Classic FM Sounds Reimagined on the Elektron Digitone - with Free DX7-ish Sound Pack for Digitone
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Күн бұрынIn April 2022, I bought my first FM synth: An Elektron Digitone. To learn how FM sound design works, I decided to try to recreate some classic FM sounds, mostly from the 1980s; more specifically, the years 1984 to 1986, which were drenched in Yamaha DX7 sounds. You can hear some results in this video, and download most sounds for free here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZUz...
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Money for Nothing (Dire Straits)
02:28 - Mild und Leise (Paul Lansky)
02:55 - Idioteque (Radiohead)
03:37 - Africa (Toto)
04:11 - What’s Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner)
05:15 - Don’t Leave Me (Blackstreet)
05:51 - Axel F (Harold Faltermeyer)
06:36 - Matching DX7 sounds with DEXED
07:41 - Take On Me (a-Ha)
08:20 - Nightshift (Commodores)
08:56 - Got A Match? (Chick Corea)
09:12 - Sound matching, part II - Strings 2
09:59 - One Vision (Queen)
10:45 - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Sting)
11:07 - Sound matching, part III - E-Piano 1
11:53 - Shadows in the Rain (Sting/Kenny Kirkland solo)
Sorry for using DT as short version of “Digitone” in the vid ... DT is normally rather used for the DigiTakt, Digitone would be DN instead.
All songs © by their original writers and publishing companies; covered here in the framework of fair use for educational purposes.
Next to researching on Google and Wikipedia, I got a lot of background info from this video: • ORIGIN OF THE DX7 & FM...
Video and included versions © 2022 TheGuacamoleXplosion
@cn300 3 ай бұрын
That Dire Straits improvisation killed it 😮
@Bloom_Music 3 ай бұрын
It is an absolute tragedy that I can only give this video one thumbs up! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 3 ай бұрын
thanks! Feel free to check my other recent vids instead 😇
@mikehixx Ай бұрын
I have watched thousands of gear videos over the past 10-15 years, and this is one of the best I've ever seen in terms of the preparation and execution. Props! The sound pack is also phenomenal.
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 29 күн бұрын
Hi Mike, thanks, glad you liked it 🥳
@fakename5247 2 жыл бұрын
Great video. I clicked on it to get a demo of a synth and got an entire history lesson.
@ChrisAdragna 9 ай бұрын
At this moment I am completely flummoxed about the KZfaq algorithm. How has this video existed for an entire year without appearing in my feed?! I watch (and search for)countless Digitone and Rtym MKII videos. Maybe I can find comfort in the fact that it’s a sign that AI bots aren’t able to replace us. They can’t even deliver decent search results?! Outstanding Guac Dude! I subscribed without looking at any of your other videos.
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 9 ай бұрын
thx ... feel free to look at the other videos, too, though 😁
@mumblerocks77 9 ай бұрын
Harmonica one cracked me up
@Advait_A 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, you have put so much effort & time & skill into making these sounds, learning the songs, recording the tracks, filming, editing and you’ve come up with a great tutorial in music, fm synthesis, 80’s sounds & more. Thankyou!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
glad you appreciate it! Was lots of fun, too :-)
@thomasmehl63 8 ай бұрын
This is so true! I‘ve really learned a lot and had great fun as well!
@christdolphin69 4 ай бұрын
the lansky mild un leise sounds are mind blowing. this whole video fascinates me endlessly
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 4 ай бұрын
thanks ... it was a joy to make it, too ☺
@sawssman965 Жыл бұрын
Bro is cold blooded with the keys and the bass.
@espacemaxim 8 ай бұрын
I'm like No.900 and you're the man
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 8 ай бұрын
thx 🥂
@global-sequence Жыл бұрын
Shoutout for doing I got 5 on it as number 2
@urbancanyons8871 4 ай бұрын
This is absolutely amazing. Great work my friend!
@colbyboucher6391 4 ай бұрын
Hearing some of these in such high quality is kinda wild
@emmas.h386 10 күн бұрын
Thanks for this! Really fun to watch and great sounds 😊
@duketranslucent3rd Жыл бұрын
Bravo, sir! I never realised that Radiohead track sampled something FM from the 70s. Mad...
@neonrage93 2 жыл бұрын
8:58 god DAMN bro
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
have to admit I cannot actually play this Chick Corea tune at that speed ... recorded it at half the tempo into a Cubase MIDI track, then played back at double speed, recording the audio from Digitone at that speed. Combined this with the vid played back at double speed. Same with the Kenny Kirkland solo at the end (there, this “cheating” is also revealed in the captions :-)
@neonrage93 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion hey man it still sounds and looks badass.
