@@neilbeaton9498 Actually, I agree with him, the synths and samples were more present in Herzeleid and Sehnsucht than Reise Reise and Rosenrot for example.
@dudumil0503 I'd say the keyboard was more prominent in the first two albums in terms of creating a riff/groove (laichzeit, du riechst so gut, wollt ihr, buck dich, eifersucht). Whereas in the later albums it was just as present, but had a different function. Like in Mein Teil, Amerika and Spring, it's used more as a droning background synth. Still present in later albums, just serving a different purpose
@@neilbeaton9498There are definitely more layers and a more frequent use of synthesizers and samples on the first two albums. Not even debatable. The following releases use real choir ensemble and orchestras, as well as fewer layers of synths. The first album in particular has the synth doubling every riff being played.
8:08 теперь я понимаю, каким образом появилось у группы Static-X появилось такое название. Они, видать, тоже пользовались такими же звуковыми наборами. Хотя бы этот день я прожил не зря
Holy shit... absolutely 10/10! I was one of the few people on the internet along with (Ramm Stefan0x/Stefano Flake and Hokkaido666 among others) who got massively into Rammstein patch/sample/preset hunting back in 2009 and started a small collaboration to discover more, to the point where at least a couple of us bought Ensoniq ASR-10 samplers. I had 4 at one point, and still own a beautiful ASR-10 rack unit made from spare parts. Quite possibly one of the most amazing instruments I've ever played, on par with plugging a Gibson/ESP Paul Landers signature guitar into a SansAmp PSA-1/GT2, or running a Status Graphite S2 bass into a Human Gear Animato (the equivalent real deal rig used by Chris Wolstenholme of Muse, my other favourite band). Get the playing/settings/mixing just right and it's a new dimension of fun as a musician! Rammstein's keyboards got me into music 14 years ago, but I never got around to sharing more than a few videos with the world. I got into guitar pretty quickly, and that led to focusing on writing my own music, but I'll never forget where I came from: Rammstein keyboards, and deep appreciation of Flake's work! I did dream of making videos of the same calibre as yours one day, but I think I'll leave that to you :) My one offering that I can hold up proudly is a painstakingly crafted distortion/sample combination created on the ASR-10 using hidden layers of sounds that I have absolute and total confidence Flake used for Frühling in Paris (the clicking loop sound gives away which string preset he fed into the DIST+REV+COMP effect). It captures the general vibe of the "Flake solo" perfectly with some alterations to the sample run through it, i.e. Das Alte Leid, Weidmann's Heil, Ich Tu Dir Weh, but it's a dead match for Frühling. ua-cam.com/video/G7QkrqnbhSI/v-deo.htmlsi=vu2H2FA0OSHLSQci Keep up the stunning work, you're a true inspiration for every person who wants to understand Rammstein's keyboards.
Thank you very much for the comment! I also commented not so long ago in some of your videos, and I actually feel happy to see you here. I actually got a lot of software, like Omnisphere, Trilian and shit, only because Flake used it haha. I also wanted to buy an ASR, but the prices, are just an absurd, I won't spend more than 1000€ on a 31 year old sampler, when I have hardware and software that does way better than it. If you check my LIFAD samples video, you'll notice that for ITDW, FIP, and Waidmanns Heil, Flake created his own patch, I really love ASR distortion, and it's amazing that Flake used a 31 year old sampler even in 2019, he sadly didn't use it in the Zeit album, he only used 2 Nord Stage 2 EX.
