As ever, there can be conflicting information out there. Having read that D.A.F used the SQ-10 and MS-20 I found an interview of them discussing how to make "a Korg" sound like D.A.F by using guitar amps and mics like Conny Plank did. This was a strong suggestion that they used their MS-20. I've now had people who claim to have spoken to the band who say it was actually an ARP Odyssey and 1601 sequencer. I'm not going to staunchly defend this, because it's totally possible that I'm completely wrong, so I'll pin this comment until we get to the bottom of it. Either way, the principle is the same on the MS-20 / SQ-10 as it is the ARP pair. Next someone will tell me the other two tracks were recorded using a Minimoog and a Stylophone. 😉 {Update} Evidence is pointing to ARP Odyssey and sequencer, particularly German language interviews that I don't understand. Thanks for those who helped with info. We all learn something, so that's appreciated.
@zdravkodimitrov
6 ай бұрын
I believe the other two tracks were recorded using a Minimoog and a Stylophone 😂
@DetroitMicroSound
6 ай бұрын
It's time for an Alex Ball / Anthony Marinelli collab!
@elekktrikk_home_video
6 ай бұрын
Christian Haas (former DAF, liasons dangereuses, Crislo) was the one with the MS20 IIRC. Later DAF used the Arp sequencer (begin with all faders down, then slide up every second until it sounds right - microtuning included). I still hope for a cheaper remake of the Arp sequencer with its sequencer logic. Anyway - such a great video. Thank you Alex! 🤩🤩🤩
@cornerliston
6 ай бұрын
I'm pretty confident I read an interview where Robert Görl said the SQ-10 was his favourite seq and used a Prophet 5 - but I've always thought the MS-20 was the one they used. So yes might be some conflicting info. Nevertheless I'm happy you saw my comment in previous video about Liaision Dangereuses. Somewhat hope I helped inspire you to this topic : )
@That-Notion
6 ай бұрын
Shame if it wasn't the MS20 but you still put a massive smile on my face when you fired up the Der Mussolini sequence through the processing and then the drums kicked in. Sounded brilliant!
@Hainbach
6 ай бұрын
What an excellent music selection and deep dive! A true gift of a video.Side anecdote: My wife bought a baby crib on classifieds. When I showed up at the flat in Berlin to pick it up I did a double take -I knew that face of the guy standing in the doorway from somewhere! When I got invited in I spotted an MS20 in the corner (I think it was the Korg controller version) it clicked: we got Pyrolator's baby crib. Though our kid refused to stay in it for longer than five minutes, so we sold it quickly.
@bandiras2
6 ай бұрын
You made it from meeting a legend to became a legend.
@GizzyDillespee
6 ай бұрын
Someone out there is like, "I bought Hainbach's haunted crib!"
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
A whole new meaning to MTV Cribs.
@nstrug
6 ай бұрын
Only in Berlin…
@inthefade
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusic This is all what the internet was built for.
@pyrolator
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. I learned a lot from Chrislo. He came into the studio and said that he wanted to play his synthesizers through guitar and bass amps, " musst Du bodymässig abchecken" (you have to check the sound with your body), even the bass drums from the MS20 were played through amps, and loud. His equipment when he lived with Beate was 4 MS20s, 1 MS50 and 2 SQ10s. By the way, what you did well with my track from "Inland" with a short echo was nothing more than a transfer from one side of the 1/4 inch tape to the other and the echo was the distance between the erase head and the recording head, at that time I didn't have an echo device, everything was done with a tape machine.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Kurt! Thanks for stopping by and for the information, that's fantastic. Thanks also for the music!
@bennyshambles
6 ай бұрын
@pyrolator Thanks for Ausland and "Ein Weihnachtsmann kommt in die Disco" from the Denk Daran! LP compilation.
@johnk6312
6 ай бұрын
That Der mussolni synth bass riff has to be one of the best riffs ever, the fact that it doesnt need anything else other than drums and vocals says it all really.
