MiMa's cover of Micheal Jackson - Thriller
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Inspired by this Doctor Mix's video:
• How To Play Michael Ja...
I created my own cover of this great song. This is by far my biggest project, I was working on it for months.
Who needs a Jupiter 8 and a MiniMoog to do Thriller? :-D
All the synth parts are from my Roland Jupiter 6 and the Fender Rhodes piano is from my Roland RD700GX.
Here you can find the full recording, complete with all the vocal parts:
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I took them from this video:
• Michael Jackson - Thri...
That video is a great source of knowledge on how Thriller was put together. I definitely recommend watching it!
As usual, I hope you like it. Constructive comments are always welcomed :-)
Ok, so get this. The original song had a Jupiter 8, Fender Rhodes, New England Synclavier for the organ, Minimoog for the little cat meowy sound, Arp 2600 (for the bass, wind, theremin and the falling star sound), a Prophet 5, a CS-80, and a Casio MT-60 for the little "bleep bleep".
This dude, managed to do all that with just a frickin' Jupiter-6 which is still an awesome instrument. I really credit you, dude. This is awesoms.
Your comment is greatly appreciated. Thank you! :-)
And yes, indeed the Jupiter 6 is an awesome synth :-D
The Return of the King
Really far from being the king, but thank you for your appreciation :-)
This is incredible! On a different level to anything else on UA-cam! Well done! 👏👏👏👌
Thanks for your appreciation, Chris :-)
@@mima85 Very welcome! Would you consider making a tutorial on how you sequence your Triton for these covers? Would be very interesting! Makes me want to get my old get my old triton out of it's case... Been unused for years!
@@CDK11 Uhmm... it's not a Korg Triton, it's a Roland Jupiter 6 analog synthesizer, which is at least 15 years older than the Korg keyboard :-)
There are no sequences here, I played every part by hand and recorded them track by track on my computer using a software DAW called Reaper. Then, from there I mixed and assembled the whole song.
To make the video I substantially repeated what I did for the song, with the difference that this time is not audio to be recorded, but video snippets, where I play the various part in sync with the song. I used Adobe Premiere for that, and the audio track you're hearing is the song I did before, which I rendered from Reaper and used as the audio background for the video.
Oh my god that was wild!
Was I the only person to do the whole VP voiceover out loud at the end followed by manic laughter!?
😆😱🤭
Tremendous work 100% awesome
Thank you for your appreciation, glad you liked it :-)
UA-cam recommendations working at its finest... great cover!
So I hope that UA-cam will recommend my video more :-D
Thanks for your appreciation.
A masterpiece! 💕 Both the playing and the tiled video layout! More of this please. Although, I will never be able to listen to Thriller again without thinking of your "Singing cat"!
Ahah :-D
Thanks for your appreciation. Meeeeeeeeow :-D
Pretty damn good! I like that its all in the electronic universe. Dr. Mix does a great one as well but uses some real horns and guitar. But its cool that you could do it all on the boards!
Yeah, I took that as a sort of challenge to myself, to see how I would have been able to render the entire song using just two keyboards (and Linn Drum samples for the rythm of course).
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
Amazing! You can tell how much heart and soul you put into this! And my comment is years later.
Thanks! Yes indeed it was quite a lot of work to do to make this video.
Amazing sound design you got as close as the jup 6 parameters could let you go and that's amazing i think Anthony Marinelli would be very happy
I hope so :-D
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
Hats off. Great.
just amazing !!!!!! one of the best cover i've seen !!!!!!!!!
It was quite a big work indeed. Thanks for your appreciation :-)
No ma questa? Sei troppo il numero uno..
Grande Mima❤
Ma chi si vede, grazie :-D
FANTASTICO!!!!
Grazie Michele :-)
JP-6 THE BOSS! Great cover! Thanks!
Thanks to you for your appreciation :-)
I salute you for the effort and skill that went into producing this!
