Haha, you're right. When I see it today I think, what a nerd! :D But I knew how to play everything, when I got the D50 I started finding all the right sounds, then I practiced for months trying to cut the time down and still play the bits I wanted.
thhedk Funny you say that. It was tagged in FB. I have been a JMJ fan for decades and loved this album. Had no idea the D50 was the main synth. I know an ESQ1 appears somewhere too.
@@ChristopherCaouette "Revolutions" was basically an album-length demo track for the D50. There's some other synths in there but the Roland is the main star of the album.
I recall playing this in high school in 1988 and couldn't believe how awesome this synth sounded. My favorite patch was Digital Native Dance. All these years later and i still remember the name!
darko cuskar Then you’ll quickly remember why you sold it.... plinky plonky. Korg Wavestation kicked this to hell, and Ai2 kept it there. Horrible, tinny, as fat sounding as MJ was plastic.
Thanks. I listened to the songs and played them for many years, so biggest problem was to find a way to play them in shorter versions and with only two hands :D
This is not passion this is obsession!!!!My best congratulation my boy!!!You are one of the best Jarre impersonator on the net...even Jarre doesn't remember his song as good as you...really great!!!Tell the true: how many years of practice just to find the right sound and notes on Revolution??? ;-)
WOW! "Revolutions" is one of my favorite J.M.Jarre (later) albums. Considering his early albums where he experimented with various modular analog synths, it was a true surprise that he actually drew inspiration to the whole album (and the most of "Waiting for Cousteau") from a single keyboard! Either he was swept away by the D-50's digital sound and patches, or it was just a lazy phase... But man, you play those Revolutions arrangements like you're one of J.M.Jarre's crew members! Respect!
Wow it’s amazing to hear pretty much the entire album played right there in front of my eyes. Had no idea the d50 was so heavily used on the record. Amazing.
Very impressive. Good job! I love JMJ and Revolutions is one of his best albums. It's true that the D-50 was heavily used on this album, but a lot of the sawtooth and pulse wave based sounds weren't made with the D-50 but with the Elka Synthex. But one can say that these two excellent synthesizers together make up about 85% of the album.
Great job at disassembling these songs so precisely. I never saw anyone do it as good as you did. It must be a great feeling when you get to know what were they actually playing and you could create a great cover.
That synthesized brass in "You can Call Me Al" was made using a Roland guitar synthesizer! Aside from that, all these other songs were practically written on the D-50, great video!
Great job. I don't know the D-50 but it's very inspiring. I'm selling my M1 to fund something a little more modern but when I here videos like this it makes me realise that, at the age of 45, my roots are 80's and that's what I love. You won't get these sounds from anything modern. Keep up the good work. Cheers G
@@jml7916 then again an SY99 costs less than an MODX, has superb performance on FM and AWM2 and is built to the level of quality of a Montage - if i'm not mistaken the MODX has a cheap keybed and no aftertouch.
Very cool demo. I bought my d550 & pg1000 about 15 years ago. It definitely has a unique sound. You made me realize that i should i will power it again.
The Roland D-50 PN-D50-00 patch "Syn-Harmonium" was heard in the 21 Jump Street episode where some boys were bullied and mentally and physically abused by some other boys and some boy’s father who beat some boy up "Champagne High" (1988).
21:15 - Paula Abdul - Straight Up 21:34 - Sabrina - Boys 21:51 - Spagna - Call Me 22:12 - Bananarama - Love In The First Degree (Guilty) 22:20 - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody 22:44 - Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al 23:08 - Enya - Sail Away 23:40 - ? 23:56 - Faithless - Insomnia Nice medley. :) 20:00 sounds amazing btw. Subbed! I only have a lowly Juno-D and JV-1080, but close enough. hehe
Interestingly I think people sleep on that album (or don't like it.) I was a kid when it came out, and I was dreaming of synthesizer all day long... I must have watched the Destination Docklands concert VHS 1000 times... Including the making-of documentary at the end :)
I was watching Two and a half Men and I saw that Charlie has one of these, so I decided to check it out. Man am I happy that I did. This was awesome! :D
First played it back in the late 80's and I wanted it so bad but price was just out of my league. Bought it some 4-5 years ago and I find it a really nice synth to play around with and the amount of created sounds available if you just want to delve into that without fiddling is enormous. My price for a mint one was IIRC about $300. Bought a couple of nice MRAM cards by Dojoe to complement the D-50 and my JD-800. Nice!
