that synth tracked the guitar amazingly well considering when this was filmed!! Most have cost small fortune back then --- loved that comment "....let me just change the disk !..."
@@lancepage1914 I've been on a Synclavier research binge, and it was the $4500 per megabyte of memory cost that really ballooned the price. The Michael Jackson's and Big Studios of the world told them to max them out with 10 or 20MB of sample memory expansion, adding $100k
Great video ! I like it very much. I like also the Synclavier which give fabulous sounds and I can suppose that Pat METHENY was not disturb with the latency. I think the latency is minimum in this Synclavier. 80s is fabulous than XXI century... Wouarfff ! !
I remember seeing this when it was on. Had to defend the telly in the university union building from people who wanted to watch snooker or something. (The stuff around the 10-minute mark where he demos the Synclav sounds like plausible synth pop!)
Indeed. Wasn't that appearance the one where he found the "wolf howls" and had fun with that? Oh man! Pat's the man! I'm still in love with his music, and it's actually changed me. I think God had everything to do with it, too, because I was a real mess before I heard him for the first time in 1979 when "American Garage" came out. It was when I got to hear the series "The Search for Solutions" back in 8th grade, and the windows were open in our classroom. Then his music played, and I was instantly overtaken in the best way by the wonderful smell of the freshly-mown lawn and the music. For whatever the reason, that, along with Aromatique perfume by Clinique just got me! I also loved Chloe` and Pour Homme by Carl Laggerfeld, and every time I played his music, I had to wear one of those. I still wear the Aromatique, and I still absolutely love his music even now. Now if I could meet him and tell him my story, that would be the icing on the cake. There's so much to say, and I've always wanted to sing "The First Circle", because it was that song that opened the flood gates for me, and I've not been the same since. I just knew I had to spend the rest of my life doing what I love to do so much, and that's to sing! I cannot say enough, and it was an uphill battle for me for many years, because I battled severe chronic pain for 46 years of this 59-year plus life, and I don't regret it one bit! @@jandekker6008
Omg. What's this, like, 78, 79? And the tracking he had on that midi! I have a hard time getting sound that good today, with tech that's 40 years newer. He was SO far ahead of the curve.
well „dos“ was once a generic term. there’s even been a „dos“ for ibm 360 mainframes. given that ned even designed their own cpu in the synclavier i am pretty sure they also wrote their own „dos“. the terminal (monitor and keyboard) is also a classic. a dec vt 100 connected to the synclavier.
At the time of this video, MIDI had yet to be widespread, and I don't think NED had yet designed any kind of external MIDI interface for the Synclavier. Pat's guitar is being tracked by the Synclavier interface itself, with no MIDI message translation. As to whether it's GR-300 triggered ramp timing or zero-crossing timing, IDK, but I'd bet on the former.
He was talking about making music for the movie ‘The falcon and the snowman’ which came out in 1985. The music for it was recorded in 1984, so that’s when this video was made. The MIDI standard was released a year earlier in 1983.
He's right saying that playing Pop music live on stage is more focused on the appearance of the band or any particular singer. Jazz is something different you need to concentrate on the rhythm and the melody. It's more sophisticated.
I was trying to identify the language used in a video I saw of Suzanne Ciani creating music and voices for a pinball game. I searched for some of the syntax and found a very old magazine mention a proprietary language called The Music Composition Language for the Synclavier II. Some of the comments on that video were claiming it was BASIC, which I assume would be classical MML. However the syntax looks more similar to what I saw in the magazine. In any case, maybe someone on here can verify she was using a Synclavier. After seeing this video I am 99% sure she was since it looks pretty much identical to me.
@@recsund I thought it would be but New England Digital (who made the Synclavier) developed a guitar interface for the Roland guitar synth Pat is using here. If you click on the video description, there's an interesting piece from Pat describing how to play it.
Synclavier demo starts at 8:40
that synth tracked the guitar amazingly well considering when this was filmed!! Most have cost small fortune back then --- loved that comment "....let me just change the disk !..."
A small fortune you say. That synth would have cost as much as a house back then.
@@lancepage1914 I've been on a Synclavier research binge, and it was the $4500 per megabyte of memory cost that really ballooned the price. The Michael Jackson's and Big Studios of the world told them to max them out with 10 or 20MB of sample memory expansion, adding $100k
$250,000 in the mid 80s for the fully specced sampling option. Insane money.
Clever chap, true talent right there. Just goes to prove ,if you recognize the gift early on, you will go far. Thank you.
And now we have it as Arturia synclivier V.
classic sounds
That is a great soft synth! I love what Arturia did!
Awesome ! Thank you
Looked like a thomas from daft punk in robot form at the beginning
This would put this interview right at about 1984 since The Falcon and the Snowman came out in 1985
Great stuff. Thanks for keeping this stuff alive!
What a nice guy!
Great video ! I like it very much. I like also the Synclavier which give fabulous sounds and I can suppose that Pat METHENY was not disturb with the latency. I think the latency is minimum in this Synclavier.
80s is fabulous than XXI century... Wouarfff ! !
You just play faster from the latency hihi
@@svenjansen2134 Yessss ! Like Allan Holdsworth with his Synthaxe...
Oh yeah !
@@ALIASZARDOZ There are world class musicians like Pat Metheny, and then there are one off from another galaxy musicians like Allan Holdsworth.
