Ep5: The Synth Sounds of Blade Runner
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Treat yourself or find the perfect gift for your favorite music maker. Blade Runner is one of the most iconic soundtracks in film history, thanks to the innovation of composer Vangelis. In this video, Justin takes us through how we can nail some of those iconic #SynthSounds with analog and digital gear.
Read more on Reverb: bit.ly/2wzSC3H
One important thing not mentioned here about the CS80 is that it had polyphonic aftertouch which means that every note in a chord could have its own expression. This is what made the CS80 very special and it's one of the key features that Vangelis utilised a lot in his playing and why the sounds are so expressive and organic/human.
These are not the original sounds, they are clearly replicants.
🦄
I get it
do synthesisers dream of electric pianists?
No no, not replicants, they are clearly lesbians
I see what you did there lol
"What is a pulse wave?"
"You know what a square wave is?"
"Of course!"
"Same thing."
I see what you did thar ;)
This deserves more upvotes
Every square wave is a pulse wave, but not every pulse wave is a square wave.
@@otisobl😂. Yep
Not even 20 seconds in and I'm liking and sharing this, as a simple gesture of gratitude for even making videos like these. Amazing job!
Summed it up perfectly!!!!
Yup, agreed! :)
Vangelis use the cs80 for brass sound ,Roland Vp 330 for the strings, roland system 100 synth bass sequencer, prophet5 and jupiter 4 for the fx, yamaha piano cp80, roland cr8000 drum machine, Linn Lm1 drum machine.
At last. Someone that knows their onions!
At a guess, was it AMS reverb?
No Lexicon 224
Check out The CS-80 Runner Blade Synth For Kontakt and Thank me later! This was made with cs80 Lexicon 224 and tape
www.gumroad.com/pasttofuturereverbs
The sounds are the best so far!
He also used a fairlight cmi to record 2 bums pooping and that's big in the soundtrack
What about the chimes for Blade Runner intro? Is an effect or real instrument? Searching for that, thanks.
Why all the negative comments? Did some of you actually expect it to sound exactly like the soundtrack? This guy is just simply showing you how it was put together. The work is appreciated. Had you would’ve nailed these they would say you’re a copy.
John Beta you did get the replicant joke? Cause it's not a negative comment but a joke refering to the movie. :D
No but that’s the point of the video
The thing is it literally does sound just like the music from the film. What people don’t realise is back in the 80s people would have taken years and spent so much money just to build a studio full of the stuff we can get digitally and download in seconds today.
I've been dreaming of that tone for years. Now that Blade Runner is getting a revival of some sort, I think airy synths will make a come back
Keep dreaming or settle for a distant imitation.
Airy synths have always been used in ambient music. Try some Hydroponic Garden or Loscil.
"I think airy synths will make a come back" - They've never gone anywhere...
re: " ... I think airy synths will make a come back ... " I like "airy", but when I think of that word, I tend to think more of flutes (just a personal deal, or perhaps I'm wrong, ... although, I like airy sounds also), but for me, I think, "atmospheric", or "ethereal", or "surreal", would seem more like it, but again, in the world of music synthesis, ... so much is subjective anyways, ... ;-) It's "all good", to me. What brought me to this site was that by chance, I was looking at the Omnisphere just now, in thought that it could probably "replicate" pretty competitively.
ruclips.net/video/BypwhO0IDy0/видео.html
Oh, ... go in at around 11 to 16 mins. or so, .... WOW! imho, and we're talking: "Stay Fat; Stay Alive". ;-) er, I mean synth sounds, anyways. (64 LFOs capable?, umm, yeah!)
soundcloud.com/kaamilmirza/cached
same vibe for sure
This is first class. I love the Blade Runner sound track. It has some of the most amazing music of it's time.
just the amount of time and effort in this video gets a like and applause from me. great
Every time he says "replicating..." I lol
EMMET!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE.
The internet is huge but yet somehow we all ended up here.
This is a chance of 1/18900009081
Good to know.
Idk I like synths and Blade Runner as much as anybody
I think some people are expecting a bit much for the video to perfectly recreate the Blade Runner main theme. This was a good video that explains the main concepts behind different parts of the song. I'm not going to re-write the Blade Runner track note for note, but I do plan on trying to make some original 80s vintage sounding songs, and this has some good tips. Really enjoy these videos.
annnnnnd there goes the budget for the year haha
*Reverb's video budget that is
It looked awesome didn't it?
Best Reverb videos. Synthsssssss.
Im still piking up the pieces of my brain... this was superb - thanks!