Congratulations on your keyboard skills, you are very talented ! It’s nice to see Revolutions’s most powerful melodies played on the D-50. I never thought this instrument was used so much on this album. Thanks for the video !
This was so much fun. I only knew his first two records. So I played your video and then checked the song on Spotify to hear what JMJ did on the album. That was kind of a fun back and forth 🙂 . A friend of mine had this synth in 1988 while I was still on the Korg-Poly 6 ( trying to program the damn thing into a dx-7 lol ) We played a few times together so I got a vibe of the synth, back then. But playing this video and the actual album widenes the sonic palette. . thumbs up.
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I always knew there was a lot of D-50 on Revolutions but man I didn't realize the extent heh. It's almost like a demo record for the synth but I mean that in a good way, I've always loved the album and it makes me wanna get a D-50 for myself. :D Hmm as a matter of fact, the shop where I'm currently having another synth of mine serviced currently has one for sale... hmmm indeed.
As a musical instrument salesman as a young man, I remember getting this keyboard delivered to the shop and I was the first one to try it. I was into all that kind of stuff so my boss just let me loose on it so I could find out how it worked. It was a big step up from the analogue synths id been used to. Recorded some great stuff with it for demonstration purposes. Happy days. As a further point, im sure one of the presets was used on a Wet Wet Wet song.
The Roland D-50 PN-D50-00 patch “Fantasia” was heard and modified’ly heard in 1987 Kidsongs versions of “Strolling Through the Park” and “Put on a Happy Face”.
The Roland D-50 internal patch “Fantasia” was heard edited in the 1988 Martika version of Cross My Heart (1988) and If You Asked me To (1989) and heard in the 1995 All-4-One version of Love You Like That (1995).
It's ironic because JMJ's dad, Maurice Jarre, used the Roland D-50 extensively for his No Way Out (1987) score. I almost wonder if he had his son do the keyboard work. The main title track used the Digital Native Dance patch as well as Pizzagogo and probably other. Those ones definitely stood out to me.
Many people seem to not know this, but Maurice left Jean-Michel when he was a very young child, he wasn't his dad, they had no contact at all and they only met maybe 20 times in their lives. They never had a real relationship, JMJ talked about this many times. JMJ was not inspired by his father's music and the two never worked together.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this amazing synth 1987 Dublin Ireland I attended a demonstration of the D50 performed by Roland’s representative the hairs on the back of my neck!it was groundbreaking at the time…I can understand why Jarre had a soft spot for the D-50 Waiting for Cousteau also had D50 patches thrown in for good measure
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"Just doing a few sound demos" - Plays through almost the whole "Revolutions" album in a single take.
Haha, you're right. When I see it today I think, what a nerd! :D
But I knew how to play everything, when I got the D50 I started finding all the right sounds, then I practiced for months trying to cut the time down and still play the bits I wanted.
Skills !!! Very well played mate
@@jamescrawford1368 Thank you very much :)
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thhedk Funny you say that. It was tagged in FB. I have been a JMJ fan for decades and loved this album. Had no idea the D50 was the main synth. I know an ESQ1 appears somewhere too.
@@ChristopherCaouette "Revolutions" was basically an album-length demo track for the D50. There's some other synths in there but the Roland is the main star of the album.
