Steve Porcaro - Synthesizer Basics Minimoog Bass Sounds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Steve Porcaro (keyboardist of TOTO) explains how to create Minimoog bass sounds.
Keith Emerson was one of the first users in the early 70's. Many others followed Keith's pitch-bending techniques.
The 1970 Minimoog was used by many icons as Keith Emerson, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Rick Wakeman, ABBA, Jan Hammer, Herbie Hancock, Jeff Lynne, Manfred Mann, Steve Morse, Muse, Gerry Rafferty, Klaus Schulze, Ultravox, Frank Zappa, Phil Collins and of course the instructor in this video: Steve Porcaro!
Steve Porcaro explains in this video how to create a bass sound on the Minimoog. The Minimoog bass sounds were used by many famous tracks like Phil Collins' "Sussudio" and Ultravox' "Vienna" for example. Those basslines were done on the Minimoog!!!
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GEN X, 1965....Steve Porcaro is brilliant! He should be called "Father of the Synthesizer"!
My Uncle was a producer at A&M RECORDS HOLLYWOOD from 1969-1999. The Porcaro brothers plus Dad Joe were session musicians on more records in the 70's 80s 90s than any musicians Im aware of. They took their high school band and formed " Toto" in 1977 with Jeff Porcaro and David Paich being the co-founders.Mad respect for Jeff Porcaro, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, David Hungate, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball! When Hungate left "Toto" in 1982 to move to Nashville, Tn, Mike Porcaro stepped right in to play bass in " Toto". When the band fired Bobby Kimball due to voice issues from cocaine use, Joseph Williams came on board to help with lead vocals.Fergie Frederickson tried lead vocals for "Toto" for about 1 year but didnt jive with the musicians and their sound! At the 1983 GRAMMY AWARDS, " TOTO" took home 6 Grammy's for Toto IV. Jeff, Steve & Mike Porcaro's Dad, Joe Porcaro happened to be in the Grammy Orchestra behind stage when his sons were awarded all those Grammy's. "AFRICA" & "ROSANNA" are still being played today ( 2023) ,40 years after they gained wide popularity on Toto IV. The bands first major loss came when drummer and co-founder Jeff Porcaro died in August, 1992 after cleaning up his Hidden Hills yard with pesticide.Jeff was only 38 years young and had 3 sons ages 8 months, 6 yrs, and 8 yrs old. His widow Susan Porcaro bravely talked to tv journalists about Jeff's death.Jeff Porcaro was also an avid History buff and war historian. He also loved to draw and created the album art for Toto's album covers."Toto" decided to carry onward and hired Simon Phillips to carry out drum responsibilities.
Living with my Uncle & Aunt in LA during that time and I remember the NUMBNESS felt all over the music scene in California! The drum line consisting of many famous drummers led Jeff's family,friends, Toto bandmates (pallbearers) to his final resting place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills.Jeff's middle son, Miles Porcaro also passed away in October, 2017 and is buried with his father.
The Porcaro brothers were part of the defining sound of the 80's...these guys were on EVERY hit. Repsect !!!!
Defining sound of the 80s…in USA
He pronounces "Moog" correctly, this is awesome, thank you for sharing it.
Steve would be an amazing Music College Professor 😍
hes kinda cute lol
Masterclass with Steve Porcaro
A family of musical and possibly intellectual geniuses.
I have no idea what he just talked about, but it's pure genius!
Get a moog mother32 and try it out yourself :) It's fun and really not that hard
It's also one of the most expensive ones to get. If you want to do that then use some software simulator. The mother32 atleast is within affordable range for more people and has similar capabilities, albeit with just 1 oscillator.
But....he probably should!
Wow.... Freaking genius. I learned so much in 5 min. You've got to appreciate the talent and passion. Thanks for sharing :)
I learned so much in so little time. Amazing! Simply Amazing. Thanks for the upload. :)
You're welcome, Steve Porcaro is a genius and one of the most underrated pioneers of creating and mastering sounds on analog AND digital synths.
I heard that. :)
Jimmy Keys Yeppers ..... if you were a keyboard player in the 80's (like I was) Steve was one of THEE top LA session players and a role model to aspire too 👍🎹
The genius at work. Steve P is Synthesizer Royalty.
Dude is wearing a size XXXL shirt. He was gangsta before there was gangsta.
That shirt is so big it looks like it's weighing him down!
its not XXXXL its kimono (着物, きもの)
WOW!..I'm really diggin those Wizard sleeves on that shirt Steve.
Wow, what a geek! Love it :)
that geek wrote human nature for Michael Jackson.
@@Station2Station-du2gh I know thanks. I wasn't referring to his appearance, but complementing Porcaro on his passion and creativity as a trained jazz pianist in the Rock and Pop scene.
@@Nethanel773 Understood - and agree!
The Synth Bass Of All Thriller Album
Nope, the bass on the song Thriller itself was an ARP2600, as we know by now. Take a look at Anthony Marinellis channel who programmed that sound.
nice blouse
its kimono (着物, きもの)
Sad...that’s what you got out of this video?
I started jonesing while watching this.
habe seinen bruder verehrt!! also immer noch. R.I.P Jeff
Funny how this is second nature after a while
One oscillator sounds like 3 at once. Is that a modular above the Minimoog.
@Jimmy Keys Do you happen to know what video is this originally from? Looks like an instructional videotape of some sort?
Starlicks.
What does he mean when he talks about a '16 foot stop'? I've never heard of that before.
That it the octave standard measured in feet on pipe organs. The pipes have a lower note the longer the pipe is. 2foot stop is the smallest octave for pitch. The Wurlitzer would have tons of stop tabs representing octave pitch measured in feet. Its an archaic thing left over and the Minis were marketed to organ players etc. the term Stop meant cutting off pressurized air to the specific pipes measured in feet.
@@videosuperhighway7655 Thanks for answering my question! :-)
Love Porcaro brothers, but geez this shirt is like 3 sizes bigger, fugetaboutit.
what is that above the Minimoog, a Polyfusion?
Yes it is. They're still going i think.
@@SRDhain they're from the same town as me, but they just do circuit board printing now as far as their website says, I remember seeing something about them coming back at NAMM but I don't know if it was someone else planning on using the name for synthesizers again
he is wired to his synth
Oh, he’s wired alright.
His arms look tiny cause of that shirt 😂
Get an ARP
Is he stoned ?🤔
Yep, sure is. Flying sky high. Check out the synthesizing brass sounds video with him, it's even more apparent :D
it's the 80s after all :)
Maybe he's too happy messing with his toys?
Is it weird I think hes cute
At the least if you grab my porcaro series videos from my channel be decent and contact me first, thank you
One of the fattest sounding synthesizers from one of the smallest synthesizers evermade.
It was the only one i could think of until the ARP Odyssey, Korg MS-20 etc.
shit of sound quality