Trends are like waves... just look at the fashion industry: what is considered awful, outdated and ridiculous can instantly become the very best thing the very next day.... People used to try anything to sound clearer and clearer and now we're looking for ways to dirty up and give grit and 'imperfections' to sound... Simply put, human nature demands novelty and reassurance at the same time, if there is nothing new on the horizon then something old becomes the "new new" ;) It happened in pretty much every artform.
"human nature demands novelty and reassurance at the same time" Like that one : ) And then there is taste, perception and so on. Thanks for clearly and well performed illustration of the usefulness of layering in real time.
It was exactly this that made the D-50 so immensely popular. 4 layered synth parts with a touch of reverb on it, right out of the box it sounded bloody amazing, light-years ahead of anything else available at the time. The beauty of using hardware is that a) every instrument has its own character, its own personality, and you get an emotional feedback that you just don´t get with plugins, which will affect your way of creating music, and b) these older modules may sound very simple by themselvs but once you stack them, the result is absolutely amazing. It seems that, the simpler and clearer each individual part is, the better will the overall composite sound be.
Absolutely right. In the 80s and 90s this layering were commonly used to blend strings sounds to create orchestral atmosphere, or blended horns sounds to create the super power brass section. MIDI rules the game back then. I still like this technique. And some musicians still like to do this.
Naturally, you're right that this sort of thing can be done with software synths, but those old synth modules are still as valid and useful today as they ever were. Thanks for showing us what the old gear can do.
Each unit seems to have character that software can never achieve. I have a few old romplers that do weird things, and sound interesting, they cannot be emulated.
@@Metalwrath2 because analog sounds cannot be replicated because of how digital sounds are dots on a graph bieng created and analog is a pure wave and infinitly varable, digital is 1 or 0 analog is infinite in terms of accuracy.
Nothing like a fresh cup of coffee on a dark, cold morning with the fire going, my faithful lab curled up next to me and a video like this to make me smile. Thank you Paolo!
Nothing revolutionary, but very articulate and well-demonstrated. It is also demonstrates a good reason not to throw out or eBay your old gear from the 80's and 90's, as each has that little something that could come in useful, they now cost you nothing and they don't jam up your DAW computer! I recently fired up my 30 year old Roland D110 after 20 years of redundancy and it was like visiting an old friend.
What a simple but CLEVER way of creating synth pads! I've never thought about this myself!! THANKS! I'm telling ya, ur the king of synthesizers! "Rex Synth"! ;-D
Haha, too kind, way too kind :D But yeah, this was a very common techniques in the MIDI days, today not so much, so I wanted to just bring it out so the new generations can check it out
SynthMania I had the same thing with multi track recording. When I bought my tascam 244 I only overdubbed, I never thought of recording multiple instruments at the same time (beyond multiple singers on a single mic). It was only after I bought the Levinson book on the Beatles sessions that I learnt a technique that was the common approach when 4 track recording first came about but wasn't talked about because it was the basic way of working i.e. nothing special ...in those days.
Well, remember that the performer usually had two hands to stack two synths. And you can play with variations. It's all over Classical orchestration - stacking/layering. The Pet sounds LP made new sounds. One OSC synth ? Add another one. Dig around in those old patch collections that are available online. That one thing that sounds like crap is just what you need for the layered Numan sound, maybe : ).
Layering back in the late 80ies was my trick to create a huge and complacent live sounds. U110 for the piano, dx7 for the tines and an esq for the warm pad. It sounded killer
I'm really digging the sound of the Korg M1. I know it's considered a classic synth but I was under the impression that it was only good for thin tiny sounding rompler-type patches. I'm glad to see that I was mistaken.
A lot of people have used it (or heard it) so many times they're just bored of it. But, for those that haven't (like me), it's got plenty to offer. And I think it'll become new again sooner or later. :-) PS., there's a good fully-stocked soft-synth version by Korg available as well.
