How can you hate this thing? I have an OBXa behind me and i still come running to this thing from time to time. Such an awesome VST. Would recommend it to anyone!
I've owned two OB-8s and I love this plugin. I got one of the first pre-midi OB-8s from Manny's in NY and then went on a tour of Europe with it. Since the OB-8 got to Europe later, I was able to rent it for more than I would have been paid to play it. I've owned this plugin since v1 and it's the real deal. Each oscillator drifts independently and I think that's one of the reasons it's so good.
That's such a catchy tune. I highly recommend "Rainforest" by Paul Hardcastle too. A good motif should stick in your head. Problem is getting it out of your head lol.
Wow! Add this to my arturia prophet 5 & Jupiter 8 without shelling out 8-10 grand? Whoever programmed it did a excellent job! I thought I never say this, but I MISS the analog synths. They had so much warmth and character. It seems these new synths are geared towards EDM's or who has the best pianos, orchestral sounds, and others. Thank god for the moogs, and what Dave Smith is doing (I'm really looking at the prophet 6). Other than that, I love that software!😎
Of course, many people make the acceptable cover right until the bell and marimba sequence starts. No one has successfully got it right so far, no one got close to the original. No one! Awesome,regardless.
+Jason Rose There's no such synth as a Jupiter 850D Series Workstation. It's just called a Jupiter 8. He also used a Moog modular for the bass and an Linndrum for the drums. It's funny that usually it's the analogue sounds that sound the furthest from the original (and the main lead sound isn't quite right here). However, in this song, due to the VST being an analogue emulation, it's the DX marimba sound which is way off. Nowhere near as punchy and dynamic as the actual sound used.
+davedagreat69 The actual bass line was recorded with the Roland JX3P, with the PG200. If you watch the video clip you can see the JX3P with the PG200, the Jupiter 8 and the DX7. Like you said the marimba timbre was produced by the DX7. The bass sound used is a preset sound from the JX3P. The Eurythmics used the JX3P''s Synth sounds in their smash hit 'Sweet Dreams'. I'm selling my Roland JX3P with the PG200 programmer in Sydney Australia, if anyone's interested!
+davedagreat69 As for no such Synth as the Jupiter 850D. I knew there was the original Jupiter 8, but I assumed it was the 850D model, simply because I have the VST Instrument with all of the Jupiter 8 sounds, and the VST model is titled - Roland Jupiter 850D. Maybe because of copyright, the developers of the VST had to use a different title for the VST instrument version of the Jupiter 8. In saying that, I do own an original JX3P with the PG200 programmer, and I know for a fact the bass timbre used in the original Axel F recording was recording using this Synth. (Watch the video and pause the frame).
Ah, ok. I didn't realise you were going from the VST library. I have OPX Pro 2 too. Will have to check it out. You may be right about the bass. I know he had a Moog modular available, he may not have used it on this track though.
I watched a clip from this dude who was playing back a pre-recorded version of Axel F, whilst playing along with it on a Roland D-50. This guy was a fraud because I know the sounds very well on the Roland D-50, back in the days when I was a keyboard salesman for a Roland reseller years ago, and there is no way the pre-recorded version that he claimed to be his own recording, was recorded with the D-50 simply because the sounds in the pre-recording were identical to the sounds off the original recording. However the obvious giveaway was the fact that he wasn't even playing all the correct notes from the recording! I'll try and find the video and send you the clip to watch.
