Cedric inquires:
And there are couple musical instruments that I can't really tell where I can get it from. It is the famous flute sound from Enigma, I hear that all the time , even other artists using it sometimes. Another one is the Electronic Brass sound from Vangelis, I guess that is his signature lol. Just lovely.
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The Enigma flute is an old E-mu Emulator II shakuhachi sample, as featured on Famous Sounds. It's funny how people call it expressive, because it seems to be a single sample. Play it for less than the full duration, and the airy "chiff" is absent – therefore, the lack of loop points allows for perceived dynamicism when used in a performance. I don't have the sample with me but I used it in "Lovers' Dance":
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Vangelis has used a lot of different brass sounds but if I were to single out a signature, it'd be the rich, detuned sounds coming from his Yamaha CS-80. Arturia makes the CS-80V (I have Analog Factory which contains some selections from this, including very Vangelistic sounds) and East West Quantum Leap's Goliath actually has a few sounds dedicated to this, too. Here's me playing one of them, infact. I use far more pitch bend that Vangy tends to, but that's me compensating for lack of a ribbon controller:
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Very Vangelissy!
Sounds amazing. I always wonder if he is using different layers on the board to playback multiple instruments and orchestra at the same time. This is my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVK_OAc6J0s
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0Xy_6WIY0
Ayo! Did you actually have an EMU-II – or that sound in a sample library? Thanks!
-Jamie
Torley, what kind of program and vst should I use to create those dance beats/rhythms from the 80s hehehehe. Gazebo (MasterPiece) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYldJsYVD2Q&feature=fvw and I like chopin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBwMXxCXjsE&feature=related
@Lorelei That's the goal!
@Cedric From the in-studio videos I've seen, yes, with layers of keyboards, it's what Vangelis triggers. I used to sleep to "Antarctica" every night.
@Jamie I got the sample from a friend, my sampler acquisitions don't go back that far. First hardware sampler I owned was a Yamaha A5000, so I can only talk about the Akai S1000 and such vicariously.
@Cedric again, I don't know what drum machine was used on those but they're pretty straightforward. (And I've heard that catchy song before.) A lot of Italo disco used what's on here: http://www.euro-flash.net/80ssynthesizers.php