052 Genesis Many Strings M
Inspired by the strings used in "Many Too Many" from Genesis.

03:56 079 Steve Winwood Lead
The lead sound used in "Valerie" from Steve Winwood.

04:09 080 Industry Nation Lead
Inspired by the lead sound used in "State Of The Nation" from Industry.

14:44 081 Thomas Dolby Chord
Inspired by some sounds from Thomas Dolby

16:39 089 Floyd Learning To Fly
Inspired by the lead sound used in "Learning To Fly" from Pink Floyd

17:24 092 Borseti Pad
A wonderful patch extracted from the Adam Borseti patches library"