Trying to Duplicate this sound

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Wagnergrad96
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Trying to Duplicate this sound

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I am working on a cover of "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester. Can't seem to find a sound on the KRONOS that works for me. Any suggestions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnC0nDRGRpM
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Re: Trying to Duplicate this sound

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Wagnergrad96 wrote:I am working on a cover of "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester. Can't seem to find a sound on the KRONOS that works for me. Any suggestions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnC0nDRGRpM
A lot of sounds in that song, is it the voice sound you are after?
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average_male wrote:
Wagnergrad96 wrote:I am working on a cover of "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester. Can't seem to find a sound on the KRONOS that works for me. Any suggestions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnC0nDRGRpM
A lot of sounds in that song, is it the voice sound you are after?
The main sound you hear in the intro. What is being played in the right hand.
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Ahhh I remember that song - from the era of key changes and hand claps! And DX-7 of course.

The right hand part does sound like it came from a DX-7. Perhaps there's a sound from the MOD-7 Kronos engine that's similar. The attack and envelope sounds like a synth guitar - perhaps look in the Guitar category?

You might even find the DX-7 sound (from among the thousands and thousands). Then you could load it into you Kronos! http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=73751
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bpoodoo wrote:Ahhh I remember that song - from the era of key changes and hand claps! And DX-7 of course.

The right hand part does sound like it came from a DX-7. Perhaps there's a sound from the MOD-7 Kronos engine that's similar. The attack and envelope sounds like a synth guitar - perhaps look in the Guitar category?

You might even find the DX-7 sound (from among the thousands and thousands). Then you could load it into you Kronos! http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=73751
Thanks for the suggestion :-)
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bpoodoo wrote:Ahhh I remember that song - from the era of key changes and hand claps! And DX-7 of course.

The right hand part does sound like it came from a DX-7. Perhaps there's a sound from the MOD-7 Kronos engine that's similar. The attack and envelope sounds like a synth guitar - perhaps look in the Guitar category?

You might even find the DX-7 sound (from among the thousands and thousands). Then you could load it into you Kronos! http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=73751
So I downloaded a .zip file with DX-7 sounds. There are sooooo many. It's gong to take me a while. A noble journey
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Re: Trying to Duplicate this sound

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So, it took a while but I finally finished "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" by Melissa Manchester. I had it done for a while, but my friend who does the vocals lives 3000 miles away and only get out to Long Island once a year so we could do the video (and work on new songs).

All of the keyboard (and drum) sounds are from the KRONOS. All of the other audio was recorded on the KRONOS, like guitar, bass and vocals. I think there were 8 tracks of vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZAcP1sWBY
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