You may use with the OPX-Pro ll the Fluid r3 soundfont for the toms (that soundfont is free and has an electronic kit that resembles at all the SDS-V that you will listen on the youtube channel of simmonsmuseum
Monkey see, monkey do. You people who claim to categorically "hate VST plugs" (softsynth haters) are easily some of the most obnoxious people in the world. Most of you really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You just want to sound like an elitist about something which the average person could never be bothered to care about. Actually think about that for a few seconds.
seeyouintheeighties I own several synth. Analog and digital hardware. The truth really is this. Analog just sounds better of the bat. During the mixing and mastering phase of production analog recordings require very little post processing in order to sit well within a mix. As far as hardware digital synth s they typically also sound much better than soft synth primarily because some guy who gets his hands on one cant upload a piece of hardware to the internet to be torrented , posted to Usenet , google drive etc. This means that the companies behind the hardware digital synth are far less at risk of losing money due to piracy. This means more money for better coders, better engineers and at least a few industry leading musicians , sound designers , mix engineers to evaluate the sound engine at its various levels of development to ensure that the sound produced by the engine in its various stages development are the best it can be. Softsynths are typically pirated within a couple weeks of their release which means each person who chooses to download a copy for free steals money from the developers who created it. The resources and time required to accurately model an analog synth or any other iconic synth is just not there as it is for hardware. There are exceptions to this. For instance. Native Instruments Reaktor architecture is about as close to analog as software can get. For example. Compare the oscillators and filter of the Reaktor instrument Monark to the mini Moog. I'd bet that even the most seasoned sound engineer would be hard pressed to differentiate between the two in a blind test. There are other factors such as CPU load and RAM limitations which prevent many people from being able to smoothly run highly accurate analog modeling synth s. You have to have a beast of a computer to use one of the more deeply programmed poly synth patches in Softsynths like U-He recently released s mono analog synth called Repro which is incredibly rich and has a very warm convincing analog sound. Since a all a hardware digital synth has to process is its sound its able to devote 100 perecent of its resources to producing the sound from its engine. If a computer in the conventional sense , I'm not talking embedded pc. just your run of the mill desktop or laptop was given the multiple tiers of tasks to produce sound like that of which comes from say the Virus TI 2 even a high end desktop would struggle to perform with out skips and glitches from disk reead failures and more. Beyond quality of sound alone many of us., those of us who are actually trained musicians who took the time to master an instrument like the piano will always prefer the feel of having instant access to the controls of a synth. One can be far more musically expressive with little ease with a hardware instrument. It is incredibly painstaking to infuse a sense of organic human musicality and expressivity from within a piano roll. It would just be a big fat pain in the ads to go back and manually adjust every midi parameter and expression control from within a DAW alone. You can get close, but no cigar.lol. To sum it up it just about all boils down to ease and speed of workflow and the sheer pleasure of playing an actual instrument as opposed to endless clicks and drags of a mouse. Not only that but there is a certain satisfaction one has when they walk into their studio and see it filled with proper gear. If you were a vocalist or a musician who would you be more likely to pay to record, produce and master a track for you. The guy with 25k + in gear lining his walls or a the kid sitting in his dirty bedroom pecking away on his shitty laptop trying to mix with his shirty beats headphones. Whoever thought beats by dre headphones were a sound choice for creating s great sounding track was either entirely ignorant to the process or they simply dont give a fuck as long as people buy them. So tip number one. If you are using Beats headphones to produce for anything but referencing .. Stop it. Stop it now. There are in ear monitors for as little as $50 which will outshine the performance and accuracy of any $300 beats by shithead headphones any day of the week. All that being said. Digital products have a flavor all their own and in many cases are preferred by professionals and in many instances are the better choice. Especially when it comes to mastering gear. If and when you can afford it any producer worth a shit will have at least one good hardware compressor. You just cant push a signal inthe digital realm like you can with hardware. If you want the best of both worlds invest ina quality channel strip module. You don't need a mastering chain six miles long to do the job right.
I really like your remake of it. I am however wondering, whether you could provide the midi to this version. Certainly it is to be noted that the original version starts with the lead not with the bass. This is a bit confusing.
I bought the Reaktor version for Mac, but are no identical to VSTi format, the Reaktor format sound very digital, cold and bright. ¿Why don't make a Mac AU or VSTi? thanks, cool demo.