Seeing the W30 takes me back: First keyboard was a S50! Thought I would set the world on fire sampling every other keyboard to build a library, and I never even sampled with it, just used a nice set of expanded disks with enough sounds for what I was doing! Memories! Dumped it for $50 years ago, in mint condition!
Grazie, Stefano, yes, what you wrote is what I forgot to mention in the video :-D if/when there's no time to design a patch from scratch or tweak / customize an existing one, layering is one method to get interesting sounds quickly
SynthMania ma figurati... Not only that, I always found layering a goos solution even when you do want to dive in and make your own patches. It is a bit like cooking, mixing up things your own way.
honestly layering can already make the insane amount of possibilities of sounds you can make with these synths/romplers double or triple in size lmaooo
You know you've done your job right when I try to pay attention to what you're saying in order to learn about synthesizers more, but I just get lost in the awesome sound.
I watch this video periodically. I watch lots of videos to gain understanding and knowledge. I wind up watching some more than once so it sticks. Plus i like the sound of the racks you have. Thanks SynthMania!
How far we of SynthLand have all come in such a short time... I can remember back in the 80s-early 00's layering multiple synths like this all day and night... then I got my first "monster" multitimbral synth - the Korg Triton - and the days of layering synths were done and over... for a little bit... Now I use my four workstations, (Korg Triton, Korg Krome, Yamaha SY-77, Yamaha Motif ES), to create "Mega-layers", of a dozen or more synth parts, and have come full circle to where I started...
I've been messing about with layering sounds for months. I've yet to hear ANYTHING comparable to this. It was simply sublime. Thank you for sharing I think it could help a lot!
Utterly gorgeous! This is the epitome of how synthesis can be so emotive! 🤍 Lost my M1 to opioid addiction, alas, rave hedonism ran its full course through me. Currently rebuilding my studio, with maturity and sobriety. Thank you for sharing your skill and talent, Sir. Cornwall, UK.
Roland W-30!! Haven't seen one of those in years! Used to love the quiet whine from the display, beautiful keyboard. It was always a little underpowered for my taste sampling wise, probably goes to show my lack of age... Sold it to buy an Ensoniq ASR-10, my favourite sampler/keyboard of all time. Still own a few of them, stripped down into a personal spare parts bank for my working one!
Now we can have a 4 layer patch with just one VST plugin like Xpand 2, to achieve vertually the same desired end result, including independent FX assignments for each part. Things change so much and so quickly in this digital domain. Thank you for this recap of what we all once aspired to do, in the end, the technology is not the message, (hardware or software) but the universal language of music, is supreme always. And that's why I enjoyed your sensitive rendition very much, thank you kindly.
I feel compelled to say that I was skeptical about your choice of patches at first. After hearing them together I was blown away. I use DAW software to perform live because it allows VSTs to take over for hardware. Since I can link one controller to multiple VSTs I can achieve much the same effect. I'm impressed. So much so that I subscribed because of this video. I've been an avid watcher of SonicState's channel for a while now. This video came up in the recommendations and I'm glad it did.
Truth be told it's one of the techniques producer's use to create a wall of sound. And the other trick is they take out different parts at different verses, and chorus for arrangement s. The beats sound complex but really are simple melodies layered with synth. Great video.
Those piano sounds are some of the best synth programmed ever. The roots of those go back to the old MKS-20, which was the de facto piano module. Even Billy Joel triggered one for the front-of-house piano sound before switching to gigasampler. Some people still swear by the MKS-20. The JV-880, with the 18 bit DACS and radically good sound for the time maintained that cluster of about 10 piano sounds which continuted right on through the JV-XX80 series, the RD series, the XV series, the JD series, and so on. Major revisions to those in the form of more sampled data in the actual sounds started happening around the fantom era. Piano sounds on modern synths are a combination of programmed sounds and sampled data added in. The degree of which is endlessly variable. The main determinate on final sound quality is the playback engine of the synth and finally the digital to analog conversion rate and quality for final tally of realism. Roland was "it" for a long time, and may recapture the crown with the virtual/natural stuff, which is really good. However, the latest Yamaha hybrid, and the Korg stuff are competing very well. I am of the opinion that Roland may not have always had the best synth gear, but they have paved the way when other makers were afraid to cross the street, they have always focused on music gear that does the job in a specific setting. They think about the musician, the amp, the band, the take all features of music-making into consideration. I have more Roland gear than any other, have owned more Roland gear than other brand, and will continue. Vive le Roland.
