The song. All proceeds to the Alan R Pearlman Foundation! UPDATE: I've just donated the $220 that sales of this song generated. Huge thanks to everyone who bought it. alexball.bandcamp.com/track/arp-quadra-make-it-happen
It boggles the mind that you simultaneously are capable of producing engaging videos, but also with a level of musicianship that's second to none. Are you mad? Yes, but also brilliant.
I too have been a fan for many years. But more recently watching post Gabriel/Hackett interviews (particularly with Gabriel & Hackett in the group interview) you can certainly feel the uncomfortableness/tension when Banks is talking about songs & "differing perspectives" about writing/producing songs, especially with Hackett... I got the feeling that Banks was very much a musical "Bully" in terms of other band members opinions in relation to a song's direction... 🤔🙄✌
Me too, Mr Banks was my original inspiration to become a keyboard player - the Quadra sounded much better than the Korgs (presumably) he switched to on the later tours as the similar but different sound he used didn't cut through nearly as much IMHO when he let fly e.g. the awesome In The Cage medley.
I love the Quadra, I bought one years ago to use with Peter Hook & The Light, specifically to recreate the New Order synth sounds, sample them and use them LIVE. It was a joy to use and experiment with. I also found out that you could route an external input into the Quadra’s phaser by using a Y-cable and inserting the TRS end into any of the quad outputs, which was great because the phaser was amazing. I had mine fully overhauled and fitted with an external arpeggiator clock input and then I decided to sell it a few years ago…it was bought by a guy called Pete Townshend. Enjoy the Quadra Pete 👍🥂
I saw a band that had one the year they came out, and everyone in the crowd had to walk up and look at it. They had him do a three or four minute solo just to show off all the wild sound that one person could make. It was very impressive at the time.
@@gabigolescu Not entirely. Membrane panels were the "next big thing" at the time, as they are printed as a sheet, so can work out cheaper than tons of switches if made in numbers. The technology did improve somewhat with "blip disks" underneath that gave them tactile feedback. Synths like the DX7 were of better quality, but still wore out.
Interesting fact, my Mom dragged my brother and I to see Neil Diamond back in the mid 80's. Normally traveling with an orchestra, he was without for this show. As a synth geek I went up to the stage to look at his keyboardist's setup... I didn't know what this kybd was, but on the back was a very large, all in caps, "QUADRA." Lemme tell you, the strings on all Neil's tunes were HUGE and awesome sounding. Thanks QUADRA
I've just watched "Fresh Lineup" for the third time and am still laughing. The bass guy vibing while the keyboarder being annoyed at his under-utilization, and the guitarist doing everything not to leave a bad impression. Been there.
Hey Alexius! Behringer are sniffing around their user groups trying to garner interest in a recreation of the Quadra. I dobbed you in with this vlog, hope that's ok. You should be a consultant for MusicTribe!
One thing I really like about your videos is that your demos are a good showcase of these instruments being used "as originally intended" if that makes sense, and that really does justice to these rare pieces of gear.
Two things that surprises me are 1) the age of the synth and 2) modern approach to its design - given the color scheme, infographics and the layout of controls this synth it could have easily been released in 2020’s. But it’s actually 11 years older then me and I am in my early 30’s.
I always dig those odd time signatures in your tunes. That quick 15/8 in the first demo had a really nice feel to it. Great feature track, too. I'll gladly throw some Quad-Coin to accelerate the coming Arpocalypse.
LOL I kept counting over and over and furrowing my brow and said, “did he really just use 7 and 3/4 of a bar? That is absolutely genius and so catchy.” I forgot that 4 is not the only time sig denominator. Maestro Ball, your demos are phenomenal. Odd time is always tempting but it is not usually nearly as catchy as you made it. :) it sounds like what would have happened if temporary secretary by paul mccartney panned out as a good idea… 😐 just kidding. that would be impossible.
