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Bleeps and Boops
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2022
Hi there... welcome to things that go bleep and boop
I've sort of fallen in to this - I don't claim to be an ambient sound designer, pro TH-camr, I don't have soundpacks or sample libraries you can buy, but over the years I've accumulated a few bits of random 80's/90's synth things and not really had much of an outlet for playing it. I figured that demoing it in context, a few covers, a few tutorials etc might be useful...
I'll be trying to avoid the DAW where possible - I spend far too many days stuck editing audio in Pro Tools, and whilst I've nothing against ITB, it just lacks the *fun* factor of a DAW-less track
If there's something I think is interesting - a track, piece of gear I've managed to get hold of, workflow etc - I'll try to film it. Drop me a comment on any of the videos if there's something you want to see covered.
Thanks for looking!
If you're interested, my other channel has way more guitars on it - th-cam.com/users/BenWalkerMusic
I've sort of fallen in to this - I don't claim to be an ambient sound designer, pro TH-camr, I don't have soundpacks or sample libraries you can buy, but over the years I've accumulated a few bits of random 80's/90's synth things and not really had much of an outlet for playing it. I figured that demoing it in context, a few covers, a few tutorials etc might be useful...
I'll be trying to avoid the DAW where possible - I spend far too many days stuck editing audio in Pro Tools, and whilst I've nothing against ITB, it just lacks the *fun* factor of a DAW-less track
If there's something I think is interesting - a track, piece of gear I've managed to get hold of, workflow etc - I'll try to film it. Drop me a comment on any of the videos if there's something you want to see covered.
Thanks for looking!
If you're interested, my other channel has way more guitars on it - th-cam.com/users/BenWalkerMusic
One of those times when Aphex Twin wasn't Aphex Twin - Polygon Window hardware only cover/recreation
A few people have requested this one - happy to oblige!
A sense of the synths and drum machines that Richard had around the time is mostly based around the '93 Future Music interview - lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-aphex-effect-future-music-magazine-april-1993/
Since the Roland R8 was used for a lot of SAW - see my Xtal video th-cam.com/video/tiynQ33EDwA/w-d-xo.html - it makes sense that he was using it for the "updated 808 sounds" on Polygon Window too. The retuned, panned and pitch automation sort of gives it away. Also interesting that Autechre were (really obviously) using the same drum machine at the same time, which might have been a driver behind his move away from it.
The Yamaha TX81Z, DX21 and DX11 are pretty much interchangeable, and the bassline you can make on any FM synth
Sorry there's no MS20 😢
There's not much by way of sequencing, but what is sequenced is pretty unusual, particularly the discordant strings. Fun times.
Please don't forget to check out my other videos, and please do comment, like, subscribe, share, remix etc - it all boosts my ego no end.
Thanks for watching!!
A sense of the synths and drum machines that Richard had around the time is mostly based around the '93 Future Music interview - lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-aphex-effect-future-music-magazine-april-1993/
Since the Roland R8 was used for a lot of SAW - see my Xtal video th-cam.com/video/tiynQ33EDwA/w-d-xo.html - it makes sense that he was using it for the "updated 808 sounds" on Polygon Window too. The retuned, panned and pitch automation sort of gives it away. Also interesting that Autechre were (really obviously) using the same drum machine at the same time, which might have been a driver behind his move away from it.
The Yamaha TX81Z, DX21 and DX11 are pretty much interchangeable, and the bassline you can make on any FM synth
Sorry there's no MS20 😢
There's not much by way of sequencing, but what is sequenced is pretty unusual, particularly the discordant strings. Fun times.
Please don't forget to check out my other videos, and please do comment, like, subscribe, share, remix etc - it all boosts my ego no end.
Thanks for watching!!
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Not bad, but it's far from a 1:1 recreation
the early autechre drummachine was the yamaha ry30 , a nod to that on their ep We R Are Why ( get it ? ) , all ry 30 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_R_Are_Why
On that ep, yes. The R8 was used elsewhere, not only as a drum machine but as a sequencer.. The pitch shifted (factory) samples are a dead giveaway especially on the Warp Tapes
Wow! Nice job. It all came together surprisingly well.
Thankyou!!
Superb deconstruction! Please do Forever from Snivlization🤓
Thanks! Ooooh, good shout! Will add to the list 😎👍
9:04 holy crap that gave me chills when it all came together
😎🤟
This unit is full of cool presets and fx that make different synth lines sound incredible, from bass lines to arps to pads, really a great retro treasure trove!
