Ahh it takes me back to a time when making music was much easier to some degree.I didn't have a w30 but had the Atari st running cubas ,Akai s950 with a whole 30 seconds of mono sample time ,Roland Juno 2 ,Roland SH 101 with Kenton midi to cv and gate box that would also sync up to my TB303's ,Roland TR808 ,The Korg m1 into a mackie desk with a quadraverb for fx ......made many rave a techno tunes back in the day ....added more equipment as time went by as we made money from selling records like a Roland R8 drum machine a Roland JD800 , Sony D.A.T machine and S.A.W which was a hard disk recording system for the p.c
They are a great workhorse, had one for ages Hired out (usually for a good night out😉) to gigging bands of the time.. Heady days indeed, might invest in another, if I can find one.
00:41 did you find the A side Paolo? I know that feeling of lost diskette/zip/ cf cards 😂 after 15y of searching i found a 3 akai s3000 diskette full of cool samples and also an 2 gb capacity cf card full of photos from my trip in serbia back in 2007😊
In fact it's 5:44 am in Paris actually ;) I really like that "Balinese" percussion or pluck bells sound ! Great good old techno/house track with a nice "boomboom" beat !
It all started with some melted sand grains, then transistors and various other items began showing up. Next was the invention of synthetic sounds, followed by our eventually voting not for people, but instead for A.I. The time is 20:20:20PM on the 21st say of the 12th month, 21/12/20. Suddenly Neil Pearts formulated A.I. busts out a awesome 20 minute drum solo thanx to a humanoid droid, and the robotic band using midi sync played on for the entire long weekend without pause, using bluetooth technology. And you were voted in to play keys while Geddy Lee stuck to just playing bass, because of your block rockn' beats.
hey paolo, can you make a video on dub techno like basic channel, rhythm and sound and deepchord? would be super cool seeing something like this! Thanks for your work, love your videos!
Yes but which song(s) exactly are you referring too? Dub Techno can easily "squiggle out" to different genres and not everyone agrees on what's what. If you post a youtube link to the song that you're looking to emulate, that'd be optimal.
SynthMania Thanks for your reply! im a big fan of this one ua-cam.com/video/iQP7z_FN2us/v-deo.html Rhythm and Sound - Carrier these fat dub chords that start at 0:14 are just from out of this world
Did W30 had internal memory, or you had to store both midi and samples on a floppy? I can hear some samples lacking higher frequencies, some not. I guess the 909 drums had to be compressed to make some space for everything else. I remember Quadrophonia - "Schizophrenia (Electric Chair Mix)" uses same vocal sample. It's on my channel, for anyone interested.
Yes, the W-30 could store songs & sounds on floppy. The max sampling resolution on the W-30 was 30kHz so you had to boost the highs a bit in mixing if needed. Hehe, yep, loved Quadrophonia, I bought the "Cozmic Jam" CD when it came out :-D see, the thing is that everybody who was a keyboard player into Techno back in the day in Europe, used the same sample CDs that were brand new as a concept, back then in 1991 - that sample was in the Datafiles , I made a video on those sample CDs here as I have a big collection: ua-cam.com/video/9y4OZyQn6YY/v-deo.html
@@SynthManiaDotCom I've discovered boosting the highs trick too, but inside FL Studio, while replaying samples at lower octaves. Recently tried same thing on Roland S-50, which I got dirt cheap over Allegro (Polish eBay). I think it's where the true magic of 8 and 12 bit samplers appear, you bring back higher harmonics that managed to get through bitcrushing algorithms, getting more refined sound in result. Kind of like with the Moog filters, but in more subtle way. I wouldn't do that on 909 hihats and claps though, I like the crisp. I've heard about sample CD's before, nowadays everyone buys samplepacks over the web. It's convenient way to make music on budget, shame too many producers are recycling same stuff :) I personally prefer hunting for samples over used CD's, and quickly chopping them in Audacity.
That old skool drop with that fantastic stab sound takes me back to when I first got into music as a child. Would you share that stab sample Paolo please in the notes ?