Heh yeah, the ASR is practically a collectors only thing these days, they were £250 back in 2009! Like you say, not worth the effort with all the amazing software out there. I'm looking forward to going through all your videos, this was a hell of a start, my favourite album ❤
@@dudu046duude, u're right, just tried Pads/Strings -> Simple and Beautiful preset and it sounds almost identical, a few tweaks just required :D genious
Is there any information about what that preset was during Flake's solo after the first chorus in Das Alte Leid? It was used during live performances as well as it made a comeback (in Hallomann on the Untitled)
Hey! This is one question I spent way, way too much time finding out the answer to, so here's the secret to the "Flake solo" (as heard in Das Alte Leid, Wo Bist Du, Hilf Mir, Ich Tu Dir Weh, Weidmann's Heil, Frühling in Paris, Hallomann and possibly a couple more I'm forgetting)! One day I will do a full tutorial showing how the sound is made in detail, as it's really obvious from the details that Flake uses a very similar method for all of them. There are all sorts of little quirks and bits of trivia that show how Flake used the ASR-10 to its full potential, so it'll be a great watch for any Rammstein keyboard fan. The sound here (ua-cam.com/video/G7QkrqnbhSI/v-deo.htmlsi=bKqpLqRmEd9KhCi_) is the one I'll be referring to, as it's clearly the one he used, but all the Flake solos follow the same rough method: running a choir/string/synth pad into the effects unit of the ASR-10. The exact effect I can't remember off the top of my head, but if anyone is interested I'll fire up my ASR-10 when I've finished moving my studio. It's essentially a very harsh distortion with a reverb (and or chorus?), and a sweepable wah-like filter that is carefully assigned to the mod wheel to only allow a tiny sweet spot of the wah to be used. DIST+CHOR+REV and DIST+WAH+REV are two I think may be the ones he used, but I'd have to double check. In the video you can see me playing the mod wheel along with the sound, you just move it around until it sounds like the original. The biggest secret sauce component is the exact effect, tweaked just right (having the original Frühling sample fed through the effect made it a lot easier). It has a chillingly vocal quality that is quite frankly disturbing on Hallomann, where Flake uses the effect possibly the most artistically in his entire career. As for the sample fed into the effect, it's one of the crappy sounding samples from the first Ensoniq tutorial floppy disk. Hidden in an unused layer (and only found by playing around enough to find it) is an airy synth choir pad that sounds kinda familiar, even without the effect. When the sample is run through the effect, the loop point of the sample becomes quite obvious, and when the loop point is moved into a different position (making the loop jumpy and totally audible) it has the exact "skipping" sound heard in the last few seconds of Frühling: all the proof I need to be 100% certain it was used for that song. Same sample, same effect, only the exact parameters of the effect and the playing are variables, and you can only go so wrong when the other two sound so spot on. The same effect with a stacked string pad run through it produces a sound that comes very close to the solo in Wo Bist Du (ua-cam.com/video/kBhKmyY5uCI/v-deo.htmlsi=WVaq1NBiZPsfpG7O). It's not the exact preset, but honestly, it sounds so full and lush to play that I'm totally happy with it. I kinda love how most people don't even pay much attention to Rammstein's keyboards, and even those who do could quite reasonably assume the "Flake solo" is a tweaked synth preset for sample (like many sounds actually are), but it couldn't be further from the truth. It's only possible to recreate with a physical ASR-10 (possibly an Ensoniq DP/2/4/etc effects rack), and a very good idea what sounds to use. I spent a couple of years exploring the ASR-10 to find all this, and it's so cool to be able to finally share some info about the mystique of Flake's solo! Discovering the intro sound to Donnaukinder in NI FM8 right after Liebe ist für alle da was released was fun... but there's only so much enjoyment in finding a preset. Following Flake's footsteps while learning the ASR-10 was something that was worth the hard work of finding/buying/repairing a functioning unit. Enjoy!
@@Corvid Holy shit that was wordy. But very informative, thanks! "It's only possible to recreate with a physical ASR-10". Okay, so I won't be able to get that preset unless I get rich and interested enough to get into it. That's a shame because this particular sound (from Das Alte Leid solo) sounds weirdly nostalgic to me, I keep thinking for the first half of it that it's a sample from that old cartoon from the 40's I saw a long time ago with crazy dramatic strings mildly distorted by the tape quality. I thought it might be fun to utilize in the future, but I guess not. Still, I appreciate your help and hope you'll make more amazing musical discoveries in the future
Probably because it's an easy pick, ultra-low-hanging fruit, it's too obvious. Just like comparing Ministry's Just One Fix to Du Hast: it's so obvious how much they were inspired that most people have heard it before. Digging really deep gets tracks like 100% Acidiferous - Tank that inspired Weisses Fleisch, even if they take a musican to hear the link.
