I'll be honest, when i clicked on this I was expecting a poor version and for me to roll my eyes. As a teen growing up in the 80's this song was iconic to me, so let me just say YOU BLEW ME AWAY! WOW.. what an amazing instrumental. I could not find fault! You did the original justice. I officially dub you "The King of the 80s instrumentals".. keep it up! You got a new subscriber!
I play my guitar to this track almost any chance I get to play, so it’s like a backing track. It puts me in a happy mood every single time. A sure-fire mood lifter. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve replayed it. I can tell you really enjoyed making it. Thanks for doing so.
Nice cover considering you're not playing the guitar. . .but you're having fun. .and that really resonates with us watching/hearing. Thanks for sharing.
@@juliancroot hey Pele,I'm a huge fan of your work,please I am begging you For a copy of this template,I am learning producing and want to produce 80s type instrumental music,help,I liked the video and I'm a subscriber
Thanks Raymond 👍. I'm sure you are brilliant, this hobby just takes a lot of time and patience that we don't always have time for. What kind of tutorials are you looking for?... keyboard, listening skills, sound design, mixing, mastering?
Love it! This song holds nostalgic memories for me from the 80's (something to do with a middle school dance to it with the only girl I had a crush on!). TMI. Brilliantly produced and looks like having so much fun with that! I just bought an Arturia Keylab Essential and all the basic gear. I'm new to midi keyboards and I find these videos inspirational and enlightening. I'm also a sucker for 80's power ballads and used to recreate so many on the piano years ago. David Foster's stuff etc. I can't believe in 2021 you can have a working starter home studio for £400 or less. I'm excited. Since before my keyboard arrived I've been trying to DL free drum loops, instrument and sounds to try and hit the ground running but I don't know where to find use-able 80's material. I found a few linn samples, and Roland drums from the 80's, but I think it totals only about 20 sounds. Can you point me in the right direction? The power ballad snares in nothing's gonna stop us now is so memorable and it's that kind of gated reverb effect that everyone used back in 80's, that I'm looking for. Was going to invest in Komplete 13 but I've found plenty of free material that can help me get started but so much of it is hip hop or house which isn't my sound. I found Adsr manager to errrrm, manage them though. Just discovered your channel and I hope you keep sharing the fascinating content, thank you and apologies for the essay!
Thanks for the great message...I too love the 80s sound, and am also a fan of David Foster’s stuff. Re the gated reverb sound, I did a live show a couple of weeks ago (unfortunately now deleted) where I explained how I did that in my cover of Ivory Tower (from The Neverending Story). In short I just use Native Instruments Battery 4 in Komplete, add some reverb with Raum, a generic gate, and tweak the settings until it sounds right. I don't use much in the way of specific 80s VSTs except FM8 (a Yamaha DX7 emulator in Komplete) and Steinberg Retrologue that comes with Cubase. Thanks to your messages, I'm going to look into doing some David Foster stuff soon, maybe something by Chicago or Peter Cetera.
@@juliancroot Hey, you're welcome and thank you for the insights. Incase you're interested and haven't seen it, if you TH-cam search 'Hitman David Foster and Friends Concert 2011' There's a broken down playlist of the live show. Peter Cetera and many others that David wrote for in the eighties join him to perform them again. I think there was also another hitman show in 2019 called Intimate evening with David Foster. Kenny G joins him for theme from St Elmo's fire in one of them, I think. Man in motion is another. Have a good one! 👍
I like the 2nd chord in the stanza, though i've been playing this song for years its nice to hear something very distinct, thanks and u will apply that 2nd chord in the stanza of the songs, thanks my fellow keyboardist
Thanks. All the sounds except for the acoustic piano are VST instruments, not from a keyboard. The keyboards are just MIDI controllers. I layer sounds a lot so there's rarely a single sound I can point people towards in a particular song. Although the up-down arpeggio part you're referring to is a simple pluck sound I created myself in Steinberg's Retrologue 2 with a short ping-pong delay effect to make it sound like it was chasing itself.