Very helpful video! I've been getting more into using synths in my music, and often wondered how anyone could actually use some of the sounds - especially when it comes to built-in patches on PCM and FM synths. Your examples make it all make so much more sense to me, and give me some fun ideas to try out.
Wonderfull playing and great tipps - Thank You to have posted this video here! Top-Sounds made by Roland and Korg... As a owner from Korg and Roland Instruments (I have buyed a Krome for 6 months ago)... The Krome have allways very good sounds from M1...
I tried to do almost the same thing, I had two timbre modules which I connected with Midi thru output and the results were awesome! But I abandoned that idea due to a lack of mixer, I didn't have one at that time. I think I will try this trick again sometime. Thank you for the video.
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing your techniques with the music community. Your channel is an invaluable resource for all of us musicians that helps create better music for everyone.
Always creative and fun layering synths. That was the great thing about MIDI when it came out in 1983 🙂. Many times created a sound using the DX7 and Memorymoog, or DX, D50 and 50. Try bringing the W30 into the mix if you haven't already. There are a bunch of great samples for it. Roland had a complete "free" library you could go to your local music store and copy. The W30 uses the s50/550/330 samples... Of course you could sample your midi layer and use it as a individual sound.
Yes, Layering is true great way! Even for the simple noodling/jamming. Thank you for this nice video with excellent classic synths and this really beautifull melodies. Cheers, Dailabsynth1
lovely gear :) You have pretty much what i dreamed to buy while watching at some SamAsh magazines back in the 90s Love the Roland keyboard. Such a slick design.
Michael Jackson's band did the same thing for the synth brass sounds on the Bad Tour, but the synths were TX816 for FM, D-50 for PCM, and MKS-80 for analog
Ciao, Paolo! I love layering too. I wish I had your ear and chops though, Maestro! This is a beautiful setup. Thank you for making, sharing, inspiring!
What you are talking about here is basically called "registration". For instance, for a church organ you have all of the different stops (or voices) and you select the best stops to make the overall sound you require. You are doing exactly the same thing, but just with different sounds from various electronic effects (or voices) boxes, played from a keyboard.
The three instruments, Roland, Yamaha and Korg result a great sound, i love much the pecious music. In the minute 3:20 the sound is very interesting, but in minute 4:43 is fantastic, romantic, impressive... Congratulations for the pianist.
I'm over a year late to this one, but these techniques never age. What I gleaned from this video, besides being reminded of the great technique, is some excellent combinations. Very enjoyable channel only recently discovered by me. New subscriber. Thank you!
I never knew there was a term for "synth layering". I used to do it in the 80's with mono synths and tapes to make my mono synths sound poly with different sound textures.
I still get a bit baffled by some people reaction and amazement, especially keyboard players, about layering and midi-ing synths together. I mean... this has always been synth playing/programming 101 for me since i started playing in bands with professional gear fir the last 30 years (since 1990)... Apparently this was lost by a lot of people. Glad to see it rediscovered :)
MKS-50/the Alpha Junos are pretty nice, imo! Pretty cheap (when I got my AJ2 a few years ago, at least), cool waveform options (PWM on a saw made out of pulses is cool), and a nice sounding filter. May use DCOs, but they're still analog (and, of course, the classic Junos did, as well). Layering different synthesis methods can lead to great, unique results. Cool video idea.