I recall playing this in high school in 1988 and couldn't believe how awesome this synth sounded. My favorite patch was Digital Native Dance. All these years later and i still remember the name!
Cause thats best fn name ever!
Used it myself in my latest track. Haha. D-50 ftw!!!.
They used it in Star Trek it was awesome
Almost 30 years old, and still has very usable sounds. Strings are epic!
You're not restricted to the presets. You can create sounds of your own.just sayin'.
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Im 31 and i agree. I love the D-50.
strings and synth leads and pads r amazing. I think I'll buy it again. A guy is selling one in my area right now
darko cuskar Then you’ll quickly remember why you sold it.... plinky plonky. Korg Wavestation kicked this to hell, and Ai2 kept it there. Horrible, tinny, as fat sounding as MJ was plastic.
Sales of 2nd hand D50s have just increased
I would never had guessed how much of Industrial Revolutions in particular was done on just this synth.
I think the whole album was this synth
Roland D-50 + Elka Synthex = 85% of Revolutions
@@levig5678There's as much Elka Synthex as D-50 involved.
I've owned over 10 synthesizers at one time or another - this still remains my favourite
AT 11:50 you killed me the way you do the arpeggio like a machine love it ; p
Just amazing. I'm a big Jarre fan since forever and I found it like time machine live... Thank you
I appreciate your playing, almost as much as I appreciate your cable tidiness 😀
i liked the "from logo to image" intro screen transformation :)
I am still in big awe over your talent in decoding and playing these songs. I have the D-50 myself :)
Thanks. I listened to the songs and played them for many years, so biggest problem was to find a way to play them in shorter versions and with only two hands :D
@@thhedk Ha ha ha yes, but still....wow
This is not passion this is obsession!!!!My best congratulation my boy!!!You are one of the best Jarre impersonator on the net...even Jarre doesn't remember his song as good as you...really great!!!Tell the true: how many years of practice just to find the right sound and notes on Revolution??? ;-)
Haha, thanks. I think I practiced the final playlist for a month once a day, until i felt I could record it :)
* D50 Exists*
Jarre: Let's make a whole masterpiece with this beauty....
Agree!
Incredible sounds, built like a tank, we need this kind of quality today!
WOW! "Revolutions" is one of my favorite J.M.Jarre (later) albums. Considering his early albums where he experimented with various modular analog synths, it was a true surprise that he actually drew inspiration to the whole album (and the most of "Waiting for Cousteau") from a single keyboard! Either he was swept away by the D-50's digital sound and patches, or it was just a lazy phase...
But man, you play those Revolutions arrangements like you're one of J.M.Jarre's crew members! Respect!
Thanks man! Great to hear from you :)
Jarre has always used a lot of presets, I guess D-50 had so many great presets so he was swept away :)
How this even can be disliked?? Great performance!
Wasn't me but *squints and tries to read the presets* XD
Phenomenal. All the sounds - not to mention all the playing chops as well!
Wow it’s amazing to hear pretty much the entire album played right there in front of my eyes. Had no idea the d50 was so heavily used on the record. Amazing.
So, many famous bands used this along with Yamaha DX7 and oberheim obx. Tears for fears did
D-50 is Jarre's synth. Maybe he composed the sounds?
Every now and then I go back to my D 50 and my E-X50 to come up with new songs. This has to be hands down my favorite synthesizer to use.
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This is amazing. The lead solo from industrial revolution Overture.. Naild it
You played exactly, note for note Jarre's album Revolutions. Amazing, superb, well done!
Great job. I couldn't believe you was playing the whole Revolutions bassline without programming. Amazing.
Love that you played Revolutions. I really enjoy that album, but for some reason it's never been much of a critical success.
Very impressive. Good job!
I love JMJ and Revolutions is one of his best albums.
It's true that the D-50 was heavily used on this album, but a lot of the sawtooth and pulse wave based sounds weren't made with the D-50 but with the Elka Synthex. But one can say that these two excellent synthesizers together make up about 85% of the album.