That's appreciated, thank you :-)
Great cover, love it. Also I’m supper jealous of the Roland Jupiter 6. ❤️👍
Thank you :-)
BEAUCOUP
Brilliant explanation 🙏🏻 & very well done 👍🏻 🤗
Thank you :-)
Amazing!!
Thank you :-D
awesome!
Grazie :-)
No words to describe it!! Fantastic!!
Thanks, glad you liked it :-)
MERCI
Absolutely wonderful
Thanks, glad you liked it :-)
sab se best ye hi ek no keybord cover the thriller
Wow, Neat!
Thanks :-)
Great cover and even better video...
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
@@mima85 you bet ive been streaming on twitch and will start taking the time to do YT Covers....must take a lot of work....again well done...
Man this is a awesome beat, nice! ❤
Thank you fellow retrocomputing enthusiast :-)
Nice cover with these resources.
Thanks :-)
Già al primo colpo di rullante, ho avuto le stesse sensazioni che mi dà quella vera!
Ottimi suoni...tutti! La chitarra nel pezzo dove suona l'organo... è perfetta!
Canzone complessa da ricreare, ma ci sei riuscito alla grande!!!
GRANDIOSO!!!
Grazie del tuo apprezzamento, sono contento che il video ti sia piaciuto. Ho lavorato a questo brano per mesi nei ritagli di tempo, e più di una volta ho dovuto rifare delle parti perché non mi convincevano. Ma alla fine sono riuscito a metterla insieme :-)
Ti capisco, anch'io sulle mie cover, molte volte ho dovuto cambiare suono o rifare proprio la parte suonata perché mi accorgevo che c'erano delle differenze con l'originale. Certe volte è dura, ma se ti cade l'orecchio sempre lì... è meglio rifare/cambiare. Ottimo lavoro davvero!! :) :) ;)
@@KOSmusicovers Grazie ancora :-)
This is just outstanding! Amazing job man, loved every second of it. Keep up the good work!
Thank you, glad you liked it :-)
Figata spaziale
Ohibò, Mark The Hammer che apprezza un mio video? Onorato!
Grazie Mark, sono contento che ti piaccia :-D
You’ve done it again superb ❤️❤️❤️just needed Vincent Prices laugh at the end
Thank you :-)
I omitted all the vocal parts in the video because I didn't want to risk a strike from the UA-cam's automated copyright system. If you look at the video description, you'll find there a link to the WAV file of the audio track, which has all the vocals too.
wow man
its awesome
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
you are welcome
Simply superb !
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
Superb job! Such an awesome sounds, and I can imagine all the work putting this together. Awesome work!!
Thanks mate :-)
It was indeed quite a big work, the biggest one I did so far. With the little spare time I had, It took months to put together the song and the subsequent video. If I could have worked on it constantly on a daily basis probably in a month I'd have completed it.
Ho cercato questa Demo sentita su supportimusicali anni fa ed è ancora più grandiosa di come non me la ricordassi
Grazie Emanuele, sono contento che ti piaccia :-D
@@mima85 grazie a te per il bel video. Se realizzassi un tutorial su come lo hai realizzato (suoni, recording, mixing audio, mixing video,)credo che non sarei l’unico ad esserne contento . Saluti da drmacchius
@@emanuelelamacchia7079 Non sono proprio la persona più adeguata a fare tutorial sul montaggio video, dato che a mia volta sono un principiante. Rischierei di dire un sacco di cavolate :-). A parte che prima dovrei farmi tornare la voglia di fare anche i miei soliti video, dato che da 2-3 anni sono alla frequenza di a malapena un video all'anno, ed il periodo che stiamo attraversando non aiuta di certo in quanto al farmi venire la voglia di mettermi dietro a ricostruire brani e far filmati.
Per quanto riguarda suoni e missaggio, se non ricordo male ne avevo parlato un po' sul forum.
