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Back in the early 90s when i was studying audio engineering one of my teachers told me: record your drums by hand and loop or copy paste each 4 measures, but do not quantize. Or you can quantize the kick but do not qualitize anything else... duplicate and loop but do not quantize, you need those harmonics around so it can sound organic.

Photos instead of patch diagrams! Revelatory! I've been adding colour and visible lines on knobs etc for a while as it is so irksome to have knobs with hard to read markings on them or knobs that are the same colour as the case etc. Very helpful essay - thanks!

Amazing. I thought they were codes for checking the alignment and calibration of the color of plates in printing, like the row of colored squares on boxes. Served no purpose for a black sleeve, so were added as a design choice.

Hey Man this was soooo cool and 1000 fun to watch! I bought mine back in 83! I just looked it up.. mine has grey circles for the 'space' wher yours got black.. Finding this out after 41 years of listening to it is 🎉 incredible.. you just made my day. Thank you lots.. Still sounds hammer Gery. Switzerland

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!! I had the same experience this week showing my 17 year old nephew some of my new records I just bought. Pulled out the old records and remembered time i had forgotten. Needless to say he is getting a record player for Christmas and I'm gonna wax nostalgia going through them all with him soon.

Have a look at the “Human” vst by Mixed in Key . I enjoy setting instrument part variations in my DAW (+ or -) 5-7ms per drum instrument part and then add Human to get the variation in timing. Saves a ton of headroom and adds that secret sauce to keep your ears interested.

I tend to copy a really nice random arpeggio by ear into my sequencer and then transpose the sequence of the arpeggio there so I have much more control of it

Wow, amazing work❕ This is what MyRUclips should contain. You crazy human being! :D👏🏽

i Love their music...!!!! - theyre a major reference into synth pop and pop songs solid career....

Wow. amazing sounds and techniques. You make it look easy. But then again it's obvious it takes years to reach this level of familiarity and knowledge. Plus a musical feeling and compositional ability.

Wait but what was the extra box? The one that you originally thought was a printing error. What what was that one?

I love Duran Duran, early, and then I discovered Japan, which didn't have any airplay where I lived, and have found they inspired Duran Duran. I did found out that David Sylvian lived a town over from me in New Hampshire a few decades ago. Mick Karn, the bass player for Japan was one in a million.

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Late to the party as usual as I’ve been relishing my way through your current YT-gems (mouthing a big THANK YOU silently and cursing you for causing a resurgence of GAS), and was expecting nothing but a new masterpiece… Since video one I’ve been trying to put a name tothe face. Hint dropped at 3:50 and my money was on Connor or Philip as you don’t seem like a Gianni to me. I’d found 8 others so far but to me those didn’t yet fit the portrait. The coded letter ends as described but I hadn’t seen the expected cypher in the first sentence. Started to decode the cypher. DAMN! Dear Name Redacted, …. Even with that tease, my final guess this round is Reggie! ;-)

Loving the Paul Darrow pic. Avon was easily the best character from Blake’s 7. Just the right mix of good and evil 👽🥃

Genius

This was a brilliant explanation & theory, I use a JP-4 & used the ‘Bass’ preset a lot, I think every Jupiter owner deliberates Rio 😅

67-74 uks finest music,prog on!

I have the same exact story except for it was an iron maiden album!

I always hear a bit Of OMD in your compositions.

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I found this here on YT. Nick Rhodes' parts: ruclips.net/video/osFC1ugUfjI/видео.htmlsi=ymQ5oTF3hsizk9Ea

You know there's an interesting story about how they got the backwards effect at the start?

Awesome video man! This sounds so good!

I love 1982 music as well, so much that I've set up what I hope is the ultimate 1982 music videos playlist. ruclips.net/p/PL6oCQqv2KW6XTK18evV5q9WAua3eshkiS

Recorded 1982. Released 7th March 1983.

NOTE: The blue Monday official lyric video displays two rows. the top row are the lyrics and the bottom row are the cipher encoded lyrics. they don’t encode the punctuation marks: comma, question mark, apostrophe

I can’t replicate the results. For my first experiment I used Reaper's “Dynamic Split Item” feature to split up the transients by threshold on a recording straight out of my RX5. It was accurate to within 50 samples. Not satisfied, I tried manually, with a similar result. Then I thought about how the 606 has a reputation for inaccuracy so I recorded some of my Behringer RD-6, amazingly it was even more precise. Here are the results in milliseconds I got by manually slicing at the sample level. For the RX5: 0:00.249 0:00.248 0:00.249 0:00.249 0:00.248 For the RD-6: 0:00.344 0:00.344 0:00.344 0:00.344 0:00.344 That’s right, the inaccuracies can’t even be measured in milliseconds with me doing manual slicing. Am I misreading the Reaper figures, are they not milliseconds? I’m so confused.

