Interest for OASYS sounds from songs from the 80s and 90s?

[vEddY]

Here's what I had in mind:
Queen - Don't stop me now, A Kind Of Magic, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Innuendo, It's A Hard Life, Breakthru, Who Wants To Live Forever, Friends Will Be Friends, The Show Must Go On, These are the days of our lives
Dire Straits - Tunnel of love, Romeo and Juliet, Telegraph road, Private investigations, Love over gold, So far away, Money for nothing, Walk of life, Your latest trick, Why worry, Ride across the river, Brothers in arms
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall, most of the Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here and Division bell
Europe - Carrie, The final countdown
Depeche mode - Waiting for the night to fall, Enjoy the silence, Policy of truth, Strangelove, World in my eyes, Somebody, Walking in my shoes
Eagles - New York Minute, I can't tell you why, Hotel california (Hell freezes over live versions)
Eros Ramazzotti - Fuoco nel fuoco, Cose della vita, Una storia importante, Se bastasse
Joe Cocker - You can leave your hat on, You are so beautiful, Night calls, The letter, Unchain my heart, With a little help from my friends, Shelter me
Michael Jackson - Bad, Thriller, Billie Jean, The way you make me feel, Lyberian girl, Man in the mirror, Remember the time, Give in to me, Black or white, Who is it, Say say say
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer, Red rain
Simple minds - Hypnotised, Belfast child
Guns 'n' Roses - November rain, Estranged, Live and let die
Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety, Cathedral song, Valentine heart
A-Ha - Take on me,
Bon Jovi - Bad medicine, Runaway, Livin' on a prayer, Keep the faith,
Duran Duran - Come undone, Ordinary world, Hungry like a wolf, Notorious, Save a prayer,
David Bowie - China Girl, Absolute beginners
Spandau Ballet - True, Be free with your love
Black - Wonderful Life
Commodores - Nightshift

I know that there are some songs here with un-original authors, so this is more related to performances Just brainstorming here, not a finished list. More inputs, please

Of course, all of the previous mentioned sounds (50 or so of them) are in the pool so we can make a selection.

[Bart S.]

OK, here my favourites:
Van Halen: 1984 - Dreams - I'll Wait - Jump - Love Walks In - When It's Love
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Roxette: Listen To Your Heart
Europe: Carrie - The Final Countdown
The Who: Baba O'Rilley (Hmm... 80's? )
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
Bon Jovi: Born To Be My Baby - Living On A Prayer - Runaway

It would be really great, if you could create some of these

[vEddY]

OK, here my favourites:
Van Halen: 1984 - Dreams - I'll Wait - Jump - Love Walks In - When It's Love
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Roxette: Listen To Your Heart
Europe: Carrie - The Final Countdown
The Who: Baba O'Rilley (Hmm... 80's? )
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
Bon Jovi: Born To Be My Baby - Living On A Prayer - Runaway

It would be really great, if you could create some of these

I will, all of them, no problem. And I'm missing some more Roxette songs and stuff like that. Think it through, maybe you will remember more songs. We need to reach number 128, and I want to make sure that kickass songs are in it

[bax]

Count me in - here are a few I didn't see on the previous lists (sorry if I duplicated anything here)

Mr. Mister - Kyrie, Broken Wings

Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face

A-Ha - Take On Me, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Hunting High and Low

Tears For Fears - Shout, Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Toto - Africa, Hold the Line, Rosanna (although these are mostly pretty easy and common sounds to make)

Styx - Come Sail Away, The Grand Illusion, Babe, Angry Young Man

Journey - Separate Ways, Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities, West End Girls, It's A Sin, What Have I Done to Deserve This?

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart, By My Side

ASIA - Only Time Will Tell, Don't Cry

DEVO - Whip It!

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

The Church - Under The Milky Way

Hall & Oates - Out of Touch


Man, I could come up with tons more, but I also second the motion that you take a look at the 80's sets available for the MOTIF. I sold my XS7 a while back and losing the ability to use that soundset was the *only* regret I had about selling the board. He absolutely nailed those sounds...