Oh my goodness. This synth was on my list of "when I'm a rock star" gear since '79. Sadly, I never got one. Sigh. But wow, you're doing a better job with it than I could have!
It’s the new order synth! They used the heck out of this thing from 1980-1983. My favorite use case of it by them is the bassline on Chosen Time from their debut Movement.
Can't tell how much happiness your demos - and especially the feature track - gave me! I dream of having your songwriting and performace skills!! Jolly good vid!
Gawd(y) that UI is some kind of crazy mix of ARP meets Casio and Roland in one fell swoop! Awesome vid, big jelly at your ability to access and house all this wonderful firmery!!! Thanks again!
Love the business Tony Banks did with this on Mama - a cowbell playing 16ths routed out of the drum machine into the trigger input for the 'sequenced' sounding chords.
Very cool stuff. One thing you missed, or neglected to point out, and that is, the Nord Stage line of keyboards. I didn't realize that the Nord Stage was SO influenced by the ARP QUADRA!!! Or at least it seems so. Just look at the ARP panel, separate sections for sounds, with a mixer in the middle to BOOT! and take a look at the Stage keyboards, SAME THING!! It's wild to see how so influenced Nord is by ARP. This also brings up another observation, and that is, ARP was the first synth company to have REVERB in a synth. THE ARP 2600, and SPEAKERS as well!! I don't even think they knew how ahead of their time they were.
Another fabulous video, thank you. That reaching across two keyboards - best exponent I ever came across for that was Sad Cafe's Vic Emerson who would go out with three Claviolines and with them close together recreate the lush string arrangements he'd recorded in the studio. An astonishing arranger and player. (In fact, that little clip you show does look a bit like Vic..) The Band Member Tune reminded me a bit of RAH Band's The Crunch.
So much fun. Came very close to buying a wrecked one of these for ... uh ... moderate money, but decided the last thing my life needed was another project. And it was very wrecked.
One of the things I love about your videos is how effective your sensibilities are with gear, you really make it shine without overproducing things in a way that makes synths seem deceptively simple to sound great while showcasing their standout features: my instincts are always to tweak 800 different parameters, you know how to voice them so incredibly well. Have you ever considered doing a video teaching your approach to sound design?
Cheers! Synths are like any musical instrument in that regard, I guess. I remember studying orchestration at university and just looking at the scores to famous classical pieces and seeing how there were actually only three things happening at once, but how sections were allocated to reinforce each of those things. The overall effect was that it sounded absolutely massive, but also clean and clear. Was a real eureka moment for me.
Wonderful video! I loved the sounds you made with the Quadra. You're always great at capturing the contemporary sound of the time period the instrument comes from!
The only time i saw a Quadra used by a band live was a The Drovers gig in 1998, and it failed halfway through their set. Congratulations on getting one that lasted through your video!
ARP quadra synthesizer, was widely used (among other synthesizers) by the keyboardist of the ELO (Electric Light Orchestra); Richard Tandy, on the 1979 Discovery LP. Tandy and ELO also used other ARP synthesizers; Omni, 2600, Odyssey among others...
Pride of place in all of my living rooms over the last 40 years, has been a giant. poster of Joe Zawinul at his ARP Quadra. It has always been a dream of mine. Thanks for a stonkingly informative piece. You're a class act!
ARP did a good Job! And you make this Quadra sound GREAT! Of course you can recognise the strings from the earlier Eminent Solina String Ensemble. Also a good idea of ARP to take over from Eminent.
as someone of age,my first look at a synthesizer was at tandy (radio shack) the Realistic Concertmate MG-1 very simplistic,and expensive at the time,and the only computer,who couldnt even make music,the TRS-80 i was just a child then,and when you compare the machines from now with these dinosaurs (including me lmao) back then,its astounding as always,great playing Alex
Alex Ball back with the music again, I think you should upload an hour long video of your music, I think it would get over 500k views so long as you name, and do a good thumbnail.