I really like the grittiness from it - Hainbach did a good video on using the reverbs from it, though I don't think he ever explored the midi cc side of things. Great FX box though, and still relatively cheap!
Close but not bang on. Drums and strings not quite there. Great job though amazing you figured this all out. Bassline is identical.
Thanks! It's a really tricky one, there's a lot of complexity in so few actual instrument tracks!
No idea they used samples for the piano. Madness. Impressive.
Thanks!
try using something like a wooden table for the dragging sound. SPECIFICALLY WOODEN.
What type of wood? There's a massive difference in the tone you get from (say) pine Vs oak, and it has to be exactly right
@@bleepsandboops idk man, you're asking the wrong guy, but in my expierinece, wood tables always make that kind of sound when it drags along the floor.
It's not really right, but whatever.... must try harder
Will do - Any pointers? Thanks so much for stopping by! 😎🤟
hmmmm
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a b77 huzza a man of quality !
Thanks! It's quite the beast...!
v i r t u a l a n a l
Dr. Mix jumpscare
He gets everywhere...
@@bleepsandboops Yeah, but do you PWM tho?
Obviously 😂😂
v i r t u a l a n a l
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This was like magic to watch. Never knew the vocal sample was from Sesame Street, actually made me giggle a bit at how fitting it was. Thanks for making this!
Thanks for watching!
lake
Orange
You should cut your nails, it looks like girls hands with a male voice.
People love my nails. Especially classical guitarists... 💅💅💅💅💅
It seems like a pre-elektron elektron box. pretty awesome for 1989. edit: two seconds after i posted this comment, you showed an elektron 😆
Had to be done...! 😂👍
First drum machine I ever got, R8. Not the best but still legendary.
New video on the R8 coming soon!
@bleepsandboops Oh nice! Are you familiar with the Yamaha RY30? It's a drum synth that I have great nostalgia for, and was the R8's main competition at the time, imho. It cost a few hundred dollars less at the time and can do so much more.
@@bleepsandboopsoh very nice! Subscribed with all notifications on!
Are you familiar with the Yamaha RY30? It's an incredible drum synth that was the R8's main competition at the time, imho. It was cheaper and so much more versatile. I still use mine all the time.
When you hit the note at 8:40.... I was like "YES!"
😁👍
I've seen all your videos. You rock, unconditionally.
Thank you! 😎🤟
This is an amazing cover!! And it's really interesting to see your setup and how you put it together. I look forward to watching more.
Thanks! More on the way!!
I have a Yamaha RY30 drum machine that came out around the same time. It does very similar things to what you were showing, but it goes further. In addition, You can manipulate the filter (it has a LP12/24 and a HP 12/24, per sound and the balance between the samples per pad sound. And if you don’t want to do it real time, each parameter can be adjusted per step sequence (4 bars). On a side note, I got to meet the guys in person a hell of a long time in Baltimore, Maryland. I saw them in a warehouse later that night, and they played behind an opaque curtain. Hearing Second Bad Vibel over a PA system was something else.
Heard good things about the RY30!
@@bleepsandboops I should put up some tracks where I was using it for everything, including sequences, filter sweeps, and bass lines.
Shoutout to audiopilz
Ticking all the boxes 👍👍
C O O λ
Danke!
0:22, ah yeah, the venetian twin, also known as aphex snares
He's fine. Like a decent low-end Samsung
This was impressive!
Thanks!
the synth that only appears once is my favourite... just a little guy
🙏🙏🙏 And yet without it, you'd feel something was missing...
I know this is not included here but this video makes me wish I never sold my s2000...the jog wheel under my thumb was such a great feeling.
They're one of those things that on paper *should* be so obsolete they're practically eWaste... and here we are..!
Another trick with the ring modulator.. in the menu there is an option for up or down. By going up or down by just one degree you can get an up or down barberpole type phaser effect, i.e, a phaser which gives the illusion of always going upwards or downwards, a very cool effect.
Going to have to try that out - thanks!
@@bleepsandboops I sold my QV+ many years ago so the recipe might be slightly wrong. Not sure if it needs to be all wet or 50% wet.. probably 50% I'd guess.
he prob sequenced on a atari...
