Title: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: MarioD on December 21, 2010, 04:56:52 PM 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! Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: folderol on December 21, 2010, 08:21:21 PM Great fun track.
This is just what I needed. It's been getting all to cold and miserable round here lately. Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: Oren on December 22, 2010, 09:23:43 PM ... 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... :-[ :D) Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: MarioD on December 23, 2010, 01:27:57 AM Thanx Will and Oren for the listen. I’d glad you like it for the fun factor as that was my main goal here.
Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: kara on December 23, 2010, 09:36:15 AM Flashback here ;D
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 k Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: magmavander on January 02, 2011, 05:36:28 PM Ah ah ah! Very well done, you really get that 80's sound and feel :D
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 :- Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: MarioD on January 02, 2011, 05:49:38 PM 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. Title: Re: 1980 FM - a flashback song by MarioD Post by: MarioD on January 02, 2011, 05:53:12 PM 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.
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