"Gloriously flawed" but that's character. The multi-instruments of the Seventies are oozing with that special orangey, stringy cheese! Love the Hooky impression btw, to a tee.
Brilliant!!!!! What an odd machine! But in true ARP fashion, they did their own thing, and built machines that people wanted! The golden days of synths, when people could manufacture these things unaware of what they were going to be worth 40 years after the fact!
I thought Demo 4 you looked like New Order, but sounded more Lightning Seeds. Loved everything, yet again. Got to say that the strings with phaser sounded great to me, but know what you mean there are loads of great synth strings with ‘that’ sound. And GForce VSM weighs a lot less :)
I recall seeing one of these at Chase Musicians (they may have been behind the Chase Bit One, I can't remember) in Euston, London in the late 1970's. Chase stocked a lot of the more exotic American synths, but Argent's in Denmark Street W1 had the Moog dealership. I went along to a live demo of the Avatar, organised by Chase, at some local hotel. I still have the brochures and flex-discs (PPC, Avatar and Omni-2). Years later, I rented a flat in Levita House, which was the building where Chase was located.
I can tell that you enjoyed making Skeleton Dance as much as we enjoyed listening to it!!! What a synth! I’ve never really heard one demoed properly before - thanks!! (…….is that a Trident I spy in the background during the last track???)
Was it a nice video? "Yes... but no". Oh no! "Yes but yes Alex!", as usual. 😉 It reminded me Air on some of the string machine sounds you played. Don't know if the French duo used this instrument.
It sounds very thin in my earphones... is that a feature of the instrument, or does it depend on your equalization? It sounds like the whole tracks went through a highpass + bandpass filter. Bass frequencies nearly absent. Almost like FM radio.
The song. All proceeds to the Alan R Pearlman Foundation!
UPDATE: I've just donated the $220 that sales of this song generated. Huge thanks to everyone who bought it.
alexball.bandcamp.com/track/arp-quadra-make-it-happen
these are awesome!!
Totally love it! 👍👍
Yeah, that ending tune is a total uplifting banger. Nice work!
Artists like you making music in the old style make me wish culture had stagnated before 9/11 instead of slightly after.
😌🙌
It boggles the mind that you simultaneously are capable of producing engaging videos, but also with a level of musicianship that's second to none. Are you mad? Yes, but also brilliant.
Thank you. 🙂
Right! I love these videos!
It's his life love and passion.
Lmao
Mad ? Madly talented !
I've been a massive fan of this synth for years. All because of Tony Banks.. my hero.
Ditto, Tony pumped this through arenas for a good 5 years and he made it sound amazing on tape just as well.
Good ol' Bony Tanks.
I too have been a fan for many years. But more recently watching post Gabriel/Hackett interviews (particularly with Gabriel & Hackett in the group interview) you can certainly feel the uncomfortableness/tension when Banks is talking about songs & "differing perspectives" about writing/producing songs, especially with Hackett... I got the feeling that Banks was very much a musical "Bully" in terms of other band members opinions in relation to a song's direction... 🤔🙄✌
Me too, Mr Banks was my original inspiration to become a keyboard player - the Quadra sounded much better than the Korgs (presumably) he switched to on the later tours as the similar but different sound he used didn't cut through nearly as much IMHO when he let fly e.g. the awesome In The Cage medley.
The last song sounds to me like Genisis post-Gabriel, mixed with Gabriel-post Genisis!
I love the Quadra, I bought one years ago to use with Peter Hook & The Light, specifically to recreate the New Order synth sounds, sample them and use them LIVE. It was a joy to use and experiment with. I also found out that you could route an external input into the Quadra’s phaser by using a Y-cable and inserting the TRS end into any of the quad outputs, which was great because the phaser was amazing. I had mine fully overhauled and fitted with an external arpeggiator clock input and then I decided to sell it a few years ago…it was bought by a guy called Pete Townshend. Enjoy the Quadra Pete 👍🥂
Definitely has one of the most fun front panels in synth history!