I'd certainly pay a reasonable price for a similar set for the OASYS/KRONOS - and maybe even a subscription model would work to allow for continued interest and income...you could have a full set of 128 to start for a certain price and then continue to add the most requested sounds like 5 a month or something for an additional subscription fee? Something to think about...

On a related note - a full (and very well programmed) Depeche Mode bank would be a whole different animal, and one I would certainly have a *huge* interest in...

Thanks!
bax

[ozy]

Jump, Orinoco flow, Lucky Man, Axel Fowley

AAAAAGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!



I expressed my vote, here is the reason why I voted NO.

Sorry, maybe I am a "son of Montessori", but...

... what about adding, instead, more BUILDING BLOCKS, tutorial patches, patches which show "how to", bread-and-butter sounds, a full range of hammond drawbar sets, a full range of unprocessed analogue panel basic variations (horns, open horns, p5 piano, p5 sinc, p5 sinc distorted, ob strings, ob strings vocoded, etc etc), a full range of EPs with and without effects?

so that whoever is interested in learning programming will find "templates"?

DEMOS of specific functions (and in the manual: "for an example of this filter, see patch 345. Try tweaking thru the joystick. For more info oin the joystick, see page 1035"), not SHOW-OFF swirling pads?

And a frigging two (at least) EMPTY combi+program banks, so that when you load third-party presets it doesn't happen that half the preset combis stop working?

You can always fill the first bank with "show off in the shop" presets,

but THE LESS PEOPLE PROGRAM SYNTHS, THE LESS SYNTHS WILL BE SOLD.

Synth sales have been FALLING for the last decade.

The M1 sold in the hundreds of thousands (a quarter million),

the Kronos is expected to be a success if it sells 30.000 pieces

The less time people invest in music, the less they buy instruments!

And the less they buy music, because it's becoming shitty

Please...

Take people back to the programming blackboard.

Give them building blocks, not "song-ready patches"...




Why

[vEddY]

Please...
Take people back to the programming blackboard.
Give them building blocks, not "song-ready patches"...
Why

In general, I would agree with quite a few of your points but... come on. I think that with OASYS being such a left-behind legend and Kronos being such a hype already, it would be cool to have something ready for those buyers when they get their keyboards. If nothing else, people would have absolutely zero reasons to complain about anything if they had a bank of sounds they need. Which is what most people do when they need to go playing - oh, I-need-to-make-sounds-bitch-n-moan.

It pisses me off.

[vEddY]

Count me in - here are a few I didn't see on the previous lists (sorry if I duplicated anything here)
I'd certainly pay a reasonable price for a similar set for the OASYS/KRONOS - and maybe even a subscription model would work to allow for continued interest and income...you could have a full set of 128 to start for a certain price and then continue to add the most requested sounds like 5 a month or something for an additional subscription fee? Something to think about...

Every input is welcome, man, no worries about potential duplicates. And you do have quite a few great suggestions - both in terms of songs/patches and a potential model for people. We could definitely do this via subscription and then (for example) 8 sounds a month for most requested songs, picked by users. Or something like that. Just throw some more ideas in terms of songs and let's see where we end up.

On a related note - a full (and very well programmed) Depeche Mode bank would be a whole different animal, and one I would certainly have a *huge* interest in...

Hmm.. now that's a great idea, as well. It would be a very difficult thing to do time-wise, but it's not impossible. Hmm.

[bax]

Take people back to the programming blackboard.

ozy - there is a demand for both methods, I think! There are always people who don't have the time or desire to program sounds and want to buy ready-made ones, but there are also people who do have the time and desire but maybe not enough knowledge or experience and could benefit from the "blackboard" approach.

Mike Conway started this off quite a while ago with his "Unofficial OASYS" DVD tutorial which is EXCELLENT if you don't already have it, and I could easily see this kind of thing becoming much more relevant now that the platform is being continued on with KRONOS...the programming of the engines will be practically (if not totally) the same so OASYS users could benefit as well as the newer KRONOS users. Maybe a series of YouTube videos, or another DVD, or a paid-content area on a website/forum like they have on the Karma-Labs forum, who knows?

Thanks!
bax

[Hedegaard]

I want/demand/insist/implore the following:

Combis:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America (yes, I know the polysix program already exists for the bass part)

PWL sounds/programs - Stock, Aitken & Waterman that made some of the 80's icons, such as Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, the Bangles world-famous-to-die-for -e.t.c.

