Never Been Any Reason by Head East

Cobra Jet · Post by **Cobra Jet** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:48 pm

I was wondering if anyone has played around with the song Never Been Any Reason by Head East on the Kronos. I read somewhere that it was done on two Minimoogs.

geoelectro · Post by **geoelectro** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:43 pm

Back in the day our band played it. I had a Mini Moog and an Arp Oddessy. Typical analog sound really. Should be easy to do on the Kronos.

Geo

xp50player · Post by **xp50player** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:28 pm

I have played this in the past. For the harmonized descending end of the intro, I cheated a little bit. I made a zone at the left end just for that part with the lead sound, and another layer for each individual key, tuned to the proper interval. This song requires switchable rate-constant portamento for the pitch sweeps at the end of the lead.

Cobra Jet · Post by **Cobra Jet** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:30 pm

Ok, I’ve got a patch that’s close and I was hoping for some advice. I used “Simple Saw Lead” and made several changes to it but I still want it to sound a bit more distorted and biting. I tried to add a tub amp effect but that wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.

ricciolino · Post by **ricciolino** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:01 am

you can try to put your program in two or more timbre in a combi in order to reach a vintage chorus presence, it worked for me with an old prog song by PFM, in which synth solo was made with a Minimoog. Just a suggest...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzbDUbu1lMM

LZ · Post by LZ » Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:06 am

We do this song. There's a video in the link below, but unfortunately it didn't catch the intro.

I used a combi. My lower keyboard is just a controller and all sounds are Kronos. I used the same patch using AL-1 on 2 parts...one assigned to the Kronos, one to the top zone of a split on the lower tier. The organ is on the lower split of the lower tier. One thing I do NOT do like the original is during the longer synth solo, there are actually 2 mono synth parts going on AND organ.. I only play one synth part with the organ. Also, if you listen REALLY close, there are actually harmonized parts all through the intro, which I don't do either, because you really only hear it on the descending part at the end.

http://classx.net/media.php

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Oh, and just to clarify - I use both the upper keyboard and the lower keyboard top zone (same mono synth on each) to play the descending harmonized part in the intro.

I leave portamento on through the whole thing. I set timing based on the part where it does the wide sweeps, and it sounds right to my ears through the whole thing.

Filter EG is set to legato with a slowly descending filter cutoff so that if I play legato, the filter doesn't retrigger. Assigned ribbon to cutoff for the sustained wide sweep, but you can assign whatever you want for that.

Other than all that, it's just a fat detuned saw in AL-1 (stack voices).

Cobra Jet · Post by **Cobra Jet** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:59 pm

LZ, Thanks for the reply. Your part sounds great, exactly what I’m looking for. I have a patch that I’m hoping will pass the scrutiny of our singer. I think we may be going over this song at practice tomorrow. I won’t pretend I understood everything you said, but here is what I have for the Synthesizer part. I started out with a program called “Simple Saw Lead”. I turned the volume on the 2nd oscillator up to 7 and the pitch to +.2. all my other changes were just trial and error.

Cobra Jet · Post by **Cobra Jet** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 9:43 pm

Here is a sample of the sound I’m using for this song. I started out with Simple Saw and made several changes. I still think the sound needs to be a little rougher and more distorted.

https://soundcloud.com/mark-viera/my-lead