#80s80sChallenge

Hi Doctor Mix, here my version of Africa by Toto , made with "Made In Italy" keyboards only (GEM WX2 , GEM S3 , ROLAND FR-2) #80s80schallenge

[@stevenmackod]

La mia prima tastiera "vera" è stata la WX2 è l'ho ADORATA! Suoni spaziali, un passo avanti alla concorrenza per l'epoca!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Confermo tutto! Iscriviti al canale che prossimamente pubblicherò altri video con la wx

[@user-bp1yr3uc1h]

Don’t need expensive synths, talent is what is required, take note Doctor Mix

[@shadowskeys6705]

And Passion !

[@DavidGarcia-ob9dk]

@@shadowskeys6705 and time ¡¡¡¡ Well done ¡¡

[@shadowskeys6705]

@@DavidGarcia-ob9dk thankyou David

[@victorhugogarciagonzalez5522]

Some of it is true and it may be the right thing to do. But on the other hand, sometimes a musician greatly depends on having an instrument that is of good quality when it comes to musical presentations and performances on stage. Having a quality professional synthesizer is not the same as having a beginner's keyboard or one that sounds like a toy, and many have told me this in the community of keyboard players in my country.

[@davidosolo]

Nice! That accordeon really took it to another level.

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@alymak]

I really really Love GENERALMUSIC Keyboards!!!!!!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@theedxqboi]

I had a General Music S3 as my first keyboard!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Fantastic workstation

[@enzoamoruso1268]

Ho avuto WS1, WX2 E WK4.. E niente...mi hai fatto commuovere 😅 grazie! Ti voglio bene!❤

[@shadowskeys6705]

grazie Enzo, iscriviti al canale perchè ogni tanto pubblico dei video realizzati principalmente con queste tastiere made in italy !

[@igorcarvalhopadilhaandrade5886]

🤠✌🏻CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!🤠✌🏻

[@zhugeliang1000]

Would have liked to have seen the GEM on top put to use…that thing always reminded me of the Kurzweil K2500. I hail from Chicagoland and General Music North American distribution was out of Bensenville or Elk Grove Village I believe. I used to have an Italian curiosity: Seil Expander 80! Italo Forever

[@shadowskeys6705]

hi angelo, maybe in the next video i can play something on the S3 !

[@Noorontwowheels]

Very nice work keep it up my friend ❤please share thank you 🙏

[@shadowskeys6705]

thank you

[@tonycowin]

You just invented Squeezewave.

[@mutaranebula7037]

Africa modello sagra paesana....bello...!!!:):)

[@shadowskeys6705]

Per la challenge serviva uno strumento Roland, e avevo solo quello 😉

[@andrewp3034]

awesome

[@vikkonstruct3686]

Love this sounds! Thanks! It's amazing! Accordion gives a new composition, "New old wave" may be 😂. Fantastic! 👍

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@florencesee5805]

I love it!

[@fernandosantos3576]

Congratulations! One of the best I heard on this #80s80sChallenge series.

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you Fernando, excuse me for the bad quality of the recording... I have a poor sound Blaster ;)

[@marcelb7259]

That's impressive ! What a beautiful performance. Cheers from Canada.

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you marcel

[@azynkron]

Great choice, it's one of my favs. Not an easy song.

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou!

[@canaldrive_r]

Fenomenal! Meus parabéns!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you

[@daviderossetti7641]

... What's nostalgic video! I had the same SX3! I have bought it in 1996 and solt to my friend in 2020 just for reason of weight. I used it for hundreds of night making piano bar and lives with different bands where I played. The SX3 it remains my best keyboard I have already had!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Ciao Davide, la SX3 deve essere stata superlativa!

[@datavision08]

Excelente... bravo...

[@chacals841]

Yes toto, love this song. Great job. 👍

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou!