@@juliancroot wow,i am amazed how VSTs have gone so far,i started using vst but only piano and drums tracks,care to share some of VST you use to recreate these 80s sound?thanks a lot man,subscribed
@@harolddasynth795 Its no secret what I use as I usually list them in the video description. Native Instruments FM8 and especially Steinberg's Retrologue2 are my go to VST synths. Drums usually come from Native Instruments Battery 4, and Refx Nexus shows up for things like guitar samples. I also use orchestral libraries where appropriate... Spitfire BBC, EastWest, and now Cubase includes Ikonica Sketch... all are great for orchestral stuff.
Hi Julian, Good work! Very close sounding to the original song. Nice to see you pump up to get this done. I feel your joy. Like to play this myself someday. On 0:14, if you don't mind sharing, what was the sound patch or plugin on the right hand riff (F#, G#, A#, C#, etc) ? Thanks.
Thanks Alan. Re the sound patch... It's actually a combination of a few different patches.... With some changes I made to each of them. I rarely use a single patch for any 1 sound, so afraid I can't give you a short answer. I'm looking to make some 'break down' videos or more likely livestreams where I can answer specific questions in more detail. Friday evenings (UK time) is usually when I go live.
Thanks for your prompt reply Julian. Understood your concept on tweaking multiple presets/stock sounds to generate single desired patch. Maybe we catch up later. Thanks.
Hi, new to your channel, I follow a few cover guys and your 80s selection is without doubt the best on youtube, reproduction is spot on which is a great skill, keep them coming :)
@@juliancroot , your interpretation was magnificent! Congratulations again! And about the tones are identical like original Starship song! Please, the sounds than you used, are from Kontakt libraries or did you adjust the tones to be very close to the original recording?
@@coverssongsbycarlossergio3112 Each part is blend of multiple instruments. I used quite a lot of sounds from ReFX Nexus in this one... in fact I don't think there's anything from the Kontakt library in it. I often get asked what patches I use for a particular part, but the truth is its very rarely a single patch. I layer multiple patches together to get the sound I want for a particular part.
What a great song suggestion 👍, thank you. Sara must have passed me by back in the 80s, but I just looked it up and it's a cracker. I've just added it to my long list of requests.
Extraordinaire ! Vous me faites rêver, vraiment ! Puis-je m'en servir pour publier ma version chantée ? J'y inclurai le nom de votre site...Merci beaucoup ! 😃
I was thinking about doing this for ages... took me a while to get round to it :). Glad you approve anyway, and I think you shouldn't put it off like I did.
I am new to your channel & I love your videos! This was always one of my fav songs growing up. If you take requests, could you please do Heroes by David Bowie? If so, thanks ahead of time!
Sounds perfect. Is this filmed using your new (non GH5 ) camera gear? I only notice one hand shot where you/it missed focus, but I was looking for that, so no one else would notice it (except, now that I pointed it out), woops. Thanks.
Love that song and I loved The Karate Kid Part Ii. Yes, I want to make an extended version that includes the extra piano solo you hear in the movie's end credits that are not in the single release. It's already on my to-do list 😁
Супер 😊🎉🎉🎉 я тоже хотел бы так научиться играть, я для этого даже приобрел миди клавиатуру akai mpk mini play и синтезатор casio ct x 700. Но так и не могу найти подходящего наставника чтобы помог мне.
Thanks 👍. There's a lot to learn so it needs to be fun. My advice is to play what YOU want to play, learn what YOU want to learn, take your time and enjoy doing it.
No. What sounds like it could be a delay is me actually playing those notes because the notes are not repeated exactly. It may not be 'correct' but I just played what sounded the best to me at the time. I don't often use delay or programme arpeggiators, I prefer to just play stuff in real time...I feel it gives me more control. There's plenty of reverb on it though... indeed I put quite a bit of reverb on nearly everything in this one.