@KniffoBerlin
Ай бұрын
Factory synth bass from the Roland SH-101
@apbianco
6 ай бұрын
"I am in the parque" - please show yourself the door, Alex Ball 😀 (awesome video, as usual)
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
😉
@EannaButler
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusicThe Alex Ball Parque
@gilesl
6 ай бұрын
That DAF sequence is spot on, well done 👍
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@nativeVS
6 ай бұрын
Nice to hear Liaisons Dangereuses being more appreciated; I think the output of Beate Bartel and Chrislo Haas has been very much underappreciated.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Definitely! Shame Chrislo passed 20 years back. I wonder if Beate is still making music.
@everpuremusic
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for pointing out the detuning issue of the sequencer. I just listened to Der Mussolini and now I finally understand why the tuning is _so_ wobbly on that track! 🤓 Also, it’s quite amazing that they basically made the whole album (and also Gold und Liebe) with basically this one synth and a drum kit. Fun fact: if I remember correctly, Robert Görl is a classically trained jazz drummer. 😅
@bennyshambles
6 ай бұрын
Don't forget Für immer, my favorite album from their Virgin trilogy.
@HOLLASOUNDS
6 ай бұрын
Alex making some of the best synthesiser music around again. Thank you for your work.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@Waldemar_la_Tendresse
6 ай бұрын
To avoid repeating myself again and again on this channel, this time I'll just echo this opinion here.
@HOLLASOUNDS
6 ай бұрын
@@Waldemar_la_Tendresse 😀👍🎹🎹🎹🎹
@chriswareham
6 ай бұрын
Amazing how much the MS-20 was used by artists from the Neue Deutsche Welle movement. Honourable mentions to kindred spirits Front 242 and KaS Product from Belgium and France respectively, who were also big users of the MS-20.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Never come back! Classic MS-20 tune with Moog Prodigy on the other part.
@bennyshambles
6 ай бұрын
KaS Product were fantastic. Another heavy MS-20 user was Matthias Schuster (Bal Paré, Geisterfahrer, Im Namen Des Volkes, Jeanette Und Das Land Z, etc.).
@valerycarpentier852
6 ай бұрын
I always assumed that the DAF and LLD sound came from tape distortion, thanks for explaining it’s a lot more complex than that. What a genius Conny Plank was!
@kaitlyn__L
6 ай бұрын
I’ve heard of people layering in different amps (or amp emulations) and different room sounds (or reverb plugins) more recently, but to be doing it back then was very cool. Not least because layering analogue gear on tape to bounce down to one track was a sync nightmare! So that took dedication as well as inspiration. Definitely worth it though.
@YotamPiano
6 ай бұрын
I had an MS-20 once and couldn't make it sing like I wanted to. Watching you make magic out of it is just pure joy for me !
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Cheers Yotam! One of my favourite synths.
@dustincassidy
6 ай бұрын
This was awesome! Please do more classic EBM breakdowns. Maybe try diving into Front 242s Geography album with your old Roland gear.
@Pepijn_a.k.a._Akikaze
6 ай бұрын
Wow! Finally the transpose secret is revealed. Honestly, I couldn't have thought of that.myself. I have known the first two songs since they were released but I didn't know they were made with Korg instruments I have owned since 1988. I will tellyou my secret as a token of my gratitude. The SQ-10 with its three lanes makes a fine analogue memory bank. I used it on my debut gig in 1990 to switch patches, controlling filters and gain.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Playing live with an SQ-10! Levels of bravery that I don't have. Absolutely awesome for modulation, yeah. Great sequencer.
@David_K_Booth
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusic I think there would be a problem with attempting to transpose the sequence in that way, which is that the MS20 CV is exponential, not volts per octave. To transpose the sequence up an octave, you would have to multiply all the voltages by two, rather than just add a one volt offset. (Context: I used to use Korg's MS-02 linear / exponential converter to interface the CV from a TB-303 to my MS-20.) This might add weight to the suggestion in the pinned comment, that it was actually ARP kit: if ARP were using the V/Oct standard at that time, it would make things a lot easier.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
@@David_K_Booth Yep, had to crank in some MS-02 voltage with the summing mixer and press a different key than I was expecting and managed to get it to work, but it would be out if I tried any other keys. No doubt the exponential Hz/V thing. Does suggest the more simple answer is just an Odyssey / 1601 that can do that easily, as you say. Ah well, you can't win 'em all.