It really does. Im a huge fan of the DX7. and FM. And a friend recently let me.use his software version. The PX7 running on Reason. And i was blown away by how good it is. With a much friendlier user interface.. Ive been using hardware for over 30 years. But some software is excellent.
If you gonna use for this song, with this vsti, the electro drumkit of a psr-s670, you will get THAT authentic "Harold Faltermeyer style" drums sound that is needed for THE original sound of the song "Axel-F"! So your performance lacks (for me) of the sound of the psr-s670's electro drumkit as drumset to use with the opx-pro II that you already have. So, opx-pro II with psr-s670= fully 80's sound (if you use the FAMOUS expansion pack of the opx-pro II).You may also complete the soundset with some Arturia's and some Native Instruments' synths and some Kontakt libraries (use also the Korg legacy M1 vsti and the SQ8-L vsti as synths if you want to go 90's into the sound (in that case the psr-s670 is needed for its House or 909 drumkits (as you like))).
+nicholas k If you purchase the original sheet music, it's written in the key of F#. However the recording is in F major. It is possible to play this with both hands (Bass - left hand, Melody - right hand) without having to record both parts separately. Just a little practice and you can master it.
If I were to listen to this just as it is I would probably not recognize it's not the original. Maybe just maybe if I really listened hard that marimba might have given it away as it's not the famous FM sounding marimba but that's about it.
How can you hate this thing? I have an OBXa behind me and i still come running to this thing from time to time. Such an awesome VST. Would recommend it to anyone!
This is an emulation of Ob-X.
@@captainvoluntaryistthestat3207 Thankyou Captain Obvious
All of these demos of OP-X PRO-II just keep on blowing me away! This really is a fantastic VST synth!
I've owned two OB-8s and I love this plugin. I got one of the first pre-midi OB-8s from Manny's in NY and then went on a tour of Europe with it. Since the OB-8 got to Europe later, I was able to rent it for more than I would have been paid to play it. I've owned this plugin since v1 and it's the real deal. Each oscillator drifts independently and I think that's one of the reasons it's so good.
Such a lovely plugin. By far the closest to the "analogue" sound I have heard so far.
The sounds are 99.9% dead-on. Great !! I'm getting this program
hehehehehehehe...hehehehehehehehe...hehehehehehehehehehehe and another hehehehehe
Whoever performed this has an excellent ear for deciphering arrangements.
That's such a catchy tune. I highly recommend "Rainforest" by Paul Hardcastle too. A good motif should stick in your head. Problem is getting it out of your head lol.
yep that's the correct bassline :) nice. So many covers miss the baseline so badly it's a shame
Fantastic! Probably the best Axel F cover I heard so far. Just downloaded the bank and will try to do my own cover version.
Impressive accuracy!
Axel Foley in trouble again ... 80s music, 80s movies .... seems like yesterday. Great memories .. This VST sounds awesome!
Super!!! Respect!!! The best representation in VST!
Harold Faltermeyer should have recieved an Oscar for this
lol
Heck Did i write this lol
@@jadonx You were correct.
@@cookergronkberg well id buy him a pint🤣
just add some more reverb, tape emulation, hiss and you will get the same WARM TUBE(c) sound )))
OP-X PRO-II is awesome! I use it for all my RUSH covers.
Great song and epic cover !
Excellent!
Great effort
That's got to be the best rendition of Axel F on You Tube, well done!!
Great tune for the time - still like it now!
Cool! Sounds great =)
Always loved that one
perfect ! ... keep going ! :)
Wow! Add this to my arturia prophet 5 & Jupiter 8 without shelling out 8-10 grand? Whoever programmed it did a excellent job! I thought I never say this, but I MISS the analog synths. They had so much warmth and character. It seems these new synths are geared towards EDM's or who has the best pianos, orchestral sounds, and others. Thank god for the moogs, and what Dave Smith is doing (I'm really looking at the prophet 6). Other than that, I love that software!😎
Very nice version. Bravoo !