[@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545]

You have a lot of credit for having accomplished this challenge! Like what, with the old (GEM in addition, a brand unfortunately disappeared and very fashionable at the time) we manage to do very beautiful things !!! :)

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you Tom, gem Wx2 is a must have for a keyboardist !

[@albert.2848]

Bravo Maestro ! Love it.

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you Alberta

[@AloisMueller]

Klasse gespielt. Kompliment. Herzliche Grüße

[@shadowskeys6705]

Danke Alois, dein Kommentar hat mir sehr gut gefallen

[@badrizenachemelodys1436]

Gem keyboards yes nice demo

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you

[@Adam_Mokanszki]

Nice work. Whoah. I need to work on my left hand. You are great! :D

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou Adam, the main chords on the left hand are quite simple, try to play it slowly and then speed up the tempo!

[@motzipappalardo8180]

🎉klasse gemacht

[@shadowskeys6705]

danke

[@pauloeduardommoreira6081]

Bravissimo Edoardo!!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Grazie Paulo Eduardo

[@xidoxido7080]

lovely, really nice! and great intruments too! thanks for sharing!

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@gliufrate]

fantastiche tastiere

[@shadowskeys6705]

si, peccato per la fine che ha fatto l'azienda...

[@gliufrate]

@@shadowskeys6705 salutami il tuo socio di Latina 😄

[@mythaimusic39]

Nice work ! Glad to see these great GEM keyboards in good hands :)

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you, gem was the best! Subscribe to channel to see more vids with gem

[@luigipavia8996]

Che ricordi la wx 2 con scheda audio per uscita Karaoke ❤❤❤❤

[@shadowskeys6705]

per il karaoke c'era la scheda video

[@alessandrotumino6873]

Complimenti !!!

[@shadowskeys6705]

grazie

[@BassFunMusic]

Amazing ❤ Bro 🎷🤗💟

[@shadowskeys6705]

thanks

[@jayceeloop]

Impressive sequencing skills !! Well done ❤

[@pablohmleyton4552]

I double your words. I enjoyed this video so much. Cheers from Brazil

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

Did Dr Mix see this? I really love it.

[@shadowskeys6705]

I hope yes

[@mariogreve1771]

wow-echt super schön,sehr gut und gefällt mir.

[@shadowskeys6705]

Danke Mario !

[@cdwilliams1]

Was not expecting the accordion. That made my day!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you, subscribe for more videos

[@bertdebruijn4276]

Toto's Africa was one of the titles used by GeneralMusic in the demo of their WS2 arranger workstation!

[@shadowskeys6705]

No, in Ws2 the song is Rosanna

[@bertdebruijn4276]

@@shadowskeys6705 Oh right. My bad.

[@bontempo1271]

I was so impressed by the sounds and enjoying it until that accordian came in LOL. Just some humour, awesome work ;)

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou!

[@newYorkStories]

Love this!!!

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou, subscribe for others like this !

[@victorhugogarciagonzalez5522]

Very good execution and the truth is that it impresses me that those effects have an analog brass lift by Aftertocuh on the keys like the original song. 👌👌 Since I also want to do it with my Arturia VTS virtual instruments but I don't know how to do it with the Aftertocuh effect or with the knob and slider parameters with my Arturia MIDI keyboard that it comes with. What I do think, in my opinion, is that instead of an Accordion you would have played it with the sound of a Piano in the Chorus of the song on those keyboards because for me it sounds better, but I understand the taste and arrangements of each who as a musician and in any case you performed very well!!! 😅👍👍😎👏👏

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou victor ! the aftertouch is very impressive; on the S3 it's polyphonic !

[@fabriziobazan3738]

Sinceri complimenti............. Da italy

[@shadowskeys6705]

grazie!

[@danthreepwood2760]

I saw ''GEM'' so I clicked as fast as possible

[@shadowskeys6705]

Subscribe for more gem videos

[@gabiwoody]

Yeee! It's very good! Great! I like it! 🙂

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@mdmn8160]

❤from Burundi 🇧🇮

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you

[@frankgijselhart]

Very good! 👌🏻

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@turbopage]

Con una Gem S3 sotto mano hai già vinto in partenza!

