Classic FM Sounds Reimagined on the Elektron Digitone - with Free DX7-ish Sound Pack for Digitone

[@cn300]

That Dire Straits improvisation killed it 😮

[@Bloom_Music]

It is an absolute tragedy that I can only give this video one thumbs up! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thanks! Feel free to check my other recent vids instead 😇

[@ChrisAdragna]

At this moment I am completely flummoxed about the KZbin algorithm. How has this video existed for an entire year without appearing in my feed?! I watch (and search for)countless Digitone and Rtym MKII videos. Maybe I can find comfort in the fact that it’s a sign that AI bots aren’t able to replace us. They can’t even deliver decent search results?! Outstanding Guac Dude! I subscribed without looking at any of your other videos.

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx ... feel free to look at the other videos, too, though 😁

[@gattart]

Wow, rewatched after my own Digitone had a few months hiatus due to a poor internal connection. Various tries at shaking the cables and hoping for the best actually worked! Was thinking of selling it, but this thing sounds so good as it is, worth much more than I can get for it on the local craigslist, so it ain’t going anywhere… Thanks again for the reminder of what it can do, this video is really amazing…

[@fakename5247]

Great video. I clicked on it to get a demo of a synth and got an entire history lesson.

[@christdolphin69]

the lansky mild un leise sounds are mind blowing. this whole video fascinates me endlessly

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thanks ... it was a joy to make it, too ☺

[@sawssman965]

Bro is cold blooded with the keys and the bass.

[@Advait_A]

Wow, you have put so much effort & time & skill into making these sounds, learning the songs, recording the tracks, filming, editing and you’ve come up with a great tutorial in music, fm synthesis, 80’s sounds & more. Thankyou!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

glad you appreciate it! Was lots of fun, too :-)

[@thomasmehl63]

This is so true! I‘ve really learned a lot and had great fun as well!

[@urbancanyons8871]

This is absolutely amazing. Great work my friend!

[@SpaceshipEarthling]

If only I could double-thumbs-up videos, this one and the LVX vid would get the treatment. Much appreciated! Looking forward to digesting the patches and the DX7 vid you referenced.

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thanks ☺️

[@impbox]

Super nice! DN2 allows keytracking modulation so it should be possible to add rate scaling to some extent. Gonna throw these on my DN2 and have a play, thanks for sharing!

[@duketranslucent3rd]

Bravo, sir! I never realised that Radiohead track sampled something FM from the 70s. Mad...

[@dankro279]

Money for nothing was so spot on, just the snare did not really match, but everything else was heaven to me!! Excellent!!!

[@mikehixx]

I have watched thousands of gear videos over the past 10-15 years, and this is one of the best I've ever seen in terms of the preparation and execution. Props! The sound pack is also phenomenal.

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

Hi Mike, thanks, glad you liked it 🥳

[@hadronorchestra]

Your CS80 brass sound is my favourite. It's almost more analog than most analog synths available today.

[@espacemaxim]

I'm like No.900 and you're the man

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx 🥂

[@global-sequence]

Shoutout for doing I got 5 on it as number 2

[@mistermotoki]

Amazing how you use the electron drums 🎉

[@myNoiseDotNet]

Wow! Outstanding programming skills, both for tones and sequences!

[@TreyBruceable]

Incredible

[@antfactor]

nice work. impressed. I have one - after three years, I still feel like a neophyte. It's an curiously amazing machine.

[@hedda8346]

thank you

[@erwintuijl6342]

Wow, you really nailed those sounds! Mostly on the Digitone I end up with wonderfully inspiring sounds, but I find it kinda hard to really replicate specific sounds for some reason. I'll load some of your sounds to the DT to see how you made them, thanks a million!

[@mumblerocks77]

Harmonica one cracked me up

[@colbyboucher6391]

Hearing some of these in such high quality is kinda wild

[@neb2612]

This is the most impressive and underrated video using Electron devices on You Tube. Bravo!

[@kylew706]

Wow, this blew me away. I feel like I’m totally underusing my Elektron gear! Great job! I loved every minute of it! So nice to hear real music with these machines. I can’t take anymore glitch/techno

[@milDelux]

What a great video. Thank you.

[@patrickmurphy5842]

That Money For Nothing Intro was superb !

[@gambooyt]

I absolutely love Kenny Kirkland's piano playing and Sting's solo albums of the 80s and 90s. Thank you so much for this.

[@gb6100]

Thank you very much, cool Man :)

[@iamsimonmorris]

EPIC just loved this…thanks so much. I just got my first Digitone……after watching you I am excited and a bit daunted...

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx ... don't be daunted, most good things in music come from open-minded experimenting 😊

[@stephenmurphywilson7294]

This was really enjoyable.

[@ronaldvonk-nl]

It must have been a lot of work to create this very impressive result. Thanks!

[@varlokvarlok]

OH MAN GOOSEBUMPS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE VIDEO NOW THATS FANTASTIC WORK THANK YOU

[@klfaregonnarocku]

supe renaît idea, labour of love, really enjoyed the super nerd detail.

[@jamalyannicguzmansierra7996]

Very nice video? I learnd a lot! :) and dude you're a very good pianist as well like kenny! Thx for this video!

[@shapeshiftersmediagroup]

Brilliant show! Digitone is something I've strongly considered, thanks for the demo!

