Sounds That Changed Our Lives : The "Summer Madness" Synth Analysis
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Today I reconstruct the synthesizer lead sound of Kool & The Gang's iconic "Summer Madness" with synthesizer guru and friend Anthony Marinelli. Watch us recreate the sound on a vintage ARP 2600! 🟥🟧🟨⬜️ Join my list and download a FREE Super 808 Starter Kit! 🥁✨Click here to download 👉 doctormix.com/super-808-start...
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▪︎ 2 drum kits 🥁🥁
▪︎ 20 one-shot samples 🔊🎧
▪︎ One classic 808 pattern + chart 📝🎶
All samples are recorded at 24-bit using Doctor Mix's special custom-made Roland TR-808 for maximum quality and tonal variation! 🚀🚀
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The best synthesiser oriented bromance on CZcams. Please keep making more joint videos.
Absolutely!
Bromance is for me the first time to hear and it's a way better expression then "Bro" that's heavily used in certain scenes 🙏🏼✌🏼 It made me laugh 😂
Kool & The Gang knew exactly what they were doing when they made this very beautiful classic!! The synth and the solo was epic!
The dynamic duo sharing their vast knowledge - much enjoyed!
Doctor Mix and Professor Marinelli laying down some mad knowledge and keeping us entertained!
I love Doctor Mix enthusiasm in showing us how to construct tracks. Mr Maranelli has taught me so, so very much on how to tune a synth for the sounds I need. Both are great to watch. You learn so much from these two. Great stuff 👍
This channel is my church, this is where I come to receive my word.
The single note use is weirdly organic but otherworldly.
How can one not love these two guys?
Here's a fan of both of you. In the 80's I used to watch Bob Ross. not because I wanted to paint but because it was relaxing and nice, this is the 2024 version of that to me. I might try doing this with the Arturia version though 🤔
When Doctor said "we don't have a 2500. Goodbye." I got an ad lol. Also good vid
Summer Madness always gives me joyful shivers. It’s just soo good.
It gives me goosebumps in just 1 second.
i can listen summer madness for hours. love Dr.Mix's reactions in every video! always been wondering about these space sounds were come from. take my like.
Sound has been fundamental to create images, especially synths, they gave us the sound of sci-fi and the sound of the future, the sound of the machines.
Glad to see these cool freaks together
The song has such a great groove no changes in the progression were necessary.
I first heard this song in the radio in 1996 when I was 12, not knowing what it was called or who it's by. This is how wonderful the internet is!
Still can I not believe this masterpiece was recorded and released in 1974 - way ahead of its time!
Thanks for these amazing 17 minutes, Claudio!!
I knew it was an ARP, I'm getting familiar with these synth sounds. 😂
At 1:51, Anthony looks at the synth saying "Hey! I know exactly how to reproduce this sound". He then restrained the urge...
Wow, if I had synth lessons from Anthony, I would really learn, he is a great teacher.
I've learned so much about synth programming from watching Anthony's channel. He's so good at explaining things.
Synth-Nörds Perfect Team!
WTF???????????
I see two living legends on a screen thumbnail. Must click. Must play....
....This is going to be good!.... 🔥
Amazing analysis. I love that song and also how with one note of that amazing 2600 synth sound with the glissando is what made this song. And let's not forget the Rhodes sounds beautifully recorded and those wet guitars are just perfect. Great video!
The synth sounds that hit me in 1978 were those of Supermax featuring the legendary Kurt Hauenstein. They were artists from Austria and created a phenomenal and timeless album titled 'World of Today'. On the first track is a , big phat synth riff that you cannot, ever unhear. Also in track no. 3 'Reality' there is a square lead sound (surrounded by lush string pads) that plays solo melodies throughout the ballad that rip your heart out. I was just 6 yo at the time, and this album shaped my entire life. I was wondering DM, if you could do an analysis of the synth programming done there. And to anyone in the community reading this, I highly recommend you check out this record. I believe it is a world class hidden gem.