Mate, that was all you? There was a right pan, and a left pan, and all those notes were you and not appregiated?! INSANE! Respect. Your work really helps, not easy finding the ghost notes, so thank you for the breakdowns in the video. Love your work. Love the kitty. :)
@@althing thank you 🙏. Yes, the panning I added in later. I just assigned the pan control to one of the knobs on my MIDI controller and recorded movement as automation in Cubase. That's pretty easy to do.
Not sure I can answer your question, could you be more specific? There are dozens of sounds and effects used in this production, and I usually blend many different sounds together for a single part to achieve what I'm aiming for.
Over 11,000 views and only 309 likes. Folks, please help Julian by liking and sharing these video's.
suena increíble!!! Felicitaciones
Simply amazing!
AMAZING WORK JULIAN!! 👏👏👏👏👏
I m in love with this music
Great rendition, Julian!
you FLAWLESSLY recreated that song, phenomenal job!!!
모르는 노래. 시작부터 미치게 좋네요. 따로 원곡을 검색해 봤습니다. 처음 들을 때 이렇게 좋은 기분은 흔치 않는데, 검색해보니까 명곡 중 하나란 사실을 알게 되었습니다.
Where is the LOVE button?
I'll be honest, when i clicked on this I was expecting a poor version and for me to roll my eyes. As a teen growing up in the 80's this song was iconic to me, so let me just say YOU BLEW ME AWAY! WOW.. what an amazing instrumental. I could not find fault! You did the original justice. I officially dub you "The King of the 80s instrumentals".. keep it up! You got a new subscriber!
Wow, such a nice comment. Thank you very much, and thanks for the sub :)
Fantastic ! Super ! Congratulations !
fab work here again....all the way from cardiff
Great job Sir ❤🎉
@@angelarivera8251 thank you.
I play my guitar to this track almost any chance I get to play, so it’s like a backing track. It puts me in a happy mood every single time. A sure-fire mood lifter. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve replayed it. I can tell you really enjoyed making it. Thanks for doing so.
It's really nice to know this. Thank you.
I love this song! excelent and amazing instrumental. wow!!!.... PD: and....the cat is beautiful.... 😃😸👍👌
Thank you very much. 😸 also sends his thanks.
여기는 한국입니다. 우연히 들었습니다. 당신의 청음은 너무 좋아요. 원본보다 좋습니다.
Thank you very much .
I just watched the Mannequin and I landed here. :)
A compilation of good choices! You know very well what you are doing. Congratulations!
🎉 amo la ingeniería de sonido. GENIAL
All my love for this masterpiece ❤❤❤
oh hell no!!! what a bloody masterpiece!!!!
So perfect! Its a crime that this doesn't have millions of views!
Not only are you supremely talented, you are a joy to watch!
Well thank you, that's very kind.
Nice cover considering you're not playing the guitar. . .but you're having fun. .and that really resonates with us watching/hearing. Thanks for sharing.
Phil Collin’s In the Air Tonight?
Amazing
Hey Julian, this was absolute fantastic. Your choice of sounds is spot on, your mix is top notch. Absolute joy to listen to, my friend👏👏✌😀
It means a lot to have the approval of a fellow musician. Thank you for your kind words. :)
Too good. Subscribed.
Amazing!! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you.
Wow I am gonna use this as a karaoke
A man and his musical passion! Always inspiring and entertaining!👏🏾👍🏾🙏🏾
Thanks Eugene. Your comments inspire me to keep at it.
@@juliancroot hey Pele,I'm a huge fan of your work,please I am begging you For a copy of this template,I am learning producing and want to produce 80s type instrumental music,help,I liked the video and I'm a subscriber
Amazing mix. Sounds so good and high quality instrumentals . love it ❤😘 you're so talent
Very kind. Thank you.
Excellent... 🙌
Thank you! Cheers!
Hard work and talent great job love it
Thank you
amazing ear!!
❤ wow so accurate! Hats off for your attention to detail!
Thank you.
Amazing! no words...
This is beautiful 😍❤️
wow... you are good!
Thanks 👍
Wow wow wow, i love it, im a keyboardist but not as brillian as you,hope you do have tutorials for us beginners.pls pls, Filipino fan here
Thanks Raymond 👍. I'm sure you are brilliant, this hobby just takes a lot of time and patience that we don't always have time for.