I reckon so - one thing I've never managed to get hold of. I believe MISTER fpga does a good version that runs Cubase though they're quite difficult to get hold of. No idea what s/w he would have been using
@@bleepsandboops he used tiger cub jnr? at one point apparently but he also use some hardware sequencers plus prob mac pc....i guess you need to know certain gear to hear the difference. also im sure he nver played live at least not according to any recording available 😉
I prefer my anal actual.
Thx for the eargasm!
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Seriously brilliant work on this classic !
🙏 Thank you!
hey, sorry for the really bland question, but: How did you mount your Nord Rack into your rack, while having something on top of it (power unit?). How can the rear connectors be accessed?
The back/top of the Nord has a slight angle inwards so you get a small amount of clearance above the unit. I'm still using angled jacks for the outputs, but the midi cables and power jack fit in fine 👍
@@bleepsandboops Thanks for the answer. Video is stellar by the way!
Thanks!
I think the "bubbly" cones from another version of the Aero advert with a different VO artist that isn't Barbara Windsor.
Highly possible. Then again, I wonder if he was just saying it himself.... CaptainPikant does a good impression 😂👍
@@bleepsandboops th-cam.com/video/jVjeu8QKWYQ/w-d-xo.html This is the version I refer to.
Awesome!!
@@bleepsandboops Thanks
I think i figured out the piano sample, i just heard a part of the carpenter's let me be the one. Theres a bit in there thats sounds suspiciously very close to it
Could be - that 70s piano sound is in the right ball park! See what they think on whosampled 😎👍
Sick vid and sounds great too! The only thing that really stuck out to me was the length of the "lake" flute sample fading out too quickly but other than that its pretty much perfect 😀
🙏🙏 Thanks!
Acid acid jam shred next!
On it!! 😄
Funny , I got more or less the same set up , but a bit higher spec'd -Nord modular -Rol. Integra 7 -Yama. TG77 -Yama. A4000 -Rol. R8M -Cirklon 2 I don't need anything else actually
I'm aiming for an entire video composed on Bad Gear... 😎👍 There's a lot of depth in the kit you have! How are you finding the Nord? Always wanted one for the Autechre connection but gather the editor is a bit hit and miss these days
It sounds too much like 808 State ..cubik anyone!., and possibly to sophisticated for the current scene , it might be just me but playing that at the moment doesn't feel right ..almost laughably .
😂😂 Yeah, the R8 sounds like it's all over Cubik - there's a flanged snare sound on the 808 card that gives the game away too... I know what you mean though: I think a lot of the early IDM tracks really tried to put the "intelligent" into Intelligent Dance Music, (mostly because the manuals for these things are indecipherable)... Now nobody has the time, patience or motivation to make anything more complicated (unless you're one of the original Warp artists)
@@bleepsandboops there's on on ebay for £395 with the 808 card ( well it was there the other day) but I'm not tempted cos I feel musically redundant, i cannot think of one idea , and that's unusual for me.
I saw the one on eBay - would be worth a punt. A lot of it is about the instrument as a package.. I've seen a few posts saying how it's just samples, but really there's a workflow that's in that weird limiting but inspiring space..!
I hear Cubik being partially R8 when some of the deep kicks come in. But they have one song on United States 90 that is textbook R8 and I can’t remember and TH-cams not helping either. I’ll have to pull out of my CD.
@RY30DM the Roland R8 was Dance Music's secret weapon ! .. I think everyone ( in the know) used it. 🤔
one of the revelations you help show here is that individual parts on their own are one thing, but when they come together, oh man, it's like pieces of a sonic jigsaw fit together and suddenly the greater whole manifests.... epic :)
2+2=5 😁😁👍
So cool dude
Thank you! 💪😎
All your video's are so good! It's really interesting to see these tracks and workflows broken down on actual hardware. (commenting for the algorithm)
Glad you're liking them! And thanks!! 🤖👍
It's like hearing it with new ears... imagine a whole re-recorded Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld in this vein :)
😁 Thanks! Maybe one day...
You're fucking crazy dude. I'd never be able to do something like that lmao
😁👍 Thanks!
VIRTUAL ANAL 😂
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the build up to the biggest goofiest cheesiest smile by the end was worth all 11 minutes
🙏🙏 Thank you!
Were the chords played by Richard, or did he sample from somewhere else?
Played by him I think? The Evil at Play samples are themselves chords, but you need to play more than one note at a time to get the full effect