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quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:35 pm

$30 to whomever is the first to be able to create the best version of the prominent patch that make up a majority of Jean-Michel Jarres's 5th Rendez-Vous Part 1:
https://soundcloud.com/seanchristopherdockery/jmjrv5th
I've edited the original post to add a small monitory incentive in hopes that someone will be able to do it. I've been wanting to make this sound for a while, but have been unsuccessful. Mr. Layzer got close with the simple and aging PlastiCZ, so I know it can be done.....I just suck at making that sound.

$30 via PayPal to whoever comes closest by March 1st. It can be with ANY VSTi synth.

Hopefully some of you will be up to the challenge and we'll get SUPER close.

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ORIGINAL Post

Hey, I would love to recreate the main synth sound used on JMJ's 5th Rendez-Vous pt. 1
If you've recreated them, or think that you can, I would love some assistance. Also, if anyone knows what synths were used for 5th Rendez-Vous pt. 1 it may also help.

Thanks in Advance!

MachineClaw · Post by **MachineClaw** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:01 pm

Roland D-50 preset. can't remember which one.

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:05 pm

MachineClaw wrote:Roland D-50 preset. can't remember which one.

That's what I initially though, but last year when I owned a V-Synth with the D-50 card (and nearly every sound-set every created for the D-50) I couldn't seem to get as close as I wanted to. You could very well be correct that it was the D-50, though.

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:25 am

Only problem rendez vousis 1986 and D50 is 1987 but i know JMJ can maybe get eaerly models.

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:27 am

JPQ wrote:Only problem rendez vousis 1986 and D50 is 1987 but i know JMJ can maybe get eaerly models.

Yeah...come to think of it, I thought it was Revolutions (the follow-up to Rendez-vous) that he used a lot of D-50 on.

I won't loose hope that with all the synth-experts here at KVR, someone will be able to recreate those sounds.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:27 am

the key to getting that sound is a square wave with a piano type amp envelope, and some lowpass filter cutoff with resonance then fed into a room reverb. it also sounds alot like a fairlight as well.

i tried to make it with PG8X as described above. i can get the bellish tone but it lacks the
breathy attack of the fairlight. therefore, look into a fairlight soundfont perhaps

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:37 am

Blah blah cafe forums have maybe more jarre Fans which are experts making jarre type sounds.forum is here: http://www.zoolook.nl/forum/

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:57 am

JPQ wrote:Blah blah cafe forums have maybe more jarre Fans which are experts making jarre type sounds.forum is here: http://www.zoolook.nl/forum/

Thanks for the great link!

I tried to register, but they've been having spam problems and have closed new registrations for now.

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:11 am

Next time:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=100

Thx

The PaTh · Post by **The PaTh** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:09 pm

...??? maybe the Elka Synthex ..... http://www.jarrography.free.fr/details_ ... d_equip=29 it seems he used it a lot on Rendez Vous !

15 minutes of Synthex presets .... http://www.perkristian.net/studio_synthex.shtml

pocvecem · Post by **pocvecem** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:58 pm

I'm rather sure this sound is from a very rare synth named Seiko DS-250 that Jean Michel also used on this album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendez-Vou ... e_album%29

http://www.synrise.de/guests/lorenz/coll/seiko.html
On the left side you see the (dockable!) additive unit. On the right there's a digital step sequencer.
This thing had no midi!

EDIT: Oops, wrong. The DS-250 (keyboard unit) had midi. I have a DS-202 keyboard without midi. But both worked with the additive unit DS-310.
http://www.sequencer.de/syns/seiko/DS31 ... DS101.html

I also played one in the mid 1980s. It is a rather basic additive synth (16 partials, blending thru 3 spectrums via envelope, no filter!) with LOTS of aliasing. In fact so much aliasing that it could sound very "breathy".
I still have this synth but i don't get it to work anymore. Several repairs failed unfortunately.

I think you can come very close to this sound with a wavetable synth like Waldorf PPG3V or Arturia's Prophet VS clone.

Cheers,
Gerald

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:05 pm

And i can copy your queston to this blah blah cafe forum if you want.at least if my accoun t is not closed in forum.

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:41 pm

JPQ wrote:And i can copy your queston to this blah blah cafe forum if you want.at least if my accoun t is not closed in forum.

Thanks so much- that would be great!

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:58 pm

Tubular Tos wrote:...??? maybe the Elka Synthex ..... http://www.jarrography.free.fr/details_ ... d_equip=29 it seems he used it a lot on Rendez Vous !

15 minutes of Synthex presets .... http://www.perkristian.net/studio_synthex.shtml

Thanks for that info.

Yeah, the Elka Synthex was definitely all over Rendez-Vous. I still didn't hear anything close to was I was looking for to reproduce Rendez-Vous 5 pt.1 though. I'm becoming obsessed now.

Thanks again to everyone for the comments and suggestions.

The PaTh · Post by **The PaTh** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:21 pm

Bingo !!! ....well i think bingo ! lol i'm not a pro but i think in this video the sound at 0:21 is the good one !

Thanks to Pocvecem you found it !! So i think it's the Seiko !!!

http://youtu.be/GCd3fmjcyAI

EDIT : ahhh it is the 310 in the video !

Is ANYONE here at KVR talented enought to create the Jean-Michel Jarre 5th Rendez-Vous patch??????