A lot of other synth players arguing here over presets and whatever. Who cares. Use what you like. Use what instrument you like. Doesn't matter if its hardware or VSTi. Doesn't matter if it's FM or analog. It literally doesn't matter what you use as long as you like it and it works for you. It's your music. Do what you want.
I know this video is old, but it's actually refreshing: the people interviewed are all professional musicians, and they are adamantine in highlighting the cons of vintage analog instruments, especially the voltage controlled ones. Nowadays, commercial resellers in all disguises seldom even mention those inconvieniences, but the limits are still there, plus the unreliability that comes with age. Also, it's heartwarming to see all the enthusiasm about midi, computers, and digital synths: it was the dawn of the modern recording studio, without whom you would have to be Stevie Wonder to have access to synths and record electronic music. And, when people nowadays talk about dawless, they still talk 90% of the time about a computer with a digital software system, that interacts via midi. Some things do not change, only the attitude.
Herbie Hancock: "By the time you program this thing, you forgot what you were going to program it for." Maybe that's the reason I never get anything done.
Lamster66 Well, I may have been a little too liberal with the term "finished"! 15 finished, and 15 in near-finished limbo, may be more accurate. My point is, I've created WAY more sounds than I probably have years left to play! But by god when I do write I have a backlog of sounds to choose from! (So why do I find myself creating new sounds when writing, other than just selecting and moving on?) The problem is these killer (and mostly affordable) softsynths with their ability to create virtually any sound you can imagine, and many you can't! But would we have it any other way?! Nah!
The 80's were a magical time if you were the right age... For adults it was all about the never ending quest for the almighty $$$, for the pre-teens it was Saturday Morning Cartoons and the drag of school. But for us lucky ones, who were in our teens/early 20's, the 80's was heaven. The best music, the best movies, the best drugs, the hottest gals with their tight leather pants, too much makeup and perfume, and the hair that reached to the sky. It was quite a time to be alive :-)
Me too - just want to bury myself in that 1987 synth rig, but with the exception of replacing his "piano" keyboard with a modern digital piano - it would be hard to give up my Roland FP-4F for anything the 80s had...
This excerpt is off a weekly programme called Rockschool, back in the late 80's, if I'm not mistaken. For a budding synth player like me it was a must watch. There was a drummer, guitarist (as seen) and bass player as well as the keyboard/ synth man. Oh, the memories! ❤️
Vince Clark using a BBC Micro running sequencer software, pricey in the 80's, about £400, which was a lot. The BBC went on to become Acorn Computers which eventually became ARM which runs almost every mobile device on the planet.
It's was my second computer and I basically learned programming on the acorn electron and the bbc micro b. My father had the Acorn Master and everybody around us had commodore c64s. Video's like this instantly brings back memories. I love them
I liked how back in 1987 (the date of the series this compilation was sourced from) Herbie Hancock was talking about the "touch" of a piano and synthesizer and predicting how "that day will come" when electronic instruments would be able to reproduce the nuances of an acoustic piano. He knew...
Rock School! I have this on VHS. I got it as a birthday present when I was a teenager in the 80s. It wasn't easy to acquire in the 1980s, in America, in my neck of the woods. I also got an accompanying book. I still have it somewhere. . .
"The way you hit the key... At this point synthesizers are still not quite as sensitive... you can't create all the nuances out of the synthesizers with your fingers that you can out of an acoustic piano... but that day will come". I imagine Herbie watching this and saying "I KNEW IT!".
Herbie Hancock's point about professional programmers should not be overlooked. Some guys like Vince Clarke and Thomas Dolby were techies themselves, but many other musicians weren't. One name you'll see on a lot of albums from the UK is Andy Richards, who played or programmed on songs that were at #1 in the UK for 19 weeks in 1984 e.g. he created the keyboard parts on FGTH's "Relax" and should have got a songwriter credit.