Also, weren't they all synched to an SMPTE track on the tape machine? Wouldn't that do more to account for drift than anything to do with the clock in the drum machine?

I just re bought this last week and always wondered why those colours were on the sleeve and why the b side the beach is actually the A side. I think you have just qualified this single to one of the most sought after singles ever with your video. Wow this is amazing

What amazes me most is how you managed to do all of this video in reverse just so it looked like you can do a Rubik's cube. Hat tipped.

I tried measuring my Yamaha RX5 in reaper, it's accurate to within 50 samples at 44.1 kHz. I also saw an interview with Roger Linn where he said the groove in his drum machines is a myth and they are dead accurate, although the MPC does have swing. From what I'm reading only 606, and 808 have any drift and obviously the older Roland boxes from the 70s. What I want to know is when people were using things like the BBC/UMI sequencer what was setting the clock? And further, how often did midi jitter come into play?

Fairly sure that synth sound is the same used by Foreigner in I Want To Know What Love Is. And probably a lot of other songs. 🙂 Cheap Poly Synth?? The Deepmind still goes for over $600!! While I realize that's nowhere near the 'deep end' of synth prices, it can't be considered 'cheap'.

We need that list of 1982 songs 0:47

Wow, is this the Bob Ross for modular? You sound so relaxed while you are talking 😊

As a beginner to making synth music I learned more in 20 minutes from this than I don't know how many months prior. Thank you. (And I'm old enough to remember all the songs you mention the first time around too.)

Surely those timing errors are trivial to program into a modern DAW to recreate that 80s sound? Also, some audio examples to listen to would have been nice. I've seen your reply to someone else saying you're thinking of remaking this video with some samples, so looking forward to that.

Science! Thank you 🙏

I keep waiting for your channel to turn bad because it's too good to be true. Very cool video.

I tend to lean more towards Joy Division but I do love New Oerder.

I actually found the higher notes of this theme more disturbing in the series. Conjuring up the feeling of exploitation that reflects the American phenomena of kids dress up/dance competitions in the southern states. Strange that...

Drill rap.. 😂😢😅 They have so much to learn

my tiny mind is blown. I was always thinking that the studio trickery on those pads was a mixture of arpeggio and multi takes, watching you create the 80"s hits live is bonkers, I need a lay down. I am now going to use this technique on my guitar drones (I use a TC electronics E bow), which I have in stereo though the strymon big sky, and eventide space and then eventide time factor to stereo amps. I loop these and then create synth textures over the top. I create ambient music live but this technique will be bonkers I think.

Captivating.

Great. Everything here is just great. I just thought sometimes bass had a little distortion but never knew people went to such lengths to produce interesting bass sounds be it conventional or synth bass. This was a revelation. It explains the inimitable sounds of so many records. I think you might be interested in hearing what Carpenter Brut has done with his synth music. Try "EPIII" from him there are 4 or 5 tracks there, including the great hit "Turbo Killer" although my personal favourite is "Division Ruine". The sounds are multi-layered, the arrangements very rich, and the harmony innovative and original. The aggression might scrape your ears initially but if you sink into the ambience of the sounds you'll see there is an exceptional degree of sound layering and sophistication. This guy just blows me away every time I listen to his work.

I guessed correctly from the first 20 seconds which one it would be. I will be getting my Behringer Pro One tomorrow at a cost including VAT & Delivery in the UK for £159.00. I looked for used but at that price it is a no brainer. I agree with you 100% about the reasons to buy. The fact that the mono synth can be poly chained to other Behringers like the Neutron, Model D or more Pro Ones makes this a great way to build a super synth when budget permits. Great channel by the way. Subbed.

Just finally got around to trying this out, with the result here: ruclips.net/video/N8dKtgE8wcE/видео.html This is a really interesting technique; the big blast single note effect didn't work as well in this song as I had hoped, so I did something a little more conventional but it worked fine. The only remark I have is that I think this is easier to set up on a guitar with multiple adjustable height saddles; I used a Les Paul and found the fixed radius bridge to be real drawback for getting the slide to press evenly only all six strings; next time I will use a Fender. I gave you a credit with a link to this video in the pinned comment. :-)

This is one of the most interesting, intelligent and musical videos I have ever seen on youTube. The code as the background music through out the video - brilliant. Have this colourful charset been used elsewhere? Have some of New Orders music included hidden messages when taken nodes and transcript them to letters? Like reversing what you did creating the background music.

Can’t this be automated?

you were on my start page when i pulled up YT gl