@Hakucho64 Жыл бұрын
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion that's so funny how you did that (I still think you're a great keyboard player though)
@andrewbenavides4913 Жыл бұрын
very very pleasantly surprised by this
@dankro279 Жыл бұрын
Money for nothing was so spot on, just the snare did not really match, but everything else was heaven to me!! Excellent!!!
@gambooyt 9 ай бұрын
I absolutely love Kenny Kirkland's piano playing and Sting's solo albums of the 80s and 90s. Thank you so much for this.
@patrickmurphy5842 11 ай бұрын
That Money For Nothing Intro was superb !
@garcon.de.kasson 7 күн бұрын
Thank youuuuu!!!!!🙏🏻
@nasagesa 5 ай бұрын
Your CS80 brass sound is my favourite. It's almost more analog than most analog synths available today.
@el_dani Жыл бұрын
Dude, you‘re the Wizard!
@antfactor Жыл бұрын
nice work. impressed. I have one - after three years, I still feel like a neophyte. It's an curiously amazing machine.
@marcuunk8564 Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable !!! 🙏❤️🙏
@neb2612 11 ай бұрын
This is the most impressive and underrated video using Electron devices on You Tube. Bravo!
@timrideout 2 жыл бұрын
Just. Wow.
@klfaregonnarocku Жыл бұрын
supe renaît idea, labour of love, really enjoyed the super nerd detail.
@myNoiseDotNet Жыл бұрын
Wow! Outstanding programming skills, both for tones and sequences!
@HiteTricks 4 ай бұрын
This was a masterpiece
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 4 ай бұрын
thx 🎉
@Limbic1000 2 жыл бұрын
this blew me away....omg thxx
@JazzPiano0047 2 ай бұрын
I love YT for this. Just wow.
@cloneroom 6 ай бұрын
EPIC just loved this…thanks so much. I just got my first Digitone……after watching you I am excited and a bit daunted...
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 5 ай бұрын
thx ... don't be daunted, most good things in music come from open-minded experimenting 😊
@GrahamEnglish 24 күн бұрын
Really cool stuff. Thanks for doing this!
@ivanglushko4232 Жыл бұрын
Wow nice free content!) Thank you so much) Cause it just sounds perfect!))
@tragictheory 10 ай бұрын
Had me feelin' like Top Gun there for a second...
@TreyBruceable 3 ай бұрын
Incredible
@kylew706 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, this blew me away. I feel like I’m totally underusing my Elektron gear! Great job! I loved every minute of it! So nice to hear real music with these machines. I can’t take anymore glitch/techno
@milDelux 10 ай бұрын
What a great video. Thank you.
@angeldc54 4 ай бұрын
Excellent, thanks for sharing this.
@rundtomrasmus Жыл бұрын
Recreating the mild und leise synth sound is highly appreciated. It's not super complex sounds, but they are very refined sounds (which is a territory I usually end up blasting past and let everything modulate everything until crazy) Thank you so much :)
@pigdog237 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!
@ronaldvonk-nl Жыл бұрын
It must have been a lot of work to create this very impressive result. Thanks!
@gordonthespeed4499 Жыл бұрын
Incredible work 👏
@ThomasHerlofsen 4 ай бұрын
This is soo cool
@sierratango4467 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great content!
@howardanderson3061 2 жыл бұрын
Nice sounds!
@ModeSynth Жыл бұрын
Brutal!
@acidjack 2 жыл бұрын
thanks for this great Patches and Video !!
@aemagana3152 2 жыл бұрын
Love all your research and esp. stats!
@varlokvarlok Жыл бұрын
Thanks for soundpack
@caleblaughlin8351 Жыл бұрын
These are amazing!!!!!!! Great Job!!!!!!
@RobbekenSynthMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Oh holy moly. This is excellent.
@maxmartinez6430 2 жыл бұрын
Outstanding !!
@HoosierGuy 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@PuRe_AdDicT 2 жыл бұрын
Incredible stuff my friend :)
@cohaagenup Жыл бұрын
This is AMAZING
@hedda8346 4 ай бұрын
thank you
@jw112mail 10 ай бұрын
02:55 - Idioteque (Radiohead) SO GOOOOD
@AndresViolencia 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic job, instant subscribe.
@lovehalfblack9420 Жыл бұрын
This video was hella tite ❤
@JohnLunney 2 жыл бұрын
This is a really excellent video.
@placidus_v 7 ай бұрын
Man, that's awesome! Great work!
@stujay Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic video!
@MyAlteredSoul Жыл бұрын
Loving this pack
@LuisTorres-qz5kr Жыл бұрын
Impressive! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed all the tracks.
@jasonbesant4074 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome work and instasub for the generous samples
@tubeMonger 2 жыл бұрын
Wow the demos sound so good and have a video that matches. Thank you for sharing us your work (including the patches).
@Stue007 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic work, music history lesson and demonstration - thank you!!
@nekufa Жыл бұрын
Awesome job! Very influent video, thank you!