CLAPS...CLAPS... did you forget claps in da BEAT??? ;)))
1:34?
3DM Gaming No claps at 1:34. The echoed LinnDrum LM2 claps goes throughout the entire original from Harold. 🤷🏼♂️
Absolutely perfect.
Thats cool man! Thank you for sharing.
"Get the fuck outta here!"
really nice!
If I heard this on the radio, I would have no idea it wasn't the real Axel F. Good job.
Very well done!!!!
Of course, many people make the acceptable cover right until the bell and marimba sequence starts. No one has successfully got it right so far, no one got close to the original. No one! Awesome,regardless.
LEONSKI did. 🖖
amazing!!!!
GREAT JOB MATE !
Super fat bass, great!
Any software sim never gets such compact SEM filtered bass taste
I read there's 64bit and mac version now
yeah baby
swagalicious
buenisimo¡¡
The original sounds came from two Roland Synths, the JX-3P and the Jupiter 850D Series Workstation, as well as the Yamaha DX7.
+Jason Rose There's no such synth as a Jupiter 850D Series Workstation. It's just called a Jupiter 8. He also used a Moog modular for the bass and an Linndrum for the drums. It's funny that usually it's the analogue sounds that sound the furthest from the original (and the main lead sound isn't quite right here). However, in this song, due to the VST being an analogue emulation, it's the DX marimba sound which is way off. Nowhere near as punchy and dynamic as the actual sound used.
+davedagreat69
The actual bass line was recorded with the Roland JX3P, with the PG200. If you watch the video clip you can see the JX3P with the PG200, the Jupiter 8 and the DX7. Like you said the marimba timbre was produced by the DX7.
The bass sound used is a preset sound from the JX3P. The Eurythmics used the JX3P''s Synth sounds in their smash hit 'Sweet Dreams'.
I'm selling my Roland JX3P with the PG200 programmer in Sydney Australia, if anyone's interested!
+davedagreat69 As for no such Synth as the Jupiter 850D. I knew there was the original Jupiter 8, but I assumed it was the 850D model, simply because I have the VST Instrument with all of the Jupiter 8 sounds, and the VST model is titled - Roland Jupiter 850D.
Maybe because of copyright, the developers of the VST had to use a different title for the VST instrument version of the Jupiter 8.
In saying that, I do own an original JX3P with the PG200 programmer, and I know for a fact the bass timbre used in the original Axel F recording was recording using this Synth. (Watch the video and pause the frame).
Ah, ok. I didn't realise you were going from the VST library. I have OPX Pro 2 too. Will have to check it out. You may be right about the bass. I know he had a Moog modular available, he may not have used it on this track though.
I watched a clip from this dude who was playing back a pre-recorded version of Axel F, whilst playing along with it on a Roland D-50. This guy was a fraud because I know the sounds very well on the Roland D-50, back in the days when I was a keyboard salesman for a Roland reseller years ago, and there is no way the pre-recorded version that he claimed to be his own recording, was recorded with the D-50 simply because the sounds in the pre-recording were identical to the sounds off the original recording.
However the obvious giveaway was the fact that he wasn't even playing all the correct notes from the recording!
I'll try and find the video and send you the clip to watch.
You may use with the OPX-Pro ll the Fluid r3 soundfont for the toms (that soundfont is free and has an electronic kit that resembles at all the SDS-V that you will listen on the youtube channel of simmonsmuseum
Excelente, muito bom mesmo.
exelente calidad de audio
awesome!!:))))
This was great, just did a cover of this on my own channel.
I hate to say this as much as I hate VST plugs i must admit this is by far the best there is out there and as close as vst will get to real thing.
Monkey see, monkey do. You people who claim to categorically "hate VST plugs" (softsynth haters) are easily some of the most obnoxious people in the world. Most of you really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You just want to sound like an elitist about something which the average person could never be bothered to care about. Actually think about that for a few seconds.