Yeah, stunner isn't it!
I saw a band that had one the year they came out, and everyone in the crowd had to walk up and look at it. They had him do a three or four minute solo just to show off all the wild sound that one person could make. It was very impressive at the time.
Unfortunately, the membrane panels were shit and wore out fast.
And they had no tactile feedback.
@@TryptychUK... though that was a technical/manufacturing limitation, at the time .. had nothing to do with the genius of the "concept" 😊
@@gabigolescu Not entirely. Membrane panels were the "next big thing" at the time, as they are printed as a sheet, so can work out cheaper than tons of switches if made in numbers. The technology did improve somewhat with "blip disks" underneath that gave them tactile feedback. Synths like the DX7 were of better quality, but still wore out.
The Quadra always makes me think Duke era Tony Banks and Movement era New Order. So cool seeing the sole focus of one of your videos.
Always makes me think of Escape from New York too. :)
@@AlexBallMusic "Legit Carpentry"
Remember Apple’s Super Multimedia. Computer “The Quadra”?
Interesting fact, my Mom dragged my brother and I to see Neil Diamond back in the mid 80's. Normally traveling with an orchestra, he was without for this show. As a synth geek I went up to the stage to look at his keyboardist's setup... I didn't know what this kybd was, but on the back was a very large, all in caps, "QUADRA." Lemme tell you, the strings on all Neil's tunes were HUGE and awesome sounding. Thanks QUADRA
Didn't know it was used Neil's live shows, very interesting! I guess it was cheaper than a string section.
You can spot the Quadra also in Neil's movie of the period, "The Jazz Singer".
Videos like this make me wish the 80s never ended.
I've just watched "Fresh Lineup" for the third time and am still laughing. The bass guy vibing while the keyboarder being annoyed at his under-utilization, and the guitarist doing everything not to leave a bad impression. Been there.
It's where we all feel most at home.
I love the sound of the Quadra on Genesis' Abacab. Pretty sweet.
Hey Alexius! Behringer are sniffing around their user groups trying to garner interest in a recreation of the Quadra. I dobbed you in with this vlog, hope that's ok. You should be a consultant for MusicTribe!
One thing I really like about your videos is that your demos are a good showcase of these instruments being used "as originally intended" if that makes sense, and that really does justice to these rare pieces of gear.
Cheers. Genuinely a fan of the era, so enjoy exploring the styles of the time with the instruments they used. Super fun.
I honestly don’t understand how you and Florian aren’t mega Producers at this point! Love u guys 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
P.S. love the haircut
Two things that surprises me are 1) the age of the synth and 2) modern approach to its design - given the color scheme, infographics and the layout of controls this synth it could have easily been released in 2020’s. But it’s actually 11 years older then me and I am in my early 30’s.
Man, the demo 3 song sounds better than a lot of final productions around, HOLY MOLY
I always dig those odd time signatures in your tunes. That quick 15/8 in the first demo had a really nice feel to it. Great feature track, too. I'll gladly throw some Quad-Coin to accelerate the coming Arpocalypse.
Gotta love odd time.
Arpocalypse in 9/8 ? 😁
LOL I kept counting over and over and furrowing my brow and said, “did he really just use 7 and 3/4 of a bar? That is absolutely genius and so catchy.” I forgot that 4 is not the only time sig denominator. Maestro Ball, your demos are phenomenal. Odd time is always tempting but it is not usually nearly as catchy as you made it. :) it sounds like what would have happened if temporary secretary by paul mccartney panned out as a good idea… 😐 just kidding. that would be impossible.
Nice to see the guitars getting a workout😊
The Phase Shifter MAKES this synth!
It certainly does!
As prominently heard in Escape From New York! Among others. Your second demo captures that so well!
The synth that killed ARP. You can see what went into this right away. Crazy for its time! My first synth was an ARP Axxe, the same year.