Any chance you could do a video like this for the original Terminator's soundtrack?
TheAnonymousBosch I think someone else already did the Terminator soundtrack
Make a second part with exploring the sounds from "blade runner blues"! My favourite part of the soundtrack and the lead is so cool!
Justin is so excited thank you soo much!
That was absolutely brilliant. Cheers!
Incredibly valuable, thanks a lot Reverb!
Am I inspired yes, you have such musical skill and share with the community. Thank you for taking the time to make these, they are great videos.
Most of the strings you hear in Blade Runner are NOT the CS80 but the Roland VP330. Vangelis layers both a lot using the CS80 to play the melody line. But because the CS80 blends so well with the sound of the VP330 its sometimes hard to tell which is which.
great job!! i really like how you break down the different sounds!!
I learned a lot from this video, for example: The chorus effect makes it sound like a chorus.
EvilOverlord96 reverb is always very informative! I also learned that modular synths are synths that are build by modules!
Really like your videos, people can learn about old analog synths.
But in my view, the tips you give in between all that, matter most :)
I fucking love this channel
Super thankful I am for thisssss !!!
A a former Roland Jupiter 8 owner...I'm in. I'm more interested in the opening titles sounds...
m.ruclips.net/video/2Nw3i7gT62I/видео.html
Justin DELAY at reverb this is perfect
Man I was hoping this we dropping today. Solid stuff Phil Flanger
These vids are great, keep them coming.
The Timpani was an Emulator 1 stock sample.
Yup Vangelis put his Emulator 1 to damn good use in the early '80s
I was very much inspired by this video! Thank you!
This was back in the day when newport job centre was still around!.
Great video! Would love to see a video on Hans Zimmer's synth sounds :)
THX I have always been fascinated by it. Around 2000 I had a really vintage alloy casing VHS unit and I studied film and got it on VHS and at a party I had it was just running without sound in the background. Seen it countless of times. Different versions and formats. Got it on "HDDVD" Which I never have and never will be able to play ;P. So for me the original Bladerunner has become a thing about formats. Different formats. Something that has become an interest in its own. I like to collect and maintain different photographic and Audiovisual formats.
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! Please do more of these.
Awesome series. Want MORE!!
Wow. Very Cool!
Wow, what nice entrance, very funy and very nice, well done!
wow what great info!!! gonna set up a template in my ableton with those sounds and see what I can come up with. thank you very much!!
Justin is a badass! Make sure y'all check out his band Replicant.
Love this soundtrack
Thanks for posting this.
This guy is a great communicator !
Not through yet, but already thumbs up for the intro ...
Great vid - thanks for posting! Made me subscribe within two minutes of watching! :)
You've done a man's job, sir!
Really cool breakdowns for the sounds. I liked that flange on the, harp?, I believe it was.
I think, also Frank Klepacki did a great job with his reinterpretation of the film music for Westwood studio's video game.
Not to detract from the effort in the video, I would classify this as a good starting point for folks new to synthesis (which IS probably the target audience), but not an in-depth, detailed, spot-on tutorial how to NAIL those Blade Runner-ish tones.
But hey, I love anything that brings focus to what is magical about the original Blade Runner soundtrack, the CS-80, and Vangelis. I also think a good programmer can get pretty much all the tones demoed here (as close as the patches demoed in the vid) in one half-way decent ROMpler or VA synth. As somebody in the comments already mentioned, someone has done it with the JD-XA, and I imagined it being fairly doable with the Roland FA-06 (a decent, middle-of-the-road synth for capability and programmability).
Good point ! Without being 100% correct, I can do wonders with an Korg MS2000, Korg DW8000, Akai AX73 and Roland JV-880 with the vintage synths card
prockgnosis agree...with care and attention almost any synth can be used to create these sounds, though some better than others...i have recreated many Vangelis pieces with the roland xv5080, novation nova eg m.ruclips.net/video/Rm2vzXFuzzQ/видео.html and yamaha an1x. the an1x in my experience comes closest to nailing those iconic Vangelis lead sounds originally made with cs80 though eg m.ruclips.net/video/CZPVAbUdWh0/видео.html
Why would a patch called "VP330 Strings" have anything to do with an RS-09?
The Roland VP-330 was their Strings/Choir/Vocoder keyboard. (Much older)
That was so cool!
Thanks for this
Good sound
great vid! I got great inspiration from this
What a great movie.
I don´t mean to be a hater as this is my first visit to this channel - But to me this sounds more like The New American Orchestra version than it sounds like Vangelis.
i enjoyed this, cheers!