Yes kids, this is how we used to do it. I started out with an Atari Stacey 4 Laptop running Notator by Emagic which many don't realize eventually evolved into Logic. Alesis HR-16 Drum machine, Yamaha DX-7, Proteus, Korg Poly 800, Roland U20, Roland S220 sampler. Fast forward to today and it's all on a Mac running Mainstage and a controller. Times have changed kids. This is an especially good thing as far as the Shumett goes. LOL
I loved watching this program as a kid, growing up with ideas of owning a synth one day, and a guitar too. Clear simple information for fans of earlier synths, with a nod towards the use of a sequencer thrown in. Later synths were linked via MIDI, so you could buy a 'MIDI synth brain box' (a keyboardless synth) and just use the synth keyboard from a different unit fitted with MIDI capability. MIDI is probably old tech by today's standards, but it was a great leap forward at the time. My oldest (analogue) synth is the KORG Delta, and I also own a Roland RD-500 piano, and a MIDI connected Proteus FX unit. These are enough for me, but the temptation is, always there to buy a modern synth!
Brilliant, used to love rock school. Many classic moments, herbie Hancock with his Mac whilst Vince Clark plays blind man's drums with his BBC micro. Square waves for strings cos sawtooths for brass. Herbie's "i have a man to do my DX7 programming, but I do know how it works, honest". Mind you shows you how will designed MIDI was, still the standard new be it 5 pin or USB. Thank you for sharing.
Love this video. You can literally see the evolution to what we have today. I look at my array of "plugins" and "presets" in my DAW and wonder how to wrap my brain around it all. Look at the huge rooms, the rack and racks of keyboards and other gear. And all the cable routing (power, MIDI, audio, patches). It's always been this complex. Oh yeah, and at the end of the day, it's supposed to all sound like music!
This was the 80s. I understood the technical manuals from the synths back then. The 2000s synth samplers were crazy complicated. Now you get this stuff on your puter in a collection of libraries.
Teddy L Boulden I don’t use PCs..only for loading my music online. There’s nothing hard about learning a “newer” digital synth. It’s great to jump in and find out what they can do. I own 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000 onward synths. ALL synths (analog AND digital) are editable! ✌🏻🎶🕶
Grooving Gecko Everybody uses presets. Jean Michel Jarre used an Elka Synthex preset for the laser-harp. The opening gong on MJ's "Beat It" is a Synclavier preset. Art of Noise is full of Emulator presets, and the infamous Shakuhachi sample found everywhere from Enigma to "Sledge Hammer" and Santana/Hooker's "The Healer" is an Emulator stock sound, as well. They're everywhere.
Yes, I know. That was the point of my comment. It wasn't a negative comment. Underlying meaning of my comment: "To all you people complaining about modern producers using presets, everyone does, even the greatest musicians of all time".
I actually watched this on tv and taped this on a videorecorder when this was aired in the eighties! This is what got me familiar with midi. Thanks for the vid!
This was absolutely fantastic programming from the BBC back in the 80s. It told you exactly what you needed to know to get your band off the ground. I used to watch avidly each week. Thanks, Rockschool.
This has to be one of the first times anyone saw a Paul Reed Smith guitar. His prototype was made in mid 80's - note the headstock where he hand signed the thing with gold sharpie and on back the serial no. was gold sharpie. Looks like a 10 top but with no birds on the neck maybe a CE 24?? Oh, were there synths in this video? I couldn't tell - the Adorn mousse was poisoning my eyes and ears.....