How beautifu! How powerfull! Something twists inside you when you hear this sound. It takes you on a journay through the universe. And that moment shares some little secret of the universe with you. Just beautiful.
Fantastic, I used to do this a lot with modules and synths in the 90s, it is the ultimate in creating the hugest most super fat sounds achievable live with synthesizors chained via MIDI IMO. Surely you could have stacked a few more layers within the PCM module by adjusting the patches to trigger from the same MIDI channel and even added the controller keyboards own sounds.
The TX81Z is great for layering, especially the FM bells. Back in those days, digital was all the rave, late 80's early 90's and analog was considered obsolete. Everyone wanted the new digital synths that had decent piano sounds and character LCD screens. Analog was rediscovered fairly quickly.. within a decade.
One day people will wake up to the fact that the old digital stuff from Roland and Korg just sounds gorgeous.
I agree, I love the old 80s, 90's workstations.
I only have the digital vintage stuff, never had the feeling I missed something :-))
Trends are like waves... just look at the fashion industry: what is considered awful, outdated and ridiculous can instantly become the very best thing the very next day.... People used to try anything to sound clearer and clearer and now we're looking for ways to dirty up and give grit and 'imperfections' to sound... Simply put, human nature demands novelty and reassurance at the same time, if there is nothing new on the horizon then something old becomes the "new new" ;) It happened in pretty much every artform.
"human nature demands novelty and reassurance at the same time"
Like that one : )
And then there is taste, perception and so on.
Thanks for clearly and well performed illustration of the usefulness of layering in real time.
Stefano Papaleo there is a nice book called Retromania by Simon Reynolds, I would highly recommend it!
It was exactly this that made the D-50 so immensely popular. 4 layered synth parts with a touch of reverb on it, right out of the box it sounded bloody amazing, light-years ahead of anything else available at the time.
The beauty of using hardware is that a) every instrument has its own character, its own personality, and you get an emotional feedback that you just don´t get with plugins, which will affect your way of creating music, and b) these older modules may sound very simple by themselvs but once you stack them, the result is absolutely amazing. It seems that, the simpler and clearer each individual part is, the better will the overall composite sound be.
Absolutely right. In the 80s and 90s this layering were commonly used to blend strings sounds to create orchestral atmosphere, or blended horns sounds to create the super power brass section. MIDI rules the game back then. I still like this technique. And some musicians still like to do this.
Yep, Michael, the good 'ol days of MIDI :-)
SynthMania I like MKS series especially 80 (JP6), 70 (JX10), 50 (JU2). They are analogs.
Naturally, you're right that this sort of thing can be done with software synths, but those old synth modules are still as valid and useful today as they ever were. Thanks for showing us what the old gear can do.
Each unit seems to have character that software can never achieve. I have a few old romplers that do weird things, and sound interesting, they cannot be emulated.
They sound better too. Has character and usually sits in the mix better, which makes my job easier, which is good, cause I don’t like work.
@@dustinsedlacek6765 why
@@Metalwrath2 because analog sounds cannot be replicated because of how digital sounds are dots on a graph bieng created and analog is a pure wave and infinitly varable, digital is 1 or 0 analog is infinite in terms of accuracy.
@@the_modfied_car4903 is that perceivable tho? i don’t think it’s possible to tell the difference between softsynths and hardware ones
Nothing like a fresh cup of coffee on a dark, cold morning with the fire going, my faithful lab curled up next to me and a video like this to make me smile. Thank you Paolo!
Thank *you for watching!
Nothing revolutionary, but very articulate and well-demonstrated. It is also demonstrates a good reason not to throw out or eBay your old gear from the 80's and 90's, as each has that little something that could come in useful, they now cost you nothing and they don't jam up your DAW computer! I recently fired up my 30 year old Roland D110 after 20 years of redundancy and it was like visiting an old friend.
Midi layering is my favorite way of creating huge sounds. Thanks for sharing!!
