Great video! I did the same thing with a Roland JV-80 using 8 tracks for everything but the piano sound. 90's workstations are still great sounding production tools.
Wow, much appreciated Rob!! Honor to have you comment. Can you tell us a little more about your setup in the 90s as music technology was rapidly evolving? Around the time of Tokyo Nights, mainly the JV-80? Were you using any samplers? Cheers mate!
Sure thing. My 90's Rig had both an EmaxII and an Ensoniq Mirage sampler. D50 keyboard version, ESQ1....taking all that stuff on the road was a pain man.On Tokyo Nights all the rock guitar leads are the Mirage, Pads and Brass on the D50 and the JV. There's a PBS TV special on TH-cam where I'm playing all the Tokyo Nights and 5th Gear stuff on that rig if you want to check it out. The JV was the first workstation that made producing radio jazz really easy...bummer that Roland doesn't give you any of the setups or combis that game with the hardware, could have saved a lot of time.@@Thought-Forms
@@planetmullins the EMAX AND a Mirage, super cool! I can't imagine lugging all that on the road. SCSI drives and all? Most impressed the guitars were coming out of the mirage! The PBS special is awesome man, seeing you juggle all those things is a feat in itself. But also incredibly cool to see the band working in tandem with everything. What a performance. Really appreciate the time and comment Rob, lot of folks on this channel geek out over these old school setups - so I know a lot of people will find your insight incredibly valuable and interesting
Thanks! I had an Anvil briefcase filled with floppy disks for the Mirage that had to be loaded one at a time during the show while playing the 3 synths and the grand piano. Good times! My parents thought I was crazy with all the gear but by 1985 I was already a gear head and a synth geek before those terms were even coined. I look back and think of the 80's and 90's as the great era of synth innovation and I bought or got free almost everything that got manufactured during those day. Didn't get a Korg M1R until 1993...they were too expensive!@@Thought-Forms
@@Thought-Forms I hope to see your valiant effort bear fruit 🫡 I on the other hand wish the Korg M1 plugin modernised how it handles presets because wow it ain't great
Yeah I wanted it so bad when it came out when I found out how many of my favorite hip hop songs were made with basic Triton presets. But I can’t justify spending the money on it. Eventually I may, but I been using Korg Gadget with Korg Module which has a Triton expansion in it, and hopefully Korg eventually ports the entire Triton vst to iOS which I see no reason they wouldn’t or couldn’t. I just got into more mobile beat making recently and am kinda shocked at how high quality these apps are especially Korgs stuff.
Damn. Gotta give it to the algorhythm. I love smooth jazz (Dave Koz, Boney James, Jazzmasters, The Rippingtons, etc.) and I love Bitwig. So glad I came across this.
@@gurpafulthey had to had use the so called wars as fuel for these songs back in the day. Had to have had inspiration from somewhere so you no never know🤷🏻♂️ people create in different ways you know? lol
Paul Hardcastle's definitely a legend especially in the smooth jazz & chillout lounge music scenes. One of his signature sounds gotta be the ambient EPs with kinda sparkly texture you can hear in many of his tracks. I watched a video of his studio session and he has all these rack modules and an Emu Emulator so dude definitely got all these hardware mojos present throughout his tracks. The concept in this video is really interesting... making a music with just one hardware to do all the instruments parts, or maybe as few as possible with just one sound module and a drum machine. Limitation sparks creativity.
Awesome tutorial. I'm constantly listening to Paul Hardcastle songs. Morning coffee is worth nothing without them. This tutorial was a sparkle to even produce it, with Triton. Thumbs up 😀
My dad played only this music in the 90's but loved all things jazz. All of these Korg vst's are just great. I was surprised by how good the Korg Legacy Cell is this week as I had never tried it.
Love this video as i'm a huge Paul Hardcastle fan ever since I would wait for his album to come on XM radio on the station Watercolors in the 2000s as a kid. I've heard lots of the Korg M1 especially the bottle bell patch on his albums. I know Sound On Sound magazine did an interview with him in the 90s and he showed off his studio and had TONS of Romplrs and Synths including a maxed out Synclavier system!
