omg i love how the synths in the background are all tucked in under their blankets and ready for bed. :)

The richness of Blue Monday may makes it more difficult to recreate, but it also prevents it from wearing off as much as the average pop song played on the radio.

Blue Monday to me as a teenager in 1983 was just a MASSIVE game changer for the whole of my life. Also worth a mention, again another MASSIVE game changer for me in 1983 was The Sisters Of Mercy with their original version of The Temple Of Love, again recorded on a DMX. I've been looking out for them but they rarely come up for less than £2,000! But as the Jaguar car advert used to say "What are dreams for, if not to come true?" :-)

One of my most beloved beats, thank you.

One of the greatest dance songs in history

I've recently discovered a DMX kit on my Maschine and absolutely love it. I'm using it for everything at the moment.

Where were you 20 years ago when I spent over 3 days programming this song beat for beat. Great job as usual. Thanks!

How many of you hear the bass synth in your head while just the drums are playing?

These vids are a great service. I hope you are not tired of delivering the goods, coz many of us are living vicariously in that synth-driven musical past.

What's funny in Blue Monday is that one of the members started their sequencer late and thus one of the synth parts is out of time with the rest of the song. It actually worked out.

this was delightful. fantastic attention to detail

Dude, you're awesome. Love these vids!

Awesome thank you very much for doing this video I've been trying to figure out the more complex parts for weeks. This was just what I needed, once again thank you for being so helpful in your videos. I'm learning new things with each one I watch! 👍

Makes me smile. Thank you Paolo. I went ahead and programmed it on my electribe2. Now I just have to do the sound design balance.

love ur video's man!!! keep it up

Spot on sounds amazing

Legendary Song

Great video my good man. I really love your channel, it's the closest i'll probably ever be around many of these synths or drum machines. One Video i'd really love for you to make is Wham's- Everything she wants, I really love that drum pattern, and I think you probably have the synths to do the rest of the song as well. Keep up the great work my friend!

My mate did a full version of Blue Monday on a Nintendo Gameboy. Using LSDJ, and a suitable flash cart. He entered it into a go-nowhere, crappy competition and didn't win. It's my opinion (again, I mean this whole thing is my opinion, whose else's would it be?) that he did a great job. It was brilliant! Worked really well with the Gameboy's limitations, and was generally fabulous. I might have to get him to let me upload a copy.

OMG I love this song & this was an excellent tutorial!!!! A+++++++++++++++

its always magical to see the machines that created the sound uve known in your head for decades , kind of strange too , remember when I was young listening to OMD , especially Almost by them , thinking they created these beautiful synth sounds from big expensive Synthesizers , then you find out they was just using a little Korg M500 mono synth from your mothers Kays catalogue lol , think I remember New Order saying they discovered Blue Monday beat by accident while learning to use this ? and another part when the Sequencer went wrong but it fitted so kept it in

Awesome!!!!

hy mr synth , thanks for your masterclass !

Excellent video, and thank you for displaying the patterns at the end. I'll see how sampled DMX sounds work on Roland TR6S. :-)

In the multitracks you can actually hear an additional TR-909 very low in the mix

Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order next???

Brilliant!

Soo difficult. Thank you soo much Synthmania. I hope we'll have a part 2. :-))))))))))))

You're a genius !!!!

Amazing video, thanks!

Man, these drums hit hard af. That kick really cuts

"How......does it feel.....?"

cara vc é sensacional sou fã do New order e sempre quis saber como são feitos esse efeitos e batidas obrigado por vc postar esses vídeos sensacionais de como é produzido esses sons de qualidade q hoje não tem mais

It's like 12:00pm and I'm watching this video for the 5th time

Brilliant 😊

Best Drummachine in the world

dude can you just do like a studio/jam room tour that shows all your gear and how it's organized, like some vintage gaming channels do with their game rooms? Every time I think I know all the gear you have you pull something outta left field like that k2500rs in the last video, and it just blows my mind that you have yet another amazing piece of kit in your arsenal. A room tour would be like porn to all us fellow gearslutz haha

There was an article in a drumming magazine back in the 1980s that had the whole thing written out, all seven minutes or so of it. I don't know if I still have it (might be in a box somewhere) but I can remember most of it ;-)

I think the donna summer song inspired Temptation more than Blue Monday. Great vid!

Thank you, this is awesome

Thank you!!

This is the best dmx sound ever ! at the beggining. Did you used any treatment (comp / eq) for this video ?) IS it your converters ? In your Fairlight video the kick sample is just fabulous, outstanding ... fat sound

I think it would be awesome if you made the exact same pattern on the LinnDrum, DMX, 808, and others for a comparison. Maybe do it with 3 patterns

Gotta love inputting beats in step mode the old school way!

excellent mister !

hi bro you made it look easy : )

super cool! thank you.

That is a great sounding machine, even on my pathetic cell phone speaker that bass drum friggin beats. Nice vid :D

kick-ass kick-drums ;)

Best sounding bass drum ever.much as I love analogue synth and drum machines, in the end I still prefer the kick and snare on these early digital dm's.there's a ton of proper analogue/virtual analogue drum machines being made right now which is great so maybe it's time for a new drum machine that Hoover's up this era of dm's like linn drum scTom dmx etc complete with song mode tuning CV triggers and individual outs.most new digital drum boxes have boring too real sounding samples and have only stereo outs and midi.