Oh my goodness. This synth was on my list of "when I'm a rock star" gear since '79. Sadly, I never got one. Sigh. But wow, you're doing a better job with it than I could have!
It’s the new order synth! They used the heck out of this thing from 1980-1983. My favorite use case of it by them is the bassline on Chosen Time from their debut Movement.
Movement is such an underrated album. What it lacks in catchy melodies it more than makes up for with the rhythms and atmospherics!
I love New Order, I had no idea they used this synth - thanks!
I saw a ARP QUADRA at a vintage instrument shop. The thing was massive and looked like it could crush your head if it fell on you.
So are the string pads on songs like age of consent and blue Monday from the Quadra?
@@bryceneal3136 yes!
Can't tell how much happiness your demos - and especially the feature track - gave me! I dream of having your songwriting and performace skills!! Jolly good vid!
Gawd(y) that UI is some kind of crazy mix of ARP meets Casio and Roland in one fell swoop! Awesome vid, big jelly at your ability to access and house all this wonderful firmery!!! Thanks again!
Love the business Tony Banks did with this on Mama - a cowbell playing 16ths routed out of the drum machine into the trigger input for the 'sequenced' sounding chords.
Yeah, he got everything out of it, at a time when it quickly became outdated too. Respect.
Very cool stuff.
One thing you missed, or neglected to point out, and that is, the Nord Stage line of keyboards. I didn't realize that the Nord Stage was SO influenced by the ARP QUADRA!!! Or at least it seems so. Just look at the ARP panel, separate sections for sounds, with a mixer in the middle to BOOT! and take a look at the Stage keyboards, SAME THING!! It's wild to see how so influenced Nord is by ARP.
This also brings up another observation, and that is, ARP was the first synth company to have REVERB in a synth.
THE ARP 2600, and SPEAKERS as well!!
I don't even think they knew how ahead of their time they were.
Reminds me of when our band acquired an Oberheim Xpander. Very unique!
Love the Xpander.
Best color scheme I've ever seen on a synthesizer. Just beautiful. Sounds good too.
Another fabulous video, thank you.
That reaching across two keyboards - best exponent I ever came across for that was Sad Cafe's Vic Emerson who would go out with three Claviolines and with them close together recreate the lush string arrangements he'd recorded in the studio. An astonishing arranger and player. (In fact, that little clip you show does look a bit like Vic..)
The Band Member Tune reminded me a bit of RAH Band's The Crunch.
So much fun. Came very close to buying a wrecked one of these for ... uh ... moderate money, but decided the last thing my life needed was another project. And it was very wrecked.
That little jam at the end is BETTER than ANYTHING on the radio nowadays or top 200, or whatever!!! Excellent!!!! 🌟
ELO would have been proud of that.
@@djsherz 💯
That "Band Member" demo was one of the best things in this video. Yum!
I had never heard that about playing two keyboards with one hand, what a relic of the era. Great stuff as always sir!
Yep, became totally unnecessary within a short period and everyone forgot why there needed to be a solution to help it!
Love little tidbits like that.
@@AlexBallMusic and to think, they'd be lost to time without commited documentarians 🙏🙏
You can see that sometimes from classical or theatre organists.
@@Triplechorus2 Yeah, Bach for example often couldn't just leave that extra manual and that one idle finger unused.
Did it myself as well in the 1990s while having had some vintage analog synths without midi or cv control.
One of the things I love about your videos is how effective your sensibilities are with gear, you really make it shine without overproducing things in a way that makes synths seem deceptively simple to sound great while showcasing their standout features: my instincts are always to tweak 800 different parameters, you know how to voice them so incredibly well. Have you ever considered doing a video teaching your approach to sound design?
Cheers! Synths are like any musical instrument in that regard, I guess.
I remember studying orchestration at university and just looking at the scores to famous classical pieces and seeing how there were actually only three things happening at once, but how sections were allocated to reinforce each of those things. The overall effect was that it sounded absolutely massive, but also clean and clear.
