Famous Synth Sounds - (08) Faltermeyer Axel F & (09) Nena 99 Luftballons

video uploads by SonicProjects

https://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/...

Check the presented sounds by yourself with the demo version linked above

Famous Synth Sounds - (09) Nena 99 Luftballons

Click on the BANK - LOAD button in the synth's grey top-bar
Load this bank: Downloaded / PROII_FALTERMEYER
Presets 3, 4, 2

Famous Synth Sounds - (09) Nena 99 Luftballons
Click on the BANK - LOAD button in the synth's grey top-bar
Load this bank: PROII_FAMOUS
Preset 12: 99 Luftballons Strings
Preset 13: 99 Luftballons Bass

Famous Synth Sounds - (10) Madonna Holiday
Click on the BANK - LOAD button in the synth's grey top-bar
Load this bank: PROII_FAMOUS
Preset 14 Holiday Epiano
Preset 15 Holiday Strings
Preset 16 Holiday Bass
Preset 17 Holiday Mini

Famous Synth Sounds - (11) Duran Duran Save A Prayer
Click on the BANK - LOAD button in the synth's grey top-bar 

Load this bank: PROII_FAMOUS 

Preset 18 Duran Prayer Pulse 

Preset 20 Duran Prayer Lead

NENA | 99 Luftballons - Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 or Oberheim OB-X?

[1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] video upload by NENA

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Prophet-5 used for the video.

Oberheim OB-X according to previous posts.

Which one was it?

Update: Some answers in the comments including the following live video. Minimoog & PPG Wave on stage as well.

NENA - Live @ PINKPOP Festival (Remastered)

video upload by Maxis Maximal

"05/23/1983 Geleen, Netherlands
SETLIST:
00:00 Leuchtturm
03:36 Ich lieb dich
09:16 99 Luftballons
13:22 Nur geträumt"

Oberheim OB-X - The Sound of 99 Red Balloons (Nena 99 Luftballons)

video upload by RetroSound

"The intro sound of 99 Red Ballons was always one my favorite Oberheim sounds ever. The warm pad sound at the beginning and than the powerful synth riff. Wonderful. At the end of the video can you find the patch sheet.

The Oberheim OB-X Synthesizer from 1978 is one of the legendary synths in music history. Used by Ultravox, Japan, Killing Joke, J.-M. Jarre, Rush, Barcley James Harvest and others. Here can you find the full OB-X playlist with a lot single sound demos, synth comparisions and one synth demo tracks. Enjoy."

Sequential Pro 3 - Fundamentals Sound Sets 1 and 2 - 128 Custom Patches

Creative Spiral

Note the above is a playlist of Sequential Pro 3 videos by Creative Spiral including some on sound design. The following is the description for the first video.

"Two custom designed sound sets for the Pro 3 synthesizer. This video previews about half the patches from both sets. Available now on Sellfy: https://sellfy.com/sounddesign/p/pro3...

0:00 - Set 1: Basses, Leads, Classic Synth
17:52 - Set 2: Strings, Brass, Keys, Paraphonic

128 custom patches for the Sequential Pro 3 synthesizer.

There are many patches inspired by famous songs in this set, including artists like Pink Floyd, Vangelis, Rush, Journey, Boards of Canada, Parliament Funkadelic, Nena, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, The Cars, and more.

In this video demo, a total of sixty three patches are shown. There is also another sixty five more patches included in the combined two sets that are not shown in this demo.

Fundamentals Set 1:
Basses, Leads, and Synth Classics (64 patches)
There is a total of 26 Bass Patches, 22 Lead Patches, and 16 Classic Synth Patches in Set 1. The patch prefixes indicate their intended primary usage, however, most of the basses can double as lead tones, and vice versa - most leads in this set make great sounding basses. I've done my best to optimize patches to sound great up and down the keybed.

