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surreal · Post by **surreal** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:47 pm

Hi Friends and fellow KVrers

Can anyone help me to recreate the synth sounds used in Silver Pizzoli around my dream for the 80's tribute band I am playing in. I will be using vsts for this song.

I have tried to google to find out what hardware synths he used to use that as a starting referance point. All I could find was that he used an Elka Synthex on some of his songs and not specifically on Around my Dreams.
Please help if you can

https://youtu.be/ES_8VYD9KhU

Thank you all

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:54 pm

Anyone able to give me some pointers?

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:05 pm

Anyone?

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:12 am

The sound in the beginning (0:06) could be an analog synth maybe, the rest sounds like 80's rompler (M1) to me.

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:26 am

Chris-S wrote:The sound in the beginning (0:06) could be an analog synth maybe, the rest sounds like 80's rompler (M1) to me.

Thanks Chris.. I will go through my M1 sounds and check.. I think that the bass might have been a Roland Juno

Anyway thanks for the pointer!

Regards
Surreal

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:55 am

They're all just really simple sounds with tons and tons of chorus applied.

The 'other' bass at 0.51 is that famous DX7 bass patch.

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:13 am

You won't find any M1 sounds in this song, or any D50 sounds for that matter. The song was released in the early 80s long before the M1 and D50.

I can hear analogue sounds, of the kind that most good VAs can approximate. Notice how reverb is used too. A lot of the sounds have a very obvious 'live' room reverb, and this adds a very specific sheen to certain sounds.

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:15 am

By the way, this song takes me back...I used to play it at our school discos in the mid 80s. I love Italo Disco!

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:39 am

I am also an italo disco fan!!

I play in an 80's tribute band and this song came up and me being the Synthesist or Keyboard player landed squarely on my shoulders to find the correct sounds and play the correct riffs accordingly! So thats my mission...

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:42 am

What soft synths do you have?

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:45 pm

himalaya wrote:What soft synths do you have?

Hi Himalaya

I have the following vst synths

Hive
Diva
Ace
Repro1/5

Dune2.5
Dune1
The Legend

Mini V original
Mini V3
Modular V3

Rp Blue2
RP Predator 2

Fm8
Massive

Spire
Sylenth
Serum

Avenger

M1
Wavestation
Ms20
Polysix
Monopoly

Air Hybrid
Vangaurd

Electra2
Nemesys
Icarus

These are the synths I mostly use

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:24 pm

surreal wrote:
himalaya wrote:What soft synths do you have?
Hi Himalaya

I have the following vst synths

Hive
Diva
Ace
Repro1/5

Dune2.5
Dune1
The Legend

Mini V original
Mini V3
Modular V3

Rp Blue2
RP Predator 2

Fm8
Massive

Spire
Sylenth
Serum

Avenger

M1
Wavestation
Ms20
Polysix
Monopoly

Air Hybrid
Vangaurd

Electra2
Nemesys
Icarus

These are the synths I mostly use

That's all overkill. Try Synth-1 plus a lush chorus...

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:14 pm

Lol I am sure you are correct Bertkoor... now to learn how to make the appropiate presets for what I am doing... well thats a differant Science and art

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:02 am

Ok I official give up on this one now and accept that no one here really knows either what the synths and sounds were. Any way thanks for those who replied.

Kind Regards
Surreal

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:35 am

The question is: should we give you a fish, or teach you how to fish?

Because I'm sure that the sounds you're after are rather simple to create, once you have the basic knowledge of how to steer a VCO-VCF-VCA synth into the direction you want it to go. Not to mention, there must be some presets that are already pretty close.

Sound's of the 80s feat.Silver Pizzoli