That's so funny because as a 64 year old musician and Beatle fan (and ex employee of their record co here in h'wood) I think music died after early to maybe mid 70's. Lose the ENTIRE 80's - the 80s by far was the worst decade in history for music but if you tell me you still spin your Kate Bush vinyl I'll forgive you; if you talk CD then no- CDs came in the mid to late 80s - the real start of the end. WestEndBoysFlockOfFrankieGaryNumanPeterGabrielZigZigSputnikDoppelgangerPowerStation BULLSHIT SOUNDING TOYS - thanks TR808 and OB-X, Linn shit crap sound; with the lone exception of saving the eternally classic blues and rock-n-roll in the form of Stevie Ray and The Blasters and Los Lobos and save some punk - some Billy Zoom but lose the 80's fuck the entire 90's except a little grunge especially Nirvana for the guess what - 60's Beatle hooks and clever lyrics - fuck the double aughts fuck the 10s and all that ShitHopKanyéSwiftKaty doo doo - ahhhhh, I feel better now. Sorry, as Queen's first few LPs always said - "No Synths were used"
cuda426hemi Sounds like you went completely senile and are on your death bed mumbling all the things you envied about the 80s and early 90s! Those times had the best music by FAAAAR, you old fool! HAAHAAHAA! Sure, the 70s and 60s had many great hits here and there, like, Black Sabbath's, "Die Young", and Jimi Hendrix's, "All Along The Watch Tower", but, there weren't that many great styles out there yet. It was all just mainly rock styles, man. But, the 80s was flooded with musical magic that created new, unique, fascinating styles using the power of synths and many innovative instruments! There was disco (Italo was the best), electro, industrial, house, new beat (I love this mean, cunning style), freestyle, techno (love this monster too), Eurobeat, trance, 80s metal that made more use of synths as well, and soooo many other awesome styles popping out everywhere! Bark at the Moon exploded in '83 and so did some of the best metal music ever made with killer solos! Synthesizers created an entire new world of music that brought out atmosphere and deeper dimensions for all styles, using beautiful complex pads and sounds never heard before! Drum machines also went into effect and created a different feel with new rhythms! Are you really still gonna talk about those nasal congested singers called, "The Beatles"!? HAAHAA!! Just kidding, but, all they had were guitars and some drums, dude. Their melodies were very nice but, weren't ever really adrenaline kickers. It's like people are over-fascinated with them only because of the history of the 60s, rather than by the actual feel of the music. Or maybe it's that they're too obsessed with their lyrics, but lyrics aren't what's actually important, it's the very music that's important because, it's a universal language that already can tell its own story. Poems are some other thing. Well, I'm sorry you didn't like 80s music. Too bad, man. It was a true golden age of music that was so big and great, it spilled into the early 90s.
And now you can jam ALL of that into an IPAD. Insane how far we have come. I have a Roland digital 8 track I can't even sell, as well as an ASR-10 and Proteus-2000. Nutty.
@@ChristianIce All top octave generator based architectures from the 1970s and 1980s used square waves and a little passive filtering to get the string sounds. I've got a Soviet TOM-1501 string machine and it's sound is delicious and inspiring, but it's all a couple overlaid square waves and some analog blending of edges.
Here are the names of best synthesizer player's we listen on the radio or youtube you do not know about. 1. Alan Wilder 2. Vince Clarke 3. Flooded 4. Me ( lol )
A lot of other synth players arguing here over presets and whatever. Who cares. Use what you like. Use what instrument you like. Doesn't matter if its hardware or VSTi. Doesn't matter if it's FM or analog. It literally doesn't matter what you use as long as you like it and it works for you. It's your music. Do what you want.
I love this comment. Great message ♥️
It is all about the suspenders
No Carson, you must use what I tell you to use. You understand? And I am telling you to use a Casio keyboard from Walmart.
Agreed. Watch the "Bad Gear" videos, and see what that guys does with instruments that are supposedly lousy. He makes great stuff.
The First Commandment: _Never_ get involved in a land war in Asia. But after that, it's: If it sounds good it *_is_* good.
I love how calm everyone is in this presentation. It's really pleasant how everyone is so calm and straightforward about everything.
I know this video is old, but it's actually refreshing: the people interviewed are all professional musicians, and they are adamantine in highlighting the cons of vintage analog instruments, especially the voltage controlled ones. Nowadays, commercial resellers in all disguises seldom even mention those inconvieniences, but the limits are still there, plus the unreliability that comes with age. Also, it's heartwarming to see all the enthusiasm about midi, computers, and digital synths: it was the dawn of the modern recording studio, without whom you would have to be Stevie Wonder to have access to synths and record electronic music. And, when people nowadays talk about dawless, they still talk 90% of the time about a computer with a digital software system, that interacts via midi. Some things do not change, only the attitude.