@@Corvid they steal whole concept on many levels not just style of vocal and riffs from jesus superstars. Richard during commenting this many years ago said that Laibach is for intellectuals and Rammstein is for emotions.
@@rats6136 Absolutely! The intro vocal sample is (off the top of my head) from Xtatic Goldmine or similar, and can be heard in the first 10 seconds of Flower Power Madness by Royal Republic for example, and that's in the modern era alone. A real dance head would be able to list off probably 10 songs with it in! Another classic is the "Hey hey hey!" sample heard in Benzin. That sample makes an appearance VERY notably (considering at least one member of Rammstein is known to be quite a fan of them, plus the obvious lyrical content) in The Prodigy's Firestarter. I personally feel like Posthuman by Marylin Manson uses it, and while it isn't THE same sample, I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume that the band/producer wanted to use that sample, but also wanted it to be unique, and just made their own based exactly on the original. I do that a lot in the studio, as do other producers for sure.
So does that mean Flake just faked all his keyboard parts live at the old 90s live videos? Because you could see him playing extended parts on his keyboard at the end of e.g. Asche zu Asche and other songs from the Herzeleid album. 🤔
No, he didn't fake everything, probably some things, yes, but it's life. What do you mean by playing extended parts makes it fake? That doesn't prove anything, sorry.
I don’t have a synth myself but wanted to find out: are these samples are downloaded from somewhere or they are offered in an instrument? If they are downloaded where you can find the original one?
I won't share a download link for now, sorry, you can find the disks online, in the Archive website. I might share my Flake sample pack in the last video of the samples.
@@dudu046Могу дать тебе ссылку на ресурс,где ты сможешь найти эти библиотеки на дискетах.Они как раз для синтезаторов Akai,Ensoniq и прочих.Нужен твой телеграм Формат в основном sf2
@DmitryTarkovsky Send your Telegram here if you want, and I am not Russian btw. Send here the link, because I made some research and I think it is from a Kurzweil floppy. But either way, please send the link here.
Sehnsucht samples and synths out now: ua-cam.com/video/6ZQay0jFofs/v-deo.html
Flake is a genius the way hes able to put these random samples into the context of the song and make it work so well
Wollt ihr das bett in flammes sehen is actually just a bunch of doom sound effects
Wow that's so 90's 😂❤️❤️
Quite a large collection of sounds for a whole album.
The keyboard was a lot more present in the first two albums
@TheMagno619 the keyboard had been equally present in all their albums
@@neilbeaton9498 Actually, I agree with him, the synths and samples were more present in Herzeleid and Sehnsucht than Reise Reise and Rosenrot for example.
@dudumil0503 I'd say the keyboard was more prominent in the first two albums in terms of creating a riff/groove (laichzeit, du riechst so gut, wollt ihr, buck dich, eifersucht). Whereas in the later albums it was just as present, but had a different function. Like in Mein Teil, Amerika and Spring, it's used more as a droning background synth. Still present in later albums, just serving a different purpose
@@neilbeaton9498There are definitely more layers and a more frequent use of synthesizers and samples on the first two albums. Not even debatable. The following releases use real choir ensemble and orchestras, as well as fewer layers of synths. The first album in particular has the synth doubling every riff being played.
0:25 love love this sound, so beautiful
8:08 теперь я понимаю, каким образом появилось у группы Static-X появилось такое название. Они, видать, тоже пользовались такими же звуковыми наборами. Хотя бы этот день я прожил не зря
Огромные труды были проделаны👍
Holy shit... absolutely 10/10! I was one of the few people on the internet along with (Ramm Stefan0x/Stefano Flake and Hokkaido666 among others) who got massively into Rammstein patch/sample/preset hunting back in 2009 and started a small collaboration to discover more, to the point where at least a couple of us bought Ensoniq ASR-10 samplers. I had 4 at one point, and still own a beautiful ASR-10 rack unit made from spare parts. Quite possibly one of the most amazing instruments I've ever played, on par with plugging a Gibson/ESP Paul Landers signature guitar into a SansAmp PSA-1/GT2, or running a Status Graphite S2 bass into a Human Gear Animato (the equivalent real deal rig used by Chris Wolstenholme of Muse, my other favourite band). Get the playing/settings/mixing just right and it's a new dimension of fun as a musician!