Jean Michel Jarre
Biosphere

[vEddY]

I want/demand/insist/implore the following:

Combis:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America (yes, I know the polysix program already exists for the bass part)

PWL sounds/programs - Stock, Aitken & Waterman that made some of the 80's icons, such as Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, the Bangles world-famous-to-die-for -e.t.c.

Jean Michel Jarre
Biosphere

Sounds ok. Just add song names so I can add them to the list if it's not a problem. Jarre has 300 songs

[drama1]

Hey, vEDdy:

I'm sure you have heard the Motif 80's 90's soundset, which is incredible, even though I have never owned a motif. If you can achieve what has been suggested, count me in on a purchase. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that most of these sounds are going to be combi's i.e. Mr. Mister, Baba O'Rilley, Sail away, a number of these combi's have arps running in the background. I have a combi for Baba O'Reilly on the M3 that kills. This set that you're proposing would be a weekend warrior's dream. Good luck.

[vEddY]

Hey, vEDdy:
I'm sure you have heard the Motif 80's 90's soundset, which is incredible, even though I have never owned a motif. If you can achieve what has been suggested, count me in on a purchase. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that most of these sounds are going to be combi's i.e. Mr. Mister, Baba O'Rilley, Sail away, a number of these combi's have arps running in the background. I have a combi for Baba O'Reilly on the M3 that kills. This set that you're proposing would be a weekend warrior's dream. Good luck.

Nothing is impossible So, additions to song list, please

[Hedegaard]

I want/demand/insist/implore the following:

Combis:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America (yes, I know the polysix program already exists for the bass part)

PWL sounds/programs - Stock, Aitken & Waterman that made some of the 80's icons, such as Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, the Bangles world-famous-to-die-for -e.t.c.

Jean Michel Jarre
Biosphere

Sounds ok. Just add song names so I can add them to the list if it's not a problem. Jarre has 300 songs

Ok, I would be interested in:

Kim wilde - song name: "Kids in America"

Jean Michel Jarre from the album Chronologi and song titles are:
Chronologie 1
Chronologie 2
Chronologie 3
Chronologie 4 (this one is very good!)
Chronologie 5
Chronologie 6
Chronologie 7
Chronologie 8

[Bart S.]

I will, all of them, no problem. And I'm missing some more Roxette songs and stuff like that. Think it through, maybe you will remember more songs. We need to reach number 128, and I want to make sure that kickass songs are in it

Okay.... so here my suggestions
001. 1984 - Van Halen
002. Dreams - Van Halen
003. I'll Wait - Van Halen
004. Jump - Van Halen
005. Love Walks In - Van Halen
006. When It's Love - Van Halen
007. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
008. Listen To Your Heart - Roxette
009. It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
010. Fading Like A Flower - Roxette
011. Carrie - Europe
012. The Final Countdown - Europe
013. Baba O'Rilley - The Who
014. No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
015. Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
016. Born To Be My Baby - Bon Jovi
017. Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
018. Runaway - Bon Jovi
019. Tom Sawyer - Rush
020. Subdivisions - Rush
021. Hold The Line - Toto
022. Rosanna - Toto
023. Walk Of Life - Dire Straits
024. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
025. On The Run - Pink Floyd
026. Shine On YouCrazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
027. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
028. High Hopes - Pink Floyd
029. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
030. Alone - Heart
031. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
032. Heat Of The Moment - Asia
033. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
034. Abacab - Genesis
035. Follow You Follwo Me - Genesis
036. The Carpet Crawlera - Genesis
037. Turn It On Again - Genesis
038. Mama - Genesis
039. In The Cage - Genesis
040. Land Of Confusion - Genesis
041. Watcher Of The Skies - Genesis
042. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
043. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
044. Steam - Peter Gabriel
045. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
046. Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
047. Pseudo Silk Kimono/Kayleigh/Lavender - Marillion
Phew... hard to name 128 Songs! But I would be more than happy, if only a few of these would make it! The other guys also mentioned a lot of good 80s songs.

[jgsidak]

U.K.: In the Dead of Night, By the Light of Day