Herbie Hancock: "By the time you program this thing, you forgot what you were going to program it for." Maybe that's the reason I never get anything done.
'eventually, you just have to press 'record'' - some dude in that analog synth doc I dream of electric wires
Ha! How true.
Yea, I've created 20k+ sounds and only finished about 30 songs in 5 years! It's a trap!!!
Lamster66
Well, I may have been a little too liberal with the term "finished"! 15 finished, and 15 in near-finished limbo, may be more accurate. My point is, I've created WAY more sounds than I probably have years left to play! But by god when I do write I have a backlog of sounds to choose from! (So why do I find myself creating new sounds when writing, other than just selecting and moving on?) The problem is these killer (and mostly affordable) softsynths with their ability to create virtually any sound you can imagine, and many you can't! But would we have it any other way?! Nah!
A lot of people have said the DX was notorious to program. Gary Numan said he never used it for the precise reason Herbie Hancock just explained :)
I want to enter this video and live here forever.
Which hairstyle would you choose?
No human could ever know how much I want to live in the 80s'. I was born in 1999 and I feel out of place here.
The 80's were a magical time if you were the right age... For adults it was all about the never ending quest for the almighty $$$, for the pre-teens it was Saturday Morning Cartoons and the drag of school.
But for us lucky ones, who were in our teens/early 20's, the 80's was heaven. The best music, the best movies, the best drugs, the hottest gals with their tight leather pants, too much makeup and perfume, and the hair that reached to the sky.
It was quite a time to be alive :-)
Me too - just want to bury myself in that 1987 synth rig, but with the exception of replacing his "piano" keyboard with a modern digital piano - it would be hard to give up my Roland FP-4F for anything the 80s had...
Mescaline
This excerpt is off a weekly programme called Rockschool, back in the late 80's, if I'm not mistaken. For a budding synth player like me it was a must watch. There was a drummer, guitarist (as seen) and bass player as well as the keyboard/ synth man. Oh, the memories! ❤️
Rockschool! I loved this show, one of the best imported programs on Public Broadcasting in the US in the 80s
I loved that show
"The square wave is useful for string sounds"
*Proceeds to play a string patch made with saws*
I got that impression too that he was talking bollocks.
No, he used square wave PWM.
Yeah, was gonna say... perhaps said square wave is moving to and fro... :P
@@Cesarsound1 that's not PWM. It's detuned saws.
Using a synth to emulate strings is where it ceases to be playing a synth rather emulating strings. A keyboard is also not necessary.
Absolutely fascinating. Vince and Herbs were so far ahead of the game even back then.
4:09 interesting to hear people's perceptions on digital synths and how excited everyone was to use them in the 80s.
Vince Clark using a BBC Micro running sequencer software, pricey in the 80's, about £400, which was a lot. The BBC went on to become Acorn Computers which eventually became ARM which runs almost every mobile device on the planet.
UMI 2B :-)
actually clarke wrote his own sequencer software and still uses it today..
It's was my second computer and I basically learned programming on the acorn electron and the bbc micro b. My father had the Acorn Master and everybody around us had commodore c64s. Video's like this instantly brings back memories. I love them
@@chloedevereaux1801 Is it available for sale?
They really took some liberty with what the actual waveform displayed sounded like.
And that liberty also can be a serious misguidance to the newbie.
Hep. The waveform pictures weren't even accurate. Then the sounds were more than just filtered, they had different attack and decay settings too.
@@ryanlucas2025 @Abel Zevallos Montes @adisharr I was thinking all of this as I watched!
Yeah! Wouldn't that string patch be based on a sawtooth waveform?
A square or pulse works way better for bras imo. And strings are typically saws...
"But that day will come"...so right Mr Hancock.
They sound and look so much more advanced than we are now...
2:17 Modules may have gotten smaller but one thing that stood the test of time was the potted plant.