Rammstein's keyboards got me into music 14 years ago, but I never got around to sharing more than a few videos with the world. I got into guitar pretty quickly, and that led to focusing on writing my own music, but I'll never forget where I came from: Rammstein keyboards, and deep appreciation of Flake's work! I did dream of making videos of the same calibre as yours one day, but I think I'll leave that to you :)
My one offering that I can hold up proudly is a painstakingly crafted distortion/sample combination created on the ASR-10 using hidden layers of sounds that I have absolute and total confidence Flake used for Frühling in Paris (the clicking loop sound gives away which string preset he fed into the DIST+REV+COMP effect). It captures the general vibe of the "Flake solo" perfectly with some alterations to the sample run through it, i.e. Das Alte Leid, Weidmann's Heil, Ich Tu Dir Weh, but it's a dead match for Frühling. ua-cam.com/video/G7QkrqnbhSI/v-deo.htmlsi=vu2H2FA0OSHLSQci
Keep up the stunning work, you're a true inspiration for every person who wants to understand Rammstein's keyboards.
Thank you very much for the comment! I also commented not so long ago in some of your videos, and I actually feel happy to see you here. I actually got a lot of software, like Omnisphere, Trilian and shit, only because Flake used it haha. I also wanted to buy an ASR, but the prices, are just an absurd, I won't spend more than 1000€ on a 31 year old sampler, when I have hardware and software that does way better than it. If you check my LIFAD samples video, you'll notice that for ITDW, FIP, and Waidmanns Heil, Flake created his own patch, I really love ASR distortion, and it's amazing that Flake used a 31 year old sampler even in 2019, he sadly didn't use it in the Zeit album, he only used 2 Nord Stage 2 EX.
Heh yeah, the ASR is practically a collectors only thing these days, they were £250 back in 2009! Like you say, not worth the effort with all the amazing software out there. I'm looking forward to going through all your videos, this was a hell of a start, my favourite album ❤
For weisess fleish the 28 preset is edited from richard z on nord lead. On my nord lead preset 28 is different.. is a simple digital piano 😊
Yup! That's why I mentioned RZK Nord Lead. I also pretend to buy one in the future.
@@dudu046 Fantastic plan! The Nord sounds like THE keyboard of the modern Rammstein era
Its almost like going back in time.
Bro this video is soo fucking good, thank you for the upload, imma check more of ur content
Great job!
:D nebelhaus
NEBELHAUUUUS 🩷🖤💕
this is gold
Thank you so much!!
6:21 WOW 😯 like movie soundtrack vibes
The COZ Strings synth on "Seemann" really reminds me of the ones used on Mick Karn/Midge Ure's song "After a Fashion" from 1983
9:19 ohhh that a my favorite
Keep on!
Excellent videos! What about sounds used on Demos like Schwarzes Glas, Feuerräder, Wilder Wein etc? They have a unique sound too.
I'll include them when I release the presets and samples of Raritäten
@@dudu046 Poor Schwarzes Glas never made it onto Raritäten. I wonder why? 😞
Some tracks sounds like a cult movie hahaha.
More please🔥
More will come, the next is Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht, bitte
Please Reise Reise!!!!!
Already working on a Reise Reise keyboard track, don't know when I'll upload it, but stay tuned 😊
@@dudu046 you are the best!
I would love to know how Flake did the main synth in "Du riechst so gut".
The DRSG main synth is a combination of sounds, I believe like a moog sample, a pad, and some kind of saw wave.
Not the same.
Usually synth brass and reverberation
The cheese is real on a ton of these
Do you know what samples Flake use in "Rammstein" at live in Nimes 2005, while Richard playing his solo?
No, sorry, it looks like a synth voice to me. If you wanna search for it, try going through the Ensoniq CDR's.
du riecht so gut 6:33 best
Hi, any idea for the Du Hast choir pad used in live version in 2023 your?
I'm 100% sure that he uses Vocal Pad 1, and a choir from Omnisphere in the bridge.
