A real eye opener! And the tutorial had such a pleasant atmosphere, like sitting in the studio of a very good friend and getting personal advice from him! Thank you, Alba! 👍 👍 👍

Excellent viewpoints on keeping sequences and delay times loose, rather than syncing them together. I loved the idea of creating the track improvisationally, with the entire studio being an integrated tool with many individual elements that can be accessed at any time. Very inspiring.

Always a joy to listen, great explanation of your thinking on Productions as well. My thanks. Regards

Very impressive, like always! A great gift, to share your experience, years of work and experimenting...very appreciated!

Thank you for posting this wonderful look behind the scenes, and taking the time to explain how this music is constructed. Please do more like this 😊 Great job!

It was a pleasure and a learning session to see how you are working and creating songs and sequences. Many thanks doing this video.

Wooow!!! Thank you for your generosity!! It's an honor learning from you!

thank you for these tutorials, I really appreciate you showing some of your tipps and tricks to us!

Thank you VERY MUCH for focussing on this important topic! I love sequences and your workshop helped me understanding them better. When I am back home I will start from scratch with a new sequence :-) wow, very impressed that you sync by hand!

This tutorial gave me so many ideas. Thanks very much for sharing.

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge and ideas with us. I really enjoyed your video and sure I learned from you. People like you are a gift for all of us who are interested to learn more about this style of music. Your video was very inspiring for me. Keep posting more videos like this one! Have a good time and many greetings from Berlin!

Great! This is amazing, thanks so much for sharing. I always wondered why I could never get a good sounding Berlin School sequence going. Thanks to these tips I am inspired to try out some of these things.

Beautifully explained! Can't imagine how it would be to create with you..💕🎸✨

Wowww!!! Thanxxx to sharing this... Im very impressed to see everything is synced by Hand... This is probably the Secret of your living Sequences So many majestic Goose-bump Moments in this Session... Open my Eyes and my Mind... thank you and a great Sunday...

Very inspiring, thank you!

Excellent info - Cheers!

This is great! Thank you!!

Thank you for sharing!

Great channel, love your ideas and the sync human angle is one to try for sure, new sub thanks pal.

Very useful video, thank you. I'm already putting some of these tips to use.

GREAT! just what i needed to get the idea. thanks!

Nice! Thanks for the explanation on the ping-pong delay. I found this video after watching this great one: Behringer MODEL D - INSANE SEQUENCE! - NO TALK (HD). Keep it up!

Very inspiring, thank you

That was very good!!! Thank you very much:)

This is a marvellous tutorial

Interesting stuff, thanks!

fantastic school thanks...

The new school of Berlin School. Great!

Thanks a lot ! I already asked how you succeed to make such great sequences... now I have some explanations. Thank you Master AE :-)

I am ready for part 3. :)

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I love the out of the box play without MIDI daisy chaining approach, it almost has a polyrhythmic aspect to it..it seems to be an overlooked part of the secret sauce of those early berlin school recordings that one can't replicate with the more late 80s approach of slaving to a midi clock. In those early Klaus Schulze albums there's that mechanic sequence rhythm is the foundation and on top either loose farfisa flourishes or the sparse string machine hand controlled

Great tutorial, thank you.

Thank you for publishing this video. My big takeaway was you don't sync delay time to BPM when all my attempts at Berlin School have so far done that. I am now off to my studio to see if I can come up with a mathematical formula to calculate a range of delay times to deliver different ambiances. If I am successful I'll do a video to share with Berlin School enthusiasts. Once again, thank you for sharing your great knowledge and experience. 👍

Dear Adrian, I would like to tell you what a great source of inspiration you and your videos are for me! It was like finding a vein of musical gold the other day when, by means of a targeted search, I finally found someone who is not only a master of Berlin School (BS) playing like you, but who is also prepared to talk a bit from the sewing box. It's a shame that you didn't continue the Tips and Tricks series. Your calm serious nature and charisma are highly valued here and are a welcome lift from the clownish yt synth monotony .... and it's a pity that there aren't more videos of you talking and explaining. I not only enjoyed this video here, it gave me a lot of new pointers. After watching the video, I was finally able to open up to the idea of not necessarily having to sync my two synths to play BS/ multiple sequences. And as it sometimes happens, as soon as I was mentally ready for it, it suddenly worked and after weeks of unsuccessful attempts, I succeeded the other night. Yes, it does have its advantages when you don't have to worry about the tempo *live*. I've been playing synths for a while now, but I'm a complete beginner when it comes to BS. My setup is pretty limited, but within that I'm trying to get some BS going: the Roland JUNO DS and the Casio XW-P1 are sound sources for a small keystep. Next step into the Berlin sky should now be the purchase of either a Beatstep Pro or a Model:Cycle to finally have more tracks. Unfortunately, I can't afford much more than 200 for a multi-track sequencer. With a bit of luck, I'll soon be able to buy a used JP 8000 for a good price. Do you think the JP 8000 is especially suitable for BS? What is the best way to approach these two new purchases? Best regards from Germany, Rob. * * *

I just realized I'm sitting in exactly them same chair as you are!

Thanks a bunch for those videos. Great relaxed style and awesome input, mainly your advice on not syncing. Must admit my delays are much better now where I dont sync. Great if you can make an episode on how to setup scales in the Tangerine style for us who dont have lot of musical training.

Wonderful... subscribed :)

Thanks a lot

wow!

It would be interesting to see a tutorial on your audio chain. Good work, thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for sharing your synthesis knowledge, these seem like so much more than tips and tricks to me but an integral part of your music style. I am amazed at how you can play so many instruments at once in harmony. I would be happy to learn how to master one of my instruments. You are a master of the Berlin School! One question I have is do you have classical training in piano or music theory or did you learn from trial and error? I look forward to your videos and music.

Excellent tutorial, I felt like I was sitting in the studio with you. I love this Berlin stuff. What fx pedals are you using for the delay and reverbs in this tutorial

Subd! Very good, thank you for sharing. Among other things, I learned not to put "cows" in my sequence :)

Being a fan of Jmjarre, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream ...i love your lessons, unfortunately near my house i don' t find a teacher musician like you😔....even because electronic music is not much popular in italy

Cows! Sometimes I want to have cows in my sequences, especially when playing with the OP-1, a little cow can come in handy!

Great series. I'm amazed how you don't use a master clock for syncing your sequencers and delay time. It certainly lends to a more organic sound. Not sure if i would trust that in a live situation, maybe the delay but that's it. I'd be too concerned about the clocks not holding accurate BPM. For the studio I think it sounds great though!

What are the 5 or so quintessential Berlin tracks for you?

Could you tell us what kind of ping pong delay you are using? Sounds fantastic :)

very interesting tips thanks, I will try following your advice 😉

Begginner question: Are your all instruments play only notes from one scale, do you also limit number notes per instrument so they don't overlap with others? thanks!

Any thoughts on scales/modes you use? If you haven't gone though them already, I'm a bit behind with your vids. Excellent work though as ever

i dont understand why D and G cannot be played in Cm ? they are the 9th and 5th of the scale?

Great Information! what delay pedal are you using?

Cows, definitely cows. 🐮

😍👌👌

you sound like tangerine dreams