The entire docklands concert on one keyboard in 25 minutes....Why did I bother spending £35.00 TO GO SEE IT? Bravo! that was brilliantly done.
This is still a very good synth, even with today's standard. Great sound demo. Thank you.
Uaaaauuuhhh !!! I just got a D50, downloaded your sysex file and enjoyed like I never did before. Thank you so much !!!
Sublime ! Que de souvenirs avec la partie JMJarre...
Et beaucoup d'heures de préparation pour cette vidéo.
BRAVO !
Awesome video , thanks for taking the time to put it together, a pleasure to listen to .
I was at the London gig in September '88. I'll never forget how cold it was!
You're so lucky!
And very, very wet ! I lived in Upton park and went to see it with my brother.
Not only famous sounds. famous musik and famous play! I love it!
Thanks
Great job at disassembling these songs so precisely. I never saw anyone do it as good as you did. It must be a great feeling when you get to know what were they actually playing and you could create a great cover.
One of my favourite JMJ albums. Great playing bringing those memories back to life again. The D50 was epic!
Thanks :)
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Great synthesizer inscribed in the classic world of electronics such Jarre music etc. Great presentation and sounds! :-)
That synthesized brass in "You can Call Me Al" was made using a Roland guitar synthesizer! Aside from that, all these other songs were practically written on the D-50, great video!
Jarre compuso todo su albúm Revolution con los presets del D-50 y parte de Waiting for Cousteau. Una buena demo de sus posibilidades.
Efectivamente,
Nunca un teclado pudo tener una mejor publicidad, la verdad es que es un FANTÁSTICO equipo,
Un CORDIAL SALUDO desde Madrid 🍻🙋.
now, THIS is a demo! great playing and great sounds!
Great job. I don't know the D-50 but it's very inspiring. I'm selling my M1 to fund something a little more modern but when I here videos like this it makes me realise that, at the age of 45, my roots are 80's and that's what I love. You won't get these sounds from anything modern.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers
G
thats true.. I am 46 and still cant get over the 80s synths.. the holy trinity of DX7, D50, M1
15 and i've recently bought a casio vz-1 (i already have a roland d-50), planning on getting a 90s synth soon (preferably some sort of workstation)!
Unless you buy a MODX. It can exactly duplicate anything the DX7 can do and much more.
@@jml7916 then again an SY99 costs less than an MODX, has superb performance on FM and AWM2 and is built to the level of quality of a Montage - if i'm not mistaken the MODX has a cheap keybed and no aftertouch.
I would instinctively choose the SY over the MODX.
30 years after its release it sounds still charming good. Nice demo, thanks!
wow,amazing,everything on revolution was a d50...I never knew that, great demo man
Esse deixou saudade!!! Lembro do meu D-50 quando montei banda nos anos 80.
Very cool demo. I bought my d550 & pg1000 about 15 years ago. It definitely has a unique sound. You made me realize that i should i will power it again.
Great sounds from a great legend of a machine! Thanks for the vid!
The Roland D-50 PN-D50-00 patch "Syn-Harmonium" was heard in the 21 Jump Street episode where some boys were bullied and mentally and physically abused by some other boys and some boy’s father who beat some boy up "Champagne High" (1988).
21:15 - Paula Abdul - Straight Up
21:34 - Sabrina - Boys
21:51 - Spagna - Call Me
22:12 - Bananarama - Love In The First Degree (Guilty)
22:20 - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
22:44 - Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
23:08 - Enya - Sail Away
23:40 - ?
23:56 - Faithless - Insomnia
Nice medley. :)
20:00 sounds amazing btw. Subbed!
I only have a lowly Juno-D and JV-1080, but close enough. hehe
but EVERY SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION?? come from of Roland D50????? so much !!??
Cant get no sleep...
Wow... I think I just had an eargasm! What a wonderfull machine... the one that made most of my favorite album of Jarre. Thanks man!
