Hi,

a question about Vintage Keys Voice Library....

Do the voices that come in this package come with the exact same arpeggios, etc. linked in--exactly as are shown in the demos for this package??

(Wow! I’m not expressing myself very well). Do anyone understand what I mean?

Phil

janesmith230 - 05 April 2011 06:36 PM

Hi,

a question about Vintage Keys Voice Library....

Do the voices that come in this package come with the exact same arpeggios, etc. linked in--exactly as are shown in the demos for this package??

(Wow! I’m not expressing myself very well). Do anyone understand what I mean?

Phil

There is only one user arpeggio included with Vintage Keys - the one
for the Pink Floyd “On The Run” repeating bass line. You can hear that
towards the end of the Classic Rock Synths mp3 demo.

The Baba O’Riley voice uses a common LFO and is split into two sections -
left hand and right hand. You have to know which notes to play, but
the “arpeggio” (created with the common LFO) is included in the voice.

The “Wont Get Fooled Again” section of the mp3 demo was done by manually
playing the part by hand.

The opening sound for the Emerson Lake and Palmer section of the demo ("Welcome Back My Friends") is what you hear when you call up that
voice in Vintage Keys. Again, this “arpeggio” effect is created using
common LFO, sample&hold;wave set to filter.

All the Styx sounds were played by hand. There are no arpeggios for
those.

Hi Dave,

Is there a listing anywhere which says which sound (voice) is associated with which (rock) group and which song they made famous? For instance, this voice (or a particular voice) is one from Pink Floyd “On The Run”,etc.??

Phil

janesmith230 - 06 April 2011 01:31 PM

Hi Dave,

Is there a listing anywhere which says which sound (voice) is associated with which (rock) group and which song they made famous? For instance, this voice (or a particular voice) is one from Pink Floyd “On The Run”,etc.??

Phil

Here you go -

“Jump” from Van Halen’s Jump.
“Tom Sawyer” - bass sound that opens Rush’s Tom Sawyer.
“Baba O’Riley” - intro sound from the Who’s Baba O’Riley.
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” - organ sound from the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again.
“Toto Africa” - synth-horn sounds from Toto’s Africa
“Separate Ways” - Jupiter-8 sound from Journey’s Separate Ways.
“Final Countdown” - synth-horn sound from Europe’s Final Countdown.
“1999” - Oberheim synth sound from Prince’s 1999.
“Frankenstein” - synth sound effects from the middle breakdown of
Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group.
“Pink Floyd 1” - repeating sequencer bass line from Pink Floyd’s On the Run (Dark Side of the Moon).
“Pink Floyd 2” - dive bomber and helicopter sounds from Pink Floyd’s
On the Run (Dark Side of the Moon)
“Clockwork Orange” - synth intor from the theme for Stanley Kubrick
movie A Clockwork Orange.
“Styx Moog” - lead Moog sound from Styx’s ”Fooling Yourself”.
“Lucky Man” - square-wave lead synth sound from Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Lucky Man.
“Cars’ Let’s Go” - Hard-sync sound from the Cars Let’s Go.

Many more sounds from famous classic rock hits can be created using
other Vintage Keys voices. The above listed are the specific ones.

Hi Dave,
I watched a Styx concert on hdnet, recently.
I am curious what kind of synth/workstation that Gowan plays now?
It sure looks great, even with his sticky notes… Do you know?

Chas

Redhotpoker - 06 April 2011 03:37 PM

Hi Dave,
I watched a Styx concert on hdnet, recently.
I am curious what kind of synth/workstation that Gowan plays now?
It sure looks great, even with his sticky notes… Do you know?

Chas

No idea what he plays.

Might be a Roland RD 700. Mentioned in some forum dated September 08

After I’ve searched with due diligence, and have only found mention of that same keyboard in several other Forums, but that isn’t it.

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1992723/page/1?PHPSESSID=0091cbbfddb0b638590164ed2021a841

The large workstation-like keyboard I saw him playing, is much bigger than those. It looks, size-wise, like an XF8.

I found one pic, but not sure that is the unit he performed with in the Styx concert I recently enjoyed.

Chas

Click thumbnail to see full-size image

Dave,

I would love to try to recreate the middle of Come Sail Way like it shows on the demo.  Can you give me any tips on that?  Thanks!

The keyboard in the picture is the good old Roland RD-600 (google for picture, i could’t attach to post sorry) digital piano, in this case with modules and stickers on top :-)