MiMas cover of Airwolf Theme (extended mix) @mima85

mima85 Here's my cover of the theme of the famous 80ies TV series Airwolf. I choose to cover the extended version, as I found it more interesting. No sequencing used, all played by hand (even bass and arpeggio parts) expect the rythm which I sequenced into my DAW. I also added a personal touch in the central part, where I put a melody (played on the Yamaha DX-7) that is absent in the original. Every time I listened to that section of the song I heard that melody in my head, so I decided to put it in my cover.

Like with the others of my last videos, this is not really a live show, I reconstructed the entire song from scratch part by part, then I filmed myself playing them, this time even from various angles. The audio is all from the rebuilt song, not from the filmed parts.

By the way, three of the four instruments I used this year turn 40, which are the Oberheim OB-8, the Roland Jupiter 6 and the Yamaha DX-7. All of them are from 1983, so this video can be meant as a way to celebrate them :-)

Here you can download the song: dropbox.com/s/8kih4ays7sepvlq/Airwolf%20Theme.wav?dl=0

I hope you like it. Feel free to comment.

updated 3 years ago

MiMas cover of Airwolf Theme (extended mix)

mima85 2023-03-19 | Here's my cover of the theme of the famous 80ies TV series Airwolf. I choose to cover the extended version, as I found it more interesting. No sequencing used, all played by hand (even bass and arpeggio parts) expect the rythm which I sequenced into my DAW. I also added a personal touch in the central part, where I put a melody (played on the Yamaha DX-7) that is absent in the original. Every time I listened to that section of the song I heard that melody in my head, so I decided to put it in my cover.

Like with the others of my last videos, this is not really a live show, I reconstructed the entire song from scratch part by part, then I filmed myself playing them, this time even from various angles. The audio is all from the rebuilt song, not from the filmed parts.

By the way, three of the four instruments I used this year turn 40, which are the Oberheim OB-8, the Roland Jupiter 6 and the Yamaha DX-7. All of them are from 1983, so this video can be meant as a way to celebrate them :-)

Here you can download the song: dropbox.com/s/8kih4ays7sepvlq/Airwolf%20Theme.wav?dl=0

I hope you like it. Feel free to comment.

MiMa playing keys on Huey Lewis - The Power Of Love

mima85 2023-10-21 | Yes, I'm a big fan ot Back To The Future :-D

As doing only the synth brass chords would have resulted in a quite boring video, I decided to play also the bass part with the left hand to make it more interesting.

To rebuild the song without the keyboard and bass tracks I used stems I found on this channel: youtube.com/@20centurymusic1
Check it out, it's full of useful stuff if you want to do a cover of a song or learn how to play the single parts.

I hope you like my video, as usual feel free to comment :-)

MiMas cover of Passport Designs - Passport Please (PASSPORT.MID)

mima85 2022-09-16 | As a kid grown in the 90ies who was into computers, at that times like many others I stumbled into the Windows' PASSPORT.MID file (and CANYON.MID too of course). I always liked its jazzy/funky vibes and still like them today.

Now, I'm also into music, synths/keyboards and retrocomputing. So, here we are, this is my cover of Passport Designs - Passport Please (PASSPORT.MID). Played (mostly) with the vintage keyboards that I like so much :-D. The drums are from the GM set of my Roland RD-700GX digital piano.

All the parts are played by hand, no MIDI tracking except for the rythm. I recorded the song part by part, then I filmed myself playing the various sections over the song I built. Then I edited them together.

Here you can download the audio track: dropbox.com/s/b1vl2wvdcwf9oeu/Passport%20Designs%20-%20Passport%20Please.wav?dl=0

I hope you like it. Feel free to comment.

Theme Hospital soundtrack - Remix with Roland Jupiter 6

mima85 2020-03-22 | ADDENDUM: Sorry for me writing "Ospital" instead of "Hospital"... I'm not a native english speaker but this is a really stupid error [facepalm].

This is a different video compared to the others I usually do. I did a complete remix of the Theme Hospital's game soundtrack, using custom sounds that I made with my Roland Jupiter 6. For the drum tracks I used the GM drumset of my Roland RD700GX digital piano. My reference on how these tunes sound is them being played by a Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer, driven with the standard Windows driver's GM set, this reflects a bit on how some sounds are made. The electric piano and some basses are examples of that. For other sounds I preferred a more classic analog vibe, brasses and strings/pads are typical of the analog world.

To record the soundtrack I used the game's original MIDI files. I imported them into Reaper and did one track a time by driving the keyboards via MIDI and recording back the audio coming from them. To make the final result easy on the ear I added a bit of reverb to the master mix. You'll notice that some parts are in stereo (mainly the electric piano lines and background pads/strings), for these I recorded the same MIDI track two times, with the Jupiter's master tune a little different each time, and hard panned each of the two parts to left and right. This allows to achieve a cool "wide stereo spread" effect.

For those who own a Jupiter 6, here's the patch dump: dropbox.com/s/q86wd8d7m4a4akt/Theme%20Ospital%20Jupiter%206%20patch%20dump.wav?dl=0

To make the video I chose to do a multitrack oscilloscope show, and I made it using the SIDWiz2 program, made by Rolf R. Bakke and RushJet1. This is a neat little piece of computer jargon! Check their Youtube channels, they're full of those awesome multitrack oscilloscope shows.

Here's the playlist:

00:09 - 1) Steady Pulse
03:34 - 2) 6's and 7's
07:02 - 3) Night Shift
10:10 - 4) Atlantis
13:28 - 5) Fortune
15:49 - 6) Doctor Frog
17:21 - 7) Candyfloss
18:47 - 8) On The Mend

As always, I hope you like it. Please feel free to comment :-)

MiMas cover of Boards Of Canada - Roygbiv

mima85 2019-06-09 | Download full track with correct kid and arpeggio samples here: dropbox.com/s/kby6bgaulj1x7in/Boards%20of%20Canada%20-%20Roygbiv.wav?dl=0

Here I am with a video of that beautiful BoC's music piece. And there's a special guest here, my latest acquisition: an Oberheim OB-8 :-D

Like my previous Thriller and The Unknown Song videos, this one too is not a live show, as I want to experiment with video editing and improve my skills with that. I did from scratch the entire song in Reaper as usual playing all parts by hand (with the exception of the rythm of course), then I filmed myself playing the single parts as I would've played them for a live video (so paying attention to the timing, to avoid bump notes, etc...) and put them together in the final video, with the music rendered from my Reaper project as audio background.