@David_K_Booth
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusic I'm sure that if they were using the Korg system, Conny Planck would be the guy who could make it work. Later edit: it's a rabbit hole. Listening to a couple of performances on KZitem, I found one where the sequence stays roughly in tune as they transpose it, and another one where it goes terribly wrong. My guess would be that in Cony Planck's studio they had ARP kit, or something similar, but they used Korg kit when they played live, and either they didn't understand or they didn't care how it went out of key. At a tangent - you mentioned that sequencers then were continuous controllers, and there was no quantisation, so you had to tune very carefully by ear. I'm sure I've read how Tangerine Dream, round about then, got the sequencers on their Moog series 3 kit quantised: they commissioned someone to replace each potentiometer with a chain of very accurately matched resistors and a 12 way rotary switch.
@Pepijn_a.k.a._Akikaze
6 ай бұрын
I will ask Rob Papen of Peru and Nova how he transposed his SQ-10 controlling his MS synths. Maybe the band had the interface but they had no V/Oct keyboards at the time.
@muppetpaster
6 ай бұрын
My (dad's. though he had more and I had this in my room) first synth set as I was 8 in 1978....The SQ1- VC10 MS10 and MS20...Later the MS 50 came too (in 1981)....Loved experimenting with it...Nowadays I have the same set, apart from the MS50...Still looking out for an "affordable" one. Been worling virtually my whole life with this series....Dad also had a PS3200 in those days....(along with LOTS of other synths....)
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Wow! Quite the collection. What happened to the PS-3200?
@jeansebtremblay
6 ай бұрын
Im glad someone talked about Pyrolator (Ausland is an amazing album) very underrated . Der Plan (the album Geri Reig and Normalette Surprise) , another german new wave band that used the MS 20 almost exclusively !
@bennyshambles
6 ай бұрын
Pyrolator was in Der Plan, so that makes sense.
@XavierRadix
6 ай бұрын
The things that make these old sequencers hooked up with old synths tedious to work with is also what makes them special. The imperfect nature of it, things drifting out of time and tune, is really what makes them have an interesting flavour. Well demonstrated, as always!
@fragilegods
6 ай бұрын
This is fantastic! Please do more D.A.F./Conny Plank recreations. :)
@patcummins1405
6 ай бұрын
My band had the pleasure of sharing a bill with Robert Gorl and DAF at a festival in Portugal last summer. I was a passive fan at the time, I knew a few tunes and liked them. Now I’m obsessed with them. I wish I could go and meet him again to tell him what a genius he is.
@soepil
6 ай бұрын
Any video that mentions and even covers Pyrolator is a must-see. Thank you, Alex, for brightening up a grey Friday. And now I have to listen to "Inland" again ... :)
@stevenzeeland9670
6 ай бұрын
Very possibly my all time personal favorite (so far) of your videos. I was living in W.-Germany in 1982 just after these songs came out, and they still are close to my heart. Thank you, Alex.
@keyboardkingpin
6 ай бұрын
Such a dope korg set up...iconic sound! Vst's do not hit like this! Thanks For blessing us with this knowledge and more internet archiving of dope vintage gear:)
@vinylarchaeologist
6 ай бұрын
Yesterday I literally heard Der Mussolini for the first time in my life! And I recognised it instantly ❤ You couldn’t have been reading my mind, because these videos take a while to produce, so I probably read yours 😊
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Small world! Yeah, what a tune.
@staffordbt
6 ай бұрын
Now thats the music from my youth❤.... The best way to spend 13 minutes I can think of. Thanks!
@oopsgoth
6 ай бұрын
it’s like this video was made for me. thanks for the history lesson. especially interesting how the 24-step sequencer design influenced that iconic meter for los niños del parque. this is the kind of thing i obsess over 🦋
@5amJones69
3 ай бұрын
loved the outro jam. Sometimes I'll being watching something with an annoying stereo image so I'll push my mono button on my interface but then I'll forget it's on, sometimes for much too long, and I'll miss out on ear candy and wonder generally why everything sounds odd. I'm glad I didn't make that mistake for this video especially.