Great session.
Love the video! You gave me some idea's having just recently bought a Korg PA600, (to learn music on, while recovering from an op').... this also has a sequencer built in, so I'll give it a try. By the way, you bear a striking resemblance to a much loved and missed British TV comedian/ex DJ Kenny Everett. Anyone else thinks so?
Oddly enough, several of the sounds in this set need more.....
reverb.
Brilliant!
This was great...
This is great. Thankee
Vangelis is pronounced with a hard "G" as in "get."
Ah, yes: the hard "G", as in, hahaha, well, you know...
They're pronouncing it Jellis because they're Vanjelly they don't have a CS80 to make this review.
@@skrie I'm quite Vanjealous myself.
@@RonSwansonIsMyGod Van-ghe-lees. That's how he pronounces it. No "uh" sound in it at all.
@@RonSwansonIsMyGod it's not that complicated: it's the same "eh" sound as in the word "get" which every English speaker can pronounce perfectly well. The "ugh" sound as in "gum" is wholely irrelevant here.
Awesome vid thx
Justin Delay ist the Slavoj Žižek of Synths
Are these sounds included in any VST:s?
7:12 In life as in art, most everything is improved with a bit of flange.
Superb
I love you dude
FINALLY
The way I see it, this Roland is either a benefit or a hazard. If it's a benefit it's not my problem.
So what role does the Juno 105 play? Just as a MIDI controller?
I'm now trying to recreate this using boss sy1000 and meris Mercury 7
You could do all of this on Omnisphere as well
Lol...you could do all this 10 times as well with Omnisphere...
ProckGnosis agreed.
The weekend next
While the intro song played here is my 3rd favorite Bladerunner song after Memories of Green and Bladerunner Blues. I find it weird it's the end credits song.
Please do the synth sounds of a Clockwork Orange!
Thanks very much, great tutorial, please tell me what scale the CS-80 notes are?
Would these reverb download plugins work with Reaper?
Recommendation: Synth Sounds of the Reading Rainbow theme song.
hymn of the replicants
Where are the Obberheims? Some those deep rumbling basses were Obberheim I thought.
I so wish you could do the Synth sounds of Jan Hammers Miami Vice Theme! An awesome bass synth sound which i've never heard since
I read an interview he did for Keyboard Magazine in the 80s. I believe most of it was the Fairlight while the lead was a Minimoog through a distortion pedal
5:53 jellyfish jam xD
My friend repairs CS80's. Surely the granddaddy is the GX-1 ^^?
What other synth could you use instead of the casio?
Would love to see parameters for that thunderous 'boom' sound, st the very beginning of the soundtrack.
interesting.. reverb would you do a break-down of the fairlight rift bowie used in lets dance :)
and/or is it reproducible today
Anemic.
Check out our Runner Blade Reverb IR's made with Lexicon 224 and recorded on Studer A80 Tape Recorder. The Magic of this Soundtrack lays also in The Lexicon 224 Reverb. We replicated all the Featured reverb Sounds and more. www.gumroad.com/pasttofuturereverbs
This is awesome. I have already bought it.
Really great video, of course these aren't the original sound, but it's a nice deconstruction.
btw Timpani are not that good ;-)
I came here hoping you'd give a step by step demo for some of the patches. No. Nothing here but 'look what I did'. Thanks for the peacock show. For the record, I have the Arturia CS-80 and my patch is way better than the one you 'showcased'. Needs more tweaking on the Filter Cut-Off and you need some vibrato from the LFO. Anyway...
Thank you Justin another great break down of the original Score and reproduction of the layers of instruments (synths) and iconic sounds of Vangelis! Big fan of the original ,hope Bladerunner 2049 pays some homage ...
You could easily replicate the sound using
Pioneer/DSI-AS1 or Moog Sub 37 for the bass.
Behringer-VC340 for the strings
DSI Tempest Drum Machine for the Linn Drum samples
DSI Prophet REV2 or Black Corporation's Dekkard's Dream for the brass.
and of course any sampling synth like Nord Wave, Waldorf Blofeld, or Korg Microsampler for the timpani and harp samples.
you will never even get close. pre amps, a million dollar desk, FM synthesis, CR5000 running live, live synth parts, bespoke EQs, the linn, etc etc...and massive record company £$£$. All long gone....
Not even halfway in getting the brass patch right, and then they just move on...
Yeah...had the same thought.
Not too much authenticity in the sounds.
there is in mine tho soundcloud.com/kaamilmirza/cached