All the parts you hear in the tune are from the keyboards as seen in the video. So the bass really is from the OB-8, the lead from the Jupiter 6 and the piano from the Nord Electro 3. For this last sound I used a piano sample from the Clavia's Mellotron library, as I found it suited to give that typical BoC's lo-fi vibe to the tune. To increase the lo-fi effect I added some white noise too, with different noise tracks recorded for the left and right channel, to emulate tape noise, and a good dose of dynamics compression.

As I found the original BoC's tune a bit too short I made my version a little longer by repeating one more time the last 8 measures, making a couple of changes to it (I removed the kid's voice saying "Hey" and reverted the lead sound back to the one heard at the beginning) and adding a string pad slowly fading in and then out as the whole tune fades away too.

This video exists thanks to a dear friend of mine that some time ago made me discovering Boards Of Canada. Thank you Andrea!

I hope you like it. As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Micheal Jackson - Thriller

mima85 2018-12-02 | Inspired by this Doctor Mix's video:

youtube.com/watch?v=E6TSYy7ikcs

I created my own cover of this great song. This is by far my biggest project, I was working on it for months.

Who needs a Jupiter 8 and a MiniMoog to do Thriller? :-D
All the synth parts are from my Roland Jupiter 6 and the Fender Rhodes piano is from my Roland RD700GX.

Here you can find the full recording, complete with all the vocal parts:

dropbox.com/s/67gn828j7bd0r3b/Micheal%20Jackson%20-%20Thriller%20%28CD%20quality%29.wav?dl=0

I took them from this video:

youtube.com/watch?v=--STI2BSmqk

That video is a great source of knowledge on how Thriller was put together. I definitely recommend watching it!

As usual, I hope you like it. Constructive comments are always welcomed :-)

Ill Be Back - MiMas cover of Terminator Theme (again)

mima85 2018-11-16 | Yes... I was absent from my channel for more than 1 year. But now, I'm back :-)

MiMa - The Unknown Song

mima85 2017-07-09 | There's a story behind this song. Some years ago a former colleague, knowing that I'm into music stuff, asked me how to record a music cassette into the PC, because it contained an amateur song which was done by a friend of him, that was never commercially distributed. The cassette was very old and decaying, and he didn't want to loose the song in it. So I explained him how to connect a cassette deck to the PC's line input, how to record, etc.

The following day, he came at work with the recording for me to listen to it. The recording was of very bad quality, both because of the low quality of the recording itself (8 KHz/8 bit or something similar) and the cassette being very ruined. But despite the bad quality I quite liked the song, so I listened to it a few times. Then the time passed, I changed workplace, the recorded song remained on the PC at the workplace where I was and I never listened to it again. This happened about 16 years ago.

In the meantime the song remained in my mind, and I thought that it would be a pity if it would end being completely forgot. I don't know what was the fate of the old cassette and its digital recording, but I guess they don't longer exist now. So at a certain moment, some months ago, I decided to concretize the track.

This is the song featured on this video. The music had also a singed line in english, but as at the times I was a complete novice with english (and the bad and ruined recording didn't help) I don't remember what the singer was saying. But I remember the melody, so I rendered it in the song with a simple piano line.

I have reworked the track a bit, because with just what I remembered it was a bit poor, so I added some things (synth strings and fillings) to make it more enjoyable. The song had definitely a late 80ies/early 90ies vibe, for example I distinctly remember the intro's Roland D-50 "Staccato Heaven" sound in the original, so I stuck to this music style in redoing my version.

Except for the rythm and the bass line, is all played by hand in the recording. To make the video I filmed myself playing the various parts but without recording the sound from the synths, then I assembled them in the final video, over the original audio track (this is my first attempt at video editing). It's not exactely a real-time show like my previous videos, but when I filmed myself playing the parts I paid as much attention as I could to the timing, to match it with the music.

The bass comes from a Juno 106 (not featured in the video), which I sequenced via MIDI, and the rythm is made from Linn Drum samples, for true 80ies feeling :-D

I hope you like it. As usual feel free to comment :-)

Here are the download links:

1) Version as heard in the video: dropbox.com/s/j4iz32bioqkmoj4/MiMa%20-%20The%20Unknown%20Song.wav?dl=0

2) Version without the piano "singer" line: dropbox.com/s/osiet744fna7ri8/MiMa%20-%20The%20Unknown%20Song_nopiano.wav?dl=0

Is 1984 again

mima85 2017-05-01 | Finally after years and years of waiting, I have it, the Jupiter 8 :-D
I found a very good occasion (a lot less than the usual sell price) and I decided to go for it. It had a small problem on an oscillator, turned out that it was just a failed TL082 op-amp on the Interface Board, replaced it and the problem was gone.
This is just a short demo of it, featuring 1984 of Van Halen. I think the Jupiter can do that Oberheim OB-Xa part really well :-)
The only effect I used is a Roland DEP-3 delay.

MiMas cover of Van Halen - Ill Wait (now recorded straight :-D)

mima85 2016-10-12 | PLEASE NOTE: the audio here is heavily stereofonized, and my keyboard line is for the most part on the right channel, while the Van Halen's song is on the left. Be sure to listen to this video with a pair of stereo speakers or headphones, otherwise it could seem that I'm just pretending to play.

After 8 years where I didn't touch this song I decided to record it again (for the 3rd time). But this time I recorded it with my cam straight on the synthesizer and not in reverse as in my 2008's video :-)

I improved and changed some things in my playing compared with my last video of this song, so it's now more akin to the original. The audio and video quality is improved a lot too.

Feel free to comment. If you have criticisms, express them politely in a constructive way and they will be welcome.

MiMas cover of Kraftwerk - The Model

mima85 2016-08-24 | Here's my cover of this famous piece from the german electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk. As usual I did the piece from scratch and then muted the parts I wanted to play in the video.

The MP3 of my cover can be downloaded here: dropbox.com/s/chinexxhxr9g69t/Kraftwerk%20-%20The%20Model%20-%20Cover%20by%20MiMa.mp3?dl=0

I hope you like my video. Any comment will be greatly appreciated :-)

MiMas cover of Jan Hammer - Crockett Theme (Miami Vice)

mima85 2016-06-04 | This is my cover of Jan Hammer's Crockett Theme, part of the Miami Vice's sound track.