Was a real eureka moment for me.
@@AlexBallMusic I'm reminded of the gag..
"What are we doing this afternoon?"
'Studying orchestration'
"err.. studying it is.."
I didn't realize that the Quadra came out in 1978. So it had colored rows of buttons long before the Jupiter-8!
Every day I wake up super pissed that this channel doesn't have a million subs. Those jams are so fun!
Probably a bit niche for 1 million. 🙃
Some superb demos in this one... Yes, ok I may be a fan of 80s-esque synth and guitar bands
dang one minute in and i gotta comment on how much i love the portamento on that higher note in the intro song
Wonderful video! I loved the sounds you made with the Quadra. You're always great at capturing the contemporary sound of the time period the instrument comes from!
It's Friday night, I open UA-cam and see a picture of the ARP Quadra and I'm shouting: Ridiculous! How can that be bad gear?
It definitely has something of a "BBC Radiophonic Workshop" sound to it. Which I guess makes sense.
Great video Alex! Man those Quadra Strings around 3:12 are otherworldly. Different enough from a Solina to be unique, but so powerful!
Yeah, they are nice.
Agree. With the phaser, it actually sounds rather similar to the Solina
Love the shoutout to Keith Emerson and his mighty Moog at 9:46!
Christ, that’s a nice sounding bit of kit. Brilliant content and performances, as always Alex
I demand to see more of my favorite shows scored by Alex Ball.
The ARP Quadra.......just....what a cool name this is, before you touch a note on it!!
The only time i saw a Quadra used by a band live was a The Drovers gig in 1998, and it failed halfway through their set.
Congratulations on getting one that lasted through your video!
Haha, I'd heard they weren't the most reliable! Even Joe Zawinul had one die on him on stage I'm told.
ARP quadra synthesizer, was widely used (among other synthesizers) by the keyboardist of the ELO (Electric Light Orchestra); Richard Tandy, on the 1979 Discovery LP.
Tandy and ELO also used other ARP synthesizers; Omni, 2600, Odyssey among others...
Your demos are sick! 😎 I especially like the demo 1: Skeleton Dance. You absolutely nailed the 4/4+7/8 groove!
The synth sounds great, too! 😊
ditto
just love your videos Alex. Amazing info and music!
Make it Happen is a wonderful song, love it.
Thanks!
Another fantastic video, it’s always been one of the best looking synths for me and as a New Order fan a real treat to see you demo it. 👌🏻
Man, bang-up job on that late 70s-style track 🤙
Another great video Alex! What a very cool looking keyboard. Very interesting info about the overhanging keyboard. Thank you so much for doing these.
Pride of place in all of my living rooms over the last 40 years, has been a giant. poster of Joe Zawinul at his ARP Quadra. It has always been a dream of mine. Thanks for a stonkingly informative piece. You're a class act!
That intro was badass!!!!Loved it!!
Still have one of these sitting in a Road case from when I was 19 LOL.
Nope actually, the keybed had overhang because it was designed by Tom Oberhang.
Perfect joke.
If you made the first part, the jam into a complete track i would listen to it all the time.
ARP did a good Job! And you make this Quadra sound GREAT! Of course you can recognise the strings from the earlier Eminent Solina String Ensemble. Also a good idea of ARP to take over from Eminent.
Sounds great, looks like something out of Space 1999
Space 1978.
A new video! 😀 The Quadra sounds great!
Man, that jam in 23 was sinister! Thanks for the continued fun, dude!
It was like YMO did a Neo-noir film score.
Massive deliciousness in sound!!! Amazing demo and super cool tracks Alex! 😃🙌 Gotta love ARP synthesizers ❤️
Hey Michael! Cheers. :)
Listening to these always makes me think of the library composer classics
So much “ELO-y” goodness in that last track…. Just fantastic!
I was just about to say the same thing, it has the right pace, chord progressions and harmonising !
