Me playing Depeche Mode "A Question of Time"

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"Backtrack recorded and sequenced in half an hour with Pro Tools.
Played on two E-mu Emax I recently serviced by myself, with new display backlight.
All Emax sounds belong to my own libraries, or were directly sampled from my other keyboards.

Composed by ML Gore."

Me playing Propaganda "Duel"

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"Played a semitone below original.

Above: Roland JX8P
Mid: Yamaha DX7
Below: Kurzweil PC1x

Backtrack Recorded with Pro Tools and Reason Rewired (drums)"

and the original...

Propaganda Duel

Checking DM Black Celebration samples on Emax

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"Short demo about some Black Celebration sounds in an Emu Emax."

Emu Emax curiosities

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"Tweaking across some hilarious messages in the Emax.

First, the "Bird Run function"

According to manual:
"This function aligns Emax internal stabilizers and prevents excessive gyrocosmic relativation. (...) Occasionally a small Emu will get trapped within the emax and run across the screen during the stabilizaton scan process. This does not affect the normal Emax fuctions"

Also, the message displayed when you try to play"

Emu Emax analog filter demo

"***Low audio level the first 5 secs ***
As a fellow youtuber requested time ago, the Emax filter in action.
The sound is an Oberheim sample from my library."

Me playing Depeche Mode "Fools"

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Previous vids here.

"Fools. Backtape, sounds search and assign, and rehearsing in an hour or so. No samples or sounds coming from the original song.

Above: Roland JX-8P
Mid: Yamaha DX7 mk1
Below: E-mu Emax"

Me playing Depeche Mode "Home" Acoustic

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"Played on my own way with a Kurzweil PC1x. There are some mistakes, as it was played almost extemporizing.
Music composed by Martin L. Gore."

Me checking a Simmons sds 8 drum module

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"Just showing what can it do.
All the channels has the same VCO, so they are basically the same. In preset mode each channel have different settings for each drum sound. You can put it in manual mode, then you can edit all the parameters. It is what I did."

Checking Alphaville sounds on Roland JX8P / D10

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"Just a check. "Big in Japan" single intro (D10) and "Sounds Like a Melody" (JX8P). I will record the whole songs soon."

Me rehearsing with two Casiotones

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"Me tweaking and exploring the posibilites of two Casio VL-1 VL TONE for covering Depeche Mode "Everything Counts" with those small instruments.
Some problems due to the keyboard size. It sounds nice when you feel the VL TONE sounding "Duophonic".

A full cover with the casios coming soon"

playing Depeche Mode "New Life"

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"Backtrack recorder with Pro Tools, then dumped to a Reel to Reel tape. Some mistakes can be heard as I was playing two entirely different keyboard lines.

Upper Keyboard: Roland JX8P
Mid Keyboard:; Roland JP8000
Reel to Reel tape machine: ReVox B77 MkII

Composed by Vince Clarke"

Me playing Depeche Mode "But not Tonight"

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"As a lot of people requested, 'But not Tonight'.
This is the "movie" (Modern Girls) version.

No sampled sounds. All were programmed by myself (except Emulator II choir sample). Backtrack recorded with Pro Tools helped by Reason.

Keyboards.
Left: Roland JX8P (Above)
Yamaha DX7
Emu Emax

Right: Yamaha DX7 IIFD."

Me playing Depeche Mode "Walking in my Shoes"

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"Gear used:
Emu EMAX HD.(containing Yamaha DX7 and Kurzweil PC1x sounds sampled layered by me)
Roland JP8000
Kurzweil PC1x.

Backtrack recorded in Pro Tools with Reason rewired.

Composed by Martin L. Gore"

Me playing Erasure "Sometimes"

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"Gear:
Left Upper: Emu EMAX II HD (with choir, JX-8P and DX7 sampled sounds)
Letf Lower: Roland D10
Right Upper: Yamaha DX7
Right Mid: Emu Emax
Right Low: Roland JX8P

*some pro tools DAE latency problems due to realtime reberv fx (it means there was a delay between key on and sound)

Backtrack recorded in Pro Tools and Reason 3.0."

Me playing DM "Shake the Disease" (full instrument version)

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"A new Depeche Mode cover.
Metallic grid FX sampled live by myself hitting with a pipe on an old grid door.
All sounds created by myself on the keyboards. Emax sounds coming from my own library (including drums. No original record sample)
Backtrack made in Pro Tools. .

Keyboards.
Upper: E-mu Emax
Mid: Yamaha DX7 II FD
Lower: Roland JX-8P

Composed by Martin L.Gore"

Me playing DM Everything Counts (just a check)

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"Checking some Everything Counts sounds played over an easy backtape (almost all played live). It sounds raw, as I didn't add any FX to the keyboards like reverb or delay.

Keyboards:
Top: E-MU Emax
Mid: Yamaha DX7 IIFD
(same setup on Music For The Masses Tour -the DX7II was boxed-)

Below: Yamaha DX7

Backtape running on Pro Tools"

Me playing Depeche Mode "Freelove"

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""Freelove" Album version. It is not fully arranged, and played my way (specially the intro effects). As usual on last videos, everything (backtrack, rehearshing, and recording) was done in two hours.

Gear:
Roland JP8000 (fx)
Yamaha DX7 (fx)
Kurzweil PC1x (wurlitzer sound and guitar)
Backtrack recorded on Pro Tools.

Composed by Martin L. Gore."

Just for fun: JP8000 emulating a Casiotone

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"*** New covers coming soon... Stay tuned ***

This is a kind of entertaiment I did while working in a project that will be released at the end of the year (news coming soon).

A Roland JP8000 sounding like a "piano" casiotone sound :) By the way, the song is the infamous VL TONE rom sound, responsible of my interest on synthesizers."

Depeche Mode "Stories of Old" (bare version)

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"Me playing Depeche Mode "Stories of Old" (bare version)"
"'Stories of Old' cover (Bare version, not original)
I will be back on full instrument versions soon.

Keyboards:
Upper: Roland JX8P
Mid: Emu EMAX II HD
Lower: Kurzweil PC1x

Composed by Martin L. Gore"

Me playing Depeche Mode "Everything Counts" 101 version

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"New "Everything Counts" update.
There are two sounds sampled from the original: the famous metallic-reverberated sound at the beguinning and the previous one before the chorus.
*There are a few wrong notes on the final solo

Equipment:
Emu Emax, with sampled sounds coming from a JX-8P and DX7 II, and library (including bassdrum and snare).
Yamaha DX7 II FD.
(this setup is the same Martin Gore and Alan Wilder played on MFTM Tour)

Roland JP8000 (midi sequenced)
Kurzweil PC1x

Backtrack running in Pro Tools with Reason re-wired.
Composed by Martin L. Gore."

Me playing Visage "Fade to Grey"

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"As requested, Fade to Grey. There are some mistakes, but if everything were right, I would be Billy Currie :D.
Above: Roland JX8P
Mid: Roland D10
Below: Yamaha DX7 II FD
Backtape running on Pro Tools"