Just tried this with a microkorg, JV-1080, and a DX21. It's pretty neat!
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I've been doing ut with my roland S10, behringer model D, and roland Xv-3080. Its incredible what you can do
What a simple but CLEVER way of creating synth pads! I've never thought about this myself!! THANKS! I'm telling ya, ur the king of synthesizers! "Rex Synth"! ;-D
Haha, too kind, way too kind :D But yeah, this was a very common techniques in the MIDI days, today not so much, so I wanted to just bring it out so the new generations can check it out
Well, it was all over the place back then. I use it, but it surprises me that even synth kids back then don't really use it today
SynthMania I had the same thing with multi track recording. When I bought my tascam 244 I only overdubbed, I never thought of recording multiple instruments at the same time (beyond multiple singers on a single mic). It was only after I bought the Levinson book on the Beatles sessions that I learnt a technique that was the common approach when 4 track recording first came about but wasn't talked about because it was the basic way of working i.e. nothing special ...in those days.
Well, remember that the performer usually had two hands to stack two synths. And you can play with variations. It's all over Classical orchestration - stacking/layering. The Pet sounds LP made new sounds. One OSC synth ? Add another one. Dig around in those old patch collections that are available online. That one thing that sounds like crap is just what you need for the layered Numan sound, maybe : ).
And this is why I need lots of synths! Bravo Paolo!
haha - thank you, Sunil!
Layering back in the late 80ies was my trick to create a huge and complacent live sounds. U110 for the piano, dx7 for the tines and an esq for the warm pad. It sounded killer
I'm really digging the sound of the Korg M1. I know it's considered a classic synth but I was under the impression that it was only good for thin tiny sounding rompler-type patches. I'm glad to see that I was mistaken.
A lot of people have used it (or heard it) so many times they're just bored of it. But, for those that haven't (like me), it's got plenty to offer. And I think it'll become new again sooner or later. :-)
PS., there's a good fully-stocked soft-synth version by Korg available as well.
Seeing the W30 takes me back: First keyboard was a S50! Thought I would set the world on fire sampling every other keyboard to build a library, and I never even sampled with it, just used a nice set of expanded disks with enough sounds for what I was doing! Memories! Dumped it for $50 years ago, in mint condition!
The sounds and the tunes you are playing are utterly beautiful....
Jeez! All of a sudden I'm a Final Fantasy character watching this video.
Great video by the way.
Thank you, Christian!
After so many years, I keep coming back to this video. Thanks heaps😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Layering is such a great and simple 'sound design' tool. I just wished my new modules had already arrived :(( Have a great w.e.!
Grazie, Stefano, yes, what you wrote is what I forgot to mention in the video :-D if/when there's no time to design a patch from scratch or tweak / customize an existing one, layering is one method to get interesting sounds quickly
SynthMania ma figurati...
Not only that, I always found layering a goos solution even when you do want to dive in and make your own patches. It is a bit like cooking, mixing up things your own way.
honestly layering can already make the insane amount of possibilities of sounds you can make with these synths/romplers double or triple in size lmaooo
You know you've done your job right when I try to pay attention to what you're saying in order to learn about synthesizers more, but I just get lost in the awesome sound.
I watch this video periodically. I watch lots of videos to gain understanding and knowledge. I wind up watching some more than once so it sticks. Plus i like the sound of the racks you have. Thanks SynthMania!
Classy FM synths always bring back fond memories of games like King's Quest for me. Thanks for this!
How far we of SynthLand have all come in such a short time... I can remember back in the 80s-early 00's layering multiple synths like this all day and night... then I got my first "monster" multitimbral synth - the Korg Triton - and the days of layering synths were done and over... for a little bit... Now I use my four workstations, (Korg Triton, Korg Krome, Yamaha SY-77, Yamaha Motif ES), to create "Mega-layers", of a dozen or more synth parts, and have come full circle to where I started...