Thanks matt! Yes!! I read the SOS interview with Paul, his setup was insane - so many cool pieces and hearing how he used them was awesome. The screenshots from his studio are crazy
From 1980-th to 1990-th Korg made amazing synth that are still actual in our days too. These are M1, Triton, Oasys. M1 universal synth that was and still is used in many popular genres. Triton specific a little bit, but great too.
@@planetmullinsRoland Cloud is shockingly good as is Zenbeats which many are taking for granted, but with Roland Cloud, and Zenbeats being cross platform from PC to Mac to iOS and Android in itself is actually revolutionary. This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for when I first got into making music but now have already invested into other programs too far to use it. But especially for basic music sketching, between Roland Cloud and Korg Gadget and Module, there is nothing you can’t make on the go with high quality sound. What a time to be alive.
Never heard of Paul Hardcastle, seems like someone I need to dig into soon! On the other side, if you need more fancier chords and complex melodies, give a listen to Devin Morrison, he's along the same lines of "Smooth Jazz" though I wouldn't know how to categorise him.
If you want an especially deep cut try Michael Lee Thomas. Discovered by accident a few years ago and has been consistently outputting rompler smooth jazz since the 80s up to today (production has improved but the vibe is still very much the same). For Paul Hardcastle I was always more partial to his style of jazz-infused electro/freestyle in the 80s. There's really nothing else like it.
I love the Korg triton, I still have mine and use it from time to time :) The buttons are really worn out so I have been saving for the Korg triton virtual machines Thanks for the run through
@@NickBDesignsThere's pretty good chance you can use appropriate contact cleaner to fix buttons, or else replace all tact switches, they cost pennies each.
It’s stupidly awesome just how much you can milk the Triton for all it’s worth and make entire tracks with just that plugin alone. I’ve been struggling with my motivation to start on new tracks over the past few weeks (a lot of personal stuff going on), but this video has given me the drive I need to get back onto the saddle! Sick work as always Bobby! 😁
Triton does indeed have some reverse waveforms in ROM (carried over from predecessor Trinity), which was odd (and a waste of ROM space) since Triton also introduced a reverse-play parameter to play ANY of its ROM samples backwards (making pre-reversed samples redundant). Try reversing those vocal samples!
Oh man, I never computed that for some reason - but now that I think about it LOL....doesn't make much sense! Lot of fun to be had with this beast. Thanks for the comment!
Forgive me but “Smooth Jazz” started as an AC Radio format and was eventually adopted as a Spotify Playlist category. Smooth Jazz is a category not a musical genre. The reason “Smooth Jazz” became so popular yet originally encompassed so many different specific artists and styles, was the programmers found they could present all of them in a rotation and accomplish an overall “feel” for long duration listeners despite the differences from piece to piece. This was a bonanza for ad insertions. With its success came all kinds of new productions that wanted to get on Smooth Jazz rotations (and eventually the Smooth Jazz category of Spotify playlists). Smooth Jazz is not a music genre it’s a rotation category. That’s why there’s all kinds of genres in it.
@@Thought-Forms Thanks man please keep these vids coming, it's somewhat niche sure but believe me Paul Hardcastle has a cult following so you'll be doing us a huge favour filling in that void on youtube !
Awesome ! One question please ! To make complete song, drums, bass, piano etc with this amazing VST Korg Triton, in some DAW, we must select the sounds in a COMBI and put every sound in different midi channel? sorry, I'm new to Daws ! ☺
cheers! no, you can just put a new instance of the korg triton on each track in your daw, and have a different sound in each instance. doing it the combi way with every sound on a different midi channel is the old school way (which would work too if you're feeling dangerous! and would save on CPU power if you're on an older computer) have fun!
Great video! I did the same thing with a Roland JV-80 using 8 tracks for everything but the piano sound. 90's workstations are still great sounding production tools.
Wow, much appreciated Rob!! Honor to have you comment. Can you tell us a little more about your setup in the 90s as music technology was rapidly evolving? Around the time of Tokyo Nights, mainly the JV-80? Were you using any samplers? Cheers mate!