Here you can download the MP3: dropbox.com/s/f1r9bjycoyo3xqx/Jan%20Hammer%20-%20Crockett%20Theme.mp3?dl=0

As always in the MP3 recording all the sounds, except the drum track, come from my Jupiter 6. This time the bass line was sequenced, not played manually as in my last 2 videos.

For the guitar-like lead, I used a Behringer Tube Overdrive pedal to process the synthesizer's sound. The pedal then goes directly into the mixer, and I added strong delay to add "epicness" to this part.

I hope you like it. Feel free to comment :-)

MiMas cover of Visage - Fade To Grey

mima85 2016-05-05 | Here's my cover of this famous and immortal 80ies piece of music. As my habit, all the song is done by ear all by myself, keyboard parts all played by hands and drum track built with ModPlug Tracker. Then I muted the parts which I wanted to play on synths. Unfortunately the vocal part is missing, but this allows you to sing along the music if you want :-)

Here you can download the WAV: dropbox.com/s/yoto2hj08aubutd/Visage%20-%20Fade%20To%20Grey.wav?dl=0

I hope you like this video. Feel free to comment, possibly in a polite manner ;-)

MiMas cover of Depeche Mode - Puppets

mima85 2016-03-17 | Here's my rendition of Puppets by Depeche mode.
Usual workflow, song redid entirely from scratch, by ear. All sounds programmed by me, no sequencer used except for the drums.
Then I muted the parts I wanted to do on synths and played over the song.

Here's the MP3 of my cover: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2345020/Depeche%20Mode%20-%20Puppets.wav

In the MP3 recording all the sounds come from my Jupiter 6, except the drums of course.

I hope you like it. Feel free to comment, just be polite :-)

MiMas cover of Howard Jones - Equality

mima85 2015-11-11 | Here's my rendition of Equality by Howard Jones. As usual all done by ear and by rebuilding the entire song from scratch, then muting the parts I wanted to play for the video. Unfortunately as I'm not good at singing, the vocal part is missing. Just the instrumentals are here.

The human voice chorus which can be heard starting from the second verse comes from my Nord Electro 3, where I played a sample of a Mellotron chorus.

Here you can find the MP3 of my cover:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2345020/Howard%20Jones%20-%20Equality.mp3

I hope you like it. Criticism and comments, while being constructive, are welcome as always :-)

MiMas cover of Depeche Mode - Tora Tora Tora

mima85 2015-09-30 | This is my rendition of Tora Tora Tora. As my usual, I redid by ear the entire song from scratch, then I muted the parts which I wanted to play on synths to make the video.

Here you can download the track I made:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2345020/Depeche%20Mode%20-%20Tora%20Tora%20Tora.mp3

All the sounds were programmed from scratch and played by hand on the Roland Jupiter 6, except the drums. No sequencing here at all, except the drum track, actually you can hear some slight timing inaccuracies and some errors, especially when I play the final lead, toward the end of the song. Sorry for them.

Unfortunately there's not Dave singing in this song... I really need a VSTi version of him LOL :-D

Please feel free to comment. Constructive criticisms are always welcome :-)

All copyrights of this song are owned by Depeche Mode and related entities.

MiMas cover of The Doors - Riders On The Storm

mima85 2014-11-21 | This is for you, Ray. May your music live forever.

This is the first song which really impressed me in my whole life. It was like a lightning strike in my mind and I liked it from the very first notes. This happened when I was at the tender age of 3.
And this is the first song I began to work on when I started to seriously think to play keyboards, 17/18 years after (a bit too late I know).
In other words, this song started it all. And now I covered it, all by ear as my habit :-)
That haunting Ray's keyboard line it's so ipnotic, a true masterpiece, together with the interaction of Robbie's guitar. Well, this whole song is a masterpiece, one of the Doors' top songs.
I played it over a base given by a person which sent to me some Doors' bases without the keyboard lines and Jim's voice (Thanks mr. Claudio G.!). To make Jim singing in the song again, I searched on YouTube for a video of Riders On The Storm with Jim's voice only, I took the audio part from it, sliced the individual verses and put them on the base. Finally I played the keyboard line, which I panned left in the stereo field, like in the original song (on the right there's the guitar).
The Rhodes piano sound it's being played thru the Electro 3's onboard Fender Twin amp's simulation, with a bit of overdrive and some EQ to approach the original sound.
I hope you like my cover. I still have to improve my dynamics control, so the piano it's played a bit rough in some parts, sorry for that.
As usual, constructive comments and criticisms are welcome :-)

Link to the base without Rhodes piano:
dropbox.com/s/v4xmmyw4g2ezupy/Riders%20On%20The%20Storm_base.mp3?dl=0

MiMas cover of Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman

mima85 2013-09-20 | Some days ago I got this Korg 01/w for free, it was owned by the chief of the school where I take piano lessons, and he told me "I have no more space for this old keyboard, take it or I'll throw it away". So how could I refuse such offering? Surely I couldn't :-)

And by the way would really be a sacrilege throwing away a perfectly working Korg 01/w.

Well, an early nineties Korg keyboard, what's better than to have a little fun with it playing a good old early nineties House/Dance song? Ladadeeeeeeeee ladedaaaaaaaaaa ladadeeeeeeeeeee ladedaaaaaaaaaaaa... and then there's this video ;-)

I played the left hand parts a little different than the original song to give it more variety.

Hope you all like it. As usual, constructive comments are welcome.

MiMas cover of The Doors - Light My Fire

mima85 2013-01-06 | PLEASE NOTE: the audio here is heavily stereofonized, and my keyboard line is for the most part on the right channel, while the Doors' song is on the left. Be sure to listen to this video with a pair of stereo speakers or headphones, otherwise it could seem that I'm just pretending to play.

R.I.P. Ray Manzarek. You were my master. If now I have a big passion for music and playing keyboards, if this video right now exists, it's thank to you.

Many, many thanks for your wonderful music.
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Here's my attempt to play the Doors' signature song, Light My Fire. It was quite a pain to keep myself concentrate thru the whole 6-7 minutes of the song's duration and in fact there are sometimes bump notes and slight errors, but for now I cannot do better, I'm sorry :-(

I used my custom made "fake" Fender Rhodes Piano Bass (which is based on an old Roland U-110 expander) and a CEI Prestige combo organ which I restored some time ago.

The organ passes thru a Behringer Vintage Overdrive pedal and goes directly to the mixer, where it's being equalized to approach the character of the Vox Continental in the original recording.