Interestingly I think people sleep on that album (or don't like it.) I was a kid when it came out, and I was dreaming of synthesizer all day long... I must have watched the Destination Docklands concert VHS 1000 times... Including the making-of documentary at the end :)
I was watching Two and a half Men and I saw that Charlie has one of these, so I decided to check it out. Man am I happy that I did. This was awesome! :D
First played it back in the late 80's and I wanted it so bad but price was just out of my league.
Bought it some 4-5 years ago and I find it a really nice synth to play around with and the amount
of created sounds available if you just want to delve into that without fiddling is enormous. My
price for a mint one was IIRC about $300. Bought a couple of nice MRAM cards by Dojoe to
complement the D-50 and my JD-800. Nice!
The first time i saw this video, with big speakers, my mouth stays open and i though: "Oh my God... So awesome" Thank you so much for sharing this.
Congratulations on your keyboard skills, you are very talented ! It’s nice to see Revolutions’s most powerful melodies played on the D-50. I never thought this instrument was used so much on this album. Thanks for the video !
Perfect demo;my compliments!!!(With one of the best synths ever!!!)
This was so much fun. I only knew his first two records.
So I played your video and then checked the song on Spotify to hear what JMJ did on the album.
That was kind of a fun back and forth 🙂
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A friend of mine had this synth in 1988 while I was still on the Korg-Poly 6
( trying to program the damn thing into a dx-7 lol )
We played a few times together so I got a vibe of the synth, back then.
But playing this video and the actual album widenes the sonic palette.
.
thumbs up.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
Thanks. I have to ask, are you as a subscriber, presented of my new video?
I'm struggling to have any views on all the new stuff I make, and I can't find out why.
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Excellent job and an outstanding looking vintage board....well maintained. The flow was pretty darn seamless for 1 take... cheers
One of THE Synthesizers i will NEVER part from. I'm so proud to actually own one.
I just got me a Roland D50.
Happy happy joy joy.
I own one too with all five cards plus 3 kystal cards love it.
I always knew there was a lot of D-50 on Revolutions but man I didn't realize the extent heh. It's almost like a demo record for the synth but I mean that in a good way, I've always loved the album and it makes me wanna get a D-50 for myself. :D Hmm as a matter of fact, the shop where I'm currently having another synth of mine serviced currently has one for sale... hmmm indeed.
As a musical instrument salesman as a young man, I remember getting this keyboard delivered to the shop and I was the first one to try it. I was into all that kind of stuff so my boss just let me loose on it so I could find out how it worked. It was a big step up from the analogue synths id been used to. Recorded some great stuff with it for demonstration purposes. Happy days.
As a further point, im sure one of the presets was used on a Wet Wet Wet song.
Great story :)
I see I have had a lot of views on this video the last two days - how did you find it? Just curiuos :)
@@thhedk Sorry for the delay replying, I think I was searching for classic synth demos.
Also, kudos to simple and effective video editing! Hands fadeout and D-50 logo on the end of the video are just cool...
Thanks :)
That pizicatto patch used on Faithless INSOMNIA song is Awesome. Great synth along with the MK2 DX7 the best synths of the 80s
The Roland D-50 PN-D50-00 patch “Fantasia” was heard and modified’ly heard in 1987 Kidsongs versions of “Strolling Through the Park” and “Put on a Happy Face”.
Fyi the syx files work perfectly with the D50 software from Roland.
I tried them all yesterday.
Thanks again for this gift !
Really good! My favourite bit was 21:15 onwards, all the 80s pop :) I hadn't read the description so that came as a nice surprise ha ha:)
Thank you.
What's the name of the preset Phil Collins used on the beginning of ADIP?
Stunning work.
Great demo man. Really appreciate the effort you've taken! Thank you.
Uploaded your patches 2 years ago to my D50. Still got them in and I use them often!
you are a real fan of JMJ :-) nice playing btw
I'm picking one up today! I'm freaking psyched!
