Bizarre Love Triangle/New Order (Circuit Tracks & MiniDEXED version)

video upload by Guinan

"‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ from 1986 is first off the rank for my ‘New Order February’ recreations.

I love this perfect slice of dance-synth-pop and I was keen to get the DX7 bass intro as close as I could. Earlier this week I’ve been showing the tiny $75 Raspberry Pi synth, MiniDEXED, that I built to add this vital ingredient. If you are interested check out the video showing more details, • I made a synth for $75* ! (*excluding tar... [posted here]

A couple of very clever folk identified what I was cooking up!

The MiniDEXED was sequenced from the MIDI tracks on the Circuit Tracks and routed into the audio in to add effects from the Tracks. All that you hear was programmed into the single Circuit Tracks and no further additional synths or processing were done to the sound – it’s straight audio out recorded direct into a Zoom L6.

The arrangement was taken from several versions posted on Musescore and compressed into the 4 melodic tracks and rhythm. Thanks to everyone who posts their transcriptions there.

I hope you enjoy the track as much as I did making it. Stay tuned for more New Order recreations and reworkings for the rest of this month.

(Ableton Move version coming in just a couple of days...I'll post a link here when it's live).

More details for synth nerds,
BPM=118

TRACKS
Synth 1 – plucked synth patch on Tracks (doubled up on MIDI Channel 1 on MiniDEXED).
Synth 2 – string pad patch on Tracks (doubled up on MIDI Channel 2 on MiniDEXED).
MIDI 1 – bass sequence playing on MiniDEXED on MIDI Channel 3.
MIDI 2 – chime sequence playing on MiniDEXED on MIDI Channel 4.
Drums 1 – 3 – Yamaha RX11 samples for bass drum and snare, DMX hihats.
Drum 4 – timbale and orchestra hit samples.

MiniDEXED (connected to MIDI Out from Tracks)
All patches are original patches from the DX7 library (can be loaded as sysex directly to each of the 8 instances, only 4 were used for this track)
TG1 – ‘Clav2’ doubles up plucked sequence.
TG2 – ‘Clav-E.Pno’ doubles up pads and arpeggios.
TG3 – ‘Bass1’ main bassline
TG4 – ‘Celeste’ plays the top line melodic sequence."