Sure thing. My 90's Rig had both an EmaxII and an Ensoniq Mirage sampler. D50 keyboard version, ESQ1....taking all that stuff on the road was a pain man.On Tokyo Nights all the rock guitar leads are the Mirage, Pads and Brass on the D50 and the JV. There's a PBS TV special on TH-cam where I'm playing all the Tokyo Nights and 5th Gear stuff on that rig if you want to check it out. The JV was the first workstation that made producing radio jazz really easy...bummer that Roland doesn't give you any of the setups or combis that game with the hardware, could have saved a lot of time.@@Thought-Forms
@@planetmullins the EMAX AND a Mirage, super cool! I can't imagine lugging all that on the road. SCSI drives and all? Most impressed the guitars were coming out of the mirage! The PBS special is awesome man, seeing you juggle all those things is a feat in itself. But also incredibly cool to see the band working in tandem with everything. What a performance. Really appreciate the time and comment Rob, lot of folks on this channel geek out over these old school setups - so I know a lot of people will find your insight incredibly valuable and interesting
Thanks! I had an Anvil briefcase filled with floppy disks for the Mirage that had to be loaded one at a time during the show while playing the 3 synths and the grand piano. Good times! My parents thought I was crazy with all the gear but by 1985 I was already a gear head and a synth geek before those terms were even coined. I look back and think of the 80's and 90's as the great era of synth innovation and I bought or got free almost everything that got manufactured during those day. Didn't get a Korg M1R until 1993...they were too expensive!@@Thought-Forms
KONTAKT LIBRARIES.@@Thought-Forms
Thank you Korg Triton's bravest warrior
I wont sleep until they add user sample import + pcg import + the moss engine to the triton vst 🫡
@@Thought-Forms I hope to see your valiant effort bear fruit 🫡 I on the other hand wish the Korg M1 plugin modernised how it handles presets because wow it ain't great
The Wavestation and M1 could use some love as well@@Thought-Forms
@@KTheBoiI’m hoping they port the Triton to iOS because the Wavestation and M1 are amazing on the iPad.
@@Thought-Formsbros boutta get insomnia
I'm glad Paul Hardcastle was mentioned. His Jazzmasters series gave smooth jazz a solid profile.
buying the triton vst was the greatest choice i made in my years of producing
thats what I like to hear!
Yeah I wanted it so bad when it came out when I found out how many of my favorite hip hop songs were made with basic Triton presets. But I can’t justify spending the money on it. Eventually I may, but I been using Korg Gadget with Korg Module which has a Triton expansion in it, and hopefully Korg eventually ports the entire Triton vst to iOS which I see no reason they wouldn’t or couldn’t.
I just got into more mobile beat making recently and am kinda shocked at how high quality these apps are especially Korgs stuff.
how much did you pay?
i cracked it korg is fucked up for selling a vst for that much
@@deerwatching1🤦😂
Damn. Gotta give it to the algorhythm. I love smooth jazz (Dave Koz, Boney James, Jazzmasters, The Rippingtons, etc.) and I love Bitwig. So glad I came across this.
Paul Hardcastle is a pure legend! My favourite is his first album. As always an awesome tutorial! 🎶🎹
Mines is his first Jazzmasters album. Stone cold classic.
dude rules! all the jazzmasters albums were killer
Nice to see you here! Big fan of your silent hill ambient tunes.
@@pooppyybuhhole Greetings, my friend! ^^
This is so authentic sounding it actually took me back
How did the 90's do melancholy so well
@@gurpafulthey had to had use the so called wars as fuel for these songs back in the day. Had to have had inspiration from somewhere so you no never know🤷🏻♂️ people create in different ways you know? lol
Paul Hardcastle's definitely a legend especially in the smooth jazz & chillout lounge music scenes. One of his signature sounds gotta be the ambient EPs with kinda sparkly texture you can hear in many of his tracks. I watched a video of his studio session and he has all these rack modules and an Emu Emulator so dude definitely got all these hardware mojos present throughout his tracks.