What kind of tutorials are you looking for?... keyboard, listening skills, sound design, mixing, mastering?
👍👍Best Instrumental cover ever heard
Very kind of you to say so. Thanks :)
The best cover version on youtube
I'm speechless. This is amazing! Such a good mix! You got all the little details. ❤️
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for watching. 👍
Que genial interpretación , excelente 👌
absolutely brilliant, amazing talent !
Wonderful, fantastic playing, love your channel
Appreciate that, thank you 🙂
You and this song made me smile and feel great! Can't stop singing. Thanks! :-)
Thanks Peter. If it makes you smile it makes me happy. :)
Beautiful, well done, Julian!!
Thanks Joseph 🙏 Glad you liked it.
Great 👍
Bravoooooooooo
🤩👏
Super!
Love it! This song holds nostalgic memories for me from the 80's (something to do with a middle school dance to it with the only girl I had a crush on!). TMI.
Brilliantly produced and looks like having so much fun with that!
I just bought an Arturia Keylab Essential and all the basic gear. I'm new to midi keyboards and I find these videos inspirational and enlightening. I'm also a sucker for 80's power ballads and used to recreate so many on the piano years ago. David Foster's stuff etc.
I can't believe in 2021 you can have a working starter home studio for £400 or less. I'm excited.
Since before my keyboard arrived I've been trying to DL free drum loops, instrument and sounds to try and hit the ground running but I don't know where to find use-able 80's material.
I found a few linn samples, and Roland drums from the 80's, but I think it totals only about 20 sounds.
Can you point me in the right direction?
The power ballad snares in nothing's gonna stop us now is so memorable and it's that kind of gated reverb effect that everyone used back in 80's, that I'm looking for.
Was going to invest in Komplete 13 but I've found plenty of free material that can help me get started but so much of it is hip hop or house which isn't my sound. I found Adsr manager to errrrm, manage them though.
Just discovered your channel and I hope you keep sharing the fascinating content, thank you and apologies for the essay!
Thanks for the great message...I too love the 80s sound, and am also a fan of David Foster’s stuff.
Re the gated reverb sound, I did a live show a couple of weeks ago (unfortunately now deleted) where I explained how I did that in my cover of Ivory Tower (from The Neverending Story).
In short I just use Native Instruments Battery 4 in Komplete, add some reverb with Raum, a generic gate, and tweak the settings until it sounds right.
I don't use much in the way of specific 80s VSTs except FM8 (a Yamaha DX7 emulator in Komplete) and Steinberg Retrologue that comes with Cubase.
Thanks to your messages, I'm going to look into doing some David Foster stuff soon, maybe something by Chicago or Peter Cetera.
@@juliancroot Hey, you're welcome and thank you for the insights.
Incase you're interested and haven't seen it, if you TH-cam search 'Hitman David Foster and Friends Concert 2011'
There's a broken down playlist of the live show. Peter Cetera and many others that David wrote for in the eighties join him to perform them again.
I think there was also another hitman show in 2019 called Intimate evening with David Foster.
Kenny G joins him for theme from St Elmo's fire in one of them, I think. Man in motion is another.
Have a good one! 👍
@@morganm1667 Thanks for the info.. I'll check them out :)
Really great job!! Mix in the high hats though. Superb
Fantastic Work 👌🎹🎹🎹🎹👌👍
Thank you. Glad you liked it 😁
this is great
This deserves many views, such a masterpiece!
Thank you very much. 🙏
wow que pro master
Hi, I would like to request permission to use this amazing work of yours for my sing along karaoke? Thank you!
best instrumental of all ❤ it
Appreciate it. Glad you liked it and thanks for watching.
I like the 2nd chord in the stanza, though i've been playing this song for years its nice to hear something very distinct, thanks and u will apply that 2nd chord in the stanza of the songs, thanks my fellow keyboardist
beautiful cover! friend a doubt is it possible to get those multitracks somewhere?