@@SynthManiaDotCom wow - didn't expect to hear a string sample when played at standard speed that made that phat rave drop. I have a song in production currently that I'm going to use it in. If it ever gets finished I'll be sure to share a copy. You are a legend sir. Much love to your channel.
@@t0m_mcc it's before my time so I'm not sure either. But if you consider an akai s900 had only 750kb of memory, yet could hold 11 seconds of audio at 40khz or 63 seconds at 7.5khz , it seems plausible that it could all fit on a 1.44mb floppy. The instrument sounds would be made of audio samples that last a second, only the human voice would take up a lot of space.
On the W-30, you can save on the floppy the sound data, the sequence data, or both. This has both - the samples and the sequence. Btw, the W-30 cannot use a whole 1.44 floppy - it uses Double Side / Double Density floppies, a max of 720K.
@@SynthManiaDotCom The tune really is amazing, a banger by anyone's standards. A lot of the 'cooler' pop music young people are enjoying these days is trying to sound like 90s techno and house. See "riton & kahlo" for an example. I actually quite like it but it sounds so so weak, bland and dead compared to this 700k of fire. Paulo you should pitch some of your stuff to record companies like XL (London) for collabs with whatever hot new acts they are pushing.
I just logged on to tell you what a dope track this is. That riff is on fire!!! It's all about that riff, it sounds like something Grooverider, Fabio, and Carl Cox would have played. Was this ever released to 12"? Do you plan to release it to 12"? Do you think you might do a kickstarter-type thing to release it on 12"? Ever hear of Music Preservation Society (www.mpsvinyl.com), they release this music now. Do a remix for the flip with a rolling amen break and some sub bass and you've got something really sick.
Back in 1993 I've made a techno-composition with Proteus /1 Plus Orchestral (sic!), and its name was "Welcome To Next Minute". Check this out: drive.google.com/open?id=1ntBda6merhWZzzFSf4hZ3jTi2BgJpbjY but please do not judge it too tough. I know, it had sounding very naive, primitively composed and badly mastered, as it was one of my very first experiments in making of electronic music without having a solid material and life experience base. OMG, if I could have at least W-30 in that time! BTW, Paolo, have you ever think about some virtual meeting point (like own forum or whatever) where the channel's subscribers could communicate to you or present their own compositions and discuss more about 80-90's music styles in role of music makers as well as regarding synths, their sound patches, famous and rare samples and e.t.c.?
This is fuckin tight man, did any of your techno tracks get put on vinyl at some point? You should touch up some of these old diskettes and put a compilation record out!
Awesome. I made a few cool techno/trance sequences on my 01Wfd back in the day, which I backed up to a floppy at the time. I ended up selling it not too soon after though.
@@SynthManiaDotCom its very long and often the same questions.. but as a non american (I am from Germany) it's interessting how your countryside looks like :) The lake view in former videos was beautiful :) It's always interesting when you find an old diskette (?) and look what's on it :)
Yeah, I'll have to start taking only the best questions in... as it seems people don't watch the previous episodes. Hence making the videos shorter. Focus on quality questions, not quantity
@@SynthManiaDotCom I didn't want to critizise. I like your old Techno stuff. I owned in the 90s only an Emu Esi 32 but I loved all this sound disquettes too ☺
Here you go - This is the original sample, just play it / loop it in the lower octave to get the lower stab sound synthmania.com/Misc/Mood%20Syn.wav
Thanks so much for this ! Would love more of these original samples from you please and thank you!
Tick tock... 🕛 nearly 30 years later and I still can’t get enough of the stabs from 90-92. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
What time is it? SYNTHMANIA TIME!!!1! 😎
I enjoy so much your videos!
As loved and used by the early Prodigy. RIP Keith Flint 😔
1991 is best year for great music :)
Super RAVE! Where is my glow stick? The Roland W-30 was way ahead of it's time! Great sequencer & keybed. It was a pleasure to play!