Awesome video!
Hey btw there’s an easier way to get those 5 octaves without touching the voltage processor slider. The 2600’s keyboard has 5 C’s. Just tune the oscillators so that the “keyboard C” plays the required note, and there you go. You can play it across 5 octaves. 😎
I remember hearing this on an old tape my mate had. I asked him to play it and play it. What a tune. Never bored of this. Amazing. Thanks for doing this DOC and ANT.
Love the conversation! Best synth content on the internet. Keep em coming!
Summer Madness it's a state of mind. Epocale!
Less than 20 minutes but an absolute goldmine of useful practical information! Thanks guys!
Man, both them tracks yall covered had to be psychedelically induced creations back in the day 😅 they always sounded so surreal and eerie.
Before you can have an open mind, you must listen. This content is more valuable than anything a simple music teacher can provide. (Myself included)
First time summer madness listener, it’s in my playlist now. Thanks DM🙏
It's a classic. Check out "Winter Sadness" by the same group. It's got vocals and is lesser known, but it's nice in its own right.
Last night I watched this video and I don't know when to sleep ? Those 2 dudes work so hard producing interesting content, that you have to work almost just as hard to keep up with them. They drench in devotion and passion for fashion 💯🙏🏼✌🏼
I sure love it when you guys get together and share so many things!
I friggin LOVE this! The Doctor and Master AnthonyM together recreating that Kool sound. 👏👍🏼 BRAVO BOYS
I am speechless! You guys are the synth dream team :) These two have inspired my synth GAS, but even better... have taught and inspired me to actually use the gear.
You are for me, the perfect team, love your works .
I love both of these guys so much. Please, please, please keep collabing. I was born too late to really experience the hardware synth era, but it's so interesting to see how these engineers created these crazy sounds.
Gives me goose bumps every time I listen to that sound...even your recreation!!!
❤ Thanks for this life changing!😊
You Two and music love🎉
Everytime i watch you inspire me to head into my synthlab, thank you
A pleasure to watch videos like this one! 🎶 🎵 ❤
This song is a herald of the arrival of the solstice. Once you hear this summer has arrived.
Awesome passion. You guys really appreciate the creativity of the analogue design of sound.
Thoroughly enjoyable, such great content!
this was amazing, thanks both!!
Love you guys. Keep up the good work!!
Keep ‘em coming! Anthony continues to be one of the few things worth watching…
You two are so good, together. Great video. Enjoyed every second.
To me the ARP 2600 patch has more bite than the original. Like Anthony said, it honks.
Best explanation ever on the sound difference between 2 and 3 oscillators.
Great video. You guys are amazing together!!!!
What a nice guy Antonelli is! Great video again Claudio!❤
Absolute MASTERPIECE ........both classic and futuristic....all instruments have amazing sounds....the mother of all chill out soul music.
It's funny how Mr Marinelli is responsible for some of these life changing sounds himself 😎
I love this synth tag team, masters at work ❤❤❤
Beautiful music you make us discover, thanks.
Thanks to have Anthony with you, he has an open vision of art, like Rick Rubin and Alan Moore, a vision that Art can change the face of the world.
Thanks to you both, to all the "sonicstaters" , to bring all of us further together now.
Regards, respect.
I’ve benefited from this exploration mainly because I didn’t know before June 28, 20204 that this song was originally performed by Kool and the Gang. Like other commenters, it was the Rocky soundtrack that brought it to my attention. I probably thought it came from the mind of film score composer Bill Conti.
I also will tell you that my ear gave me that it was played on an ARP synthesizer, but I did not stop to consider that it might have been the 2500. My logic should have kicked in at the sound of the fifth octave. It might’ve been different if the 2500 had not been eclipsed as of 1975 by the 2600.