Awesome job you did there, great playing and huge thanks for the SysEx. /me humbly bows.
Genial. Eres un bestia tocando.
Soy un fan de JMJ y me encanta el video.
Felicidades.
I love this machine...Really nice playing man, well done!!
Jean-Michel Jarre it's here man!
Excellent!
I love the D-50 i still have mine
Me too :)
Just picked one of these brilliant synths up and in turn completed my 80s trinity with the DX7 and M1. Plenty to explore with this model
Yes I just had a go on mine again, still really great!
Wow, Really Superb, Well done. Never got to play with a D50. Sounds are Awsum.
I became today a glad owner of this classic synth! Really love it already!
Just bought it today!
My congrats!
Thanks for this one, I'm frame-by-framing it to practice playing the entire album!
The voice oscillator is pretty amazing on these things
"K-While" - Leister "Volume 3" - Patch 66
"Analog Chop" - Leister "Volume 3" - Patch 61
those are aftermarket D-50 patches....not original.
Revolution! great album and great performance as usual
The PS1 start up sound was done on a D50
Great video Thomas H can you tell me what is that breathing sound called at 2:53 - JMJ - Industrial Revolutions Part 1 please, thanks regards
Thanks.
"YAMATANO OROCHI" - Michael Hotop's SoundSet 8 - Patch 27
It's all here :)
www.thhe.dk/Roland_D-50.htm
lol nice intro scene with the d50 logo ! great :>
Fantastic, I love Revolutions, Jarre knew what to do with this instrument.
Thanks.
Yes he did!
nice :) great work :) its so satisfying to see someone playing revolution:)
great demo
Thumbs up
I wish you a happy Easter
many greetings Frank
the best demo d50-jarre !!... gracias por el syx !!!
THE DX7 KILLER
The Roland D-50 internal patch “Fantasia” was heard edited in the 1988 Martika version of Cross My Heart (1988) and If You Asked me To (1989) and heard in the 1995 All-4-One version of Love You Like That (1995).
Great playing one of my favourite song Computer Weekend.
P.S. Your D50 is in amazing condition)
fantastic synth, sounds awesome and nice played, cheers from italy, ciao!
im ocd too_love the cable management in the rear
Wow! so the D50 gave a real big inspiration to JMJ! great stuff!!
JARRE JARRE>>>>>>> TOP 10
It's ironic because JMJ's dad, Maurice Jarre, used the Roland D-50 extensively for his No Way Out (1987) score. I almost wonder if he had his son do the keyboard work. The main title track used the Digital Native Dance patch as well as Pizzagogo and probably other. Those ones definitely stood out to me.
Really interesting fact and also a great film.
Many people seem to not know this, but Maurice left Jean-Michel when he was a very young child, he wasn't his dad, they had no contact at all and they only met maybe 20 times in their lives. They never had a real relationship, JMJ talked about this many times. JMJ was not inspired by his father's music and the two never worked together.
Always knew JMJ used the D50 on Revolutions, extensively ... Just not that extensively!
The Sleeve-notes for Revolutions does have the Roland D-50 top of the instruments list.
It's basically a demo tape for the synth.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this amazing synth 1987 Dublin Ireland I attended a demonstration of the D50 performed by Roland’s representative the hairs on the back of my neck!it was groundbreaking at the time…I can understand why Jarre had a soft spot for the D-50 Waiting for Cousteau also had D50 patches thrown in for good measure
Yes it was quite unique but not for long after Korg M1 came and beat it :(
ThomasH - please check out my own compositions too.
Jarre, is that you? (excellent playing of the classics)
Great sounds used in a superb album "Revolutions" . Great playing. i so want this instrument... GIVE IT TO ME.
Search out one or go for a used Roland boutique! ( No dodgy keybed problems, which apparently plagued the D50 sadly).
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