@chickenpasta7359 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! I'm getting my Digitone in the mail tomorrow. Excited to try this out. Thanks for making these and publishing them for free
@lundsweden Жыл бұрын
So fooking brilliant, I'm astonished, amazed and more than a bit jealous! Well done!
@thegurkenkaiser9933 2 жыл бұрын
impressive sounds & performance!
@touchthatdial 10 ай бұрын
Great work! Thank you, love it.
@chperrone Жыл бұрын
production so on point and mix all sounds great.
@christdolphin69 2 жыл бұрын
this rules! more of these style videos please
@stephenmurphywilson7294 9 ай бұрын
This was really enjoyable.
@doradoradoramen 10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for these excellent sounds.
@shapeshiftersmediagroup Жыл бұрын
Brilliant show! Digitone is something I've strongly considered, thanks for the demo!
@tanguypaschal6657 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic covers !
@varlokvarlok Жыл бұрын
OH MAN GOOSEBUMPS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE VIDEO NOW THATS FANTASTIC WORK THANK YOU
@paaftube 4 ай бұрын
great stuff, thanks!!
@mtate Жыл бұрын
great video, thanks!
@oliverstarke4120 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the Pack. Very interesting Video.
@pavelsmejkal9380 Жыл бұрын
Man, what an elaborate video / demo! I recently bought Digitone and I am currently in a learning phase, you made me excited about the purchase once again. You made it sound perfect.
@latorreoscar Жыл бұрын
Wow im super impressed THIS IS PURE GOOOOLD!!!!! excelent work cant thank you enough for sharing it
@PanerramikVon Жыл бұрын
classic hits and sounds, you destroyed it!
@garyleister 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for this amazing video. Good job I own both machine and didn't know was possible to reach a sound so closer
@mh22xv Жыл бұрын
Awesome, you started of with Queen!
@zroeder 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! And thanks for the music history lesson. I'm listening to Mild und Leise now, and it is incredible. I never knew that was a sample in Idioteque!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
apparently Jonny Greenwood himself had forgotten it was a sample first ... according to de.wikibrief.org/wiki/Idioteque, he recorded 50 minutes of improvisation on a modular system including some samples, and gave the recording to Thom Yorke. Yorke found the piece that then became “Idiotheque” and loved it; and Jonny first thought he had also created the synth part on his modular. Later he realised it was one of the samples he had taken from the 1975 compilation “First Recordings - Electronic Music Winners”, which he had found in a 2nd hand vinyl store
@damienwebb3689 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheGuacamoleXplosion is this preset available to download?
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
@@damienwebb3689 My re-made version of those few bars from “Mild und Leise” is included in the Digitone project file that can be downloaded from the link in the video description text. The additional RYTM stuff I added for the Radiohead remake is not in the download, since my focus was on Digitone/FM here. It’s some analog drums and the sample from Arthur Kreiger’s “Short Piece”, which you can easily sample from here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8hyntWLv6jIqGg.html
@gb6100 8 ай бұрын
Thank you very much, cool Man :)
@jamalyannicguzmansierra7996 Жыл бұрын
Very nice video? I learnd a lot! :) and dude you're a very good pianist as well like kenny! Thx for this video!
@WHATISPOLITICS69 2 жыл бұрын
great work, these sounds are killer - and whether or not they’re perfect matches is besides the point, they’re great and i’ll get a lot of use out of them, thanks for doing this!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
glad you like them, have fun with those sounds :-)
@kenb7540 Жыл бұрын
Stunning video ! 👏👏 such an education as well as incredible sound design and playing on DN. Bravo ! 👏🙏
@TheGuacamoleXplosion Жыл бұрын
thx 😊
@danyuld 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video and pack - thank you!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
thx :-)
@ceetronic 2 жыл бұрын
😮 Well that was totally impressive. Really enjoyable and can't wait to try out the presets. Thank you for the effort to put into the video!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
my pleasure :-)
@fractalimmersion 11 ай бұрын
Dude! That was honestly the most incredible analysis and replication. Thank you so much for that and I’ll be sure to check your other content out!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 11 ай бұрын
cool, glad you liked it!
@mr_floydst 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Great work on the patches and the video. And great guitar playing. :-)
@TheGuacamoleXplosion 2 жыл бұрын
thanks! I’m actually more a guitarist than a keyboard/synth player :-)
@BrockDavisson 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds great! Thanks for the pack!
@synthebo Жыл бұрын
Fantástico!! Maravilloso!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@TheGuacamoleXplosion Жыл бұрын
muchas gracias 😊
@prodbycatalyst9949 Жыл бұрын
Woah this video was very insightful and educational. Thank you, I’m going to subscribe and check out your other videos!
@TheGuacamoleXplosion Жыл бұрын
thx :-)
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