Bravissimo mima (ho ...scoperto oggi su SM e mi sono iscritto 😊)
Grazie dei complimenti e dell'iscrizione al canale :-)
Sempre grande !! (Bb79)
Si fa del proprio meglio. Grazie :-D
Absolutely fantastic. One of the great things about the JP6 is it can do a pretty good approximation on the JP8, The JP8 cannot do theJP6 though and the very reason why quite a few seem to prefer the 6.
Thank you :-)
Yes there's a good amount of common ground between Jupiter 8 and 6, at least with classic synth sounds (brasses, strings, basses, etc). Of course they don't sound identical but they can render those sounds equally good and with some basic character shared between the two (the so-called "Roland sound").
It's with the use of the 12 dB/oct filter and the double mode where the Jupiter 8 truly shines, I had a Jupiter 8 myself for some time and I actually miss that wonderful filter. But the Jupiter 6 with its additional parameters and modulation capabilities is more flexible in sound sculpting than the 8 by a good extent, so when I had to choose what to keep between the two, I kept the 6.
Espectacular
Thank you :-)
This is sick! Loved it
Thanks for your appreciation, glad you liked it :-)
jupiter 8 , my dream
Close... it's the Jupiter 6 :-)
oh finalmente, rieccolo, era da un pò che non mi deliziavo delle tue musichette,
Si, sono tornato :-D
Excellent cover with personal taste ....
Thank you :-D
Grande Mima!!! ci sei mancato!
Oh, chi si rivede. Allora il mio canale lo segui ancora :-D
Grazie per aver commentato :-)
@@mima85 certo! era un po' che non postavi niente però :) come te la passi ?
@@goten6 Tutto ok :-)
Sono stato assente perché ho avuto un periodo di svogliatezza musicale, ma adesso sono di nuovo in pista :-D
Love this! ❤️
Superb!
Thanks for your appreciation, glad you like it :-)
@@mima85 you’re welcome!
This is brilliant! Fantastic cover.
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
Amazing cover! Very cool that you could get almost all the synth sounds with the JP6. It must have been a ton of work to figure out all the parts. NIce job!
Thanks for your appreciation :-)
Yes it was quite a big work indeed, especially for the electric piano line. That part is the most difficult one to figure out from the original recording, because besides a handful of spots where it pops out quite clearly it's for most of the time buried in the mix and you just can't hear it. But I fortunately found a video (linked in the description) where all the Thriller's parts are isolated, so thanks to that I was able to re-make the Rhodes piano part properly.
For the other synth sounds, the fact that in the original all of them except the bass come from just one synth (the Jupiter 8) made me easier to recreate them with the Jupiter 6, which if programmed and used properly can approach that Jupiter 8 sounds quite nicely (hey, it's always a Jupiter after all :-D). I was pleased by how well the bass came out from my JP-6 too, considering that the original is from a Minimoog I think the result here is pretty convincing.
che figata! questo video merita qualche milione di views
Ma magari, speriamo che prima o poi ci arrivi :-D
Grazie per il tuo apprezzamento.
Fantastico Mima.
Grazie! :-D
è qualcosa di ipnotico, sei bravissimo Mima!
Grazie, sono contento che la mia cover ti piaccia :-D
@@mima85 se mi piace? è fantastica dico sul serio!
Wow! Amazing!
Hey, thanks :-D
Grandissimo: non ti batterà mai nessuno !!!
Grazie per gli apprezzamenti :-)
Wow! That’s awesome!
Hey, thank you man! :-D
Amazing
Thank you, glad you liked it :-)
It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer thriller tonight, yeah
Oh oh oh
You hear the door slam
And realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes
And hope that this is just imagination
Girl, but all the while
You hear the creature creepin' up behind
You're out of time
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer thriller tonight
Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide)
This is the end of your life, oh
They're out to get you
There's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you
Unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night
I'll save you from the terrors on the screen
I'll make you see
That it's a thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller
Chiller, thriller here tonight
'Cause it's a thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Thriller, ohh baby (Thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller night)
Thriller, all night, oh baby
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Thriller, thriller night (oh baby)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Thriller, all night (oh baby)
Thriller night (Thriller night)
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
I love this!!!!!