@Cfpp0
6 ай бұрын
Great video. That dry flam snare is so cool, and nice room reverbs on the drums in general
@formidableexe
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely love this and everything Minimal Wave-esque! Like many others, I'm hoping to see more breakdowns of tracks from similar artists (Autumn/Linear Movement, KaS Product, Das Ding, Tommi Stumpff/Silvia, Fad Gadget, etc.) in the future. THANK YOU for always doing what you do
@bennyshambles
6 ай бұрын
Love all those artists. A synth/production channel focused solely on Minimal-Synth/Coldwave artists would be amazing.
@robertwilsdon
6 ай бұрын
Great video, very interesting. The late great Conny Plank, what a top producer. I loved his production of the early Ultravox albums.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, left us too soon.
@anthonybird546
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusicman, that would be awesome if you could tease out how they got Systems of Romance together would be killer. Or that one BIG sound on Neu!'s "Hero".
@fuzzjohn
6 ай бұрын
Pronouncing the year in English for once actually caught me off guard!
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
I thought it would be funnier in a German-centric video to not do it.
@VoyVod242
6 ай бұрын
Excellent stuff! Love seeing deep dive into early EBM! I’d absolutely adore a look into 2nd wave industrial/EBM such as Skinny Puppy and Front 242!
@villavide
Ай бұрын
Great video ! To me, the best band ever... Adrenalin, emergency feeling, innovation with simplicity, going straight to the point...
@stephanschweiger
6 ай бұрын
This clip comes at exactly the right time and fits me like a glove as I am loosely working the last weeks on los ninos del parque on different vst instruments and systems (Korg iMS-20; Arturias MS-20 & Acid (TB-303). Recently, I have taken a deep dive into the early days me starting to go to the clubs and as of my awakening as a music programmer. KZitem is such a rich pool of knowledge and learning. Now your contribution, Alex. A like within 5 seconds.
@klinkske
6 ай бұрын
Please share that LD stuff once you are ready. That album is so complicated i did not get any results to get close. Daf is less difficult
@mikemeengs5720
6 ай бұрын
Great video as usual, Alex! I'm pretty sensitive to tuning issues, and while I understand the charm in that sequencer, man...that thing would drive me nuts!
@kaitlyn__L
6 ай бұрын
I had the exact same experience when I spent a day trying out modular in the local synth shop. I thought I’d be trying out cool patches, but I spent half my time trying to get the sequencer to behave! That said I was exposed to enough alternate tuning systems young enough that I don’t mind if a note intentionally(-ish) doesn’t fit-in to 12TET, but the frustration came from that disconnect between how I imagined it and how it was coming out. Sounding right on one loop but then sounding different by the time I got the patch right. Etc Perhaps I just need to embrace the tuning chaos next time. Tell myself it’s microtonal, rather than a slipping just-intonation.
@klinkske
6 ай бұрын
Since they are old pots and not the best, i think twisting them all before use might give a more stable result. My tempo knob of one of my sq10,s is so drifty it s impossible for a drummer to keep up 😅 it loves to speed up and slow down by some bpm all the time. So i tweak it before i use it to get it cleaner and fresher. Kinda works
@PocketUnv
5 ай бұрын
This was a real treat, thank you so much for all the thorough walkthroughs you do!
@Theinvalidmusic
6 ай бұрын
What an absolute treat of a video. I think the fact the original synth for Der Mussolini likely wasn't an MS-20 just makes the whole thing more interesting. It's a testament to Conny Plank's creativity as an engineer that such a distinctive sound was present regardless of the gear used.
@duncankemp63
6 ай бұрын
Biggest regret of my life, selling my MS 10, what was I thinking? Great content.
@briankehew579
2 ай бұрын
That it sounds thin compared to other synth, because it does (I had three)
@edjefferson9175
6 ай бұрын
Finally something good to watch that's not NAMM
@damiensargeant2432
4 ай бұрын
I’m from a rock background and my first synth jams were through fuzz pedals into amps. Maybe I could try that again! Great video, I kept stopping to take notes!
@AndyVonal
6 ай бұрын
Another totally awesome, informative, educational video. Have loved at least 2 of these artist for years (DAF and Liaisons). Didn't know about the other chap but will check him out! Thanks loads, Alex
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Hey Andy. Yeah, worth checking out Pyrolator. All related bands.
