The software is so comprehensive there's not a huge difference compared to modern systems. Is just that is slow and the screen is green and has only a few pixels. Lovely. :)
This was ridiculously advanced. This piece is still used on many films/albums to this day. Floored at the sample rate capability for the time it was produced. Kyma’s capability compared to this is different, yet comparable in a different realm; Kyma’s also a steal, comparatively.
Skywalker sound use this beast for Toy Story and also Jurrasic Park sound design, also the Japanese animated feature Akira soundesign was using it, but very few musician used it, only Frank Zappa and also guy like Didier Lockwood, the Fairlight or Emulator II where more used in pop music, also Linndrum or SP 1200 from EMU, the end of the 80's see more stuff made with Akai sampler.
Wow -- the Winchester system allows a "much larger" storage capacity, from 10 to 40 MB. As I sit down in front of my PC with 14TB of storage space . . .
That was huge then. My first PC from '89 had a 40 megabyte hard drive, and that was considered pretty large then, almost a decade later than from the synclavier.
😂 This was the early 80’s computer hardware was very expensive and not many people even had access to that hardware let alone have someone to put it all together. We now laugh at this stuff but we lost all our creativity due to having too much more than what we need!!!
Hi, some are stil used today by professionals in the music and sound design industry. Nothing can beat the ergonomic of the VPK, such a great product !
@@llemaire1 Yes the issue is only a few people now are using them due to the cost of servicing them and available parts. Mass produced components these days are not the same as they were decades ago with little variances that gave them their own life. Creativity is based on the max hardware you have available, when you have the world in your hands all the little spots are not seen, this is why with all the tech available today we are basically sampling 1970's and 1980's synths. We have become a disposable society and this leads to inferior products including vehicles, houses, computer hardware, musical instruments ( acoustic guitars atrocious in 2024), barely any synths made these days with a new sound or character. We have reached the end of the line in product development which is what is leading to this stagnation in the Movie and Music industry. It is so bad that I can predict 2 seconds before any interview cut, background blur shot occurs before they even switch to it on television interview segments. In fact it is so predictable that I can watch a 15 minute interview interview and predict every single full blur, half blur or camera switch motorized pan, dual shot prior to the cuts. This is why I stopped watching the news, tv shows it became a bokeh loaded festival with idiotic blurring of backgrounds thus taking you away from the full scene, making it very boring to watch.
Depends. Once the Atari ST came out in 85 you could sequence much cheaper in conjunction with Akai samplers and MIDI. Also the Fairlight could do the same and the DX7 had FM synthesis. This machine however was unique in all aspects until that time.
and you're right... appart the "Polyphonic Sampling" chapter, all the videos were done using later version of the Synclavier II, with MIDI, Sample-to-Disk, VPK, etc...
There was an Apple promotional video for their older SE computers used for MIDI-recording, it featured a bunch of artists and the narrator for that video sounds just like the one here... perhap watch and give your opinion? th-cam.com/video/7sACo5QntGc/w-d-xo.html
![3.2 - Synclavier - Video Cassette - [ The SAMPLE-TO-DISK System ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pK04cjS55wA/mqdefault.jpg)
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![1.1 - Synclavier - Video Cassette - [ VELOCITY / PRESSURE SENSITIVE KEYBOARD ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c0NVdDAUjn4/mqdefault.jpg)
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The software is so comprehensive there's not a huge difference compared to modern systems. Is just that is slow and the screen is green and has only a few pixels. Lovely. :)
This was ridiculously advanced. This piece is still used on many films/albums to this day. Floored at the sample rate capability for the time it was produced. Kyma’s capability compared to this is different, yet comparable in a different realm; Kyma’s also a steal, comparatively.
His hair was manufactured by NED as well
It looks like a helmet.
😎
Christ ... no different really than programming up my D-50 ... and that was cutting edge in 1987, seven years later! 🤣😆🙃😷👍🍻
yeah but the D50 didn’t sample. the S50 did though 🤔
50Khz 16bit sampling in those times, no wonder it was so expensive.
Purrbox impressive
50khz mono!! As he says, 100khz stereo! I suppose you need that when pitching up samples
Nowadays 50Khz is an unusual sampling rate. 48khz is more typical.
Depeche Mode used one of these on their mighty ‘Construction Time Again’ album masterpiece.
Surly it sampled to RAM and copied to disk, I had totally forgotten about Winchesters, you could corrupt them just by looking at them!
The spirit of Frank Zappa approves of this video.
With this interface, modern day popular musician wanna be wouldn't be around. The graphical interface made for everyone to be electronic musician
The resolution of the display showing the waveform @ 5:32 is pure sci-fi at that moment in history......
SFM analysis was very powerful, but required an extreme amount of patience, as analysis took _MANY_ minutes.