That intro was excellent!
as someone of age,my first look at a synthesizer was at tandy (radio shack) the Realistic Concertmate MG-1
very simplistic,and expensive at the time,and the only computer,who couldnt even make music,the TRS-80
i was just a child then,and when you compare the machines from now with these dinosaurs (including me lmao) back then,its astounding
as always,great playing Alex
Your demos in this video 👌
Thank you.
Drool bucket filled! Dreamy to the max!
Alex Ball back with the music again, I think you should upload an hour long video of your music, I think it would get over 500k views so long as you name, and do a good thumbnail.
"Gloriously flawed" but that's character. The multi-instruments of the Seventies are oozing with that special orangey, stringy cheese! Love the Hooky impression btw, to a tee.
Brilliant!!!!! What an odd machine! But in true ARP fashion, they did their own thing, and built machines that people wanted! The golden days of synths, when people could manufacture these things unaware of what they were going to be worth 40 years after the fact!
I thought Demo 4 you looked like New Order, but sounded more Lightning Seeds. Loved everything, yet again. Got to say that the strings with phaser sounded great to me, but know what you mean there are loads of great synth strings with ‘that’ sound. And GForce VSM weighs a lot less :)
New Seeds then. 😛
Yep, VSM is awesome.
I wanted one of those soo bad. I played one in San Francisco at a music store way down on Columbus near tower records
Thing sounds so killer in a band, absolutely love your jams, you’re so good at every instrument, I literally aspire to be like you, you’re my hero lol
I recall seeing one of these at Chase Musicians (they may have been behind the Chase Bit One, I can't remember) in Euston, London in the late 1970's. Chase stocked a lot of the more exotic American synths, but Argent's in Denmark Street W1 had the Moog dealership. I went along to a live demo of the Avatar, organised by Chase, at some local hotel. I still have the brochures and flex-discs (PPC, Avatar and Omni-2). Years later, I rented a flat in Levita House, which was the building where Chase was located.
Brilliant stuff! Love the way you demonstrated it!
"The glorious, the majestic, the...rather neon..." 🤣🤣
The Arp Quadra - Halloween II
Lovely !
Very, very good. 👏
Your videos are very informative as well as musically wonderful, keep up the great work!
Ah so good when all clocked up
Incroyable pour cette époque !!!
I can tell that you enjoyed making Skeleton Dance as much as we enjoyed listening to it!!! What a synth! I’ve never really heard one demoed properly before - thanks!! (…….is that a Trident I spy in the background during the last track???)
You did indeed spy a Trident, but that's for another video...
Brilliant as usual
After just one click this became one of my favorite channels.
Cheers
5:55 Was thinking this sounded like a cue from Escape From New York then saw it was called "Legit Carpentry." 😂
Had to be done. It was the law.
Faaantastic! And amazingly effective use of different guitar strap lengths. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏
Guitar straps were indeed modulated.
so sarcastic!
@@AlexBallMusic Powerfully so.
Brilliant composition in the end! 🎉
Prog paved the way for metal. The greatest achievement of mankind.
You are such a gem, Alex Ball. I love what you do.
Make It Happen is really making it happen. That's some of the best new wave I have heard in quite a while.
So cool, thanks! Will try to replicate the sounds and learn from this video with my plug in version
Excellent work - song purchased! 🙂
Interesting synthesizer and amazing demos!
Cheers for the playlist, adds loads of context. Would love to see more playlists for other instruments.
when you’re slinging that low bass guitar you almost look like peter hook!
Was it a nice video? "Yes... but no". Oh no! "Yes but yes Alex!", as usual. 😉 It reminded me Air on some of the string machine sounds you played. Don't know if the French duo used this instrument.
It sounds very thin in my earphones... is that a feature of the instrument, or does it depend on your equalization? It sounds like the whole tracks went through a highpass + bandpass filter. Bass frequencies nearly absent. Almost like FM radio.