I have nothing to say, just wanna reply to you three months later
me too
Sounds great. Just need to turn up the hi-hat, and add those little squeaky stereo noises.
What can I say???? SPOT ON!
Yet another reason to chuck logic out the window
+RetroRepair why is that? is it not work in logic?
+RetroRepair Don't be illogical...
Aaha.
i want to learn playing like that, but how ??? :(
Flawless Victory! Friendship! :)
Lets forget about what synth or not what synth was used on the original composition. My question is ..... Is this a great remake track ??? 👍👍👍
Amazing! 35-0.
i really want to hate it... because it's a vst...but.....
OH GOD ITS GOOD!!!!
+seeyouintheeighties What is the logic in hating something simply because of the container format?
seeyouintheeighties I own several synth. Analog and digital hardware. The truth really is this. Analog just sounds better of the bat. During the mixing and mastering phase of production analog recordings require very little post processing in order to sit well within a mix. As far as hardware digital synth s they typically also sound much better than soft synth primarily because some guy who gets his hands on one cant upload a piece of hardware to the internet to be torrented , posted to Usenet , google drive etc. This means that the companies behind the hardware digital synth are far less at risk of losing money due to piracy. This means more money for better coders, better engineers and at least a few industry leading musicians , sound designers , mix engineers to evaluate the sound engine at its various levels of development to ensure that the sound produced by the engine in its various stages development are the best it can be. Softsynths are typically pirated within a couple weeks of their release which means each person who chooses to download a copy for free steals money from the developers who created it. The resources and time required to accurately model an analog synth or any other iconic synth is just not there as it is for hardware. There are exceptions to this. For instance. Native Instruments Reaktor architecture is about as close to analog as software can get. For example. Compare the oscillators and filter of the Reaktor instrument Monark to the mini Moog. I'd bet that even the most seasoned sound engineer would be hard pressed to differentiate between the two in a blind test. There are other factors such as CPU load and RAM limitations which prevent many people from being able to smoothly run highly accurate analog modeling synth s. You have to have a beast of a computer to use one of the more deeply programmed poly synth patches in Softsynths like U-He recently released s mono analog synth called Repro which is incredibly rich and has a very warm convincing analog sound. Since a all a hardware digital synth has to process is its sound its able to devote 100 perecent of its resources to producing the sound from its engine. If a computer in the conventional sense , I'm not talking embedded pc. just your run of the mill desktop or laptop was given the multiple tiers of tasks to produce sound like that of which comes from say the Virus TI 2 even a high end desktop would struggle to perform with out skips and glitches from disk reead failures and more. Beyond quality of sound alone many of us., those of us who are actually trained musicians who took the time to master an instrument like the piano will always prefer the feel of having instant access to the controls of a synth. One can be far more musically expressive with little ease with a hardware instrument. It is incredibly painstaking to infuse a sense of organic human musicality and expressivity from within a piano roll. It would just be a big fat pain in the ads to go back and manually adjust every midi parameter and expression control from within a DAW alone. You can get close, but no cigar.lol. To sum it up it just about all boils down to ease and speed of workflow and the sheer pleasure of playing an actual instrument as opposed to endless clicks and drags of a mouse. Not only that but there is a certain satisfaction one has when they walk into their studio and see it filled with proper gear. If you were a vocalist or a musician who would you be more likely to pay to record, produce and master a track for you. The guy with 25k + in gear lining his walls or a the kid sitting in his dirty bedroom pecking away on his shitty laptop trying to mix with his shirty beats headphones. Whoever thought beats by dre headphones were a sound choice for creating s great sounding track was either entirely ignorant to the process or they simply dont give a fuck as long as people buy them. So tip number one. If you are using Beats headphones to produce for anything but referencing .. Stop it. Stop it now. There are in ear monitors for as little as $50 which will outshine the performance and accuracy of any $300 beats by shithead headphones any day of the week.
