Synth Jam with Moog System 55, Oberheim OB-X8 & ARP 2600,
Synthesist Ehsan Gelsi shared this large-format synth jam, At Scale, featuring sounds of the Moog System 55, Oberherim OB-X8 and ARP 2600.
Live Coverage of Herbie Hancock’s classic ‘Rockit’
The video captures a live performance by The Moots of Herbie Hancock‘s 1983 electro classic, Rockit.
The angle of the video gives you a “musician’s view” of the performance, letting you see the keyboards and gear used.
The Moots are a duo, Matt Baxley and Darrell Nutt. Matt Baxley is also known for his Youtube videos as ‘Moot Booxle’. Baxley handles vocals and plays Mini Moog and ARP Odyssey keyboards, Rhodes and B3 keyboard sounds, vocoder, and electronics and effects. Darrel Nutt plays the drums and also handles triggering loops and samples.
Single Synth Berlin School Synth Jam with Korg Wavestate Synthesizer
The video, via Waveformer, captures a single-synth Berlin School-style synth jam, featuring the Korg Wavestate Digital Synthesizer .
What they shared about the technical details:
The performance has four layers that are used as four individual parts/tracks – two independent melodic arpeggiators, one bass layer and one pad layer. During the jam, I play with the arpeggiators and do live sound design. The complete jam was recorded in one go with no post-processing except some light compression.”
Wavestate performance mod knobs:
Knob 1: Layer A (arp melody 1) Octave
Knob 2: Layer B (bass) Octave
Knob 3: Layer C (pad) Octave
Knob 4: Layer D (arp melody 2) Octave
Knob 5: Layer A (arp melody 1) Amp Level
Knob 6: Layer B (bass) Amp Level
Knob 7: Layer C (pad) Amp Level
Knob 8: Layer D (arp melody 2) Amp Level
ModWheel controls the decimator effect for Layer A, and makes layer B and D softer.
Joystick X controls Reverb Effect Level.
Joystick Y controls Layer C (pad) Bandpass Filter Cutoff Frequency.
The audio is recorded to SD card on a Zoom R-16 recorder and normalized in Audacity. Video is recorded on a Canon EOS M50 mk2 with the included EF-M 15-45mm lens. Audio and video is synchronized in DaVinci Resolve 18 (free version).
