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That gritty sound is right up Mini's alley. The example in the attachment is made with 2 saw waves tuned an octave apart. Wide tonal range is Mini's strong suit. From massive bass to lyrical lead, it offers a lot of sonic possibilities. SBS - Joan Armatrading - I'm Lucky.mp3

Another proof I live in a simulation (or in the FB/Google Matrix, or just having an episode of Baader-Meinhof...): Haven't seen discussions around the Aja sessions for years. Then there's this post, and a few days later this picture showed up on facebook.

Here's a JV-80 preset I tweaked slightly a while back. It's called "Reincarnate" and just screams National_Geographic/BBC_Earth. Speaking of JV-80/880, this baby paved the way for 30 years of Roland romplers to come. It's amazing how much of even today's Roland synths are still following largely the same architecture. Epic Rain Forest.mp3

If you don't absolutely need the SuperNatural presets, a viable alternative is Zenology on Roland Cloud. It's got most of Integra's presets and all the SRX boards, and is much easier to edit and automate things.

We've all been there. That's partly how I justify the ridiculous redundancy in my gear. It makes problems like these easier to diagnose.

I asked Hans Groiner about tritone substitution personally. He told me to replace three random notes in a chord. So Dmin would be a textbook tritone substitution of Cmaj, for example.

I loved the M1 piano too. It cuts through mixes easily and works perfectly in the rhythm section. Here's a short piece I transcribed from the Jazz-Pop group Workshy. It showcases how this patch work in Incognito/Basia/Matt Bianco type of styles. Workshy.mp3

Great sound. I'm hearing a rock organ in the mix too. Thanks for sharing it, Dr. Nursers.

A huge part of modern (90's~now) pattern-based music is about sound design and mixing techniques. Apply the "wrong" samples or mixing techniques, and the whole thing easily falls apart or sounds "off". Sound design and mixing are too big of a topic for one post, but luckily, there are a plethora of tutorials online nowadays. A groovebox is a great tool to get familiar with pattern-based styles, since it allows us to quickly switch on/off parts to hear both how they sound in isolation and in the mix. I've experiences countless cases where a sample that would have sounded "meh" to my Pop/Jazz conditioned ears, just sound perfect in a particular style I'm not used to. Loop Sample CDs/Packs with individual instrument tracks are helpful in a similar way. I've loved e-Lab's (also under other names like "Equipped Music", "Raw Cutz" etc) products in that regard for over 20 years. In the attachment is a demo from their "Smoker's Delight" library below for your reference. "am I a lost case?" NOPE, not at all. Your Jazz trained ears and chops will come in very handy by injecting Soul into these often mechanical sounding styles. There's a reason J Dilla collected 60's~70's Soul/Jazz records like crazy. His beats would have never sounded so dope without the Jazzy/Soulful roots in the samples he pulled from those records. Coffee Breaks Seven_975109282 - Loopmasters.mp3

And that's 18 year old code that ran smoothly on Pentium III/IV CPUs, not to mention its ported version that even the puny Atom CPU in KRONOS can handle without breaking a sweat. As Tusker mentioned, plugin programmers can get a lot of mileage out of current computing hardware. It's a matter of allocating computing power wisely. This is also evident in the performance Virus managed to pull out of the Motorola 56300 chips.

Indeed, Matt's got the chops, the taste, the willingness to share/educate, and a down_to_earth vibe. He's well respected and loved on this forum.

30! That's some great endorsement for the M1 CPU. A PC that smoothly runs 5 instances at divine setting would be a decent machine.

You've got great ears Iconoclast, it is indeed digital. Even though there seems to be some phase mismatch between the L/R channels, OB-6 is the most organic sounding out of the bunch. Arturia's OB-Xa is half way there, but lacks bite/growl in the lower register. Thanks for taking the time to record this comparison. Edit: Didn't see the actual order of synths your posted separately. Turns out the "phasy" one I considered organic was actually from Forte.

Here's another dreamy/cosmic pad from layering Dune and Spire PAD - Dune + Spire.mp3

I love the CS-80 V "Africa" brass, the MODX "guitarp", and your tasty chord progressions. Thanks for sharing them, Justin.

Speaking of the OB Brass from "Jump", here's a sample of my attempt at it. I'll leave it to everyone to speculate which synth(s) was(were) used. Jump.mp3

Same here, always loved Oberheim's poly brass sound. I'm also a big fan of the brass sound Vangelis got out of his CS-80. Here's a sample of my attempt at emulating that. Katana_Runner.mp3

Speaking of dreamy pads, here's one I made by layering a Triton Extreme with Dune3: PAD, Dune 3, Triton EX.mp3

Loved the sound of the vocal and the snare. Thanks for sharing the song with us, Sherry.

The transition from the Gmaj9-#F7alt-Fmaj9-E7alt-bEmaj9-D7alt chromatic movement, to the Cmaj7-Bm7#5 (or bEadd9/B, or Bmu, however we call it) signature lick, always sounded abrupt to me. I understand that without that abruptness, Steely Dan would have been just another run-of-the-mill Pop Funk act. But I couldn't care less about sounding different/"fresh" just for the sake of standing out, and always preferred the more predictable arrangement of Larry Carlton's "Room 335" based on the latter motif.

I love Minimoog bass too. Here's a short piece I wrote last year that emulated Mini bass with Roland Hyper Canvas: Matt Johnson made an excellent YT video last year about programming funk bass on Model D, you might find it useful:

Those pads are DOPE! Thanks for sharing them, CyberGene.

About 2 years ago, I started noticing the absurdity of most discussions, about most synths, on most forums, revolving around: TEXT!!! As Frank Zappa would put it, that's like "Dancing About Architecture". Slow Internet and expensive servers of yore made discussions based on actual sounds difficult. But today a GIF file is easily in the megabytes. It makes absolutely no sense to keep "TALKING about sound". Let's share short mp3 recordings that highlight the patches/presets we like; being it stock, tweaked, or fresh_from_ground_up. Since half of my gear are from the JV/XP/XV/Fantom family (extremely redundant, I know), I'll start with the patch that got me hooked on the JVs in the 90s: "MIDIed Piano". Cheers. JV_XP MIDIed Piano.mp3