@@dudu046duude, u're right, just tried Pads/Strings -> Simple and Beautiful preset and it sounds almost identical, a few tweaks just required :D genious
what about the sfx used in the demos. currently attempting to cover sadist and am researching these discs and cds.
Can you make a synth LIndemann - Ach So Gern (Pain Version)?
4:53 in what part of seemann it sounds ?
Before they played it live on stage - they were playing this sounds
are there any VST versions of these sample librarys?
No, you have to get the disk, and use the respective sampler or Kontakt.
May I ask what's the meaning of RZK? A mversion of Nord Lead?
It is the Nord Lead owned by Richard Kruspe.
Is there any information about what that preset was during Flake's solo after the first chorus in Das Alte Leid? It was used during live performances as well as it made a comeback (in Hallomann on the Untitled)
It's probably a self made patch on the Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus/ASR-10, because it uses the Ensoniq distortion. Or maybe it's from an Ensoniq disk/floppy.
@@dudu046 Thank you
Hey! This is one question I spent way, way too much time finding out the answer to, so here's the secret to the "Flake solo" (as heard in Das Alte Leid, Wo Bist Du, Hilf Mir, Ich Tu Dir Weh, Weidmann's Heil, Frühling in Paris, Hallomann and possibly a couple more I'm forgetting)! One day I will do a full tutorial showing how the sound is made in detail, as it's really obvious from the details that Flake uses a very similar method for all of them. There are all sorts of little quirks and bits of trivia that show how Flake used the ASR-10 to its full potential, so it'll be a great watch for any Rammstein keyboard fan.
The sound here (ua-cam.com/video/G7QkrqnbhSI/v-deo.htmlsi=bKqpLqRmEd9KhCi_) is the one I'll be referring to, as it's clearly the one he used, but all the Flake solos follow the same rough method: running a choir/string/synth pad into the effects unit of the ASR-10.
The exact effect I can't remember off the top of my head, but if anyone is interested I'll fire up my ASR-10 when I've finished moving my studio. It's essentially a very harsh distortion with a reverb (and or chorus?), and a sweepable wah-like filter that is carefully assigned to the mod wheel to only allow a tiny sweet spot of the wah to be used. DIST+CHOR+REV and DIST+WAH+REV are two I think may be the ones he used, but I'd have to double check. In the video you can see me playing the mod wheel along with the sound, you just move it around until it sounds like the original. The biggest secret sauce component is the exact effect, tweaked just right (having the original Frühling sample fed through the effect made it a lot easier). It has a chillingly vocal quality that is quite frankly disturbing on Hallomann, where Flake uses the effect possibly the most artistically in his entire career.
As for the sample fed into the effect, it's one of the crappy sounding samples from the first Ensoniq tutorial floppy disk. Hidden in an unused layer (and only found by playing around enough to find it) is an airy synth choir pad that sounds kinda familiar, even without the effect. When the sample is run through the effect, the loop point of the sample becomes quite obvious, and when the loop point is moved into a different position (making the loop jumpy and totally audible) it has the exact "skipping" sound heard in the last few seconds of Frühling: all the proof I need to be 100% certain it was used for that song. Same sample, same effect, only the exact parameters of the effect and the playing are variables, and you can only go so wrong when the other two sound so spot on.
The same effect with a stacked string pad run through it produces a sound that comes very close to the solo in Wo Bist Du (ua-cam.com/video/kBhKmyY5uCI/v-deo.htmlsi=WVaq1NBiZPsfpG7O). It's not the exact preset, but honestly, it sounds so full and lush to play that I'm totally happy with it.
I kinda love how most people don't even pay much attention to Rammstein's keyboards, and even those who do could quite reasonably assume the "Flake solo" is a tweaked synth preset for sample (like many sounds actually are), but it couldn't be further from the truth. It's only possible to recreate with a physical ASR-10 (possibly an Ensoniq DP/2/4/etc effects rack), and a very good idea what sounds to use. I spent a couple of years exploring the ASR-10 to find all this, and it's so cool to be able to finally share some info about the mystique of Flake's solo! Discovering the intro sound to Donnaukinder in NI FM8 right after Liebe ist für alle da was released was fun... but there's only so much enjoyment in finding a preset. Following Flake's footsteps while learning the ASR-10 was something that was worth the hard work of finding/buying/repairing a functioning unit.