The concept in this video is really interesting... making a music with just one hardware to do all the instruments parts, or maybe as few as possible with just one sound module and a drum machine. Limitation sparks creativity.
I loved gran turismo until gt4 and hearing that type of music is just awesome!!
Very nice!
lets go! those racing soundtracks were EPIC. loading screen music some may say. cheers mate
The Triton was one of the absolute best synths ever.
Awesome tutorial. I'm constantly listening to Paul Hardcastle songs. Morning coffee is worth nothing without them. This tutorial was a sparkle to even produce it, with Triton. Thumbs up 😀
Paul is a living legend 💯
That sax line on top everythang gave me the stankface. well done, sir
I've been wanting to produce music inspired by the Jazzmasters. This video really helps, thank you!!
Cheers friend, glad I could help!
Oh this is the ticket for making 90s ambient jungle.
Just gotta swap out the drums and up the bpm!
Really happy to see Hardcastle getting his recognition. Hes been one of my favorite musicans for years.
Paul is the man! Incredibly talented
@@Thought-Forms Absolutely!
Korg Workstations like Triton, Trinity, M1 and 01/W are legends
It doesn't get any better than all of those! Triton + 01/W and I'm good forever
just got done bashing my brains making DnB. Tomorrow I think I'll make a song like this while following your lead to relax. Thanks for sharing
It is definitely the antidote. I take the drums and bass out of my DnB as a test of the rest and sometimes it is just so chill.
Producing in other genres is one of the most helpful ways to get out of a rut in your "main" genre if you will! Cheers
that's chillout and very good chillout.
great vid. we call the note shift on the snare "dilla time" :)
💪
My dad played only this music in the 90's but loved all things jazz. All of these Korg vst's are just great. I was surprised by how good the Korg Legacy Cell is this week as I had never tried it.
I like how simple the lines are, arranged well, and bam, 90s bgm feel. Great job!
Love this video as i'm a huge Paul Hardcastle fan ever since I would wait for his album to come on XM radio on the station Watercolors in the 2000s as a kid. I've heard lots of the Korg M1 especially the bottle bell patch on his albums. I know Sound On Sound magazine did an interview with him in the 90s and he showed off his studio and had TONS of Romplrs and Synths including a maxed out Synclavier system!
Thanks matt! Yes!! I read the SOS interview with Paul, his setup was insane - so many cool pieces and hearing how he used them was awesome. The screenshots from his studio are crazy
This is dope! Way to bring a classic synth to the future.
cheers mate!
Love this! Every 90’s Smooth Jazz radio station had a DJ named Delilah ❤
Well done mate - another great vid & tune. I snagged the Triton over Christmas. Loving your channel at the moment. ✌😊
Cheers hommie! Best Christmas gift you could get yourself :)
Triton VST is a great plug in. Thank for sharing, nice authentic sounds 😊
One of the best! Cheers, appreciate it
I still use some of those old Korg synths in my production. The Wavestation is all over one of the songs I used to cover along with the Roland D-50.
12:12 SHE SAID WHAT?! Haha
Excellent video! Takes me back to remember why I started making beats in the first place. I couldn't afford a Triton back then, I was in high school.
Thanks man! 💪 No doubt, those things were incredibly expensive back then. Gotta love music tech advances making this stuff more accessible
YESSSS THANK YOU BRO FINALLY THAT HARD CASTLE MODE
From 1980-th to 1990-th Korg made amazing synth that are still actual in our days too. These are M1, Triton, Oasys. M1 universal synth that was and still is used in many popular genres. Triton specific a little bit, but great too.
Very inspirating video, No excuses to start. Thanks for sharing
thanks mate!
Really enjoyed this mate. It was a fun watch! 👍
thanks mate!
JV-1080 MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
gotta give some credit to other legendary synths!
yeah man, I did the same thing but didn't have a triton. I wore my JV-80 out. Now using the Roland Cloud version. Still sounds great.
@@planetmullinsRoland Cloud is shockingly good as is Zenbeats which many are taking for granted, but with Roland Cloud, and Zenbeats being cross platform from PC to Mac to iOS and Android in itself is actually revolutionary. This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for when I first got into making music but now have already invested into other programs too far to use it.