I'd really love to hear that, where can I listen to these songs?!
I've been messing about with layering sounds for months. I've yet to hear ANYTHING comparable to this. It was simply sublime. Thank you for sharing I think it could help a lot!
just good default patches..... why didn't you succeed?
Thanks for the cool video...the tones brought back some good memories, especially the
M-1....I enjoyed the demo very much.
Utterly gorgeous!
This is the epitome of how synthesis can be so emotive! 🤍
Lost my M1 to opioid addiction, alas, rave hedonism ran its full course through me.
Currently rebuilding my studio, with maturity and sobriety. Thank you for sharing your skill and talent, Sir.
Cornwall, UK.
Roland W-30!! Haven't seen one of those in years! Used to love the quiet whine from the display, beautiful keyboard. It was always a little underpowered for my taste sampling wise, probably goes to show my lack of age... Sold it to buy an Ensoniq ASR-10, my favourite sampler/keyboard of all time. Still own a few of them, stripped down into a personal spare parts bank for my working one!
Now we can have a 4 layer patch with just one VST plugin like Xpand 2, to achieve vertually the same desired end result, including independent FX assignments for each part.
Things change so much and so quickly in this digital domain. Thank you for this recap of what we all once aspired to do, in the end, the technology is not the message, (hardware or software) but the universal language of music, is supreme always. And that's why I enjoyed your sensitive rendition very much, thank you kindly.
Sergei, thanks so much!
Paolo , thank you for being the best. always showing us great examples of how these instruments can sound. love it.
Best Piano/Pad sound I heard so far!
Superb! Thanks for these fun videos!
Thank *you for watching
I feel compelled to say that I was skeptical about your choice of patches at first. After hearing them together I was blown away. I use DAW software to perform live because it allows VSTs to take over for hardware. Since I can link one controller to multiple VSTs I can achieve much the same effect. I'm impressed. So much so that I subscribed because of this video. I've been an avid watcher of SonicState's channel for a while now. This video came up in the recommendations and I'm glad it did.
Awesome! Glad to have you here!
old synths are SO GREAT ... I have a few vintage modules...jd990 a 550, m3, m1,a wavestation...I love them! are "new age" music machines..
Ya, but it doesn't have to be vintage. I got the Korg FM for layering in mind
Really well done. I've been doing the same since 1984. Such an important concept when composing using the synthesizer.
Thanks for this video, Paolo. La magia del suono!
Truth be told it's one of the techniques producer's use to create a wall of sound. And the other trick is they take out different parts at different verses, and chorus for arrangement s. The beats sound complex but really are simple melodies layered with synth. Great video.
these are lovely examples, very inspiring. Thanks a lot for taking the time to example this work.
Those piano sounds are some of the best synth programmed ever. The roots of those go back to the old MKS-20, which was the de facto piano module. Even Billy Joel triggered one for the front-of-house piano sound before switching to gigasampler. Some people still swear by the MKS-20. The JV-880, with the 18 bit DACS and radically good sound for the time maintained that cluster of about 10 piano sounds which continuted right on through the JV-XX80 series, the RD series, the XV series, the JD series, and so on. Major revisions to those in the form of more sampled data in the actual sounds started happening around the fantom era. Piano sounds on modern synths are a combination of programmed sounds and sampled data added in. The degree of which is endlessly variable. The main determinate on final sound quality is the playback engine of the synth and finally the digital to analog conversion rate and quality for final tally of realism. Roland was "it" for a long time, and may recapture the crown with the virtual/natural stuff, which is really good. However, the latest Yamaha hybrid, and the Korg stuff are competing very well. I am of the opinion that Roland may not have always had the best synth gear, but they have paved the way when other makers were afraid to cross the street, they have always focused on music gear that does the job in a specific setting. They think about the musician, the amp, the band, the take all features of music-making into consideration. I have more Roland gear than any other, have owned more Roland gear than other brand, and will continue. Vive le Roland.