Fundamentals Set 2:
Strings, Brass, Keys, Plucks, Organs and Paraphonic Sounds (64 patches)
There is a total of 9 Brass Patches, 6 String Patches, 13 Key/Pluck Patches, 8 Piano and Organ Patches, and 25 Paraphonic Patches in Set 2. Lots of great plucks and synth staples, plus the twenty five paraphonic patches give you a ton of harmonic possibilities to explore. The Pro 3 paraphonic mode is very cool, and can provide unique harmony sounds different than polyphonic synths."

OBERHEIM OB-X Analog Synthesizer (1979) Seven Sounds

Published on Jan 25, 2020 RetroSound

"(c)2007-20 by RetroSound
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Oberheim OB-X Analog #Synthesizer from the year 1979

The demo video shows some self programmed synth sounds.

The #Oberheim #OBX is one of the fattest analog poly-synths ever.
The sound character (based of the discrete circuits and the SEM design VCF) is different to the later curtis chip based OB-Xa and OB-8.

Used by: Rush (Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer), Nena (99 Luftballons, Nur Geträumt), J.-M. Jarre (Magnetic Fields), Killing Joke (Love Like Blood), Roxy Music (Avalon), Queen (Flash Gordon), Styx (Too much time on my hands), Japan, Supertramp, Suzanne Ciani, Tangerine Dream (Exit) and more

RetroSound synthesizer demo videos since january 2007.
All is for free. If you like my work, so can you support me with a donation or a purchase of my music albums. Thank you!

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Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer (1979) "Oberfett X" part2

Published on Apr 14, 2019 RetroSound

"(c) 2019 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

#Oberheim #OB-X Analog #Synthesizer from the year 1979

The demo video shows some self programmed uncommon synth sounds.

The Oberheim OB-X is one of the fattest analog poly-synths ever.

The sound character (based of the discrete circuits and the SEM design VCF) is different to the later curtis chip based OB-Xa and OB-8.

Used by: Rush (Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer), Nena (99 Luftballons, Nur Geträumt), J.-M. Jarre (Magnetic Fields), Killing Joke (Love Like Blood), Roxy Music (Avalon), Queen (Flash Gordon), Styx (Too much time on my hands), Japan, Supertramp, Suzanne Ciani, Tangerine Dream (Exit) and more

external fx: a bit delay"

Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer (1979) "Oberfett"

Published on Apr 30, 2018 RetroSound

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer from the year 1979

The demo video shows some self programmed uncommon synth sounds.

The Oberheim OB-X is one of the fattest analog poly-synths ever.

The sound character (based of the discrete circuits and the SEM design VCF) is different to the later curtis chip based OB-Xa and OB-8.

Used by: Rush (Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer), Nena (99 Luftballons, Nur Geträumt), J.-M. Jarre (Magnetic Fields), Killing Joke (Love Like Blood), Roxy Music (Avalon), Queen (Flash Gordon), Styx (Too much time on my hands), Japan, Supertramp, Suzanne Ciani, Tangerine Dream (Exit) and more

external fx: a bit delay"

32-BANKS ENSONIQ ESQ-1 SQ-80 ESQ-M ROM CARTRIDGE (1280 PATCHES)

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"1 in 16 cartridge with a total of 1280 patches. (32 Banks* 40 Patches)

The sounds are from the previous volume 1 and 2. The card has all kind of patches (instruments, synths, FX...)

Compatible with the ESQ-1, ESQ-M and SQ-80.

This cart is read only, patches cannot be written on it. (only read)

3D printed case, gold plated contacts and LED power indicator.