It was! Also it was semi-affordable compared to the AKAIs, at least in Europe :-D
So cool hearing some early 90s techno right from the machine. Nice post
a lot of these samples are really great, would love a 'SynthMania nostalgia pack', thanks for the video! :)
This is awesome! Brings me back to the clubs, listening to groups like T99, 4Hero, Da Juice!
Ahh it takes me back to a time when making music was much easier to some degree.I didn't have a w30 but had the Atari st running cubas ,Akai s950 with a whole 30 seconds of mono sample time ,Roland Juno 2 ,Roland SH 101 with Kenton midi to cv and gate box that would also sync up to my TB303's ,Roland TR808 ,The Korg m1 into a mackie desk with a quadraverb for fx ......made many rave a techno tunes back in the day ....added more equipment as time went by as we made money from selling records like a Roland R8 drum machine a Roland JD800 , Sony D.A.T machine and S.A.W which was a hard disk recording system for the p.c
Damn, sounds like one hell of a setup
that drum loop @0:54 brought me back in time. It's Kid-N-Play (My Way)
Becoming one of my FAVORITE channels. Love your style, quite prolific, man. Keep it up!!!
Finally, more of these videos! These classic rave sounds are my favourite from you! More of these please! =DD
They are a great workhorse, had one for ages
Hired out (usually for a good night out😉) to gigging bands of the time..
Heady days indeed, might invest in another, if I can find one.
aha ! I just played at a big party and woke up with this video ^^ great thank you for sharing :)
I do wish I could get my old w30 from the loft of the house I rented 5 years ago.I like you have a soft spot for that awesome Sampler...
This is really highquality stuff. The final 'mix' on the w30 sounds pretty clear & unique.
Leon, thank you
Love it!
Since all my synths are gone you are my only source of analog circuitry.
Gotta love that little interlude at around 10:12 - 10:30
You are super cool! I wish I had w30.
Also I'm learning much from you. Thanks!
Beautiful! And I have w-30
My 1st proper keyboard was my W30. Happy times making tunes on that.
I love the synth sound
Fire
W30! my first "proper" workstation back in the 90s..memories :)
I LOVE IT MAMITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jilted. Love it!
Wooooo it's time to drop that EXTASIS!
It's 8:20 in Helsinki. This is cool track! Was it officially released?
Big grin on my face the whole time. Now let's have the extended version!
more of these early techno production videos please!!
Coming right up! :^)
It's *PAOLO TIME* 👍👌🖖
What time is it? It's RAVIN' TIME!
00:41 did you find the A side Paolo? I know that feeling of lost diskette/zip/ cf cards 😂 after 15y of searching i found a 3 akai s3000 diskette full of cool samples and also an 2 gb capacity cf card full of photos from my trip in serbia back in 2007😊
00:42 i really wish you will make more videos like this
In fact it's 5:44 am in Paris actually ;)
I really like that "Balinese" percussion or pluck bells sound !
Great good old techno/house track with a nice "boomboom" beat !
Hey man, you're supposed to be outside burning cars
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lolThat's what i do actually .... go to watch your car !
Ah je suis pas tout seul :)
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol Look at that , this is cars & banks now... a kind of re-evolution :
ua-cam.com/video/0HLsDYYYVnk/v-deo.html
Would you recommend getting a W-30 now?
Go for a Korg Microsampler
It all started with some melted sand grains, then transistors and various other items began showing up. Next was the invention of synthetic sounds, followed by our eventually voting not for people, but instead for A.I.
The time is 20:20:20PM on the 21st say of the 12th month, 21/12/20.
Suddenly Neil Pearts formulated A.I. busts out a awesome 20 minute drum solo thanx to a humanoid droid, and the robotic band using midi sync played on for the entire long weekend without pause, using bluetooth technology. And you were voted in to play keys while Geddy Lee stuck to just playing bass, because of your block rockn' beats.
Cool
:^)
hey paolo, can you make a video on dub techno like basic channel, rhythm and sound and deepchord? would be super cool seeing something like this! Thanks for your work, love your videos!