Thanks, glad you like it :-)
mima14031985 love the arpeggio
Very impressive!
Great video too! Which software did you use to do the video?
I've just done my own version of this and have been checking out what else it out there. This was a nice effort... you nailed things I missed and vice versa. The brass patch lets it down a touch (it . sounds a bit too 'synthy'), but I still enjoyed it.
Thanks and well done.
Thanks for your comment.
Well, of course the brass patch sounds "synthy" because... it's a synth brass from the Jupiter 6 :-)
The callenge I wanted to take was to do all the sounds, except the Rhodes piano, the church organ at the end and of course the drums, with the Jupiter. So the same applies for the guitar too, which clearly is "synthy" as well.
no, non ci credo, ma che figata assurda!
Great Cover man!! Could you please share the Midi you played on the Rhodes or make a lesson or the sheet music. I would appreciate it a lot
Keep it up man!
Thanks for your appreciation.
Here's the Rhodes part MIDI: h t tp s : / / w w w . d r o p b o x . c o m / s c l / f i / 8 0 b k b k 6 n g i 5 u q x 5 v x d c 5 0 / M i c h e al-J a c k s o n - T h r i l l e r- o nl y - R h o d e s . m i d ? r l k e y = t a x 5w y n t e u 0 g m ao p g c z z l zi 7 8 & d l = 0 (remove all the spaces from the link)
you are Awesome
Glad you like the awesomeness :-D
Thank you :-)
amazing!!!
Hey, thank you Synthartist!
@@mima85 Always my friend!
You miss the laugh at last 😊 Great Job
Thanks :-)
Not only the final laugh, all the vocal parts from the original are missing here, to prevent UA-cam's copyright strikes.
Sei un grande! dovresti avere migliaia di iscritti! sciaoo
Grazie :-D
Beh dai, sono quasi a 3'000 iscritti, considerando che sono una fava a promuovere il mio canale direi che non mi posso lamentare ;-)
Nice, i love the singing cat!
Meeeeeeeeow :-D
Thank you Andrey!
pelle d'oca!!!!!
Grazie Maestro! :-)
Muito bom
:-D
Can I use it?
Nice finger play with keyboards
Thanks :-)
Nice work❤️
Which software
Thank you :-)
I used Reaper to get together the music and Adobe Premiere for the video editing.
Antony Marinelli is going to be very mad that you did that without an ARP 2600...
I still have a Jupiter 6 I bought for $700 back when analog was out of style. :)
Ahahaha I would love seeing a comment from him on my video :-D
I bet you're gonna bring your Jupiter 6 in the grave with you when the moment will come. For me, that'll be.
SINGING GHOST OR HIGHT SO BAST
how did you do this bleep effect?
It's a very simple patch made of a single square wave oscillator, and whose filter and amplifier are being modulated by a very fast LFO, which is set to square wave too.
Did you know that the brass were real recorded brass parts? A Flute, a Saxophone, 2 Trumpets, a Flugelhorn, a Trombone? And did you also know they insisted on using a *real* church's organ?
Yes, and yes. But as:
1) I don't know how to play real brass instruments nor I have a brass section at my disposal
2) I don't own a church organ
and
3) I wanted to do all the synth and brass parts with the Jupiter 6
I just did the video in that way. It was a mine intended choice.
@@mima85 I didn't intend the comment to be "You didn't do it right" I just thought it was interesting
Piano
Very good and accurate Mima. Why didn't you use Jupiter 8 instead like DoctorMix?
Thanks for your appreciation. I did use the Jupiter 6 for two reasons, first because doing the song with the Jupiter 8 as in the original would have been too easy, and second because in the meantime I sold my own Jupiter 8. It hurted me a bit to separate from it, but I just had to.
@@mima85 Well, i am sure we all know that Jupiter 6 is capable of doing that kind of job, again your work on it is awesome. Too shame you had to sold Jupiter 8, you even didn't had a chance to do a complete cover, just one demo from time. That synth was your dream come true my friend, and for that price you bought it.