Thanks, glad you like it. Sorry, not currently.
Hi man this is amazing,what keyboard did you use on everything?the sound on 1:29 you nailed it!what sound did you used?awesome!
Thanks. All the sounds except for the acoustic piano are VST instruments, not from a keyboard. The keyboards are just MIDI controllers.
I layer sounds a lot so there's rarely a single sound I can point people towards in a particular song.
Although the up-down arpeggio part you're referring to is a simple pluck sound I created myself in Steinberg's Retrologue 2 with a short ping-pong delay effect to make it sound like it was chasing itself.
@@juliancroot wow,i am amazed how VSTs have gone so far,i started using vst but only piano and drums tracks,care to share some of VST you use to recreate these 80s sound?thanks a lot man,subscribed
@@harolddasynth795 Its no secret what I use as I usually list them in the video description.
Native Instruments FM8 and especially Steinberg's Retrologue2 are my go to VST synths. Drums usually come from Native Instruments Battery 4, and Refx Nexus shows up for things like guitar samples. I also use orchestral libraries where appropriate... Spitfire BBC, EastWest, and now Cubase includes Ikonica Sketch... all are great for orchestral stuff.
You are so talented!!
Two thumbs up
Thank you 👍
@@juliancroot Did you use an arpeggiator?
No, not on this one. I played it manually then edited some of the notes.
@@juliancroot Amazing work. I love the choice of synths
Mindblowing
Good that I have subscribed. Brings back some memories. Well done, my friend! 👏
Thanks Martin.
Hope you are keeping well. 🙏
I'm really feelin' this, nice work!
Thanks Carl
I saw a bunch of your R6 videos which helped me, but this is the one that made me subscribe 😆
Thanks for the subscription 👍.
Glad you liked it 😁
Hi Julian, Good work! Very close sounding to the original song. Nice to see you pump up to get this done. I feel your joy. Like to play this myself someday.
On 0:14, if you don't mind sharing, what was the sound patch or plugin on the right hand riff (F#, G#, A#, C#, etc) ? Thanks.
Thanks Alan.
Re the sound patch... It's actually a combination of a few different patches.... With some changes I made to each of them. I rarely use a single patch for any 1 sound, so afraid I can't give you a short answer.
I'm looking to make some 'break down' videos or more likely livestreams where I can answer specific questions in more detail.
Friday evenings (UK time) is usually when I go live.
Thanks for your prompt reply Julian. Understood your concept on tweaking multiple presets/stock sounds to generate single desired patch. Maybe we catch up later. Thanks.
Hi, new to your channel, I follow a few cover guys and your 80s selection is without doubt the best on youtube, reproduction is spot on which is a great skill, keep them coming :)
Thanks for being here Ronny, and it means a lot to hear great feedback like this. I hope to keep 'em coming :).
Thank you.
Mannequin 2 soundtrack😍
Absolutley fantastic work ! Greetz from Bavaria .. and suscribed :)
Greetings Bavarian Tommy Tom 👍. Thanks for the nice comment... It's nice to read and means alot to me.
Thanks for the sub too.
Awesome mate!
Thank you 🙏
Wow ! Amazing, Julian ! Congrats, man !!
Thank you, I appreciate it. 👍
@@juliancroot , your interpretation was magnificent! Congratulations again! And about the tones are identical like original Starship song!
Please, the sounds than you used, are from Kontakt libraries or did you adjust the tones to be very close to the original recording?
@@coverssongsbycarlossergio3112 Each part is blend of multiple instruments. I used quite a lot of sounds from ReFX Nexus in this one... in fact I don't think there's anything from the Kontakt library in it. I often get asked what patches I use for a particular part, but the truth is its very rarely a single patch. I layer multiple patches together to get the sound I want for a particular part.
Hola Julián exelente trabajo podrías hacer un cover de Sara ....saludos
Desde Monterrey México!
What a great song suggestion 👍, thank you.
Sara must have passed me by back in the 80s, but I just looked it up and it's a cracker.
I've just added it to my long list of requests.
