Pat Metheny - New England Digital Synclavier Demonstration - Old Grey Whistle Test - Roland G-303

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    Pat Metheny - New England Digital Synclavier Demonstration - Old Grey Whistle Test - Roland G-303
    Super rare footage from the British television show 'The Old Grey Whistle Test'. I believe the clip was pulled for years as the original broadcast included the tune "Tell It All', from "First Circle" and this was blocked by WBM Group from being shown on RUclips. Great to have it back!

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  • @station2station544
    @station2station544 Год назад +13

    Synclavier demo starts at 8:40

  • @xpump876
    @xpump876 2 года назад +15

    that synth tracked the guitar amazingly well considering when this was filmed!! Most have cost small fortune back then --- loved that comment "....let me just change the disk !..."

    • @lancepage1914
      @lancepage1914 Год назад +7

      A small fortune you say. That synth would have cost as much as a house back then.

    • @achtagon
      @achtagon Год назад

      @@lancepage1914 I've been on a Synclavier research binge, and it was the $4500 per megabyte of memory cost that really ballooned the price. The Michael Jackson's and Big Studios of the world told them to max them out with 10 or 20MB of sample memory expansion, adding $100k

  • @enoz.j3506
    @enoz.j3506 Год назад +5

    Clever chap, true talent right there. Just goes to prove ,if you recognize the gift early on, you will go far. Thank you.

  • @dodgyscampton5668
    @dodgyscampton5668 3 года назад +15

    Great stuff. Thanks for keeping this stuff alive!

  • @issiewizzie
    @issiewizzie 3 года назад +12

    And now we have it as Arturia synclivier V.
    classic sounds

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  3 года назад +2

      That is a great soft synth! I love what Arturia did!

  • @drumbyte
    @drumbyte 3 года назад +5

    This would put this interview right at about 1984 since The Falcon and the Snowman came out in 1985

  • @louisd100
    @louisd100 3 года назад +14

    Looked like a thomas from daft punk in robot form at the beginning

  • @karl.weaver
    @karl.weaver Год назад +5

    What a nice guy!

  • @elginphelps5291
    @elginphelps5291 3 года назад +7

    Thank you 😊 💓 ☺ 💗

  • @ALIASZARDOZ
    @ALIASZARDOZ 3 года назад +13

    Great video ! I like it very much. I like also the Synclavier which give fabulous sounds and I can suppose that Pat METHENY was not disturb with the latency. I think the latency is minimum in this Synclavier.
    80s is fabulous than XXI century... Wouarfff ! !

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 Год назад +2

      You just play faster from the latency hihi

    • @ALIASZARDOZ
      @ALIASZARDOZ Год назад +2

      @@svenjansen2134 Yessss ! Like Allan Holdsworth with his Synthaxe...
      Oh yeah !

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder Год назад +2

      @@ALIASZARDOZ There are world class musicians like Pat Metheny, and then there are one off from another galaxy musicians like Allan Holdsworth.

    • @ALIASZARDOZ
      @ALIASZARDOZ Год назад +2

      @@EgoShredder Yes absolutely !!! I am totaly agree with you.

  • @timcummiskey1178
    @timcummiskey1178 Год назад +3

    Fabulous! Thank you

  • @jandekker6008
    @jandekker6008 3 года назад +10

    I remember seeing this when it was on. Had to defend the telly in the university union building from people who wanted to watch snooker or something. (The stuff around the 10-minute mark where he demos the Synclav sounds like plausible synth pop!)

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  3 года назад

      Hah! That is pretty funny! Glad to hear that you witnessed the original broadcast, must have seemed pretty ground breaking at the time!

    • @jandekker6008
      @jandekker6008 3 года назад +2

      @@WayneJoness Well, just the idea of Pat being on telly was pretty out there. And not long after this, he was on again!

    • @heatherstub
      @heatherstub 8 месяцев назад +1

      Indeed. Wasn't that appearance the one where he found the "wolf howls" and had fun with that? Oh man! Pat's the man! I'm still in love with his music, and it's actually changed me. I think God had everything to do with it, too, because I was a real mess before I heard him for the first time in 1979 when "American Garage" came out. It was when I got to hear the series "The Search for Solutions" back in 8th grade, and the windows were open in our classroom. Then his music played, and I was instantly overtaken in the best way by the wonderful smell of the freshly-mown lawn and the music. For whatever the reason, that, along with Aromatique perfume by Clinique just got me! I also loved Chloe` and Pour Homme by Carl Laggerfeld, and every time I played his music, I had to wear one of those. I still wear the Aromatique, and I still absolutely love his music even now. Now if I could meet him and tell him my story, that would be the icing on the cake. There's so much to say, and I've always wanted to sing "The First Circle", because it was that song that opened the flood gates for me, and I've not been the same since. I just knew I had to spend the rest of my life doing what I love to do so much, and that's to sing! I cannot say enough, and it was an uphill battle for me for many years, because I battled severe chronic pain for 46 years of this 59-year plus life, and I don't regret it one bit! @@jandekker6008

  • @AMI6Z
    @AMI6Z 3 года назад +3

    Très belle archive !

  • @marcuskeulertz5852
    @marcuskeulertz5852 3 года назад +10

    He's right saying that playing Pop music live on stage is more focused on the appearance of the band or any particular singer. Jazz is something different you need to concentrate on the rhythm and the melody. It's more sophisticated.

  • @DJBuglip
    @DJBuglip 2 года назад +9

    Omg. What's this, like, 78, 79? And the tracking he had on that midi! I have a hard time getting sound that good today, with tech that's 40 years newer. He was SO far ahead of the curve.