I didn't recognize how TX-81z sounds lovely when I owed TX-81z. Layer sound of the three machines is also lovely.
I just learnt something!!
THANK YOU!!
Crazy, I think I can do this exact thing with my Korg M1, DX7 (or tx7) and Nord lead. Thanks for the demo.
Thank *you for watching
Very helpful video! I've been getting more into using synths in my music, and often wondered how anyone could actually use some of the sounds - especially when it comes to built-in patches on PCM and FM synths. Your examples make it all make so much more sense to me, and give me some fun ideas to try out.
Thank you very much, rjhelms!
Wonderfull playing and great tipps - Thank You to have posted this video here! Top-Sounds made by Roland and Korg... As a owner from Korg and Roland Instruments (I have buyed a Krome for 6 months ago)... The Krome have allways very good sounds from M1...
Just reminded me how amazingly powerful simple layering can sound! TX-802 & OB M1000 in full effect :D
Thanks for the video. I have a Roland JU-1, a TX81z, and a Korg M3r. This has given me inspiration to try this!
Thank you, Superhawk!
I tried to do almost the same thing, I had two timbre modules which I connected with Midi thru output and the results were awesome! But I abandoned that idea due to a lack of mixer, I didn't have one at that time. I think I will try this trick again sometime. Thank you for the video.
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing your techniques with the music community. Your channel is an invaluable resource for all of us musicians that helps create better music for everyone.
I have just bought a KORG Karma and it sounds great. It's 15 yrs old but amazing sounds. :)
Fantastico Maestro. I like The Passion and Deep Knowledge in this and other Video. Keep Up the great work.
very good advice and demo ... layer , layer , layer ...rather than always looking for plugins to buy
Always creative and fun layering synths. That was the great thing about MIDI when it came out in 1983 🙂.
Many times created a sound using the DX7 and Memorymoog, or DX, D50 and 50.
Try bringing the W30 into the mix if you haven't already. There are a bunch of great samples for it. Roland had a complete "free" library you could go to your local music store and copy. The W30 uses the s50/550/330 samples...
Of course you could sample your midi layer and use it as a individual sound.
Chills from those last layers. Now I really miss my synths :-)
Very enjoyable! Thank you
WOW..... That's some frick'n beautiful sound there.
Thank you - three instruments combined to create one sound with "movement"
Yes, Layering is true great way! Even for the simple noodling/jamming.
Thank you for this nice video with excellent classic synths and this really beautifull melodies.
Cheers, Dailabsynth1
I love watching the master.
Just wonderfull! I Love it!
Beautiful soundtracks ! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you much
that's a great Roland W30 board! love it!
This is everything I love about Vangelis.
Exellent! Thank you very much for this video.
First one sounds like a slow piece of classical guitar with a small string and choir section, lovely stuff.
That MKS50 Ominous patch though!!
I kind of got lost in the beautiful melody and forgot all about the layering. it took me somewhere. thanks!
NotMarkKnopfler, thanks so much!
Very cool! I do similar things with my Korg Kronos when I make combis. More players need to know things like this! Keep up the good work.
lovely gear :)
You have pretty much what i dreamed to buy while watching at some SamAsh magazines back in the 90s
Love the Roland keyboard. Such a slick design.
nice playing.....sounds brill....
lovin the old sound🎹🎹🎹🎶🎵♩
Paul, thank you! ♬♬ ♪ ♩
Che meraviglia. Sono i suoni della mia infanzia. Video bellissimo, grazie
Great! Thanks for sharing these videos :)
Paolo, as always, your choice of sounds is miraculous! Thank you!
Michael Jackson's band did the same thing for the synth brass sounds on the Bad Tour, but the synths were TX816 for FM, D-50 for PCM, and MKS-80 for analog
Old tricks are the best tricks, eh? Great vid, very thought provoking, if you'll excuse me I have some layering experimentation to perform, hahaha :)
Very interesting layers sound combinations!
