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Alphaville used the Wave 2.2 extensively on their Forever Young album. Makes some of the famous opening chords of the album's namesake song along with the JP-8

Tempo Trend in Victoria??? Holy sh*t I used to go there all the time to play their Hammond B3 😂 .. 2000-2005 roughly. Awesome. Thx for making this vid 🤙

Mr Fingers 1992 album 'Introduction' is D50 heaven.

Great video of one of the best synths of the 80’s. Remember seeing it on animotion’s great song obsession back in 1985.

“Everybody needs a 303”

Thank you, your video filled a curiosity hole in my brain since the introduction of the 3rdWave and Behringer's Wave. I just began designing with wavetables this year, after 57 years of playing organ, piano and sound designing on FM and subtractive synths. I like wavetables. Now I have a face and a name to thank for this wonderful music technology.

Super nice one, wow. the nightsky makes a good job there.

Magical moments💯

Congrats for great demo. One question: where I can find good samples for S-50,like M1, DX7 and other stuff?

0:39 The Jupiter 4 is not a "4 oscillator synthesizer". The convention is: Count the oscillator per voice.The Jupiter 4 has one oscillator per voice (+ a sub oscillator, which is not an independent oscillator). It is four voice polyphonic. But you do not count these as four oscillators (per voice). The Minimoog for example on the other hand is a 3 oscillator synth but it is monophonic.

I have a number of ppg samples in my wave 2, couldn't live without them. Great video, thank you.

Brilliant ❤

and now.........Behringer Wave 2

One of the best pad/bass synth ever . some pads and basses from my juno 6 and 106 are impossible to create as rich on my OBXa and moog model D…….!

interesting , I owe many of these vintage synths. (background music is too loud for the voice level)

Great documentary! But I’m surprised that you haven’t mentioned the eurodance genre at all! That was the biggest commercial use of use of the 909 in the 90s, a whole generation grew up on the sound of the 909 because of it! (including me)

I see in the specs that it has Motorola 6809 and 68000 processors built in. I wonder what programming language was used in PPG

Had the opportunity to play a ob-x and a ob-xa . Beautiful works of art. They sounded amazing.

I see Rupert Greenal (The Fixx) was featured. I met him once in 2010 at a Fixx concert meet and greet. We discussed the PPG Wave synthesizer. The PPG definitely is a classic with its unique sound bending capabilities.

...fast forward to 2024, and to the delight of some and the dismay to others, PPG Wave clone was born under German flag again: Behringer Wave for the masses.

Vorsprung Durch Wavenik!

The 808 and 909 have my favorite drum sounds of all time, hands down.

The Roland Sound Canvas music box sounds are based on samples from that music box sound ( based on samples from an actual music box! ). And also many of the Roland JV bell type waveforms are based on samples from Metal and glass FX.

Hey!! @johnnymorgansynthdreams to get that pal display do you happen to have a link to some information on that or will this synth give the same information to a computer if you plug it into it and if so how might one be able to see all of that. Being able to see the waveform would be so huge for sample editing and creating synth patches.

The Z80 was also found in the Sega Master System as the main CPU, and as the sound driver on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, which also had the fortunate effect of allowing the Genesis/MD to be backwards compatible with the Master System library

Great 303 overview video😃♥️🙏🙏🙏

I remember when the DW 8000 came out as I was practically lusting for it. My band had the DW 6000 which was our main keyboard (1985-86) and that workhorse endured a 16 month tour and never gave a single problem ever. It had been in direct sun, rain, freeze and dropped a couple times and always worked and sounded great. We used the arpeggiator live without sync because our drummer refused to play to a click (good for him) so I had to retrigger it on every other beat. (....2.....4.....2.....4) Worked flawlessly

Tr77 looks like a printer!!

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I felt that the JX-8P was lacking something sonically, and the Super JX was literally the result of Roland doubling down on the 8P platform, a stopgap synth at a pro price point. The JX-10 today is coolest as a museum piece, representing a snapshot of the industry in the late 1980s. It looks cool and has a lovely keybed. But nowadays I would rather have any two “normal” MIDI analog polysynths. Great video!

The mood you create in your videos is just something else.

Glad you could take a bit of time from KillCure to give us another one of these, Johnny. ☺️ Can’t wait to hear it.

I'm glad you included a clip of Skinny Puppy. I love my ESQ-1. I picked up for $40 because it didn't have sound, it was a broken volume slider, $4 repair.

Been wishing for a Johnny doc!

@johny morgan: the demo with four channels - is this yours? loooove it!!

Thank you for that really passionate and perfectly navigated research - historical - love letter/anecdotal account on this amazing synthesizer. I played your movie in the background as I was going to pick up the D50 from a seller. I played one in the middle of a trip with my family my parents when I was a kid… And the experience only being a matter of …well it actually probably was about an hour never left me. I would go on to never owning one being distracted by other releases until now in 2024… I had a D70 that was the closest D I ever had. The way that you know it has any sort of “analog-ity “ is if you take that synth and when you play it, it makes you want to play it and keep playing it. The D50 does that. The RS 505 does that. Certain boards place you into a meditative state. The guy that sold it to me, just said yeah you know you can play it for a while, and then sell it again they always go for a good resell value… And all I could think was, this almost was the one that got away. Welcome home.

Great Doc, great synth, great music! ( 3.10 up to 5.27) what is it?

Great video, as always. Annoyingly I passed up the opportunity to buy a second hand 909 in a music store in 1987 because I wanted a brand new TR-505 for the same price, instead 😖. Doh!!!

Another great video.

I never got around using flams. Any tip how/where to use them?

Very enjoyable. Cheers Johnny.

Back then, I compared the 909 & 707 side by side looking for a machine to replace the studio’s 808… The 909 sounded rlly poor against the 707 I bought the 707..

Nice video. That song at the end is cool.

Great video - good job! One thing though - Mantronix use of the 909 came before (at least by a year or so) the house/Techno explosion in the later 80's. There's a record cover for a release of Just-Ice (Back to The Old School), that features a cartoon version of Curtis Mantronik holding a TR-909 circa 1985. The way that he programmed the 909 (and the tape/sample edits too), were hugely influential in terms of what came after (for everybody from Aphex Twin, to House & Techno, etc). Curtis Mantronik was our (my) Gen X drum machine/sampler Hendrix. There were also many seminal hip-hop tracks that used the 909 between 85-90 (Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince being the most obvious top 40 rap group to do so). The 909 also became THE sound of '89 once Soul 2 Soul had their huge hit with "Keep on Moving" (th-cam.com/video/1iQl46-zIcM/w-d-xo.html), & that same 909 beat backed a plethora of early 90's "chill-out" tracks.

I love these vids so much man thank you for the blessing that is this channel

I want to see in next video History of Roland TR 707, also in next videos History of Linn Drums and Drumlator models includinf SP12

1:03 TR-66* one minor correction. Great video though Johnny! I agree about Madonnas vouge song as well.

Another great video & music JMO!

Great job Johnny, its a difficult subject because everyones had a crack at it. That was fresh and entertaining. I expect nothing less from you. Sooo many sad stories below about sellers regret. My first drum machine was a dr660 dont reckon they will hit the "endangered species" list anytime soon. 🤣 Cheers for your help the other week about the scsi for the eps16+. All sorted. Zulu drive.👍

if the person who played and sampled the original Open Hat was paid 1 dollar for each song released using that sound it would be a multimillionaire