The original song it's being panned to the left and my keyboard parts on the right, so you can hear them distinctely.

I hope you like it. As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène 4

mima85 2012-07-01 | Well, as my name is Michel and I'm a synth addicted, I cannot leave my profile without a single video with a cover of the great Jean Michel Jarre ;-)

Here's my rendition of his most famous piece of music, Oxygène 4. This time I'm using only Roland analog keyboards, precisely the Jupiter 6, the JX-8P and the Juno 106. All the sounds are programmed by me.

To do this video I first redid the entire song using ModPlug Tracker for the drums/bass parts, and after rendering these as single .WAV tracks I imported them in Reaper, then I did a multitrack recording of the rest using only the Jupiter 6. Even the drum machine's noises were programmed on the Jupiter prior to be sampled and sequenced with ModPlug Tracker, and every single sound/noise in the recording comes from it.

The only effects I used are a Boss CE-5 chorus pedal for the string sounds and a Behringer FL600 flanger pedal for the 2nd lead (the one I play on the Juno in the video). The stereo L-R delays of leads and strings were made by hand by pasting and time-shifting multiple copies of the tracks on which I wanted the the effect.

I used no reverbs as I think the delayed strings do the "spacing" trick very well.

Here you can find the complete recording: dl.dropbox.com/u/2345020/MiMa%20feat.%20Jean%20Michel%20Jarre%20-%20Oxygene%204.mp3

As usual all the stuff is done by ear.

I hope you like it. Constructive comments are always welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Level 42 - Heathrow

mima85 2012-05-26 | I'm covering the song Heathrow from Level 42 with my freshly acquired (and since long time awaited) Roland Jupiter 6. Finally now I have this machine, I was seeking for it since about 2 years :-)

The patch I'm playing it's a very standard synth brass patch, but I like the way it sounds on the Jupiter very much.

I recorded myself the base by playing the original MIDI file with my other instruments, each doing a particular sound. More precisely:

- the opening and closing arpeggiated bass comes from the Juno 106
- the electric FM piano comes from the Yamaha SY-77
- the organ from the Nord Electro 3, with leslie manually switched while the song was playing
- other synth sounds from the D-50 and JP-8000
- The rythm, bass and saxophone from a very old Yamaha MU-80 which I found some time ago at the scrapyard (well it's not a best-quality MIDI expander, but I found pitiful leaving it in the trash).

All the synth sounds were programmed by me, except the FM piano and the stuff done by the D-50.

Hope you enjoy my video and as always sorry for my poor keyboard skills.

As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Beverly Hills Cop Main Theme - Take 2

mima85 2011-09-11 | This is a second take of my Axel F video.

- Improved synth sounds
- Improved drum sounds
- Improved playing

There are still some errors, but it's way better than the first version.

Here: dropbox.com/s/9xsuj40mfqgl0jg/Beverly%20Hills%20Cops%20Theme.xm?dl=0 you can download the complete module I did for this video with the updated sounds.

Enjoy it :-)

MiMas cover of Beverly Hills Cop Main Theme

mima85 2011-07-26 | Well, this was quite a hell of work.

This is my attempt to play the original Axel F Theme, by Harold Faltermeyer. As I did with the 2nd version of my Photographic (Depeche Mode) video, I redid by ear the entire song with ModPlug Tracker. Then I muted the parts over which I wanted to play.

All the sounds are programmed by me, except the brass on the Roland D-50 and the FM marimba sound on the Yamaha SY-77, which are presets that I slightly edited (mainly to add effects and remove keyboard dynamics)

I told that this was quite a hell of work because of the very difficult (to me as a keyboard novice) timing and sync between some parts of the melody/chords and the bass line, together with the little tweaking of the patch on the JP-8000 while playing. And not to mention that I'm playing on 4 keyboards... Actually sometimes my playing it's not as good as I wanted, but for now, with the skills I have, I cannot achieve more.

Here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2345020/Beverly%20Hills%20Cops%20Theme.xm you can download the complete module I did for this video.

By the way there's a new entry seen in this video: the Roland JX-8P. And obviously a new webcam, which I bought especially for this occasion ;-)

AND... last but not least... FUCKOFF THAT AWFUL CRAZY FROG SHIT!!!

I hope you like the video. As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Terminator Theme

mima85 2011-05-03 | Here's my cover of main theme from the classic movie Terminator.

I did the entire drum track with Modplug Tracker, using samples downloaded from a free library found on the Internet, then played over it with the synthesizers.

Hope you like it.

As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Journey - Separate Ways - BLOCKED VIDEO, READ DESCRIPTION

mima85 2011-03-27 | ATTENTION: PLEASE READ!

Those SME jerks blocked my video in one or more countries, claiming for copyright infringiment. How could a mediocre keyboard demonstrative video break any copyright, played by a novice keyboard player (me) and recorded in bad audio/video quality, it's beyond my comprehension, especially considering that on Youtube there are other UNLOCKED videos covering this song, or EVEN WITH THE HIGH QUALITY, UNTOUCHED AND IMMACULATE ORIGINAL SONG!

So SME can vigorously suck my dick, and you can still watch the video by using the following LINK:

http://mima14031985.altervista.org/journey_separate_ways.html

Just stop the messed up video here on Youtube, watch the one on my custom page, and rate/comment back here, like as you watched the video inside Youtube.

I had to do AudioSwap to unlock the video and I choosen something not too much painful to replace the original audio track.

--- Original video description ---

This is my attempt to play the song Separate Ways from the Journey.

As usual very simple synth sounds are used for this song, being a standard sawtooth brass with a little slow filter attack and a bit of resonance on the Roland Juno 106, a sound made from a moderately detuned supersaw on OSC1 and a triangle on OSC2 on the Roland JP-8000 and a simple squarewave lead on the Yamaha SY-77.

It was a bit difficult to get the song together as I intended due to the fast keyboard changes I had to do with the right hand, but for the rest it's a very simple song to play on a single keyboard.

Constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Supertramp - The Logical Song - BLOCKED VIDEO, READ DESCRIPTION

mima85 2011-03-20 | ATTENTION: PLEASE READ!

Those UMG jerks blocked my video in one or more countries, claiming for copyright infringiment. How could a mediocre keyboard demonstrative video break any copyright, played by a novice keyboard player (me) and recorded in bad audio/video quality, it's beyond my comprehension, especially considering that on Youtube there are other UNLOCKED videos covering this song, or EVEN WITH THE HIGH QUALITY, UNTOUCHED AND IMMACULATE ORIGINAL SONG!