Yes but which song(s) exactly are you referring too? Dub Techno can easily "squiggle out" to different genres and not everyone agrees on what's what. If you post a youtube link to the song that you're looking to emulate, that'd be optimal.
SynthMania Thanks for your reply! im a big fan of this one
ua-cam.com/video/iQP7z_FN2us/v-deo.html
Rhythm and Sound - Carrier
these fat dub chords that start at 0:14 are just from out of this world
Did W30 had internal memory, or you had to store both midi and samples on a floppy? I can hear some samples lacking higher frequencies, some not. I guess the 909 drums had to be compressed to make some space for everything else.
I remember Quadrophonia - "Schizophrenia (Electric Chair Mix)" uses same vocal sample. It's on my channel, for anyone interested.
Yes, the W-30 could store songs & sounds on floppy. The max sampling resolution on the W-30 was 30kHz so you had to boost the highs a bit in mixing if needed. Hehe, yep, loved Quadrophonia, I bought the "Cozmic Jam" CD when it came out :-D see, the thing is that everybody who was a keyboard player into Techno back in the day in Europe, used the same sample CDs that were brand new as a concept, back then in 1991 - that sample was in the Datafiles , I made a video on those sample CDs here as I have a big collection: ua-cam.com/video/9y4OZyQn6YY/v-deo.html
@@SynthManiaDotCom I've discovered boosting the highs trick too, but inside FL Studio, while replaying samples at lower octaves. Recently tried same thing on Roland S-50, which I got dirt cheap over Allegro (Polish eBay). I think it's where the true magic of 8 and 12 bit samplers appear, you bring back higher harmonics that managed to get through bitcrushing algorithms, getting more refined sound in result. Kind of like with the Moog filters, but in more subtle way. I wouldn't do that on 909 hihats and claps though, I like the crisp.
I've heard about sample CD's before, nowadays everyone buys samplepacks over the web. It's convenient way to make music on budget, shame too many producers are recycling same stuff :) I personally prefer hunting for samples over used CD's, and quickly chopping them in Audacity.
Liam Howlett from The Prodigy made most of their music on a W-30.
That old skool drop with that fantastic stab sound takes me back to when I first got into music as a child.
Would you share that stab sample Paolo please in the notes ?
Sure, I'll upload it
@@SynthManiaDotCom many thanks.
Here you go - This is the original sample, just play it / loop it in the lower octave to get the lower stab sound synthmania.com/Misc/Mood%20Syn.wav
@@SynthManiaDotCom wow - didn't expect to hear a string sample when played at standard speed that made that phat rave drop. I have a song in production currently that I'm going to use it in. If it ever gets finished I'll be sure to share a copy. You are a legend sir. Much love to your channel.
Fun. More old songs.
it's amazing how much energy & soul you can fit on a floppy.
was it just midi on the floppy or all the audio too?
Floppy is 1.4mb so don't think it would hold any samples. Could be wrong tho
@@t0m_mcc it's before my time so I'm not sure either. But if you consider an akai s900 had only 750kb of memory, yet could hold 11 seconds of audio at 40khz or 63 seconds at 7.5khz , it seems plausible that it could all fit on a 1.44mb floppy. The instrument sounds would be made of audio samples that last a second, only the human voice would take up a lot of space.
On the W-30, you can save on the floppy the sound data, the sequence data, or both. This has both - the samples and the sequence. Btw, the W-30 cannot use a whole 1.44 floppy - it uses Double Side / Double Density floppies, a max of 720K.
The Fairlight CMI used 8 inch floppies. E-mu Emulator 1 used 5 and 1/4 inch floppies.
@@SynthManiaDotCom The tune really is amazing, a banger by anyone's standards. A lot of the 'cooler' pop music young people are enjoying these days is trying to sound like 90s techno and house. See "riton & kahlo" for an example. I actually quite like it but it sounds so so weak, bland and dead compared to this 700k of fire. Paulo you should pitch some of your stuff to record companies like XL (London) for collabs with whatever hot new acts they are pushing.
I don't like techno - but I like this. :)
You've got a Bentley Rhythm Ace!