All that being said. Digital products have a flavor all their own and in many cases are preferred by professionals and in many instances are the better choice. Especially when it comes to mastering gear. If and when you can afford it any producer worth a shit will have at least one good hardware compressor. You just cant push a signal inthe digital realm like you can with hardware. If you want the best of both worlds invest ina quality channel strip module. You don't need a mastering chain six miles long to do the job right.
It's not about hating it or not, it's all about the sound it makes. If you like the sound that's all that matters, not how that sound is produced....
Hi ....how to set aftertouch with Modulation with aftertouch keyboards ?
How do you get the lead to have that hollow sound!
I really like your remake of it. I am however wondering, whether you could provide the midi to this version. Certainly it is to be noted that the original version starts with the lead not with the bass. This is a bit confusing.
I bought the Reaktor version for Mac, but are no identical to VSTi format, the Reaktor format sound very digital, cold and bright. ¿Why don't make a Mac AU or VSTi? thanks, cool demo.
When at last comes a 64bit version of the O-PX?
totally second this. I spent ages trying to figure out why even the demo VST won't work in Ableton until I hit on the 64bit/32bit bridging issue. PIA.
if you're using 64 bit ableton.. uh why?
Excellent make the music dont argue about hard VS SOFT. Just get it done...
I agree, comes down to talent at the end of the day really, this sounds great.
It really does. Im a huge fan of the DX7. and FM. And a friend recently let me.use his software version. The PX7 running on Reason. And i was blown away by how good it is. With a much friendlier user interface..
Ive been using hardware for over 30 years. But some software is excellent.
i would love to buy it but i have logic pro x so i need it in 64 bit so please the sooner the better... thank you... my money is ready...
NO Mac AU yet.
Are these LM-1 Roger Linn sounds? LM-2 or maybe something else?
Wow..
If you gonna use for this song, with this vsti, the electro drumkit of a psr-s670, you will get THAT authentic "Harold Faltermeyer style" drums sound that is needed for THE original sound of the song "Axel-F"! So your performance lacks (for me) of the sound of the psr-s670's electro drumkit as drumset to use with the opx-pro II that you already have. So, opx-pro II with psr-s670= fully 80's sound (if you use the FAMOUS expansion pack of the opx-pro II).You may also complete the soundset with some Arturia's and some Native Instruments' synths and some Kontakt libraries (use also the Korg legacy M1 vsti and the SQ8-L vsti as synths if you want to go 90's into the sound (in that case the psr-s670 is needed for its House or 909 drumkits (as you like))).
What are the bass notes at the beginning
+nicholas k If you purchase the original sheet music, it's written in the key of F#. However the recording is in F major.
It is possible to play this with both hands (Bass - left hand, Melody - right hand) without having to record both parts separately.
Just a little practice and you can master it.
If I were to listen to this just as it is I would probably not recognize it's not the original. Maybe just maybe if I really listened hard that marimba might have given it away as it's not the famous FM sounding marimba but that's about it.
The Original Marimba sound its the Yamaha DX7, check the Dexed VST.
Bonjour,
Le nom des sons svp
Is OP-X Pro ll an free software or do i have to buy it?
hello there! any idea what is wrong with the website? im trying to access and buy the synth but the site seems to be off-line?
i think you mean the _crazy frog song_ lol jk
2:10 2:26
Monsters vs Aliens
Na na na nana nana and another na na nana....(peter griffin).
What drums do you use???
Just linn-drums samples probably. There are different libraries from Arturia, UVI and VST-emulations also.
The bass is good, but the lead is too bright
but you. youre not too bright.
So it's safe to say that Harold Fatermeyer used the analog equivalent since it's dead on.
Used the analog equivalent? They didn't even KNOW what digital was back then. :D
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Great but needs more Claps !!!!!
ce toco bem =B
1:1 copy👍
Lead sound is NOT original:(