@Musikkeller-Innsider
6 ай бұрын
Guten Schnuten to you too, I really love your funny greetings!
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
I'm hoping it becomes the standard German greeting.
@Musikkeller-Innsider
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusic I will use it from now on, let's see if it catches on ;-p
@kaitlyn__L
6 ай бұрын
The auto-translate in another comment turned “guten schnuten” into “good luck”, but I had to check that for myself since it looks a whole lot like “snout”. Glad I did, because it is indeed mouths, muzzles, snouts. And that’s also funnier than just randomly saying “good luck!” as a greeting. Good snout! Mouth of the morning to ya. Etc.
@dernuniverse9813
6 ай бұрын
Off tuning is the magic of Analog Love it
@macronencer
6 ай бұрын
This is so cool! I missed out a bit on this scene so wasn't all that familiar with the artists, but the whole thing was mesmerising. And talking of mesmerising... your comments about the sound of that tape echo with no feedback on it reminded me of something I did in my teens with my ZX Spectrum. I used a BASIC program with a load of BEEP commands to play Bach's Toccata in D Minor (Sky version). When I took it round to a friend's house, he loaded it on his Speccy as well, and we connected them up to L and R on a ghetto blaster... and hit RETURN to start the programs, but a split second apart. The resulting recording was actually quite similar to this tape echo effect, and I loved it. Sadly, I think I lost it. I'd love to hear it again.
@2.7petabytes
6 ай бұрын
You make some of the best videos! Always a good day when I see you post a new video!
@44holmez
6 ай бұрын
Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for this insightful recreation ❤
@mightyV444
5 ай бұрын
Very cool video! 😃👍 No idea how it had managed to sneak past me unnoticed a month ago, though!? 😳😅 I live in NZ but am originally German, and the only time I did like music with German vocals was during that early-80's era of the 'Neue Deutsche Welle' ('New German Wave'), when the mostly quirky music perfectly mixed with the often weird lyrics and the sound of the German language 😊 I can now tell, after watching this video, that also one of my NDW favourites, 'Fan-Fan-Fanatisch' by Rheingold, must've utilised this same Korg equipment 😀 Reinold Heil from the band Spliff, Nina Hagen's former backing band, also had loads of great keyboard/synth parts and sounds 🤩 You might want to check them out if you haven't already! 😊 Jawoll! Guten Schnuten, Alex! 😄👍
@T0NYFERRELL1
6 ай бұрын
Came for the synths, knowledgeable information and good vibes. Subscribed hoping to see that tasty Lute busted out for jam.
@jakehendriksen2841
6 ай бұрын
I'm always so excited when a new Alex Ball video drops. I've learned a lot from you, Alex!
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Thanks Jake!
@nik_elektrik
6 ай бұрын
And guten Schnuten to you. Fantastischer content. Wie immer. Also golden memories. What an era. 43 years on tracks like DAFs DER MUSSOLINI and KRAFTWERK’s NUMMERN still completely blow my Verstand. Greetings from Germany!
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Timeless music.
@bradfordkeithmadison953
6 ай бұрын
Sir, your content is just ACE. It’s a rare combo… ability, coupled with history, all wrapped in TASTE!!! Well done. THANK YOU!!!
@pauly2929
6 ай бұрын
I believe the ping ponging delay trick was used on the I feel Love bass line
@UpandDownRacing
6 ай бұрын
Liaisons Dangereuses, faster and shorter sustain/ release maybe but very nice sounding still, outro jam is funky as hell also Danky Shauwn :)
@calyx93
6 ай бұрын
Yay! I wondered when someone would bring up DAF and the MS/SQ combo. They were also fond of the Odyssey for basslines too.