Enjoy!
@@Corvid Holy shit that was wordy. But very informative, thanks!
"It's only possible to recreate with a physical ASR-10". Okay, so I won't be able to get that preset unless I get rich and interested enough to get into it. That's a shame because this particular sound (from Das Alte Leid solo) sounds weirdly nostalgic to me, I keep thinking for the first half of it that it's a sample from that old cartoon from the 40's I saw a long time ago with crazy dramatic strings mildly distorted by the tape quality. I thought it might be fun to utilize in the future, but I guess not. Still, I appreciate your help and hope you'll make more amazing musical discoveries in the future
You can obviously use a Moog sample and add distortion, won't sound just like the same, yes, but you'll get a close sound.
Go sehnsucht😊
When speaking of the early influences of Rammstein, why does nobody mention Laïbach?
Probably because it's an easy pick, ultra-low-hanging fruit, it's too obvious. Just like comparing Ministry's Just One Fix to Du Hast: it's so obvious how much they were inspired that most people have heard it before. Digging really deep gets tracks like 100% Acidiferous - Tank that inspired Weisses Fleisch, even if they take a musican to hear the link.
@@Corvid they steal whole concept on many levels not just style of vocal and riffs from jesus superstars. Richard during commenting this many years ago said that Laibach is for intellectuals and Rammstein is for emotions.
@@CorvidI’m sure the classic sample on Du Hast is used in a Madonna track as well as some 90s Trance tracks
@@rats6136 Which sample are you talking about?
@@rats6136 Absolutely! The intro vocal sample is (off the top of my head) from Xtatic Goldmine or similar, and can be heard in the first 10 seconds of Flower Power Madness by Royal Republic for example, and that's in the modern era alone. A real dance head would be able to list off probably 10 songs with it in!
Another classic is the "Hey hey hey!" sample heard in Benzin. That sample makes an appearance VERY notably (considering at least one member of Rammstein is known to be quite a fan of them, plus the obvious lyrical content) in The Prodigy's Firestarter. I personally feel like Posthuman by Marylin Manson uses it, and while it isn't THE same sample, I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume that the band/producer wanted to use that sample, but also wanted it to be unique, and just made their own based exactly on the original. I do that a lot in the studio, as do other producers for sure.
So does that mean Flake just faked all his keyboard parts live at the old 90s live videos? Because you could see him playing extended parts on his keyboard at the end of e.g. Asche zu Asche and other songs from the Herzeleid album. 🤔
No, he didn't fake everything, probably some things, yes, but it's life. What do you mean by playing extended parts makes it fake? That doesn't prove anything, sorry.
Not really because a lot of 80’s and 90’s musicians used sampling, it takes good musicians to make it work well in the song.
I don’t have a synth myself but wanted to find out: are these samples are downloaded from somewhere or they are offered in an instrument? If they are downloaded where you can find the original one?
Where can I download or buy all these sounds?
Hi, where in Doom first sound from widbifs used?
Actually, it is not from Doom, it was a mistake. It's actually from a movie called Das Boot, but I don't remember the timestamp.
@@dudu046 thank you so much, Doktor! Your content is awesome!
@@meinleberhasstmichdid you find the timestap?
download link?
I won't share a download link for now, sorry, you can find the disks online, in the Archive website. I might share my Flake sample pack in the last video of the samples.
alrifght thanks@@dudu046
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
7:12 It's Ensoniq EPS Performance Sampler Orchestral Disk/Voice
Do you have a .IMG or .EDE of this disc?
@@dudu046Могу дать тебе ссылку на ресурс,где ты сможешь найти эти библиотеки на дискетах.Они как раз для синтезаторов Akai,Ensoniq и прочих.Нужен твой телеграм
Формат в основном sf2
@DmitryTarkovsky Send your Telegram here if you want, and I am not Russian btw. Send here the link, because I made some research and I think it is from a Kurzweil floppy. But either way, please send the link here.