Holy smokes! Just discovered your art. This entire band never got the credit it was due. Highly talented musicians. Amazing work you did deconstructing and then recreating Rhodes' keyboard work. Thank you for sharing your art.
I love 80's songs because of the lot of synths that they use. I hope one day I can have my own synths to play around :). Awesome video, made some things a lot clear to me
Loved your enlightening breakdown of Save a Prayer. Huge Duran Duran fan but can't figure out the arpeggio on Rio. I understand that Nick Rhodes used a Jupiter 8 with a "random" setting on the arp. Is there a way to recreate that if your synth doesn't have a "random" option, but only up, down or up/down? Also read that the opening sound was a recording of Nick banging on piano strings with a pipe and slowing it down and playing it backwards. Who, but Nick Rhodes can come up with these ideas and turn them into a song that sounds amazing! Thanks
Thanks for this tutorial I was able to recreate the sound on a Roland Fantom 07. The portamento was brilliant. If you could do a tutorial for the song “TRUE” by Spandau Ballet that would be great
Sounds pretty close. The delayed arp needs a tiny bit more release. Also not sure the lead has any rez… it’s pretty consistent with its filter envelope. Great job, otherwise. Btw, the OP-X PRO II plugin has both of these sounds in perfection, which I used to play this live (and get out the easy way). 🤘🏻🤣🤘🏻
You can do it in Ableton. The arpeggio is eighth notes, playing D-E-F-A-C-A-C-A. The tempo is (roughly) 114BPM. Get the right synth sound, then you add the delay. Without the delay, at the right tempo & setting, it won't sound right. In Ableton you should have the right delay setting already. Look in Audio Effects>Delay>Clean Delay>Dotted Eighth Note. That should get you there. Good luck.
@@MarkBlasquez Ok I got the arpeggiop down ty! The big question is how do I start the arpeggio so it plays automatically. Thanks again for taking the time to help me figure it out!
@@goku8586 I need some help, i tried to play this in 113 and 114 bpm but im not really sure if the original track is in that tempo after 30 or 40 secs the sequencer and the track get lost
Typically, pitch bend is measured in semitones. In this case, you would set the pitchblende range to +7 semitones. Hope that helps, if not, let me know.
@@MarkBlasquez Thank so much for answering my question. Your video is an excellent tutorial. If if you have more of these especially Duran Duran, I would donate to you through paypal. I have Arturia JP-8V and theres a person that did a few duran tutorials but they leave a lot of parts missing. Really frustrating because they are just trying to get their custom presets purchased. Once again I really appreciate this tutorial, very easy to understand and learn. You have a great gift.
@@goku8586 I will do more of these, for sure. My day job is pretty intense and I've just been buried. I think next is gonna be A-ha "Take On Me". Doing a recreation of an entire song would take more time than I have, but I'll do something interesting. Thanks for the kind words.
Great breakdown of the song!!
I love doing this stuff in my DAW. You have a great ear, very well done.
Holy smokes! Just discovered your art.
This entire band never got the credit it was due. Highly talented musicians.
Amazing work you did deconstructing and then recreating Rhodes' keyboard
work. Thank you for sharing your art.
Thanks for the kind words! After a long hiatus there should be a lot more of this kind of content coming at you soon. Enjoy.
I love 80's songs because of the lot of synths that they use. I hope one day I can have my own synths to play around :). Awesome video, made some things a lot clear to me
This is so amazing!
Really enjoyed this breakdown of a great song.👍
Please...You should do more of these.
Super talento de ese grupo musical nadie les iguala el manejo de los sintetisadores
Outstanding
yea that ending part is awesome
for me it sounded exactly the same! you have a very good listening skills!
Thank you for the kind words.
If I may request the Intro part of Together in Electric Dreams. Thank you very much!
Great walk through 👍
Loved your enlightening breakdown of Save a Prayer. Huge Duran Duran fan but can't figure out the arpeggio on Rio. I understand that Nick Rhodes used a Jupiter 8 with a "random" setting on the arp. Is there a way to recreate that if your synth doesn't have a "random" option, but only up, down or up/down?
Also read that the opening sound was a recording of Nick banging on piano strings with a pipe and slowing it down and playing it backwards. Who, but Nick Rhodes can come up with these ideas and turn them into a song that sounds amazing!
Thanks
drop an email to info@markblasquez.com and I might be able to help you out. Thanks for reaching out
It was a Jupiter 4 ? Not the 8, which is used for the lead only.
Loved this. Please look at Darkness by the Human League!
Awesome!!!!!
This is awesome! Great job. How would he have played it live with so many things going on?
Thanks for this tutorial I was able to recreate the sound on a Roland Fantom 07. The portamento was brilliant.
If you could do a tutorial for the song “TRUE” by Spandau Ballet that would be great
I have a Fantom as well. What patches did you use?
@@alansnyder149 for Save. A Prayer?
Sick
It was done on a jupiter 8
Light my fire by the Doors is Dm to Bm I believe?
Sounds pretty close. The delayed arp needs a tiny bit more release. Also not sure the lead has any rez… it’s pretty consistent with its filter envelope. Great job, otherwise. Btw, the OP-X PRO II plugin has both of these sounds in perfection, which I used to play this live (and get out the easy way). 🤘🏻🤣🤘🏻
I cant figure out how you got the arpegio to work right,but I am using ableton Live 9. Darn
You can do it in Ableton. The arpeggio is eighth notes, playing D-E-F-A-C-A-C-A. The tempo is (roughly) 114BPM. Get the right synth sound, then you add the delay. Without the delay, at the right tempo & setting, it won't sound right. In Ableton you should have the right delay setting already. Look in Audio Effects>Delay>Clean Delay>Dotted Eighth Note. That should get you there. Good luck.
@@MarkBlasquez Ok I got the arpeggiop down ty! The big question is how do I start the arpeggio so it plays automatically. Thanks again for taking the time to help me figure it out!
@@goku8586 I need some help, i tried to play this in 113 and 114 bpm but im not really sure if the original track is in that tempo after 30 or 40 secs the sequencer and the track get lost
I cant see what numbers you have for the perfect 5th, can you tell me. Ty
Typically, pitch bend is measured in semitones. In this case, you would set the pitchblende range to +7 semitones. Hope that helps, if not, let me know.
@@MarkBlasquez Thank so much for answering my question. Your video
is an excellent tutorial. If if you have more of these especially Duran Duran, I would donate to you through paypal. I have Arturia JP-8V and theres a person that did a few duran tutorials but they leave a lot of parts missing. Really frustrating because they are just trying to get their custom presets purchased. Once again I really appreciate this tutorial, very easy to understand and learn. You have a great gift.
@@goku8586 I will do more of these, for sure. My day job is pretty intense and I've just been buried. I think next is gonna be A-ha "Take On Me". Doing a recreation of an entire song would take more time than I have, but I'll do something interesting. Thanks for the kind words.