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...like that kind of screaming, living, almost guitarlike sounds?
From videos I see Billy uses the pitchbend a lot, but else I really don't know. As far as I know they used minimoog, Cs-20, Cs-80 Oddyssey etc. Me myself is at the beginning, trying to find my way through free VSTis..... All help and pointers highly appreciated |
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mickeh wrote: ...like that kind of screaming, living, almost guitarlike sounds?
Guitar pedals? |
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They used ARPs for those sounds.
Try OSC Sync to harden up the sound. Try soft Overdrive, possibly thru Guitar Amp/Speaker (emulators don't work). Generally new VSTi don't sound right as they are too glassy but oddly Reason's Subtractor could get close enough because it has a thin sound like the old ARPs. You could also try Castor or Pollux from my SynthStudio Pack (see link below) as they have that gritty sound real early analogs had. Play really expressively.  |
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This came up several years ago and someone came up with a great Triangle II patch for it in about 5 minutes. For our Sleepwalk cover, I use exactly what has been suggested above - hard sync with distortion and lots of portamento. When I saw them live, Billy used an ARP Odyssey and he used the Mod Wheel and pitch-bend. ---- 
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So where's the link to your cover of Sleepwalk Mr Bones? |
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No link, we're still deciding whether to put it or One Hundred Years on the next album. I really love Sleepwalk but Ultravox is nowhere near as obvious for our audience as The Cure. Sleepwalk will probably win the day, however, because it is much shorter and the album is nudging towards an hour, which we both feel is too long. ----
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...agree with Benedict -- most people treated synths and guitars equally back then: pedals -> amp and then mic'd the amp. this yields a very full sound even with 'shitty' old synths like micromoog, cat, wasp, etc.
are the Ultravox vids you're thinking of on YouTube? I'd love to see them. check this out -- f'ing love it -- Tubeway Army "Are Friends..." == orgy of Moogs and all live youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6MDdxBork |
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BONES wrote: This came up several years ago and someone came up with a great Triangle II patch for it in about 5 minutes. For our Sleepwalk cover, I use exactly what has been suggested above - hard sync with distortion and lots of portamento. When I saw them live, Billy used an ARP Odyssey and he used the Mod Wheel and pitch-bend.
That was Har, I think. Big Ultravox fan, Har (me too). |
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Scot Solida wrote: BONES wrote: This came up several years ago and someone came up with a great Triangle II patch for it in about 5 minutes. For our Sleepwalk cover, I use exactly what has been suggested above - hard sync with distortion and lots of portamento. When I saw them live, Billy used an ARP Odyssey and he used the Mod Wheel and pitch-bend.
That was Har, I think. Big Ultravox fan, Har (me too). Yep, that was me. If anyone would like the Triangle II preset, I have it available to download from here.
Currie was definitely a big ARP Odyssey guy for his signature lead tone, but I believe around the time of their "Lament" album he switched to an OSCar. One other thing that some folks might not be aware of, is that another one of his trademark screaming solo sounds wasn't a synth at all, but his electric viola - while on some things he would play it fairly cleanly (like on the main riff from "Western Promise", it sounded like he also used to occasionally drive it into this really cool shrieking tone. |
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He used an Arp Odyssey through guitar pedals (mostly electric mistress flanger) and laterly an OSCar . Lately hes been using Oddity and impOSCar from GMedia and has contributed to the new VSM plug from the same company.
To get a typical Currie lead sound you want to use a fair bit of portamento and slow pitch modulation and have a patch where you can sweep through the sync manualy, this coupled with distortion and some hollow flanging will get you in the right ballpark but about 60% of it is in the performance, not the patch, true of all great classic lead sounds. |
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Dave Blakely wrote: He used an Arp Odyssey through guitar pedals (mostly electric mistress flanger) and laterly an OSCar . Lately hes been using Oddity and impOSCar from GMedia and has contributed to the new VSM plug from the same company.
To get a typical Currie lead sound you want to use a fair bit of portamento and slow pitch modulation and have a patch where you can sweep through the sync manualy, this coupled with distortion and some hollow flanging will get you in the right ballpark but about 60% of it is in the performance, not the patch, true of all great classic lead sounds. Yep, exactly - if you listen to the solos, he's definitely digging his fingers in there with the port and modulation and not just playing the patch straight; if you ever watch their live videos, Currie's a very physical, "interactive" player. If I remember right from the live photos I saw of his Odyssey, it was one of the later models with PPC, that let you bend and modulate via a set of pressure-sensitive rubber pads (where the pitch-bend knob used to be on the earlier models like I had). |
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Yep the PPC Pads were about the only way you'd get an Odyssey to modulate both oscillators at the same time as well as a bit of filter mod, something you'd need 6 fingers on each hand to achieve on the earlier models |
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Yah, with my early-model Odyssey I had to do the "devil horns" with the first finger and pinkie of my left hand to modulate both oscillators at once using their FM sliders...god help me if I wanted to use the pitch-bend knob too at the same time...  |
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Thanks for all the replys!
Shame on me not to search for the old thread....sorry. http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/archive/instruments/2004-04/40 817.php But som new stuff came up here 
Someone were talking about videos; I'll scanned some of them and made a brief list with time marks of Billy playing. However, often the cameramen/producers doesn't focus too much on keyboard players.... ************************************* The Voice live http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvylsPfFEOk Not the one from Monument 04:40 Solo just before the drums ******************************** MINE FOR LIFE - OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST Some more http://youtube.com/watch?v=FjaiUbjWelI 2:50, Billy jogging: 4:18 ********************************** Mine For Life Live http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVsVOTcmYw Several shots of Billy 0:45, 1:33, 4:28 ***************************** HYMN - ORS 82 http://youtube.com/watch?v=vEay4Qjv4gU 1:12 Billy jogging 3:22 Good one, Billy works an Oddyssey ********************************** All Stood Still Live http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZON6ZDJcdBE Plenty of shots at Billy and Chris from hte start. *************************************** Hymn Live http://youtube.com/watch?v=x7uI7LYL_fc 3:18 Somewhere I read that Billy thought the Oddysey was so good he wanted to f**k it; well, here it looks like he's doing it....
**************************** Sleepwalk(TOTP) http://youtube.com/watch?v=HyqSk-GtaLw 1:08, 2:35 Yes, hew had a certain style... 
************************* THE THIN WALL - TOTP 2:08 http://youtube.com/watch?v=a22LLwE_oa0 ********************** Live Aid http://youtube.com/watch?v=ukh0pq7oP4M 08:10 violin in vienna bad cameraman |
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BONES wrote: No link, we're still deciding whether to put it or One Hundred Years on the next album. I really love Sleepwalk but Ultravox is nowhere near as obvious for our audience as The Cure. Sleepwalk will probably win the day, however, because it is much shorter and the album is nudging towards an hour, which we both feel is too long.
Choose Sleepwalk and I'll promise to buy the album! 
I'm a sucker for Ultravox covers - the good ones as well as the bad ones 
One day I'll put a list up..... |
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