@@kilevox Judging by how much people still spend bad words for this synthesizer, I'm not so sure about it :-)
Anyway, my dream with the Jupiter 8 turned out to be quite a nightmare. Maintenance inside this machine often was quite time consuming (I lost count of the hours I spent with calibration, fixing some issues, etc...), I had a horrible, horrible experience with the Encore MIDI kit (search "avoid encore electronics" on Google and read my Gearslutz thread), and I found that a good number of times I preferred the more direct and robust sound of my modded Jupiter 6 instead of what I was hearing coming out from the 8. Not telling that the Jupiter 8 sounds bad, not at all and I still like its lush, sweet and elegant sound. But at least my specimen lacked a bit in the "balls" compartment, I found its tone to be a bit underwhelming. This, and the fear for further technical issues that I'd eventually have to cope with, made me not using the synth. And keeping a multi-thousands dollars/euros/whatever instrument just for enjoying the idea of owning an expensive piece of contemporary music history (that was what I ended doing) was not really a smart thing, so I just had to let it go.
At least with the net gain I had from selling it I paid back almost entirely the machine that'll replace it. It's big (both in size and sound), it's american and it have blue stripes :-)
@@mima85 I am really sorry to hear this from you my friend. This frustrating thing with Tony and his company totaly ruined your dream with Jupiter 8. I could not imagine to wait for almost one year, and still problem not solved with MIDI. If i were at your place, I would leave the Roland machine without MIDI support, i would focus more at tuning voice cards. If your specimen lacked at ''fatness'' in sound i would connect with someone in Italy or in Switzerland who owns also Jupiter 8, and then test your and his voice cards side-by-side. This way you would be at least able to trace where the problem is. Without direct comparing components, you can just wander in the dark. As you know electronic components/chips inside gets old and you got a drift in one direction. But fixable with help from good friends and people as i say.
So you are saying Oberheim OB-? is in the house now :) Check Paolo's video from Synthmania, as he compares the sounds from JP-8 and OB-Xa: ua-cam.com/video/93W1wLqB6kw/v-deo.html
@@kilevox MIDI is a must have for me. Anyway, the thing with Encore Electronics was only one of the multiple factors that led me deciding to sell the Jupiter 8. When too much bad things sum themselves it's sign that something is not going in the right way.
The voice cards on my Jupiter 8 were (and still are) perfectly calibrated, I serviced the synth by myself by recapping the power supply, doing calibration, fixing issues with op-amps in the VCO CV circuits, doing a complete clean from top to bottom, etc. The somehwat light tone was not due to a trouble with the voice cards and there was nothing "wrong" with the way it sounded, it was just the synth's overall character. Maybe a recap on the final audio output stage would have changed things (or maybe not), but at a certain moment I really did no longer have the patience to dive inside my Jupiter 8 again.
Yes, the newcomer is an Oberheim OB-8 :-). I'm in the (slow - lack of time) process of totally restoring it. Besides a little issue with a capacitor that affected one voice it worked quite flawlessy from day one, but I like my synths to be in as "like new" condition as possible.
I already entirely recapped the voice boards and the power supply with the Synthchaser's kits, now I'll have to replace all the analog CMOS switches and the op-amps with fresh ones. Thankfully all the ICs are socketed, so changing them is really a kid's game. I also already did a preliminary calibration, in a couple of hours I had the synthesizer entirely calibrated from top to bottom, while in the same time I wouldn't have calibrated even half of the Jupiter 8's VCOs. Working inside an OB-8 is really a pleasure.
I know Synthmania's OB/JP comparison video, but despite being interesting by itself is quite misleading as the patches are programmed quite differently between the two machines. Besides that, Obies and Jupiters have their own characters, of course I don't expect my OB-8 sounding like a Jupiter 8. Nor I want it.
sono l'iscritto numero 2523, hahahah!
Grazie per l'iscrizione :-D
@@mima85 grazie a te!