@Triplechorus2
6 ай бұрын
Gut‘n Schnut‘n!!!😂🤣 Around 1981/82, our accordion orchestra's MS-20 was the first physical synthesizer that I was allowed to see, hear and touch very briefly during a break between two accordion lessons. Our old accordion teachers used it to try out some old-fashioned tune with a terrible sounding setting. The very simple sound is burned into my mind as a deep childhood memory and I've been able to recreate it now that I've bought a K-2. Square wave, organ envelope and half-open filter and lots of vibrato, a bit like an alien theremin (I have to make a song out of it). At that time I was forbidden to adjust anything, even though the device looked as if it could sound good... Greetings from Germany!🇩🇪🤝
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
An MS-20 was part of an accordion orchestra? Haha, I've now heard it all. Love it.
@Triplechorus2
6 ай бұрын
@@AlexBallMusic Yes, that was the accordion orchestra in Harthausen, Rhineland-Palatinate. When I was older and played in the orchestra for a while, the thing wasn't in use. During a break from rehearsals, the older guys tinkered around with the MS-20 and, among other things, set an accordion sound according to the instructions. I still remember that the conductor announced that the "Sindesaiser"😂 would be in regular use starting next year (1983?), but unfortunately I didn't experience that because I left the accordion orchestra. In any case, when I played again around 1987, the MS-20 wasn't in use, but I didn't ask about it at that time. Maybe I should have been more active and could have bought the device cheaply at some point...🤷🏻♂️
@alistairsteadman3765
6 ай бұрын
I had one about 20 years ago and struggled to keep the sequences in tune as you described. It’s definitely not a sequence of everything need to be on point. But now I appreciate its charm 100%. Thanks for the video Alex. A joy as always.
@PCoyte
4 ай бұрын
Just listened to Robert Goerl on Martyn Ware’s podcast and he’s still got his original MS20 and sequencer. I hope he see this video!
@PaulBoos
6 ай бұрын
I personally enjoy recreating sounds from different 'bands'/musicians. It's really difficult IMHO, so love hearing how you deconstructed these bands (of which I need to get some of their music!).
@AaronFoltz
6 ай бұрын
what a great introduction and a nice rabbit hole of new music to fall into.
@mikeolson7588
6 ай бұрын
I can’t get over the amazing synth collection.
@vaderbase
6 ай бұрын
As soon as the drum hit the Mussolini track my feet start to dance. This pretty powerful stuff.
@andytuohy4086
6 ай бұрын
I thought they'd deliberately made it go off and thought that sounds great. Literally the synth heating up.
@GaitaPonto
5 ай бұрын
Eins, zwei, drei, fier! Liaisons Dangereuses drifted as a band. I never heard Los Niños del Parque played or sang the same way in any two different recordings.
@X-101
6 ай бұрын
liaison dangereuse needs to be faster :D, nice you covered them and DAF as most people don't really know about them
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Probably. Just a guide to show how they did it. That tempo knob is pretty difficult to dial in, the speed changes dramatically with small adjustments.
@discodave6153
6 ай бұрын
Another terrific video 👌🏻🏆
@EnricoCotulelli
6 ай бұрын
Niños Del Parque - Liaisons Dangereuses not heard of for decades, so cool!
@alexmichalski2864
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the cool video, would love a deep dive into the drums on Los Niños. I’ve got close multitracking an MS-10 but can never quite get it sounding right, doubt I ever will but that’s half the fun!
@BartJanstd
6 ай бұрын
I never comment on YT videos, but I had to say thanks for posting this.
@JamesVytas
6 ай бұрын
Love the outro song.
@briannicholson5747
6 ай бұрын
The synth bit from Los Ninos Del Parque could be used for a The Prodigy style Big Beat remix so easily. Just swap out the original drums for a few Phat breakbeats layered with pounding XOX kicks and then add a couple bits of dodgy synth strings on top... Could even picture Run the Jewels rhyming over the result in a nod to how Liam swung Kool Keith to contribute to "Diesel Power".
@BigFunTinyWurld
6 ай бұрын
Thank you I’ve been looking for a cut and dry tutorial for DAF sounds🤝
@3D6Space
6 ай бұрын
Man... that last bit is Sha-Wang! (that's a good thing!)
@daviHuggMonster
6 ай бұрын
woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa daaaamn those sounds are still dope after so many decades. Those tracks got me into electronics as a teenager back in the 80ies
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Never gets old.
@phd_sound
6 ай бұрын
Such an organic sounding sequencer!
@paolobragaglia7249
6 ай бұрын
Amazing as usual!