So UMG can vigorously suck my dick, and you can still watch the video by using the following LINK:

http://mima14031985.altervista.org/supertramp_logical_song.html

Just stop the messed up video here on Youtube, watch the one on my custom page, and rate/comment back here, like as you watched the video inside Youtube.

I had to do AudioSwap to unlock the video and I choosen something not too much painful to replace the original audio track.

--- Original video description ---

Here's my attempt to play the Supertramp's signature tune The Logical Song.

I used my Nord Electro 3 with the Wurlitzer piano sound, using the Chorus1 effect and the Fender Twin amp simulation, together with a bit of EQ to adjust the sound to my tastes.

Hope you like it. As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

P.S. Pardon for my terrible dynamic control skills, I'm not still very able at this, and becomes even worse when doing it on a semi-weighted keyboard, like the Nord Electro's one.

MiMas cover of Van Halen - Love Walks In

mima85 2011-02-06 | This is my attempt to play Love Walks In by Van Halen. I played over a live version I have in my MP3 collection, in which the keyboard line misses the synthesizer found in the studio recording (only the piano is present). The sound comes from the Juno 106 and it's a very standard synth sawtooth brass with a long decay on the filter and Chorus 2 engaged.

Hope you like the video. As usual constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of The Doors - 20th Century Fox

mima85 2011-01-26 | R.I.P. Ray Manzarek. You were my master. If now I have a big passion for music and playing keyboards, if this video right now exists, it's thank to you.

Many, many thanks for your wonderful music.
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This is my attempt to play 20th Century Fox by The Doors. I used my Clavia Nord Electro 3 and a custom built keyboard to mimic Ray Manzarek's Fender Rhodes Piano Bass. This keyboard is based on a simple Roland U-110 MIDI expander module and a 4 octaves master keyboard built alltogether in a wooden case (which was done with the help of a friend of mine) painted to resemble the original instrument.

The organ sound on the Nord Electro 3 comes from its own Vox Continental simulation with drawbars set as 062800288 and transposed one octave down, in order to emulate exactely the footages of the mono-manual Connie (the NE3 emulates the 2-manual Vox Supercontinental).

The bass sound it's simply made by a Fender Rhodes sample in the U-110 module, enriched with a little Behringer Vintage Tube Overdrive TO800 and properly equalized on the mixer to reduce that "bell-like" overtones typical of Rhodes pianos but nearly absent in Ray's Fender Rhodes Piano Bass.

Hope you enjoy the video. As usual all constructive comments are welcome :-)

MiMas cover of Genesis - Abacab

mima85 2011-01-06 | This is my attempt to play Abacab by Genesis on my Roland Juno 106 (for the pad sound) and the JP-8000 (for the bass and the lead sounds).
The sounds are very simple:

Bass: 2 sawtooth oscillators detuned by 1 octave, filter half closed and with moderate decay on the filter's envelope generator

Lead: 2 sawtooth oscillators detuned by 1 octave, and the one on the lower octave must be set at a low volume when balancing the oscillators. Flat envelopes

Pad: PWM (with pulse width modulated by LFO) + SAW + 1/3 suboscillator, filter half opened and Chorus 1 engaged. Also here flat envelopes

As my habit I play the keyboard parts over the original song.

Hope you like this video!

As usual, all constructive comments are welcome ;-)

Yes... sometimes I am bored :-)

mima85 2010-10-14 | PLEASE NOTE: this video is meant to be understood only by (mad) people which like electric lighting as I do. If you don't like the video, simply rate it bad, stop watching it and leave without posting insults on the commentary. Thanks
Those are 2 SL*18, 1 SL*13 and 1 SL*25 magnetic ballasted compact fluorescent bulbs which I own in my collection that are at their end of life. I have also a lot of SL bulbs which are fine in my collection, I keep these exhausted lamps for parts if I need them (the ballasts and the prismatic glass cover)

MiMas cover of Depeche Mode - Photographic - Take 2

mima85 2010-09-11 | Here is my second attempt at Photographic by Depeche Mode. Basically it's the "Some Bizarre" version but I taken some details from the Speak & Spell version.

This time I tracked the entire song with ModPlug Tracker (with a soft synthesizer lead covering Dave's voice), then muted the parts I wanted to play and played them live.

Here's the complete module (Impulse Tracker format) available for download:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2345020/depeche%20mode%20-%20photographic.it

All the sounds in this module (except drums which are samples I found in my MOD files collection and the voice lead, which comes from the Juno 106) come from my Roland JP-8000 and are programmed by me.

Hope you like all the stuff. As usual, constructive comments are welcome :-)

Analogized Passport.mid @ MiMas home studio

mima85 2010-04-11 | This is how Passport.mid should sound on analog equipment. I put the word "analogized" in the title in quotes because the only analog synth I have here it's the Juno 106, all the rest being digital. But all the keyboards here are doing all the stuff heard from the analog keyboards of the past decades (synth brasses, leads, electric pianos, etc...). In details:

Roland Juno 106: bass line
Roland JP-8000: sawtooth bleeps and lead sound from 0:57 to 1:20
Roland D-50: synth brasses
Yamaha SY-77: main squarewave lead
Clavia Nord Electro 3: background Fender Rhodes Piano
Sound Blaster Live! Basic: drum track

I just feeded Reaper with the passport.mid file and assigned each track to a synthesizer, then pressed the Play button and enjoyed all my synth stuff playing this beautiful song ;-D
Passport.mid always bring back a lot of memories to me (the good old times of MS-DOS games and OPL3 cards come to mind).
As I'm not playing myself the song but letting all my equipments doing the work, so this time the video it's a simple slideshow of my freshly built home studio. Respecting my philosophy of using old things to their full potential instead of thrashing them only because they're old, I built it all with recovered material (except some new cables which I needed), so it was very cheap. For example, the amplification it's done by a Technics V-300 Mark II and 2 pair of speakers (Sony SS A-701 and Marantz HD-345) all connected to the Technics amp, all this stuff being recovered from the scrapyard and fully working. And the PC on which is running the oscilloscope program (which I developed in VB6) it's an old Pentium III 866 MHz, which does its task very well.
The gray keyboard it's an imitation of the Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, which I built (with the help of a friend which done all the wood works) around an old Roland U-110 MIDI expander and a 4 octaves Evolution MIDI controller keyboard, all taken apart and reassembled in a wooden case which resembles the original Fender Rhodes Piano Bass. I used this keyboard when I had my Doors tribute band, together with the Nord Electro 3, to mimic the way Ray Manzarek played keyboards with The Doors.