I learned more about synth from watching this video than I ever did watching other modern youtube tutorials. To be alive in that age!
3:22 Tony Banks: "How do i get out of this square of keyboards?"
Followed by “why Am I in such a square band?”
“This is what they meant by be there or be square”
I liked how back in 1987 (the date of the series this compilation was sourced from) Herbie Hancock was talking about the "touch" of a piano and synthesizer and predicting how "that day will come" when electronic instruments would be able to reproduce the nuances of an acoustic piano. He knew...
Still waiting.
36 years later and acoustic pianos still sound and feel 1000x better than digital ones. Let's see in another 36 years what happens.
Rock School!
I have this on VHS. I got it as a birthday present when I was a teenager in the 80s. It wasn't easy to acquire in the 1980s, in America, in my neck of the woods.
I also got an accompanying book. I still have it somewhere. . .
So I take it from that you gave up on music? :p
It was such a car crash show.
My mom was a school librarian and brought them home for me. It was so good.
"Mother! I am growing a mullet and getting into rock guitar and there is nothing you can do about it!!"
Day 54...still waiting for her to play a guitar
Symbolic representation for how much guitar there was in '80s music.
@@TheBircat There was loads of Guitar in 80's music. There was more bands using Guitars compared to those that didn't.
@@thomaspick4123 you're a plank
its her emotional support guitar
I think she was called Deidre Cartwright....
"The way you hit the key... At this point synthesizers are still not quite as sensitive... you can't create all the nuances out of the synthesizers with your fingers that you can out of an acoustic piano... but that day will come". I imagine Herbie watching this and saying "I KNEW IT!".
Which piano/keyoboard/synth is the best in your opinion when it comes to sensitivity?
The first sound comes from the wonderfull Roland JX-10. I have and love this instrument. It is pure 80s magic.
Vince Clarke is a Legend
Herbie Hancock's point about professional programmers should not be overlooked. Some guys like Vince Clarke and Thomas Dolby were techies themselves, but many other musicians weren't. One name you'll see on a lot of albums from the UK is Andy Richards, who played or programmed on songs that were at #1 in the UK for 19 weeks in 1984 e.g. he created the keyboard parts on FGTH's "Relax" and should have got a songwriter credit.
Yes kids, this is how we used to do it. I started out with an Atari Stacey 4 Laptop running Notator by Emagic which many don't realize eventually evolved into Logic. Alesis HR-16 Drum machine, Yamaha DX-7, Proteus, Korg Poly 800, Roland U20, Roland S220 sampler. Fast forward to today and it's all on a Mac running Mainstage and a controller. Times have changed kids. This is an especially good thing as far as the Shumett goes. LOL
Note the potted plant
A potted plant is still better than planted pot!
al35mm
Hmmm.. I think I'd opt for the planted pot any day, thanks 😌
Not if the planted pot is planted pot that's planted in a pot.
Especially!
why the plant though?
Herbie Hancock with a Macintosh in the background… Vince Clarke with a BBC Microcomputer! That takes me right back…!
I loved the segment with Vince Clarke. The sound combined with the backdrop of the room gives it this brooding basement vibe.
1:55 His prediction came true.
I loved that show, why do thay not have shows like that today.
Dude this is my new favorite video! Thanks so much for posting this!! Vince Clarke sighting too!
I kept waiting for her to play the guitar...and waiting
Sean French this video is about SYNTHS.
Sean French She's still standing there now and still hasn't played a note.
And she kept swapping out the guitars too. That's some award winning 80s hair, tho.
Yeah, that was disappointing wasn't it? And even Herbie Hancock didn't actually play - drat!
James Reeno I know! So why is she holding a guitar!?
This was brilliant!
Joshua Perrett you can still buy keyboards online, plus you can do it all digitally in most major music programs
Joshua Perrett
LOL!! Hehehe!
THIS...is the series that got me into synths...lovely, thanks for posting :)
Rock School! I loved this show.
Rock School :-) I had this episode on VHS.