    • @DJBuglip
      @DJBuglip 2 года назад

      Lol, he's having to program in parameters in DOS. That's insane. I was in middle school doing that on a TRS-80, that's the dawn of time.

    • @JanPBtest
      @JanPBtest Год назад +1

      @@DJBuglip I don't think the Synclavier used DOS, they had their own OS? Same with parts of their hardware? Anyone knows for sure?

    • @m13v2
      @m13v2 Год назад

      well „dos“ was once a generic term. there’s even been a „dos“ for ibm 360 mainframes. given that ned even designed their own cpu in the synclavier i am pretty sure they also wrote their own „dos“. the terminal (monitor and keyboard) is also a classic. a dec vt 100 connected to the synclavier.

    • @eddievhfan1984
      @eddievhfan1984 Год назад +1

      At the time of this video, MIDI had yet to be widespread, and I don't think NED had yet designed any kind of external MIDI interface for the Synclavier. Pat's guitar is being tracked by the Synclavier interface itself, with no MIDI message translation. As to whether it's GR-300 triggered ramp timing or zero-crossing timing, IDK, but I'd bet on the former.

    • @MacXpert74
      @MacXpert74 Год назад +8

      He was talking about making music for the movie ‘The falcon and the snowman’ which came out in 1985. The music for it was recorded in 1984, so that’s when this video was made. The MIDI standard was released a year earlier in 1983.

  • @papepcool
    @papepcool Год назад +2

    Its almost funny how long we have come. QuickScribe writes out sheet music automatically nowadays

  • @Ilham-mw7lc
    @Ilham-mw7lc 23 дня назад

    whoa Danny Gottlieb on drums in the transition period 1980-1982

  • @glidernyc
    @glidernyc 3 года назад +4

    Nana!

  • @marcofioravanti4176
    @marcofioravanti4176 8 месяцев назад

    Wow! Just wow!

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  7 месяцев назад

      Seriously, Pat has been delivering Wow! for 40+ years!

  • @philipjohnson2652
    @philipjohnson2652 11 месяцев назад +1

    I assembled all NED keyboards the last three years of their existence.

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  11 месяцев назад

      Wow - that is VERY cool!

  • @ri6thechameleon
    @ri6thechameleon Год назад +2

    Daft punk at left side the first second ?🧐😮

    • @Gencoil
      @Gencoil 4 месяца назад

      They're time travellers!

  • @derpnerpwerp
    @derpnerpwerp Год назад +1

    I was trying to identify the language used in a video I saw of Suzanne Ciani creating music and voices for a pinball game. I searched for some of the syntax and found a very old magazine mention a proprietary language called The Music Composition Language for the Synclavier II. Some of the comments on that video were claiming it was BASIC, which I assume would be classical MML. However the syntax looks more similar to what I saw in the magazine. In any case, maybe someone on here can verify she was using a Synclavier. After seeing this video I am 99% sure she was since it looks pretty much identical to me.

  • @commodoor6549
    @commodoor6549 Месяц назад +1

    Oscar Peterson = Jazz... Charlie Parker = Jazz... Miles Davis = Jazz... Pat Metheny = fusion/pop with some jazz influence

  • @commodoor6549
    @commodoor6549 Месяц назад

    Why's the host sitting with the T-800?

  • @baddriddimworkshop
    @baddriddimworkshop 3 месяца назад

    So i guess the G303 was the pitchh tracking device.

  • @micaevski
    @micaevski Год назад +2

    People used to really rock shorts. Simpler times.

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  Год назад +3

      I think all that vintage computer gear ran pretty warm too.

  • @TheJoecoool
    @TheJoecoool 2 года назад +3

    who remembered C-LAB ? 😅

  • @fender1000100
    @fender1000100 Год назад +1

    If I could get a synclavier II for less than 10k I would take os over anything out there.

  • @freakybeaky1
    @freakybeaky1 Месяц назад

    Recorded the tv programme as a schoolboy in the 1980s.
    I couldn’t get my ear around the sound of a ‘trumpet’ slightly delayed coming out after the plectrum hitting the strings on the Roland as he played and him really feeling it -Are You Going With Me live.

  • @LuiyoSA
    @LuiyoSA Год назад

    And that’s how protools was born

  • @svenjansen2134
    @svenjansen2134 Год назад

    Is it Pat Metheenie or Methenie?

  • @recsund
    @recsund Год назад

    8:25 now got to say in 2022 how the hell did he do that?

    • @recsund
      @recsund Год назад

      the guitars got a midi out?

    • @skyscratch
      @skyscratch Год назад +1

      @@recsund I thought it would be but New England Digital (who made the Synclavier) developed a guitar interface for the Roland guitar synth Pat is using here. If you click on the video description, there's an interesting piece from Pat describing how to play it.

    • @recsund
      @recsund Год назад +1

      @@skyscratch 🤙wicked!👍

  • @nicolaspisiati5054
    @nicolaspisiati5054 Год назад

    La computadora es digna del garage de Willie Tanner

  • @JoshuaPickenpaugh
    @JoshuaPickenpaugh Год назад

    Wow. And I thought Finale 1.0 was bad.

  • @klepetar
    @klepetar 6 месяцев назад

    expensive toys those synclavier..

    • @WayneJoness
      @WayneJoness  6 месяцев назад +1

      With Pat and Lyle they certainly made some great music with the synclav!

  • @freakybeaky1
    @freakybeaky1 Месяц назад

    Think it was called just Whistle Test by 1984. He was with the Group, playing a Roland Guitar Synth live when it became just Whistle Test. Are You Going With Me in 1985.