Sorry about the bad audio quality, but YouTube takes it down so badly... :-(

As usual, constructive comments are very welcome :-)

Here you can download the original WAV recording: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2345020/Passport%20%28Roland%20Juno%20106%2C%20JP-8000%2C%20D-50%2C%20Yamaha%20SY77%2C%20Clavia%20Nord%20Electro%203%29.wav

MiMas cover of The Unknown Chiptune

mima85 2010-03-21 | This is my rendition of a chiptune which I found in my olschool music modules collection. The file is called "prodigy7.mod" (it's an Amiga ProTracker module) and the song title is C64 Last Dragon. According to Stone Oakvalley's Amiga Music Collection (www.paula8364.com) the song is composed by a guy called "Micheal". No other information is specified in the module's comments and on the Internet I didn't found any additional information. Anyone knows where this chiptune comes from?
This is one of my favourites chiptunes, so I decided to make a video of it ;-)
The sounds are very simple, respecting the chiptune philosophy: a sound made from a PWM oscillator for the bass line and one made from two PWM oscillators slightly detuned for the lead (played monophonically with a very short portamento). The only effect here is the delay on the lead sound, coming directly from the JP-8000.
The "ala-C64" synthesized drums and the fast arpeggio bits are coming directly from the module itself, played in Modplug Tracker. I just muted the bass and lead track in order to replace them with my playing.
As usual, any constructive comment or criticism is very welcome ;-)

MiMas cover of Tetris Theme

mima85 2010-01-07 | This is my attempt to play the background music of the legendary Tetris video-game. Very simple tones are used to play this song to mimic the behaviour of the original Game Boy music synthesis chip, being a triangle wave for the bass (played on the Yamaha SY 77) and a squarewave with a bit of decay for the melody (played on the Roland Juno 106). No choruses or reverbs, only the raw waves coming directly from the synthesizers.
Oh, and needless to say, I LOVE CHIPTUNES (also known as 8-bit music) :-D
As usual, constructive and non-offensive comments are very welcome!

MiMas cover of Enya - Orinoco Flow

mima85 2009-11-08 | This is my rendition of the very well known song "Orinoco Flow" by Enya. I play the sound #44 - Pizzagogo on my Roland D-50, which are the same sound and synthesizer Enya used in this song (synth enthusiasts like me know very well how much the D-50 is used in Enya songs). The pad in the middle is played on my Juno 106 and is a very common PWMed string sound, with slow PWM, long release and chorus.
It's a very simple song, but I wanted to have some fun with the D-50 and share this with you ;-)
As usual, constructive comments or criticism are welcome!

Ship Of Fools - When the Musics Over - Part 2

Ship Of Fools - When the Musics Over - Part 1

mima85 2009-10-27 | R.I.P. Ray Manzarek. You were my master. If now I have a big passion for music and playing keyboards, if this video right now exists, it's thank to you.

Many, many thanks for your wonderful music.
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ENGLISH: Here we are, the SHIP OF FOOLS, our Doors tribute band, while playing When The Music's Over. We are just born as a band and this is our first video. This was the first time we played this song together, so excuse us for errors and imperfections :-)
As we haven't yet found a drummer, we had to play over the original recording, in order to have the drum part and study the song.
As usual, any constructive comment or criticism is welcome ;-)
We hope you like it.

ITALIANO: Eccoci, gli SHIP OF FOOLS, la nostra tribute band dei Doors, mentre suoniamo When The Music's Over. Siamo appena nati come gruppo e questo è il nostro primo video. Questa è stata la prima volta che abbiamo suonato questo brano insieme, quindi scusateci per gli errori e le imperfezioni :-)
Siccome non abbiamo ancora trovato un batterista abbiamo dovuto suonare sopra il brano originale, per avere la parte di batteria e studiare la canzone.
Come di consueto, qualsiasi commento o critica costruttiva sono ben accetti ;-)
Speriamo che sia di vostro gradimento

MiMas cover of The Doors - When The Musics Over (only intro)

mima85 2009-07-31 | Here I am, playing the intro from the great Doors Song When The Music's Over, emulating the Fender Rhodes Bass with my Roland Juno 106 and the Vox Continental with my Yamaha SY77 (the drawbar settings, refered to my custom made patch explained in the other video, are: 105, 97, 111, 114, 116, 94). The Vox sound comes from my little Fender guitar amp, and between the keyboard and the amp I put a little Behringer Tube Overdrive TO800 pedal (costed about 30 euro) to enrich the sound a bit more. IMHO is a good result at emulating the Vox, what do you think?
Soon will follow the full videos of this song and Light My fire, I am still perfectioning both but I wanted to give a little preview of my playing, and of the results I achieved at emulating the Doors sound with my keyboards.
Feel free to comment, as usual, please constructive comments and not bad ones or even insults :-)

P.S. The high frequency interference comes to the SY77's display backlight, I think the inverter which is powering it is going to die (common defect on these keyboards). Anyway the display is still readable but a bit dim

Leaked High Pressure Sodium lamp

mima85 2009-07-20 | Here you see a leaked Philips Son-T 250W HPS lamp. There's a tiny break on the discharge tube so all the starting gas (I think is xenon or argon) was sucked in the outer bulb, making it to ionize around the internal lamp wires (corona effect) when electricity is applied. This makes a very dim blue light to be produced. An interesting thing to view for lighting enthusiast ;-).
The song you hear in the background comes from the 4th level of Oh No More Lemmings (MSDOS version), played on an OPL3 FM Synthesizer card. Years ago, when I was a kid, there was a night where I was enjoying at looking to the streetlights on my city, and I had this song constantly repeating in my mind... So my brain associated it to the electrically illuminated night panorama and all things related to electric lighting, so when I'm doing or looking at lighting-related stuff, I'm used to hear to this song. It have some relaxing effect on me. As music is a vital component of my life usually I associate some songs to some situations, and when these situations happens, the songs automatically come to mind. Maybe I'm mad... ;-)

