1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD

[MarioD]

I was communicating with a fellow PGMusic forum member about the old FM sounds and how they can be recreated in NI’s FM7 and/or FM8. Although I have FM7 I rarely use it so I thought why not do a retro 1980’s song using FM sounds.  Thus I picked out a style in Band-in-a-Box, modified it slightly, and came up with this. 

The drums are from the electronic kit in Cakewalks TTS-1 soft synth and the guitar is me but all other sounds came from the FM7.

I hope you enjoy the flashback!

[folderol]

Great fun track.

This is just what I needed. It's been getting all to cold and miserable round here lately.

[Oren]

... all other sounds came from the FM7...
I hope you enjoy the flashback!

What the ...? I had no intention of enjoying this, but it's cool! (and I don't even know what FM is...   )

[MarioD]

Thanx Will and Oren for the listen.  I’d glad you like it for the fun factor as that was my main goal here.

[kara]

Flashback here 
Alltough it's not realy a DX7 sound, it sounds more as one of those SID song which we used to make on a Commodore C64.
I had a DX-7 many years agoo, it was one of the first 'professional' synths I bought.

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmp9yqhsjqg is a pretty good demo of it

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiUJhm-BkNU&feature=related is one of those typical SID songs

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[magmavander]

Ah ah ah! Very well done, you really get that 80's sound and feel 
I can imagine one of these david bowie's clone singer here (remember in the eighties there was a lot of singer that were bowie's clone, I mean the way of singing, not the look, like duran duran, Human League, and so on).
Thanks for the fun 

[MarioD]

Thanx Kara for listening.

Yea, I knew this wasn’t a typical DX7 synth sound. I still use that classic DX7 glassy E-Piano sound from time to time.  That is a great sound.  What I didn’t realize was that this song was so close to the SID sounds. That probably is due to the fact that I was into Atari and not Commodore at the time.

[MarioD]

Thanx Mag for the very kind words.  I really appreciate them as I’m a guitarist and not really a keyboard player and this 80’s type soundscape is mostly all keys.