@@EgoShredder Yes absolutely !!! I am totaly agree with you.
Thank you 😊 💓 ☺ 💗
You are welcome!
I remember seeing this when it was on. Had to defend the telly in the university union building from people who wanted to watch snooker or something. (The stuff around the 10-minute mark where he demos the Synclav sounds like plausible synth pop!)
Hah! That is pretty funny! Glad to hear that you witnessed the original broadcast, must have seemed pretty ground breaking at the time!
@@WayneJoness Well, just the idea of Pat being on telly was pretty out there. And not long after this, he was on again!
Indeed. Wasn't that appearance the one where he found the "wolf howls" and had fun with that? Oh man! Pat's the man! I'm still in love with his music, and it's actually changed me. I think God had everything to do with it, too, because I was a real mess before I heard him for the first time in 1979 when "American Garage" came out. It was when I got to hear the series "The Search for Solutions" back in 8th grade, and the windows were open in our classroom. Then his music played, and I was instantly overtaken in the best way by the wonderful smell of the freshly-mown lawn and the music. For whatever the reason, that, along with Aromatique perfume by Clinique just got me! I also loved Chloe` and Pour Homme by Carl Laggerfeld, and every time I played his music, I had to wear one of those. I still wear the Aromatique, and I still absolutely love his music even now. Now if I could meet him and tell him my story, that would be the icing on the cake. There's so much to say, and I've always wanted to sing "The First Circle", because it was that song that opened the flood gates for me, and I've not been the same since. I just knew I had to spend the rest of my life doing what I love to do so much, and that's to sing! I cannot say enough, and it was an uphill battle for me for many years, because I battled severe chronic pain for 46 years of this 59-year plus life, and I don't regret it one bit! @@jandekker6008
Omg. What's this, like, 78, 79? And the tracking he had on that midi! I have a hard time getting sound that good today, with tech that's 40 years newer. He was SO far ahead of the curve.
Lol, he's having to program in parameters in DOS. That's insane. I was in middle school doing that on a TRS-80, that's the dawn of time.
@@Chuck-Bob I don't think the Synclavier used DOS, they had their own OS? Same with parts of their hardware? Anyone knows for sure?
well „dos“ was once a generic term. there’s even been a „dos“ for ibm 360 mainframes. given that ned even designed their own cpu in the synclavier i am pretty sure they also wrote their own „dos“. the terminal (monitor and keyboard) is also a classic. a dec vt 100 connected to the synclavier.
At the time of this video, MIDI had yet to be widespread, and I don't think NED had yet designed any kind of external MIDI interface for the Synclavier. Pat's guitar is being tracked by the Synclavier interface itself, with no MIDI message translation. As to whether it's GR-300 triggered ramp timing or zero-crossing timing, IDK, but I'd bet on the former.
He was talking about making music for the movie ‘The falcon and the snowman’ which came out in 1985. The music for it was recorded in 1984, so that’s when this video was made. The MIDI standard was released a year earlier in 1983.
Fabulous! Thank you
Thanks!!!
@@WayneJoness Metheny in his youthful prime!
He's right saying that playing Pop music live on stage is more focused on the appearance of the band or any particular singer. Jazz is something different you need to concentrate on the rhythm and the melody. It's more sophisticated.
Très belle archive !
Pat in his younger days!
This was before they had significant commercial success later in the 80’s
Its almost funny how long we have come. QuickScribe writes out sheet music automatically nowadays
Nana!
I was trying to identify the language used in a video I saw of Suzanne Ciani creating music and voices for a pinball game. I searched for some of the syntax and found a very old magazine mention a proprietary language called The Music Composition Language for the Synclavier II. Some of the comments on that video were claiming it was BASIC, which I assume would be classical MML. However the syntax looks more similar to what I saw in the magazine. In any case, maybe someone on here can verify she was using a Synclavier. After seeing this video I am 99% sure she was since it looks pretty much identical to me.
Wow, very interesting!
whoa Danny Gottlieb on drums in the transition period 1980-1982
Wow! Just wow!
Seriously, Pat has been delivering Wow! for 40+ years!
Daft punk at left side the first second ?🧐😮
They're time travellers!
Oscar Peterson = Jazz... Charlie Parker = Jazz... Miles Davis = Jazz... Pat Metheny = fusion/pop with some jazz influence
So i guess the G303 was the pitchh tracking device.
I assembled all NED keyboards the last three years of their existence.
Wow - that is VERY cool!
Why's the host sitting with the T-800?
8:25 now got to say in 2022 how the hell did he do that?
the guitars got a midi out?
@@recsund I thought it would be but New England Digital (who made the Synclavier) developed a guitar interface for the Roland guitar synth Pat is using here. If you click on the video description, there's an interesting piece from Pat describing how to play it.
@@skyscratch 🤙wicked!👍
If I could get a synclavier II for less than 10k I would take os over anything out there.
People used to really rock shorts. Simpler times.
I think all that vintage computer gear ran pretty warm too.
who remembered C-LAB ? 😅
Is it Pat Metheenie or Methenie?
And that’s how protools was born
HAHAHAHA! Very good!
😃
La computadora es digna del garage de Willie Tanner
Wow. And I thought Finale 1.0 was bad.
A whole new level!
expensive toys those synclavier..
With Pat and Lyle they certainly made some great music with the synclav!