Frank Zappa brought me here.
As coisas eram muito bem feitas e bem pensadas antigamente.
Now THAT is how tutorials should be. Specific and correct and without nonsense marketing blabla. 🎉
"You may want to watch this in sections. Or, wait 30 years and watch it on TH-cam."
2'10, the piano was amazing already :)!!
This was probably absolutely fantastic to work with back then.
Skywalker sound use this beast for Toy Story and also Jurrasic Park sound design, also the Japanese animated feature Akira soundesign was using it, but very few musician used it, only Frank Zappa and also guy like Didier Lockwood, the Fairlight or Emulator II where more used in pop music, also Linndrum or SP 1200 from EMU, the end of the 80's see more stuff made with Akai sampler.
Incorrect. It was used by many musicians, including Pat Metheny, John Mclaughlin, Michael Jacksons musicians, Eddie Jobson, Chick Corea and many more.
That very unique sound in the beginning of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was made on a Synclavier.
Yes you forgot also Tony Banks from Genesis ^^ hahaha i saw a live of him using it massively...
Meteotrance this was the foundation for the bad album also
@@snuppssynthchannel what about Stevie wonder paul hardcastle george duke
leading edge till the Japanese made a much more integrated cheaper sampler ....
The video ende prematurely. Why? It was getting interesting.
the video continues here : th-cam.com/video/pK04cjS55wA/w-d-xo.html
He looks like one of the robots from Halloween III😅
Still awesome! We use to talk about this master piece at school in 1984.
as you can see its not about how many GB you have to play music
No, it was all about how much dollar you have!! The bedroom producer had it hard back then
Now,this i gold
Wow -- the Winchester system allows a "much larger" storage capacity, from 10 to 40 MB.
As I sit down in front of my PC with 14TB of storage space . . .
40MB no way!
That was huge then. My first PC from '89 had a 40 megabyte hard drive, and that was considered pretty large then, almost a decade later than from the synclavier.
😂 This was the early 80’s computer hardware was very expensive and not many people even had access to that hardware let alone have someone to put it all together.
We now laugh at this stuff but we lost all our creativity due to having too much more than what we need!!!
Hi, some are stil used today by professionals in the music and sound design industry. Nothing can beat the ergonomic of the VPK, such a great product !
@@llemaire1 Yes the issue is only a few people now are using them due to the cost of servicing them and available parts. Mass produced components these days are not the same as they were decades ago with little variances that gave them their own life. Creativity is based on the max hardware you have available, when you have the world in your hands all the little spots are not seen, this is why with all the tech available today we are basically sampling 1970's and 1980's synths. We have become a disposable society and this leads to inferior products including vehicles, houses, computer hardware, musical instruments ( acoustic guitars atrocious in 2024), barely any synths made these days with a new sound or character. We have reached the end of the line in product development which is what is leading to this stagnation in the Movie and Music industry. It is so bad that I can predict 2 seconds before any interview cut, background blur shot occurs before they even switch to it on television interview segments. In fact it is so predictable that I can watch a 15 minute interview interview and predict every single full blur, half blur or camera switch motorized pan, dual shot prior to the cuts. This is why I stopped watching the news, tv shows it became a bokeh loaded festival with idiotic blurring of backgrounds thus taking you away from the full scene, making it very boring to watch.
This machine was the workhorse of 1980s music.
Depends. Once the Atari ST came out in 85 you could sequence much cheaper in conjunction with Akai samplers and MIDI. Also the Fairlight could do the same and the DX7 had FM synthesis. This machine however was unique in all aspects until that time.
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Thanks !
What year did this come out? Is it the Synclavier 2?
Hi, It must be around 1985 ... as the PSMT was already shown and available in the video
and you're right... appart the "Polyphonic Sampling" chapter, all the videos were done using later version of the Synclavier II, with MIDI, Sample-to-Disk, VPK, etc...
@@llemaire1 Thank you!
That intro theme rocks.
Those are some lovely sounds my android friend
Fantastic hair.
Great Hair
I would love to know who the narrator is.💕💞🥰
His name is Bill Keenan.
Life was hard...
The narrator sounds familiar...
Morgan Freeman.
There was an Apple promotional video for their older SE computers used for MIDI-recording, it featured a bunch of artists and the narrator for that video sounds just like the one here... perhap watch and give your opinion? th-cam.com/video/7sACo5QntGc/w-d-xo.html
why wouldn’t they use an SD card or SATA drive instead? they would’ve gotten much more sample time and it would’ve been a lot cheaper 🤷♀️
not sure to understand your point... but yes, today we use SCSI2SD adapters in Synclaviers, or a better solution is to switch to Synclavier3 on Mac.
That would be true, but this was during the 1980s... neither SD card or SATA-connected drives existed.
Awesome
What a barnet.