Nice work, this is awesome!
🙏. Thank you.
Extraordinaire ! Vous me faites rêver, vraiment ! Puis-je m'en servir pour publier ma version chantée ? J'y inclurai le nom de votre site...Merci beaucoup ! 😃
This is great I thought about doing this cover once I may do it but good work !!
I was thinking about doing this for ages... took me a while to get round to it :). Glad you approve anyway, and I think you shouldn't put it off like I did.
@@juliancroot I’m more focused on flying right now, for my business. maybe one day ! I’ll do it !!
❤️
I am new to your channel & I love your videos! This was always one of my fav songs growing up. If you take requests, could you please do Heroes by David Bowie? If so, thanks ahead of time!
Aaah please make a how to video!!!
Sounds perfect. Is this filmed using your new (non GH5 ) camera gear? I only notice one hand shot where you/it missed focus, but I was looking for that, so no one else would notice it (except, now that I pointed it out), woops. Thanks.
All shot on the R6 in 1080p.
The out of focus shot was user error... Manual focus gone wrong 😁
@Juliancroot, was wondering, would you do 'Glory Of Love' by Peter Cetera in the future?
Love that song and I loved The Karate Kid Part Ii.
Yes, I want to make an extended version that includes the extra piano solo you hear in the movie's end credits that are not in the single release.
It's already on my to-do list 😁
Amazing! Do you have a music sheet of it?
Thanks. I work everything out by ear so I'm afraid I don't have sheet music.
how did they get that starry like synth, I don't know how to describe it, it's at the start and goes away after
@@gn2b129 high register FM synth EPiano mixed with windchimes and FM bells.
Add spacious reverb and adjust to taste. 😁
Супер 😊🎉🎉🎉 я тоже хотел бы так научиться играть, я для этого даже приобрел миди клавиатуру akai mpk mini play и синтезатор casio ct x 700. Но так и не могу найти подходящего наставника чтобы помог мне.
Thanks 👍. There's a lot to learn so it needs to be fun. My advice is to play what YOU want to play, learn what YOU want to learn, take your time and enjoy doing it.
@@juliancroot ok. Thanks 👍🤗
How do we buy these versions, I also like the baywatch music version.
Hi John, I'm looking into it. 👍
i found my guy
Savage - Dont you want me, please. ❤
Check out my friend @KosMusic. He's already done an amazing version of Don't You Want Me.
I can't top that.
@@juliancrootnothing there...
th-cam.com/video/5-H-K8NmMdc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UeI6R_FPx8rWQfJ6
@@juliancroot no, its not right. Savage - Dont you want me. Not some human league!
@@MrNuhkAlbert ah, my apologies. I'll look into it 🙂
Do you sell or make this project available on separate tracks?
Interesting you found out very faint instruments by ear.
I need those drum stems
For the intro, the bells portion, did you use a echo delay ? I'm trying to figure that out.
No. What sounds like it could be a delay is me actually playing those notes because the notes are not repeated exactly. It may not be 'correct' but I just played what sounded the best to me at the time.
I don't often use delay or programme arpeggiators, I prefer to just play stuff in real time...I feel it gives me more control.
There's plenty of reverb on it though... indeed I put quite a bit of reverb on nearly everything in this one.
Mate, that was all you? There was a right pan, and a left pan, and all those notes were you and not appregiated?! INSANE! Respect.
Your work really helps, not easy finding the ghost notes, so thank you for the breakdowns in the video.
Love your work.
Love the kitty.
:)
@@althing thank you 🙏.
Yes, the panning I added in later.
I just assigned the pan control to one of the knobs on my MIDI controller and recorded movement as automation in Cubase. That's pretty easy to do.
Whats the ne of the sound effect used please😍
Not sure I can answer your question, could you be more specific?
There are dozens of sounds and effects used in this production, and I usually blend many different sounds together for a single part to achieve what I'm aiming for.
@@juliancroot just for the highlight portions..i did not realize it uses a lot ,i could only hear 3,hehe.thanks for the heads up.
The signature intro tone..😉