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Hey. I wonder if anyone else here is a Yes fan like me and has tried to program any Yes-like patches?

The last time I tried I was messing with the song "Awaken" from the Going for the One album, but I didn't get far.

I play Rick Wakeman stuff, you'll need to get some good Mellotron choir and orchestra samples loaded up and then go from there. ( especially for King Arthur or Journey sounds )

Heh, I have a Yamaha EX-5 that I usually use for mellotron sounds. There is a patch set and sample set called MEL Labs that fills its 16 MB Flash memory.

Is there a way to autoload samples into the Oasys? It seems silly to load them from disk every startup.

I presume you mean Rick's classic sounds and not some of the digital guff he came out with in the late '80s/'90s?

Minimoog emulations are a must.
One thing you could do is get hold of the Minimonsta softsynth.

Wakeman programmed about 80 sounds for it (he has his own sound bank) and there are some great recreations of sounds he used on Close to the Edge, Topographic Oceans, Going for the One etc. They sound just right.

You could use these as a starting point and try copying the paramaters into the equivalent ones on AL-1.
They won't sound the same but I guess you could get quite far.....

Seconded on the 'Trons- essential!

What were you trying to reproduce from "Awaken"? Would have thought it would be easy to make an appropriate church organ registration.

Or was it those beautiful synth runs from the trancey middle section?

I love that sound.

Ryan, I didn't ask but perhaps you are also looking for the keys sounds of Partrick Moraz (similar equipment to Wakeman but different usage of the Minimoog), or even Tony Kaye's roaring Hammond?

Do write back.

Heh, I'm mostly going for Yes stuff, around the Fragile era and beyond. I have done what I think is a reasonable job with the Tony Kaye Hammond sound, but I'm trying to make stuff to match the later albums with Rick.

While there's a lot to be said about the unique Moog synth sounds that Rick used, a lot of what I've been trying to do is the voice layering, and getting the "other" voices down. There are many different pipe organ sounds in Fragile that are hard to nail (because he's playing on a real pipe organ) and trying to get them into a Combi where you can switch them with the strings pads (also hard to nail) and the piano voice has proven a challenge for me.

Minimonsta is great. I have used it before on a friend's laptop. I may buy it since it looks like it's been updated for Intel Macintosh now. At the time I had an Intel Mac but the software was PPC only.