@AdrianHecox
6 ай бұрын
absolutely fantastic video, thanks for recreating these :)
@CORBARocks
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for this explanation of these classic tracks.
@skyrocketautomotive
6 ай бұрын
It's bloody happened again! Your channel is the best possible form of procrastination I've found so far haha This was fascinating by the way
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@stormedoograka2599
6 ай бұрын
this videos is amazing, remebers me why i bought my ms 20
@user-wn8mb7nf1h
6 ай бұрын
Regardless of the synth/sequencer combination, I was really excited about how you explained 'tuning' sequencers and how that led to the sound of Der Mussolini. I had always wondered about the 'wonky' sequencer part, but always assumed it had something to do with anomalies in tape speed between recording, mixing, and mastering. Now I know. And, kudos to actually reproducing the wonkiness to a T. It was probably hard enough to get close, much less as close as you got. Keep up the amazing work, Alex. Love the videos!
@robbrobb5543
6 ай бұрын
I wanna gate and duck that second intro piece and add some 303 with it feedbacking itself through that Korg filter. This certainly is the roots of the SQ-1.
@dewulfe9913
6 ай бұрын
killer sounds in that demo for the sample pack 👍
@maxir4k
6 ай бұрын
Talking about connections, the other day I realized YMO used a lot of american equipment on their live shows: ARP Odyssey, Moog Modular and Polymoog, Oberheim Eight-voice and Prophet 5. Thought it would be interesting to share. Great video as always!
@DaveG207
6 ай бұрын
Great stuff as always guv. (Best read in a slightly ‘London’ accent) Reminded me of something, but not sure what. I THINK it’s the Xpropaganda album, The Heart is Strange, which is heavily Steve Lipson. Perhaps just that approach bleeding into the basslines, particularly Chasing Utopia.
@AlexBallMusic
6 ай бұрын
Hey Dave! I'll have to look that up.
@greenvelvet
6 ай бұрын
Such a crazy obscure out of nowhere German Band reference, and I absolutely love it!
@peter-utrblk
6 ай бұрын
Very nice video as always, greets from Düsseldorf.
@Stue007
6 ай бұрын
Very interesting - thank you very much!!
@RichardDenRooyen1973
6 ай бұрын
the quirkyness in the sound, is what i like in this music... i need a MS20 and a SQ-10
@markgriffiths5122
6 ай бұрын
Really interesting. I'm eternally grateful that my first sequencer in the 80s was quantised only, although for the modulation unquantised is possibly easier.
@davidleary5639
6 ай бұрын
What a superb title, and it begins with Der Mussolini .I haven't even watched it yet .
@colethomas9360
6 ай бұрын
Some of my fave bands thank you! Do a Der Plan Emulator/Eventide vid please
@GreenShark4
6 ай бұрын
Man I wish you also did Operating Tracks by Front 242... either way this is awesome! I hope old-school EBM gets a comeback soon c:
@stevekirkby6570
6 ай бұрын
MIss my SQ10 so much - best bit was tweeking it as it ran... no quantisation so you got a great organic feel.
@StarfleetOnLsd
6 ай бұрын
Geh in die Knie! Klatsch in die Hände! OMG I love this channel so much
@DO-cn8qc
6 ай бұрын
I love this sequencer and i won‘t give it away anymore!🙂
@theleastsignificantbit4794
6 ай бұрын
Excellent video. The SQ-1 is a more stable version of this sequencer albeit with a quantizing function.
@sawsquaresinetube
6 ай бұрын
I love your explanation of tuning the SQ-10 ❤ it’s a Zen practice for sure, somewhat like waiting 1 minute for an Emulator II sample to load from a floppy. But I also know that the point of a song isn’t to get to the end of the song, but to enjoy it as it’s played 😊
@StooCambridgeArtist
6 ай бұрын
Another awesome video! Entertaining and educational, what's more to say! 😎
@fromthecentre
6 ай бұрын
My first synth purchase was an MS10 in 1978 closely followed by the SQ10 - wish i still had them 😞
@volkerjanssen7905
6 ай бұрын
Sounds amazing. You definitely know your shit. [thumbs up!]
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