But especially for basic music sketching, between Roland Cloud and Korg Gadget and Module, there is nothing you can’t make on the go with high quality sound. What a time to be alive.
Korg Legacy Collection... I love it.
I have all Hardcastle CD and albums from back in the day. Great job and very inspiring. Thank you
Really great. I love my Triton and Triton Extreme VSTi's! More please!
Thanks Phillip! Great tools no doubt 😃
Yeah, cheesy? Stereotype? I dunno dude, it just jells so nice together!! Classic.Thank you, you really nailed that vibe!! 👊
Much appreciated man!
Never heard of Paul Hardcastle, seems like someone I need to dig into soon! On the other side, if you need more fancier chords and complex melodies, give a listen to Devin Morrison, he's along the same lines of "Smooth Jazz" though I wouldn't know how to categorise him.
Go pillage the discog, lot of great stuff in it! Also appreciate the recommendations on Devin M - never heard and will check out
If you want an especially deep cut try Michael Lee Thomas. Discovered by accident a few years ago and has been consistently outputting rompler smooth jazz since the 80s up to today (production has improved but the vibe is still very much the same).
For Paul Hardcastle I was always more partial to his style of jazz-infused electro/freestyle in the 80s. There's really nothing else like it.
I don’t know a lot of his stuff, but the track «Rainforest» is a super classic.
That song has such a vibe!
That's a lovely tune :) and a great video. Thank you
thanks friend!
I love the Korg triton, I still have mine and use it from time to time :)
The buttons are really worn out so I have been saving for the Korg triton virtual machines
Thanks for the run through
You wont be disappointed with the VST! It's mostly bang on, and no buttons will wear out :)
@@Thought-Forms awesome thank you
@@NickBDesignsThere's pretty good chance you can use appropriate contact cleaner to fix buttons, or else replace all tact switches, they cost pennies each.
@@ShallRemainUnknown I didn’t think of that, I’ll definitely look into it thank you !
Lovely sound, it’s like an icy level on your favourite Sega game!
Now THATS what im talking about! cheers mate
WNUA Chicago! This takes me back!
This feels like exactly what Devin Morrison has been using, I love it!
just listened to a few tunes, would not be surprised if the Triton or any other 90s rompler was used for some of those sounds
That snare is beautiful.
vaporwave is back, baby!
Love this sort of stuff, keep up the awesome work!
this is great i been messing with korg tri but couldnt wrap my head around it thanks lol
cheers! thing is a bit weird when you first use it, but it gets easier with time
Very nice and warm. ❤
your channel is so goated dude thank you
thank you!!
Love It,
Gave me inspirations for my Jazzy House productions
Super smooth. ❤
Thanks Chris!
It’s stupidly awesome just how much you can milk the Triton for all it’s worth and make entire tracks with just that plugin alone. I’ve been struggling with my motivation to start on new tracks over the past few weeks (a lot of personal stuff going on), but this video has given me the drive I need to get back onto the saddle! Sick work as always Bobby! 😁
*AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WARMS MY HEART!*
excellent! thanks!
I have the Triton plugin and a hardware SC-88, making music with these is sooooo much fun man... I love the 90s sounds :D
the sc-88 is another great classic! many good sounds in there too
Reminds me of JRPG music.
Great stuff.
Ooooooohhhhh man this is straight fire, brother! BillBoard Hot 100 can go to hell, this is the music we need. 😂
that drum beat instantly had me thinking of Joe Sample - 7 years of good luck. the rimshot with the reverb was really the thing back then
oh man, yea that's soundin smooth & very similar on the drums. appreciate the mention, now have some more good tunes to listen through
Hold up.. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 excellent work, brother. I have that plug-in, and I love it.. thank you for this teaching
I love these deep dives into the power and potential of the triton vst! Very tasteful composition as well!
cheers mate, appreciate it! triton has endless potential
I love your videos so much! Btw, are you from baltimore?
thanks friend! negative, from Atlanta
I think ep is very important for the 90s chord, if you change ep to gran piano, the music is such a just 2000s style 😂
Wow great vid, thanks!
thanks mate!