Richard James I used to watch it on PBS. 😀
Richard James I used to watch it late at night on BBC when I was a budding Eddie Van Halen 😉
Looks like I missed out on this!
Richard James I also had the book called rockschool. Guitar, keys, drum lessons in 1 as i recall?
Same here... I used to love the show when it was on PBS.
Vince Clarke with hair...
And he plays a Casio synthesizer while wearing short-shorts....
I loved watching vince show us him jamming with a sequencer and synths.
Great video, took me down memory lane. Great days, really missed.
I loved watching this program as a kid, growing up with ideas of owning a synth one day, and a guitar too. Clear simple information for fans of earlier synths, with a nod towards the use of a sequencer thrown in. Later synths were linked via MIDI, so you could buy a 'MIDI synth brain box' (a keyboardless synth) and just use the synth keyboard from a different unit fitted with MIDI capability. MIDI is probably old tech by today's standards, but it was a great leap forward at the time. My oldest (analogue) synth is the KORG Delta, and I also own a Roland RD-500 piano, and a MIDI connected Proteus FX unit. These are enough for me, but the temptation is, always there to buy a modern synth!
Brilliant, used to love rock school. Many classic moments, herbie Hancock with his Mac whilst Vince Clark plays blind man's drums with his BBC micro. Square waves for strings cos sawtooths for brass. Herbie's "i have a man to do my DX7 programming, but I do know how it works, honest". Mind you shows you how will designed MIDI was, still the standard new be it 5 pin or USB. Thank you for sharing.
I remember this show well it was on after school in the 80's loved it thanks for sharing!!
Vince Clarke, a sequencer and ANY keyboard and you have a masterpiece.
Love this video. You can literally see the evolution to what we have today. I look at my array of "plugins" and "presets" in my DAW and wonder how to wrap my brain around it all. Look at the huge rooms, the rack and racks of keyboards and other gear. And all the cable routing (power, MIDI, audio, patches). It's always been this complex. Oh yeah, and at the end of the day, it's supposed to all sound like music!
Jan Hammer - a prolific composer of his time. Miami Vice theme music was phenomenal.
Yes, it was a hit. Actually, the first instrumental song to reach #1 in the US Billboard Top 100.
Noticed how much info they were able to give without talking down to their audience. Bravo!
Oh my god, I can remember watching this first time round, they all seemed like gods to wannabe 14yo. Synths were so expensive back then.
"the barrage of complicated technology facing musicians nowadays' :)
This was the 80s. I understood the technical manuals from the synths back then. The 2000s synth samplers were crazy complicated. Now you get this stuff on your puter in a collection of libraries.
Teddy L Boulden I don’t use PCs..only for loading my music online. There’s nothing hard about learning a “newer” digital synth. It’s great to jump in and find out what they can do. I own 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000 onward synths. ALL synths (analog AND digital) are editable! ✌🏻🎶🕶
It was probably hard then, than it is now. We have more range of equipment, but it's much, much easier to get a sound out of the equipment we do have.
"One day that will come..."
I loved watching this program series. It aired on our pbs when I was a kid.
My God! I remember watching this back in the '80s. Now look at us... we've all been emulated and VSTi'd!!!
Oh god you're right..
You see, even Herbie Hancock used presets!
Grooving Gecko Everybody uses presets. Jean Michel Jarre used an Elka Synthex preset for the laser-harp. The opening gong on MJ's "Beat It" is a Synclavier preset. Art of Noise is full of Emulator presets, and the infamous Shakuhachi sample found everywhere from Enigma to "Sledge Hammer" and Santana/Hooker's "The Healer" is an Emulator stock sound, as well. They're everywhere.
Grooving Gecko the piano and Rhodes are preset instruments.
Yes, I know. That was the point of my comment. It wasn't a negative comment.
Underlying meaning of my comment: "To all you people complaining about modern producers using presets, everyone does, even the greatest musicians of all time".
That's right, EDM kids these days. Too much knob twiddling, not enough composition.