Patch List:

ESQ CARD A
--------------------------------
1: STRBAS 2: 5OFSWE 3: ELZPNO 4: JBELL5 5: FLTORG
6: DGSLAP 7: BASS2 8: BRSBAS 9: PSTEEL 10: KETTLE
11: FIDDLE 12: PANPNO 13: BASTE 14: SEQ 3 15: DG-BRI
16: SQREEJ 17: DGWHO? 18: KEBASS 19: DGPNO2 20: MINIM5
21: SHRTST 22: MODSTR 23: 12 STR 24: SQR SAW 25: ICESAW
26: BLPNO3 27: NOBHRN 28: GRIND 29: ARIEL 30: SITAR
31: PWRHIT 32: VELSAX 33: BRUSH 34: HITBAS 35: HARP 5
36: STARK 37: HELIO3 38: FALOUT 39: BAS R2 40: E STR

ESQ CART B
--------------------------------
1: ATMOS2 2: CTHDRL 3: ATMOS3 4: SLITAR 5: SLITDR
6: LOWSAW 7: BRETH2 8: AIRVIB 9: ZEUS.. 10: MEOWST
11: GRVYRD 12: SPOTS 13: CATBEL 14: PLKORC 15: ZIFSTR
16: BONES 17: BRETH8 18: ALLEY1 19: DRIZLE 20: DRAMA
21: CUTTER 22: SPONGE 23: WASTRG 24: CRIKET 25: THRUSH
26: FOREST 27: QUISIL 28: SKITS 29: BRETH9 30: STLGUT
31: CRYSTL 32: VOXRES 33: AUHARP 34: PIANO4 35: REVERB
36: COWBEL 37: MINIM3 38: VIBES1 39: HRPSI2 40: MINIM3

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Oberheim OBX 8 Voice Polysynth

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"Classic Oberheim OBX 8 voice polyphonic polysynth in good condition and fully working from 1979 that's extremely rare.

Used famously for its wide distinctive various sounds in the early 80s by Earth Wind and Fire, Queen flash and another one bites the dust sounds, Those big deep haunting dark sounds on The Police Ghost in the machine album from 1981, Roxy music to Killing Joke and Japan tin drum to lush sounds on later songs like on Nena 99 red balloons and KC and Sunshine band Give it up. I've used this a lot over the last 3 years and it has really stood out as something special.

I have had this fully overhauled a few years ago, it has a very fast tune up time and of course it sounds fantastic. I've programmed some great sounds worth keeping, it's very lush and big sounding and crazy sounding that can be very interesting and very out if you like those Sci fi sounds from that era. It has X mod on that's rare on synths from this time and when in unison mode thats like thunder and lighting crashing down. It has 2 VCOs, LFO with sine, square and S and H wave forms with a extra high and low pass filter."

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Oberheim OB-X

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"This OB-X is the 4-voice model in top condition and with very minor wear given its age. This synth sounds fantastic, everything works as it should and is very stable. I had it serviced about 2 years ago by a former Oberheim employee. Service included recapping of the power supply, replacing OS chips, renew some of the old cables, and adding new key bushings. I also had him retrofit it with the ElectronGate MIDI kit.

The Oberheim OB-X is the rarest of the entire OB-series and touted by many (including Tom Oberheim himself) as the best sounding model of the OB series, which is due to its all discrete components (except for the envelopes, for which it uses CEM3310 chips) and the SEM-based design used in the earlier Oberheim Two- and Four Voice synths. Only 800 Oberheim OB-Xs were manufactured and it is estimated that an even smaller number of them are alive today in fully working condition.

Furthermore, the OB-X is THE synth behind legendary sounds, such as the haunting pad sound in Killing Joke's "Love Like Blood", the intro reso-sweep sound in Rush's "Tom Sawyer", the entire Queen "Flash Gordon" soundtrack, Nena's "99 Luftballons", and of course Van Halen's "Jump" (the list goes on)."

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Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer Sounds

Published on Dec 4, 2014 RetroSound

"(c) 2014 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound
supported by UVI: http://bit.ly/retrosound-uvi

Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer from the year 1979

The demo video shows some self programmed classic synth sounds.

The Oberheim OB-X is one of the best analog poly-synths ever. The sound character (based of the discrete circuits and the SEM design VCF) is different to the later curtis chip based OB-Xa and OB-8.