I love it when Marinelli makes that point about needing to run from the filter to the attenuator, or else the sound will constantly be on. That is a lesson I learned objectively when I got my own first Arp synthesizer in 2000, the Axxe Mk II. I cranked up the direct output before I figured out how to turn up the VCA output. It was comforting to know this is a feature at least during back to the 2600.
brilliant sounds
Loved it! Thank you :D
Everything Anthony says in this video proves why analog synths will always be better than digital ones. And he wasn't even trying to prove it. He just makes you reach to this conclusion by yourself. And that's why I consider him to be not only a true master of synthesis, but also a sonic philosopher.
Wooooooow! You guys did it 😄
🥵🥴 love it, thank you both!
really cool man, so interesting
you both are fabulous!
This was great. Thanks gents.
Amazing!
That was dope !
Great video. I've been following it
Love it!
Best! Stokage meets knowledge...perfect synthesis
This is priceless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
When Kool Gang preformed this live they used a miniMOOG as far as I've seen. "ronald bell on keys"
this was awesome
all my afro years of living i thought that song was from grover wash... jr. ... really from katg... great stuff anthony and dr.
I enjoyed this! 🙂
I've said it many times but I absolutely agree with what Anthony has said in the past. I'm lucky in that I have few decent synths - my first, a Juno 1, then a DX7, a few Arturia synths, and thanks to modern times, several Behringer synths, and Elektron stuff as well as a few other bits.
And yet out of all of them, there is one synth that has become my absolute favourite for how varied a sound you can get - the ARP 2600. I always imagine the Mini Moog was the king, but nope, the ARP is the king. I absolutely love it to bits. I don't think you can play with it and NOT get a sound that is breathtaking in some way.
Very cool! I remember playing Summer Madness (mixed up a little with Bill Conti's Reflections) on an ARP Odyssey at a festival in Norway about 10 years ago... I think I used the keyboard octave switch to get the top octaves. Might even have started in the lower octave come to think about it.. those 70s keyboard lead sounds are so ingrained in me..
Thanks so much 🙏🏽🛐
Очень интересное видео 👍♥🎹спасибо 👍♥🎶
I am the right age to have heard this the first time around and it is still amazing.
Fun AND Educational. 😍
If it's a 49-note keyboard what's to stop you transposing the oscillators down a minor 3rd so you can play the 5th note?
lovely
That sound has so much core
So freaking cooool ❤️❤️✌️
EXTRODINARY!
I bet Jean MIchel will love this!!!!!!
🔥 TUNE 🔥
Nice !!!!
Just banged 2 detuned sawtooths & some chorus & legato portamento on my Korg & got pretty much a bang-on sound!
I came here for the sounds, boy did you guys deliver!
Articulatorily
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: in an articulatory manner
These have been interesting choices. They aren't super showy like you said but none the less are somehow more than the sum of their parts when in context.
Also interesting if this was 2500, most people assume it's 2600, Ive not found any elaboration on the recording.
And the 80s/90s generations mostly know it from:
Drums please!
Summer, summer, summertime 🌞
was about to say the same - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince is those who don’t know
Fantastico
Also love the Will Smith / Fresh Prince “summertime” version of this part, with volume sliding :-)
Brilliant Maestro Bros, how far ahead of time, sound and technology were the Legends who put that together for Kool and the Gang?
Thanks so much for the syntherial moments!👏🏻👋🏼 Could you also analyse Magic Fly from SPACE one time?💙👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼👋🏼🧿
I would love to see you reacting to „Rah Band“ The Crunch & Beyond.
Such a special synth album.
Some of those voltage adjustments froze my brain.
You two complement each other like mozzarella and fungi. Tasty pizza, guys!
Fabulous! And sure sounds like Dr Mix has perfect pitch. Or is it relative?...
Great job, perhaps a little more attack, and a little less portamento would get a bit closer, the filter sounds a little more open and modulated a little more by the envelope on the track but this could be due to the difference in the 2500 and 2600 maybe? But anyway great video and a joy to see your enthusiasm about this great track.
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