MiMas High Intensity Discharge lighting stuff

mima85 2009-07-20 | For those used to see me while playing keyboards on Youtube, in this video you'll find some unusual stuff ;-)
I'm fascinated with electric ligting since I was 7, and in all these years I collected a lot of lamps (I have about 350 lamps of all types in my collection) and related things (I have a dozen of ballasts and some lighting fixtures).
In this video you'll see all my fully working HID fixtures coming on all at the same time. Notice the heavy buzzing sound from ignitors turning on the lamps and from the ballasts keeping them lit ;-)
All the fixtures on the topmost row are custom built by me with stuff I had around and some recovered stuff from the local electric and electronic wastes disposal center (especially ballasts).
In this video you'll find the following fixtures, with their descriptions:

- Top row, all custom built:

1) A metal halide fixture, made from a standard double ended halogen floodlight. The ballast is housed in an uncommon computer power supply case and screwed together with the floodlight. It runs a 70W Osram HQI-TS (double-ended) warm white metal halide lamp

2) A high pressure mercury / sodium fixture. The ballast is housed in a classic computer power supply case, having a standard 125W mercury lamp choke and an ignitor, so also HPS lamps can be ran by this fixture. The lampholder is from an old incandescent ceiling-mounting fixture and the reflector from a desk lamp, which can be easily screwed together with the ceiling lampholder. It runs a 110W Radium RNP-E elliptical and coated HPS lamp

3) Another metal halide floodlight fixture like the 1st one. The only differences are the floodlight painting colour (black instead of white) and the computer power supply's form, which is a bit different. It runs a Philips CDM-TD (double ended) metal halide lamp with ceramic discharge tube. The bulb is old, it have a bit long striking time as you notice from the long ignitor buzzing noise when this fixture starts. But the lamp doesn't cycle yet, so it's still in a working condition. The light colour is natural white

4) A small high pressure mercury fixture, made for tiny 50W mercury lamps. Is made from a ceiling fixture like the 2nd lamp and a white plastic box where the ballast is housed. Around the mercury lamp usually there's a white plastic globe, here removed to show the bulb. Inside the box there's a standard 40W fluorescent light ballast, because I haven't any 50W mercury ballast laying around to use in this fixture. The 40W ballast runs the lamp slightly dimmer, but the light output is close to 50W mercury lamp ran on its proper ballast. I taken advantage from the reduced ballast size to build a small fixture. The ballast doesn't suffer from overheating despite the small power difference. This is the latest fixture I built, about 1 week ago and it runs a 50W Osram HQL Deluxe mercury vapour lamp.

- Bottom row, recovered and restored stuff:

1 and 2) Two Siteco Klassical Small streetlights, which are common in the place where I live for secondary and residential road lighting, the first running a 110W Philips SON-H Pro elliptical and coated HPS lamp with glowbottle starter inside, and the second running a very classic 125W Philips HPL-N mercury lamp. The first fixture fallen from its pole due to snow weight some winters ago and ended on the ground in pieces, the second one was picked from the local utility waste box. Both restored and looking like new :-D

3) This is only a ballast plate with all components screwed on it, also salvaged from the local utility waste box. The ballast runs both Metal Halide and HPS lamps. I wondered why it was in that box, because the ballast is factory new! Maybe it was unintentionally placed here. Well, I didn't cared too much and I picked the thing ;-). It runs a 250W unknown manufacturer metal halide lamps, with daylight blue light colour

4) This is a SILL Strahlertechnik metal halide floodlight designed to run the "pin cap" single ended tubolar metal halide lamps. It runs a 150W Philips CDM-T pin cap metal halide lamp with ceramic discharge tube. Natural white light colour. Also this fixture was recovered from the usual waste box and restored, especially the old rusted ballast was replaced with a semi-new one recovered from a fallen streetlight. The streetlight, as was made from fiberglass, shattered in zillion pieces when hit the ground so was unrecoverable, the lamp following the same fate. But the ballas was still intact so I saved it and used in this fixture

All the fixtures are phase corrected with proper capacitors and fully tested for proper working

MiMas cover of Depeche Mode - Photographic

mima85 2009-06-27 | !!!UPDATE: Check out the new version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZcYCNFBjE

Here's my rendition of the song "Photographic" by Depeche Mode, precisely the "Some Bizzare Version" release. I'm not able to coordinate myself to sing along the playing, so just imagine Dave Gahan singing for me eheh ;-)
The drums are (shitty) sequenced with Modplug Tracker, a Windows program which is used to make the famous MOD files which were so popular in the Amiga world in the 80ies and 90ies.
Welcome back Roland Juno 106! Now I replaced its failed voice chips and works like new.
As you can see, the Juno does the bass, the Yamaha SY77 the PWM lead sound and the JP8000 the filtered pad at the song's beginning. A PWM sound is obtainable on the SY77 by stacking the AnalogSaw1 (whick looks like this: /|/|/|/|/|) and AnalogSaw2 (whick looks like this: \|\|\|\|\|) samples, and detuning them. As these samples are both sawtooth waves, but one is inverted, if summed the result is a pulse wave. The detuning rate between the oscillators in this configuration gives the pulse modulation speed.
The bass sound is made by taking the #11 preset on the Juno 106 and adding a bit of suboscillator, then transposing the keyboard +1 oct.
The pad on the JP8000 is a classic double-sawtooth sound with slow attack, decay and release on the filter, which have a strong resonance setting, as you can clearly hear.
Well, in this video you also can see my ugly face eheh ;-)
As usual, constructive comments are welcome!

MiMas cover of Van Halen - Ill Wait (2nd version)

mima85 2009-01-29 | This time I'm playing the keyboard track of I'll Wait from Van Halen as played in the original record (only slight modification are done). The patch it's the same type of my previous recording with the JP-8000, but this time done on my beautiful Yamaha SY77. I've recorded the video from top, so anyone who wants to see how to play this song here can find a valid help. The intro it's a bit off-time, but I had to guess when the song started and syncronize this with the click on the "record" button, so please don't blame me for this :-)
As usual, constructive comments are welcome!

Vox Continental demo on SY77

mima85 2008-12-23 | I was experimenting on my Yamaha SY77 with the Vox Continental patch (described on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_mbsk7NHLo ). I was learning to play the organ part of Light My Fire by The Doors, which it's a bit tricky. After founding a "drawbar" configuration suitable for this song (meaning right volume settings for each operator) I thought: "What if I connect the keyboard to a guitar amplifier instead of directly to the mixer?". So I grabbed a little beginner's cheap Fender amp which was laying in my studio and connected the SY77 to it. You can hear the result in the video. I was STUNNED of how much the SY77 thru a guitar amp come close to the real Vox Connie. The operator volumes are the following:

OP1: 105
OP2: 97
OP3: 98
OP4: 114
OP5: 116
OP6: 94

I turned straight up the treble, a little bit up the bass and completely down the middle on the amp's EQ and added some overdrive in order to "dirt" a bit the sound and making it sounding more vintage. In order to record the video I taken the organ sound directly from the amplifier with a microphone.

