peter m. mahr's music with OASYS

[Charlie]

@pmm: still too busy - but I'll start a thread once I'm mostly done ...

[peter m. mahr]

Hi,

@ Mr. cello - this is your fault

http://blog.petermmahr.com/2010/12/12/o ... tion-demo/

.. I know I am not following your guidelines 100%. But be assured with the exception of the drums everything is OASYS.

Most of my sounds are just either a combination of existing Programs, like my beloved "Mahrimbaphon" - always wanted to get this "American Beauty" sound - or modified factory sounds (eg Orbit Blip) and one KARO sound.

Peter

[cello]

Fantastic job - peter; love it! All done just using the instrument the way it is - now that's what I'm talking about!

You've shown BRILLIANTLY what can be done using the capability of the O and your knowledge of it!

So exciting to see and hear - thanks for posting!

Must try and finalise the idea and get the thread going that we talked about... and you've got it off to a great start already

[peter m. mahr]

I would like to thank you twice. First of course for your very kind words but also for the motivation and inspiration that came from your initial idea.

Of course I will contribute a track following - more or less completely - the guidelines, once you define and post them . I am looking forward, but most of all to your track.

peter

[Hedegaard]

Finally!!
Someone that knows not only about sound aesthetics, but also how to make a halfway decent melody which makes the whole piece enjoyable to listen to, without turning it off after 20seconds......

Although I would also liked to have heard the Oasys drums (which in my opinion is the Oasys's weakest point - therefore reasons to compensate such as using stylus RMX or whatever)

[Akos Janca]

Hi,

@ Mr. cello - this is your fault

http://blog.petermmahr.com/2010/12/12/o ... tion-demo/

.. I know I am not following your guidelines 100%. But be assured with the exception of the drums everything is OASYS.

Most of my sounds are just either a combination of existing Programs, like my beloved "Mahrimbaphon" - always wanted to get this "American Beauty" sound - or modified factory sounds (eg Orbit Blip) and one KARO sound.

Peter

What an incredibly sounding machine is this!
Nice music, like a soundtrack of a movie.
I like percussive sounds (and I think OASYS could do this drums, too).
My compliments!

[peter m. mahr]

Thanks a lot Hedegaard and Akos!

Although I would also liked to have heard the Oasys drums (which in my opinion is the Oasys's weakest point - therefore reasons to compensate such as using stylus RMX or whatever)

In my opinion OASYS' processed drums are very good. Personally I always would have liked to get a 60ies, 70ies & 80ies drum kit, with different snares and kick drums. On the other hand adding sounds from a different instrument is adding also a different character. Mr. Persing is one of the best sound programmers and his way of programming sounds is to me state of the art. Therefore I love to use RMX Stylus. Probably someone who is really good in KARMA could get similar results, with more musical variations, avoiding the "loop feel".

What an incredibly sounding machine is this!

Agreed!

Nice music, like a soundtrack of a movie.

That was actually the idea behind it. Driving thru the Serengeti.

Always wanted to get this kind of "Ma(h)rimbaphon" like sound from "American Beauty" and was glad to have it under my hands. It was so damn easy to get this sound, which also benefits of the quality of the reverb. Soloed sounds of course much better then in the mix. Like you, I love to have percussive sounds and OASYS is very good in making them accessible, obviously by providing fast EGs (in the case of HD1, for MOD7 I am not that sure... but this is just a personal point of view).

As stated above. Most likely one could get beats - with more variation - by combining some of the excellent processed OASYS drum sounds with KARMA. On the other hand I like to use another instrument for at least one part in the arrangement, to add some different character.

Peter

[Hedegaard]

....In my opinion OASYS' processed drums are very good. Personally I always would have liked to get a 60ies, 70ies & 80ies drum kit, with different snares and kick drums..... Mr. Persing is one of the best sound programmers .....

1) I have a Roland JD-800 with 808 style drums and 80's "standard drums" and "rock drums". I think this would appeal to your taste as the variation is quite significant.
I would like to ...ahem....sample these collections into the Oasys to "enhance" the already available drum sounds.