That was the band :-) Yes, that's an Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Roland's first drum machine
@@SynthManiaDotCom HAHA! Of course it was. I've seen them live as well! I got confused :s
They should have played this song in blade during the rave scene
for better immersion I played (and muted) this ua-cam.com/video/ZclaXQWVRCg/v-deo.html while listening to What Time Is It...
How do you make the synth sound?
Here you go - This is the original sample, just play it / loop it in the lower octave to get the lower stab sound synthmania.com/Misc/Mood%20Syn.wav
Basf diskette? I remember the blue, the grey and black.
I just logged on to tell you what a dope track this is. That riff is on fire!!! It's all about that riff, it sounds like something Grooverider, Fabio, and Carl Cox would have played. Was this ever released to 12"? Do you plan to release it to 12"? Do you think you might do a kickstarter-type thing to release it on 12"? Ever hear of Music Preservation Society (www.mpsvinyl.com), they release this music now. Do a remix for the flip with a rolling amen break and some sub bass and you've got something really sick.
Back in 1993 I've made a techno-composition with Proteus /1 Plus Orchestral (sic!), and its name was "Welcome To Next Minute".
Check this out: drive.google.com/open?id=1ntBda6merhWZzzFSf4hZ3jTi2BgJpbjY but please do not judge it too tough.
I know, it had sounding very naive, primitively composed and badly mastered, as it was one of my very first experiments in making of electronic music without having a solid material and life experience base.
OMG, if I could have at least W-30 in that time!
BTW, Paolo, have you ever think about some virtual meeting point (like own forum or whatever) where the channel's subscribers could communicate to you or present their own compositions and discuss more about 80-90's music styles in role of music makers as well as regarding synths, their sound patches, famous and rare samples and e.t.c.?
Some parts maybe a little crash cymbal heavy. I can almost hear it being a Streets Of Rage song haha
The crash in fourths was very much in vogue at the time. I guess you had to be there to know..
@@SynthManiaDotCom I was there! haha
@@Cuzjudd What?! And you don't remember that? :-D haha How old are you?
@@SynthManiaDotCom I was 9 or 10 in 1991 ;) Come to think of it I can remember the crash on every whole whole note four on the floor style
Lol come on, if you're born in 1981 :-D ... you weren't there, you were a bit too little to go to raves :-)
This is fuckin tight man, did any of your techno tracks get put on vinyl at some point? You should touch up some of these old diskettes and put a compilation record out!
I had a W30 back in the 80s, I think it was 12bit Samples, very dull sounding now.
The little drummer / amen loop (dont know how to discribe it ) is from norman cook's sample cd ...skip to my loops
Still diskettes are working?, i thought they died
Now that is quality techno.
By the way, please use the Space Echo more often. It's looking a bit lonely there in the background.
Awesome. I made a few cool techno/trance sequences on my 01Wfd back in the day, which I backed up to a floppy at the time. I ended up selling it not too soon after though.
Ha! I was just on gear slutz checking out the w30 and saw your posts.
7:40 AM
First Rhythm is so prodigy...they ve also used a w30
Liam Howlett, how are you doin? )
Make Some Noise....JUMP...JUMP....JUMP..............lol
You are the electronic Vivaldi
now I remember why I hated this keyboard :-)
its time fot trumpton!
Lost classic!
I love such videos more than synthwalk
Why don't you like synthwalk?
@@SynthManiaDotCom its very long and often the same questions.. but as a non american (I am from Germany) it's interessting how your countryside looks like :) The lake view in former videos was beautiful :) It's always interesting when you find an old diskette (?) and look what's on it :)
Yeah, I'll have to start taking only the best questions in... as it seems people don't watch the previous episodes. Hence making the videos shorter. Focus on quality questions, not quantity
@@SynthManiaDotCom I didn't want to critizise. I like your old Techno stuff. I owned in the 90s only an Emu Esi 32 but I loved all this sound disquettes too ☺
No worries at all
If you could so kindly share a floppy images online, I would love to try it out on my w-30