Excellent. If only I had three synths 😎
Ciao, Paolo! I love layering too. I wish I had your ear and chops though, Maestro! This is a beautiful setup. Thank you for making, sharing, inspiring!
Layering aside....beautiful melodies. Thank you.
Jason, thank you
THAT IS SOME WONDERFUL SOUNDS AND FITTING FOR A VERY NICE AND POIGNANT SONG...GREAT LAYERING CHOICES...
What you are talking about here is basically called "registration". For instance, for a church organ you have all of the different stops (or voices) and you select the best stops to make the overall sound you require. You are doing exactly the same thing, but just with different sounds from various electronic effects (or voices) boxes, played from a keyboard.
Amazing sounds and the melodies fit very well. Great video!!!
Thanks so much
Very convincing demo ! Congratulations !!! Such sounds could be used to create... atmosphere music.
Nice stuff once again from you!
Synth layering is modules towering. Sounds good and looks good.
So Lovely...What a simply beautiful blending!
The three instruments, Roland, Yamaha and Korg result a great sound, i love much the pecious music. In the minute 3:20 the sound is very interesting, but in minute 4:43 is fantastic, romantic, impressive... Congratulations for the pianist.
I'm over a year late to this one, but these techniques never age. What I gleaned from this video, besides being reminded of the great technique, is some excellent combinations. Very enjoyable channel only recently discovered by me. New subscriber. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
I never knew there was a term for "synth layering". I used to do it in the 80's with mono synths and tapes to make my mono synths sound poly with different sound textures.
Very cool :) Necessity is the mother of invention...
damn you just sound tracked my next movie
I do this pretty extensively all the time,nice video a big up to you,my layers-Roland MSE1 , Yamaha YS200 and Kurzweil K2500r
Lots of my synths are midi chain connected for layering, I use the mixing desk for bringing in the different layers
This just helped me tremendously!!!!!!! I'm so tired of using Logic , time to bust out my old boards and simply use logic as a workstation!!!!
Beautiful. Thank you for the video.
Your modules look like brandnew from the factory. 👍🎹
Sound magical! I think Ima try something similar today!
I still get a bit baffled by some people reaction and amazement, especially keyboard players, about layering and midi-ing synths together.
I mean... this has always been synth playing/programming 101 for me since i started playing in bands with professional gear fir the last 30 years (since 1990)...
Apparently this was lost by a lot of people. Glad to see it rediscovered :)
Guy knows for sure how to "stack" beautiful synths on top of synths ;)
MKS-50/the Alpha Junos are pretty nice, imo! Pretty cheap (when I got my AJ2 a few years ago, at least), cool waveform options (PWM on a saw made out of pulses is cool), and a nice sounding filter. May use DCOs, but they're still analog (and, of course, the classic Junos did, as well). Layering different synthesis methods can lead to great, unique results. Cool video idea.
How beautifu! How powerfull! Something twists inside you when you hear this sound. It takes you on a journay through the universe. And that moment shares some little secret of the universe with you. Just beautiful.
Wow, Andrew. Nice choice of words. Thanks
Really dig those instructional videos. Concise and fun to watch.
BTW the FM piano sounds more like an acoustic guitar.
Fantastic, I used to do this a lot with modules and synths in the 90s, it is the ultimate in creating the hugest most super fat sounds achievable live with synthesizors chained via MIDI IMO. Surely you could have stacked a few more layers within the PCM module by adjusting the patches to trigger from the same MIDI channel and even added the controller keyboards own sounds.
This is stunning!!! Thank you.
The TX81Z is great for layering, especially the FM bells. Back in those days, digital was all the rave, late 80's early 90's and analog was considered obsolete. Everyone wanted the new digital synths that had decent piano sounds and character LCD screens. Analog was rediscovered fairly quickly.. within a decade.
Great stuff! Will try it myself but then on VST instruments...thank you!