Art of Noise used the Fairlight.
Thanks for sharing !
RockSchool! Loved this show in the early 80’s…a must watch for every budding musician 😊
Vince Clarke - being a genius!! One of my musical heroes.. 😁
Vince Clark the master of playing parts without hearing the end result!
Like Beethoven, he looked like he was just using feel, rhythm and memory to bash in notes.
holding on to that guitar for dear life.
I actually watched this on tv and taped this on a videorecorder when this was aired in the eighties! This is what got me familiar with midi. Thanks for the vid!
That was 'Rock School', Gary Moore also performed in this educational series. It was great but I wasn't too much into playing at the time.
I just produced a 7.1 surround album on an undocumented sub-menu of my washing machine remote access app website login
Stef Ullrich stop stealing my moves
@5:05 wow, a Memorymoog that is actually in tune and working.
Such a nice and refined accent from lady is a pure melody for ears!
I loved this programme when it came out
These synths are like the Father of Synthwave, Vaporwave, and Lo-fi House
Thank you
The guy around @2:30 is Mike Vickers, which around the same time helped out The Beatles with synth sounds for the Abbey Road album.
Tech boi Herbie Hancock flossin his Casio calculator watch.
how dare that girl have a guitar around her neck! . . she could have had a synth-midi-keyboard around her neck!
technically she did in the end.
KEK hey do you know what is the name of that guitar at the end?
Roland g707
KEK The guitar itself was made for Roland by Ibanez (to be stuffed full of Roland electronics.)
Commonly referred to at the time as "The Dalek's Handbag". :-)
Hi! and welcome to Jazz Club......grreeaaat.
for some reason i love those retro tutorials .
I've just found out that someone has made me a nice present with this video which I found 2 years later. Thanks! :)
Sweet MemoryMoog!!!!
7:10 master at work.
What program was Vince using on that BBC micro computer? He makes it so easy.. You can hear erasure type melodies pop through.
HERBIE HANCOCK!! One of the most important jazz musicians in recent memory because he embraced technology...
Wow this is a golden upload right here
This was absolutely fantastic programming from the BBC back in the 80s. It told you exactly what you needed to know to get your band off the ground. I used to watch avidly each week. Thanks, Rockschool.
This has to be one of the first times anyone saw a Paul Reed Smith guitar. His prototype was made in mid 80's - note the headstock where he hand signed the thing with gold sharpie and on back the serial no. was gold sharpie. Looks like a 10 top but with no birds on the neck maybe a CE 24?? Oh, were there synths in this video? I couldn't tell - the Adorn mousse was poisoning my eyes and ears.....
This is why the 80s decade and the early 90s had the overall BEST music ever made - because of the great use of fantastic synths!!!!
bullcrap.
the best electronic music was made in the 60's/early 70's
That's so funny because as a 64 year old musician and Beatle fan (and ex employee of their record co here in h'wood) I think music died after early to maybe mid 70's. Lose the ENTIRE 80's - the 80s by far was the worst decade in history for music but if you tell me you still spin
your Kate Bush vinyl I'll forgive you; if you talk CD then no- CDs came in the mid to late 80s -
the real start of the end. WestEndBoysFlockOfFrankieGaryNumanPeterGabrielZigZigSputnikDoppelgangerPowerStation BULLSHIT SOUNDING TOYS - thanks TR808 and OB-X, Linn shit crap sound; with the lone exception of saving the eternally classic blues and rock-n-roll in the form of Stevie Ray and The Blasters and Los Lobos and save some punk - some Billy Zoom but lose the 80's fuck the entire 90's except a little grunge especially Nirvana for the guess what - 60's Beatle hooks and clever lyrics - fuck the double aughts fuck the 10s and all that ShitHopKanyéSwiftKaty doo doo - ahhhhh, I feel better now. Sorry, as Queen's first few LPs always said - "No Synths were used"
JeromeHattKronen1664
FUCK NO! You guys had some UGLY ass shit! HAAHAAHAA!!