Yes the Oasys's drums are "ok" although I would like more punch&bass in some of them.

2)Yes, Eric Persing is also an excellent composer too. I've had quite a few Roland gear over the years and many of the patches were created by him, as well as the demo songs. He's very talented and his tastes in sound design appeal to me greatly too.
Sadly he left Roland, but at least hes still active with his Spectrasonics thing....

[peter m. mahr]

I owned the JD-990 and was stupid enough to sell it. One of the few sales I deeply regret. Roland claimed at the beginning their JV ( ) series and later XV-series to sound like the JD. Which was simply untrue. But live is sometimes tough... and god's revenge was to let them make the V-Piano ... (oooh... that was a bad one). Especially XV-series had their strengths (still love my XV-88 alhtough meanwhile played by my sons) whereas in the case of the JV I think its only advantage wasthe number of voices these days. JD was amazing.

Like you I owned some Roland equipment of which the S-750 (with lots of S-series Sample CD-ROMs.. first chapman stick sample for me) and the already mentioned JD-990 were the best. Although my "dream synthesizer" from the glory old days was.. no is, the Jupiter-8. I will never forget the day I entered a music store as a boy together with my father, in the middle of nowhere (Lienz / Osttirol) and saw the JP-8... and I will never forget how it sounded. Before getting completely lost, you know that Eric was contributing to Michael Jacksons "Thriller"? ... as one of those guys reading the booklets, looking for the musiancs for any reason I rembered his name, maybe because his family name is unusual for a German speaker... whatever, and then I looked on all the Roland CD-ROMs I bought for the S-750 and there was his name again... with lots of amazing sounds. Dan told me once a very intersting story about Eric and his contribution to the D-50 success (which goes probably quite well together with Michael Jackson's "Bad".... "Liberian Girl" is as far as I remember a modified DX Marimba sound plus some D-50 sounds.. if I remember correctly).

Sad for Roland that he left, good for us that he is still active... now being even better then before.

Peter

[imusic]

it looks like "there are a lot" of Spectrasonics fans

My to go Plug ins - I may be biased

Best, imusic

BTW Peter "nice music as always"

[Hedegaard]

I owned the JD-990 and was stupid enough to sell it.........Sad for Roland that he left, good for us that he is still active... now being even better then before.
Peter

Quite interesting things you mentioned there Peter, I still have my JD800 that I bought in '94 from new with all the cards (except accordian).
I'd never sell it - thankfully!
The JD900 has some extras that the JD800 does not have - such as Ring modulator (I miss that feature from my even older D-10 (which my D-70 didnt have))
I'd like to get a D-50 because thats the only "D" model that I never had.
Especially to re-create many of Jean Michel Jarre patches from his album "Revolutions"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution ... rre_album)

As for the JD800, Eric (EJ2) from these forums also owns one, so it seems we're quite a "family" of JD series

I would wish the Korg Oasys had more of the sliders and knobs akin the JD800 because making sounds has never been so easy and direct and fast.

Wasn't the S-760 and S-550 compatible with the W-30?
(I owned previously also a W-30 and it could load some of the sounds from the S-550 - as far as I recall)
Incidentally, Liam from "The Prodigy" used 2x W-30's as his motherkeyboards.

Anyway, my JD is a real treasure and very unique.

JD990 are quite cheap these days, possibly even under 300Euros if you look carefully.

I didnt know Eric Persing was German?????

[imusic]

Hi,

Eric was born in Germany but he is American,...

I am working for Spectrasonics,...

Best, imusic

[peter m. mahr]

Gruezi,

thank you for "nice music as always"

Its quite easy to be a fan of spectrasonics. Congratulations to you for being part of the spectrasonics team, imusic.

@ Hedegaard: had the D-50 expansion for the V-synth, but cannot recall any other synth as cold sounding as the V-synth. Great vocoder but cold. On the contrary to JD-990 I was lucky to get rid of the V-synth. Hope Roland to come back with new instruments of JD quality one day.

Today I do not see the need for JD any more as OASYS covers most if not all of the sounds.

Peter

[imusic]

Servus to Austria/Vienna,

Thx, Peter !

Best, imusic