Thankyou!

Love this video, thank you! PS: Does your MemoryMoog have the original PSU and fan or did you replace them? Mine gets really hot and I'm a bit nervous to leave it on for more than an hour or two at a time...

The very influential track that no one can tell what was influenced by it.

Are you using Excel for the drum charts? I've found that others are using it for sequencer pattern data for volatile memory items or things like this. You're doing the world a great service by showing how well the DMX can clap, btw.

Sounds great! Some similar sounds to the Linn, but Oberheim made it really beefy

Tnx again for your informative video. Question:do you have an Oberheim DSX to demonstrate in conjunction w/ DMX and OB- Xa as Oberheim The System? Question 02:Which synth do you prefer soundwise and function wise and why?:OB-Xa or OB-8 PS:you can check a video on my account of the Simmons sds6 in action triggering an SDS-V and performing. best regards, Ken.

I know I'm late to the party but this is awesome. Currently reverse engineering this track myself. Thank you!

Nice one, thanks. Quick question please. Witch HighHat chip do you have in your DMX? Have a DX with other HH. Want to look for the same HH. Thsnks ;)

you are GURU!

a megadrive or super nintendo are able to work like vintage sampler, i planned to make a live and an album with those machine, using some sample from those drum machine, the sound of TR 909 or TR 808 on megadrive sound amazing ^^ play by the Yamaha FM/DAC chip.

As always, very informative video. Is there any way you can send me the blank template you use for the patterns. Thanks again and keep up the great content!

It has The DMX and A Linn drum So to answer your question on what other Drum machine It was It was the Linn 1 drum that was used live With the DMX so yeah it's a mix of both DMX and Linn 1

I'm a big fan of your videos! Do you know if there are any drum pattern books out there you can recommend?

i love all those fancy old digital drum machine, they realy shape the sound of a decade. i found some Linndrum emulator on Reason rack extension, that are able to read the .bin file of the sound chip, from both DMX and Linndrum and all ulaw sample based drum computer. does the this machine can pitch the HHat and the kick in a certain way with the accent feature ? the original linndrum can't pitch those, only the snare and the tom and congas.

Nice

Gotta love the Fortinet shirt ;-)

i heard blue monday then clicked this!

Great! :-D

lets see you program "One for the treble" by Davy DMX

As with RetroSound’s demos which come close to cancelling out my disinterest in owning a sampling keyboard/module, your drum machine demos could cancel out my disinterest in buying a hardware drum machine. (I at least have a DTX Multi 12,which is loaded with the samples from these classic models.)

Thanks for the video and the explanation. Excellent!!! Is this pattern available in pdf in your site for download or other place? Thanks again.

Can you do the pattern to Strangelove by Depeche Mode

Wicked!

Massive !

What you think of ableton push 2 Im saving money to buy it 800 dls

Hi synthmania could you possibly do a pattern demonstration of the song cheri cheri lady by modern talking. They must have used linn 9000 or linn drum but not sure on what the original used. Thanks.

Great ! Do you know what is the lead synth of 80" "acid rock" ?

About that random hihat strike at the end of the snare roll pattern, it sounds like the DMX's open hat except cranked way the hell up (at least 12 dB) and definitely overdubbed. Or at least that's my guess!

SynthMania, I have Oberheim DX/Oberheim DX Stretch/Oberheim DXa sounds on my computer/laptop.

Synth "Almost-Never-In-Focus" Mania

That was really good and informative, now I've got the Blue Monday Drum patterns in my moXF6...Need to work out the rest now. A question...The Human Vox pad used in this and many other pieces from the early to mid 80's, was it a Fairlight patch or some other sample as I've tried to recreate it and I haven't had any joy with either Analogue or FM synths. If you know the "Magic" answer please let me know!!! Great Channel you have here and I'm really quite envious of the equipment you have, makes my set-up look quite tiny really :-)

I dug it. Great job! Does anyone know if anyone ever attempted to use this machine for house music? I know it isn't the 909, but it does make a killer disco pattern.

Nice, RZA used one of these real early on in his career.

SynthMania, What program did you use to create your Blue Monday Drum Grid Spreadsheet @10:05?

Just the drum pattern alone is more complicated than entire mixes in today's music.

Any particular thing to say about the tuning? Your kick sounds very punchy. My dmx kick sounds a bit more crunchy, like very low fi. Being trying to tune it like the song. Yours sounds different than mine. Did you change the eprom? Is just eq?

Wooow

and soon behrimger will be making their own 'BMX' aka DMX

Thanks so much for this. I’ve just got a midi DMX and it’s really useful having your videos as a resource. With the DMX is it normal for them to lose sync after a certain number of loops? Mine is synced to Logic via midi and is ok for a number of cycles but then will suddenly fall out of time. Not sure if this is a bug or a quirk and if there is a workaround

nice fortinet shirt bro haha nerd powah! :D

Did it with my iphone DM 1

please make a video showing the drum pattern of Bizzarre Love Triangle

This drum machine sounds like the LinnDrum.

Do you have an input on synthesizers?

How does it feel To treat me like you do?

Blue Monday sounds like Donna Summer's hit "Our Love"

what SWING did you set the unit to ?

The LinnDrum claps were heard in Blue Monday.

Were Can u Get that patten from

DM Vs DMX - what is the difference in the units ?