cuda426hemi
Sounds like you went completely senile and are on your death bed mumbling all the things you envied about the 80s and early 90s! Those times had the best music by FAAAAR, you old fool! HAAHAAHAA! Sure, the 70s and 60s had many great hits here and there, like, Black Sabbath's, "Die Young", and Jimi Hendrix's, "All Along The Watch Tower", but, there weren't that many great styles out there yet. It was all just mainly rock styles, man. But, the 80s was flooded with musical magic that created new, unique, fascinating styles using the power of synths and many innovative instruments! There was disco (Italo was the best), electro, industrial, house, new beat (I love this mean, cunning style), freestyle, techno (love this monster too), Eurobeat, trance, 80s metal that made more use of synths as well, and soooo many other awesome styles popping out everywhere! Bark at the Moon exploded in '83 and so did some of the best metal music ever made with killer solos! Synthesizers created an entire new world of music that brought out atmosphere and deeper dimensions for all styles, using beautiful complex pads and sounds never heard before! Drum machines also went into effect and created a different feel with new rhythms! Are you really still gonna talk about those nasal congested singers called, "The Beatles"!? HAAHAA!! Just kidding, but, all they had were guitars and some drums, dude. Their melodies were very nice but, weren't ever really adrenaline kickers. It's like people are over-fascinated with them only because of the history of the 60s, rather than by the actual feel of the music. Or maybe it's that they're too obsessed with their lyrics, but lyrics aren't what's actually important, it's the very music that's important because, it's a universal language that already can tell its own story. Poems are some other thing. Well, I'm sorry you didn't like 80s music. Too bad, man. It was a true golden age of music that was so big and great, it spilled into the early 90s.
Holy shit, do you know how to use paragraphs at all?
This was all I needed to know, thank you.
I love you Vince.
Back when Vst's didn't exist and synth sounds sounded so much better.
i noticed the potted plant
My gosh, I think I have seen this before. Great find!
I love this video!!!
Funny how the past becomes the future, their image of the past looks a lot like the current modular synthesis craze, without the potted plant.
9:03 nice beat
I like how the monitor shows how many bytes are used. too funny
Still sounds as great as ever! :)
I love this show!!!! rock school......
And now you can jam ALL of that into an IPAD. Insane how far we have come. I have a Roland digital 8 track I can't even sell, as well as an ASR-10 and Proteus-2000. Nutty.
how much for your asr-10?
Ha ha - not a chance... ☺
Don't know... I have all those Floppy disks laying around too. I LOVED it back in 1988!
EffingtonCouldBe yeah. Most ipads will only support that software for about 5 years though.
That's sounds like the "norm" for about anything in this world. technology moves too fast.
Vince Claarrk!
so great watching Vince making a track
I want to dive back into the 80s and hang out with these musicians.
A pulse wave would be strings sound?
Ok, that's a stretch :)
it's pmw. put that was weird to me as well when i first saw it
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"When I first *SAW* it".
That's a good pun :D
@@ChristianIce haha
@@ChristianIce All top octave generator based architectures from the 1970s and 1980s used square waves and a little passive filtering to get the string sounds. I've got a Soviet TOM-1501 string machine and it's sound is delicious and inspiring, but it's all a couple overlaid square waves and some analog blending of edges.
@@bojanarezina2352 Don't be such a Square.
Wasn't this called RockSchool? I remember watching this
Thanks for such great video. Useful.
Simply great ! ;)
Here are the names of best synthesizer player's we listen on the radio or youtube you do not know about.
1. Alan Wilder
2. Vince Clarke
3. Flooded
4. Me ( lol )
#4 You? Are you Martin Gore?
Vince Clarke is amazing
@@i4zetec Gary Numan, is that you?
Rock School!!
Peter Bradburn this was Rock School before Rock School. 👊
L Wasn't it just :-) Brilliant. Seem to remember was on on Sunday mornings on BBC2
I STILL like using my standalone keyboards. Yes I am getting old. Great to see Tony, Jan, Herbie...
Excellent!!!