I use Lounge as a good examples I even fall asleep to it so it always translates into my music sort of speak lol
Love this.. hopefully the Triton has a demo version as I really little to try.. very atmospheric liquid drum bass sounds
you should be able to download a 30 day trial! cheers mate
Love it, the weather channel music ⛅
I used to play the Triton many years ago. Good times.
I have ascended after you added that blissful saxophone,,,,,,,, 🎷🐛
Triton does indeed have some reverse waveforms in ROM (carried over from predecessor Trinity), which was odd (and a waste of ROM space) since Triton also introduced a reverse-play parameter to play ANY of its ROM samples backwards (making pre-reversed samples redundant). Try reversing those vocal samples!
Oh man, I never computed that for some reason - but now that I think about it LOL....doesn't make much sense! Lot of fun to be had with this beast. Thanks for the comment!
dope tutorial! i use ableton. what DAW is this? it looks clean
thanks mate! bitwig studio. jawn is very clean
Great job!👀🎶💯🔥
god i love paul hardcastle
Everything 90s is pure joy.
just one rompler, am going to do this
fire
Dope video bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
thank you mate!
Youre the 🐐 of youtube
🙏
I recommend you check out the Triton Extreme, it has a lot of additional sounds and instruments :)
For sure, got a copy of that bad boy too! Would love the physical version with that sweet responsive screen
As a fan of Smooth Jazz, I approve.
thank you mate!
El korg Tr y el m1 son los reyes de los 90’s
Forgive me but “Smooth Jazz” started as an AC Radio format and was eventually adopted as a Spotify Playlist category. Smooth Jazz is a category not a musical genre. The reason “Smooth Jazz” became so popular yet originally encompassed so many different specific artists and styles, was the programmers found they could present all of them in a rotation and accomplish an overall “feel” for long duration listeners despite the differences from piece to piece. This was a bonanza for ad insertions.
With its success came all kinds of new productions that wanted to get on Smooth Jazz rotations (and eventually the Smooth Jazz category of Spotify playlists). Smooth Jazz is not a music genre it’s a rotation category. That’s why there’s all kinds of genres in it.
Brilliant
Cool. Thank you🎸🎻🎹
Bitwig Studio looks nice
cool!
i love you so much
omg this time, Kruder and Dorfmeister
love kruder and dorf!
hey great video as always, i was wondering how you were able to get that floaty sound out of the Wavetable Ep ?
thanks mate! play it at lower velocities, and I believe I'm also sending it to a delay FX device
@@Thought-Forms Thanks man please keep these vids coming, it's somewhat niche sure but believe me Paul Hardcastle has a cult following so you'll be doing us a huge favour filling in that void on youtube !
So Cool 😊
Cheers mate 💪
Pharrell aka The Neptunes USED the hell out of this in the early 2000s
For sure, one of the greatest to touch the Triton
Awesome ! One question please ! To make complete song, drums, bass, piano etc with this amazing VST Korg Triton, in some DAW, we must select the sounds in a COMBI and put every sound in different midi channel? sorry, I'm new to Daws ! ☺
cheers! no, you can just put a new instance of the korg triton on each track in your daw, and have a different sound in each instance. doing it the combi way with every sound on a different midi channel is the old school way (which would work too if you're feeling dangerous! and would save on CPU power if you're on an older computer) have fun!
@@Thought-Forms oh thank you very much, excelent information !
This would make a great jungle track
Very smooth vibes. Any synths u thinking of doing next? M1 would be cool if u got that on deck.
Jv 1080 is another one w good vibes
Cheers! Actually yea, probably M1 once the Triton saga is done 💪
for sure! sadly the roland stuff doesnt run great on my computer :(
impressive!!
A masterclass. Excellent synth too, no?
the GOAT!
Classic weather channel vibes
How did You get the wavetable ep to sounds like that.? Tutorial on chord device?
Jesus the verb on the Kick...No No No No No No!!!!!