[@shadowskeys6705]

e se ci aggiungi anche la WX2 vien fuori un mostro di tastiere !

[@sylwester6651]

Very, very good. Regards from Poland. Sub, 👍👋👋👋

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thanks

[@enricocapriglione1074]

good job buddy!

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you enrico

[@mudi2000a]

Very good , kudos for using Italian keyboards!

[@shadowskeys6705]

thankyou

[@massimilianomastandrea]

Grande! Great 💯

[@shadowskeys6705]

grazie!

[@Denvermorgan2000]

I’m impressed.❤

[@shadowskeys6705]

thank you Morgan, subscribe to the channel to see more like this!

[@theaudioeng]

Love my 2x S3 Turbo', S2 Turbo & S2R rack!!!!! > go Italy 🇮🇹 p.s. can you share these fabulous patches with us? (download link?). 😃👍🍻🎹🎶🇬🇧

[@shadowskeys6705]

Sure! but the patch was made for teh WX2 , not for the S3

[@theaudioeng]

​@shadowskeys6705 🙏 anything S3 compatible would be great to have a link in the description 🤙grazie 😀

[@jankydlicek3646]

Great job! 👍

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thanks

[@dannygewoeniech2059]

Generalmusic - Gem ELKA LEM,,,, was very far ahead of his time. what a wx2 and a wk4 could do in 1994, / 1998 a yamha genos 2 still cannot do this in 2024. a wk4 they Read samples from akai, sf2, and load them directly into the keyboard. Also edit midi settings and midi filters. copying measurements into a midi file to other positions in the song. .. etc. You can forget it on a Yamaha Genos 2. I have never understood how a company with so much experience can suddenly go bankrupt. I always thought they killed the company. It is impossible to break with this lead. Someone has played a dirty foul game with Generalmusic. .

[@BeatMax2023]

Nice :)

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thankyou

[@joshjoshspangler]

Yeah, 80 seconds if you don't include the multiple sped up bits, but still a nice effort.

[@alexmabreu]

Impressive skills! Which notes did you play with the right hand? Congratulations from Brazil!

[@shadowskeys6705]

thakyou, the notes are F# E D# B

[@alexmabreu]

@@shadowskeys6705 , thank you! Does this sequence just repeat itself?

[@shadowskeys6705]

@@alexmabreu no, these are the main notes, on youtube there are a lot of tutorials to play this sequence (note: i think mine is wrong..)

[@j8577798yt]

Wow !! Very good. I haven't seen these GEM/Generalmusic in 30 years !! Indeed great keyboads !! Well done !! But tell me, are you using the S3 synth in the clip at all ?

[@shadowskeys6705]

no, in this video I use the Wx2 only; subscribe to my channel ,the next video is with S3

[@danielambrosio6134]

Solton...

[@shadowskeys6705]

Yes, I have two ketron x1 and a MS60, made in Italy!

[@danielambrosio6134]

Pretty Good... Abbraccio Dal Brasile

[@shadowskeys6705]

@@danielambrosio6134 thankyou daniel !

[@Danny-bbsrSingh]

Can You get Italain made Music Equipment, who are the dealers in USA?

[@shadowskeys6705]

www.ketronamerica.com/

[@midclock]

Ho capito subito che eri italiano, non so perché 😁👍

[@shadowskeys6705]

Sicuramente il mio inglese è pessimo e italianizzato...

[@midclock]

Ma no mica per quello! L'ho pensato ancor prima di far partire il video :-)

[@yamilsalina]

Demasiado apronte para tocar..Si demiras así en una fiesta te putean .. je

[@francisbalemansj635]

Ga eens op les kerel... er zijn voorgangers die het beter doen . Maar toch leuk gedaan hoor..

[@shadowskeys6705]

Thank you francis