Used by: Rush (Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer), Nena (99 Luftballons, Nur Geträumt), J.-M. Jarre (Magnetic Fields), Killing Joke (Love Like Blood), Roxy Music (Avalon), Queen (Flash Gordon), Styx (Too much time on my hands), Japan, Supertramp, Suzanne Ciani, Tangerine Dream (Exit) and more"

MS Kinect Balloon Project

Balloon Project from Dan Wilcox on Vimeo.

"Experiments in balloon motion and sound using an MS Kinect depth sensing camera.

Created for the Carnegie Mellon 1st & 2nd year MFA Graduate show entitled "Fresh Baked Goods" at Bakery Square, April 2011.

A machine stands in a room surrounded by balloons. Circulating fans blow the balloons over the machine which creates sound based on their movements.

Mode 1: Tones

Balloon height and x/y position control the pitch and panning of a treble and bass voice. The tones can be quantized into a certain key or a glisssando can be employed for a theremin-style effect.

Mode 2: 99 Luftballons

The playback speed of Nena's 99 Luftballons is controlled by balloon height. The balloons must be kept in the air for the song to play. Feed the machine.

Built using Open Frameworks, ofxKinect, and Open CV for balloon tracking and Pure Data for sound generation/playback.

See danomatika.com/​blog/​balloon-project for more info.

Music: 99 Luftballons by Nena"

Nena 99 Red Balloons - cover

YouTube Uploaded by EditEd4TV on Aug 16, 2011

"This is my version of "99 Red Balloons" by Nena, recreated (a "ReCover" as I call it) completely in Propellerhead's Record. Almost all custom patches (there's the Subtractor "Glass Organ" patch for the keyboard solo, layered with some custom patches though), all original note data (no web download of MIDI files). Rick Silvestri on electric guitar and bass guitar."

Oberheim OB-X 8 Voice Analog Synth pt.1

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Oberheim OB-X 8 Voice Analog Synthesizer from the year 1979. The OB-X was available with 4, 6 or 8 discrete voice cards.

part1: some self-made classic OB-X sounds (pads, brass, bass, sync- and crossmodulation sounds and more)

part2: the features of the OB-X (coming soon)

The Oberheim OB-X is one of the best analog poly-synths ever. A classic! The sound is stunning, organic and very powerful. The sound character (based of the discrete circuits and the SEM design VCF) is different to the later curtis chip based OB-Xa and OB-8.

Used by: Rush (Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer), Nena (99 Luftballons, Nur Geträumt), J.-M. Jarre (Magnetic Fields), Lilling Joke (Love Like Blood), Roxy Music (Avalon), Queen (Flash Gordon), Styx (Too much time on my hands), Japan, Supertramp, Suzanne Ciani, Tangerine Dream (Exit) ..."

Nena - 99 Red Balloons demo Oberheim OBX-a SCI drumtraks

YouTube via lewisjp8young.
"me playing a short demo clip of Nena - 99 Red Balloons using a Oberheim OBX-a and a SCI Drumtraks. the sounds are all custom program by myself. note that i play a couple of extra bars of the Oberheim bassline."

Howard Jones 20th Anniversary Concert 2003

Title link takes you to some info and shots of the 2003 Howard Jones 20th anniversary concert with Midge Ure (Ultravox), Nena and Jed Hoile. There's reference to a possible DVD, but I'm having trouble finding out if it was actually made. While there, make sure to track back to the root site for a link to multimedia including some of his older videos with some synth p*rn. Via this post on VSE.



Gear List:

Classic Set
1x Drum Machine Roland TR-808
2x Monophonic Synth Moog Prodigy
1x Synth Roland Juno 60
1x Synth Roland JP-8 Super Jupiter
1x Synth/Sequencer Sequential Circuits Pro-One



Modern Rig:
(KEYBOARDS)
2 x Novation KS-4 synths
2 x Novation K-Station synths
1 x Roland a-33 master keyboard
1 x Yamaha KX-5 remote keyboard (customised)