Hope you enjoy it. As usual, comments or constructive criticism are welcome!

NOTE: This video is intended as a demo for the Vox Continental sound on the SY77, not for my playing skills with Light My Fire, which I'm learning yet. When I learned it completely I'll post a video of that song. Please excuse me for the errors while playing and don't blame me for these :-)

MiMas cover of Van Halen - 1984 & Jump! (2nd version)

mima85 2008-10-31 | Hi folks! Here's my second version of Van Halen - Jump, this time featuring the Roland JP-8000, all another story from my previous attempt with the Korg N5. I've also played the 1984 opening song as Jump's intro. My version of 1984 is transposed a semitone up respect to the original, in order to come in with Jump in a perfect fifth (1984 ends in G major, jump starts in C major).
The patch used is the same for both songs, and is the usual used and abused double detuned sawtooth sound, which differs in the 2 songs by it's envelope settings (very slow volume attack and release with filter steady opened for 1984, fast volume attack and release and very slow filter decay for Jump). The bass for 1984 it's also a double detuned sawtooth sound, but this time the 2nd oscillator is 1 octave higher than the 1st. Here we have constant volume but filter envelope with slow attack and release and stronger resonance, in order to obtain that whistleing effect.
The Juno 106 acts as MIDI controller for Jump, in order to play the bassline in it's correct octave, which it's impossible to play on the JP-8000 due to the 4 octave only keyboard (also in the previous video I played the bassline one octave higher). Don't worry Juno, soon I'll replace your failed voice chips :-).
Sometimes you can hear timing problems, it's my computer that fucks up the tempo while playing the background MIDI file (it's a slow shitty PC, I'll replace soon)
As usual comments, while not being offensive, are really appreciated! Enjoy and thanks

Vox Continental sounding patch on the Yamaha SY 77

mima85 2008-09-08 | Here is my little experiment on creating a wannabe Vox Continental sounding patch with my good old Yamaha SY 77. Far from the original, greatest Vox organ, but better than nothing...
For the other SY 77 owners out there, in order to make a patch like this start with an empty patch in mode 1AFM Poly, then choose the algorithm n. 45, where all operators are summed in the output (no FM synthesys here, only additive synthesis). Then go to the OSCILLTR section and for all operators choose RATIO for Freq Mode, turn to ON the Phase Sync parameter, and the Detune and Init Phase parameters should be 0. This for all operators, then configure each operator as following:

OP1: Wave Form: 2 - Coarse: 0.500
OP2: Wave Form: 2 - Coarse: 1.00
OP3: Wave Form: 2 - Coarse: 2.00
OP4: Wave Form: 3 - Coarse: 3.00
OP5: Wave Form: 3 - Coarse: 4.00
OP6: Wave Form: 2 - Coarse: 8.00

The operators are configured to emulate the Connie's drawbars as following:

OP1: 16' Drawbar
OP2: 8' Drawbar
OP3: 4' Drawbar
OP4 + OP5 + OP6: IV Drawbar

After done this adjust the filter at your own tastes, in order to cut some high and hissing frequencies which can be boring in the final sound.
Hope this can be useful!

MiMas cover of Van Halen - Ill Wait

mima85 2008-08-22 | And now time for another great Van Halen keyboard song. A special thank goes to user Synthartist69 and his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeNj4KsXuA which instructed me on how to play that song.
A note on the bassline: it's different from the original one, but it's a mine choice.
The sound comes from The JP8000, which it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller.
Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.
The patch being used here it's the regular, used and abused 2-oscillators detuned sawtooth sound that you find in tons of songs out there. I've added some filter envelope in order to have a fast raising attack and slow decay, as you can hear in the synth line of the original song, and a little touch of resonance for making the sound a bit brighter.
Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!

MiMas cover of Liquido - Narcotic

mima85 2008-08-22 | Here is my rendition of the famous tune from Liquido. I've done a simple all-keyboard arrangement, and I've found that my Roland JP8000 can do the original sound pretty close.
The JP8000 it's being played thru my good old Roland Juno 106, acting as MIDI controller (as done in my Jump! video with the Yamaha SY77 controlling the Korg N5).
Unfortunately my Juno is now suffering for dead voice chips, so it cannot sing in this video at that time.
For those which own the JP8000 out there, the sound it's obtained from a 2 osc patch made by a SuperSaw oscillator, with detune slider at 1/3 and mix slider to its maximum (OSC1), stacked on a regular saw oscillator transposed 1 octave down the first one (OSC2). Do a little detune to OSC2 to widen more the sound and balance the two oscillators in order to have the OSC1's volume a little bit higher than OSC2, and you've done the business.
Sorry for my not-the-best keyboard skills :-P. Any comment or criticism, while being constructive, it's really appreciated. Enjoy and thanks!

MiMas cover of Van Halen - Jump!

mima85 2007-11-07 | This is my attempt to play the famous Van Halen's song Jump!. It's a little bit customized, so please don't blame me with things like "aha, you sucked, you played the wrong chord sequence" or "what the f*ck, the bassline is wrong" etc... I know is not exactely like the original, but I wanted so :-P
Because I am quite new to keyboards, I have practiced this song a bit prior to put the video on Youtube. It's all learned by ear because I haven't the song's keyboard part sheets. Only listening, trying, listening, and trying again. And of course making corrections to my playing.
For those interested to the technical side, my keyboards are a Korg N5 (the upper one) and a Yamaha SY 77 (the lower one). The sound is actually coming out from the Korg, midi controlled by the Yamaha, because the Korg's key feeling is like my old cheap toy plastic keyboard... It's not the best.
For what concerns the synth sound itself, I am playing a mine custom patch, which is made up by two sawtooth waveforms oscillators slightly detuned, with chorus and a bit of reverb added. Besides this is a typical analog synth setup, the Korg is a digital synth, and you can hear that because it have a bit cold sound, or at least to my ears :-)
Any (constructive) comment or criticism is welcome. Please don't post offensive comments :-P