[@nekufa]

Awesome job! Very influent video, thank you!

[@ivanglushko4232]

Wow nice free content!) Thank you so much) Cause it just sounds perfect!))

[@rundtomrasmus]

Recreating the mild und leise synth sound is highly appreciated. It's not super complex sounds, but they are very refined sounds (which is a territory I usually end up blasting past and let everything modulate everything until crazy) Thank you so much :)

[@zroeder]

Amazing video! And thanks for the music history lesson. I'm listening to Mild und Leise now, and it is incredible. I never knew that was a sample in Idioteque!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

apparently Jonny Greenwood himself had forgotten it was a sample first ... according to de.wikibrief.org/wiki/Idioteque, he recorded 50 minutes of improvisation on a modular system including some samples, and gave the recording to Thom Yorke. Yorke found the piece that then became “Idiotheque” and loved it; and Jonny first thought he had also created the synth part on his modular. Later he realised it was one of the samples he had taken from the 1975 compilation “First Recordings - Electronic Music Winners”, which he had found in a 2nd hand vinyl store

[@damienwebb3689]

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion is this preset available to download?

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

@@damienwebb3689 My re-made version of those few bars from “Mild und Leise” is included in the Digitone project file that can be downloaded from the link in the video description text. The additional RYTM stuff I added for the Radiohead remake is not in the download, since my focus was on Digitone/FM here. It’s some analog drums and the sample from Arthur Kreiger’s “Short Piece”, which you can easily sample from here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5OlnKWQj6eXrpY

[@lundsweden]

So fooking brilliant, I'm astonished, amazed and more than a bit jealous! Well done!

[@garyleister]

Thanks for this amazing video. Good job I own both machine and didn't know was possible to reach a sound so closer

[@HiteTricks]

This was a masterpiece

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx 🎉

[@latorreoscar]

Wow im super impressed THIS IS PURE GOOOOLD!!!!! excelent work cant thank you enough for sharing it

[@ModeSynth]

Brutal!

[@mh22xv]

Awesome, you started of with Queen!

[@PanerramikVon]

classic hits and sounds, you destroyed it!

[@Stue007]

Fantastic work, music history lesson and demonstration - thank you!!

[@chickenpasta7359]

This is awesome! I'm getting my Digitone in the mail tomorrow. Excited to try this out. Thanks for making these and publishing them for free

[@GrahamEnglish]

Really cool stuff. Thanks for doing this!

[@mr_floydst]

Amazing! Great work on the patches and the video. And great guitar playing. :-)

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thanks! I’m actually more a guitarist than a keyboard/synth player :-)

[@christdolphin69]

this rules! more of these style videos please

[@WHATISPOLITICS69]

great work, these sounds are killer - and whether or not they’re perfect matches is besides the point, they’re great and i’ll get a lot of use out of them, thanks for doing this!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

glad you like them, have fun with those sounds :-)

[@pavelsmejkal9380]

Man, what an elaborate video / demo! I recently bought Digitone and I am currently in a learning phase, you made me excited about the purchase once again. You made it sound perfect.

[@chperrone]

production so on point and mix all sounds great.

[@BonasBuden]

Not to forget that Digitone can be played also without FM. It can be configured to play as 2 oscillators per voice analog synth. I think there was already some some sounds in this clip very analogish in nature although I can't be sure how patches were created. However very good demo of versatility of the DN.

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

Yes and no ... ANY Yamaha FM style synth can also be played without FM, if you only use carriers and no modulators. But on most of them, you will only get sine waves then. Some more modern FM synths offer additional basic waveforms. Digitone offers an additional waveshaping feature; but it has its limits. To my ears, you cannot get very close to an analog osc square or saw sound with this waveshaping. The classic FM trick of generating saw by same octave modulator with feedback, and square with one octave higher modulator with feedback, works much better for me on the Digitone. And you can do this same trick on the DX7, and even better, since stacking 3 operators can also get you a useable saw wave, and the DX7 can give you a stack of 3 operators PLUS a stack of 1 operator + 1 modulator w/ feedback. So, on the oscillator side, a DX7 can get closer to a 2 VCO per voice analog synth. However, the Digitone clearly wins in the filter department. Digitone has a decent virtual analog filter. And running two parallel carrier/modulator pairs (one with Feedback, the other with some waveshaping) into that filter can give you quite good virtual analog sounds. I created the “Money for Nothing” lead and the “Africa” synth brass sound in this vid that way.

[@BonasBuden]

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Interesting insights. I haven't got that much into FM. Usually finding new sounds is kind of trial and error. For me that is OK as many times I'm not trying to reproduce any specific sound just to find something interesting. I had to take my DN out to try and you are right that it is not that similar with true analog saw if you just run modulators parallel and dial waveshape to look like a saw and keep all ratios as 1. It seems to lack higher harmonics and also it has still little bit of that "bellish" FM timbre. That FM trick with feedback seems to do a better job. Setting waveshape to 0 (sinewave) and then fiddling with feedback and operator level can get closer to a true analog saw. With quick googling Africa's brass stabs were originally created with CS80 (analog) and that calimba with GS-1 (FM synth). Money for nothing intro's synth pad with DX1 but not quite sure about those stabs along the song. Anyways you did great job creating those analog style synths with DN and they worked great in musical context although they might lack character in closer inspection if compared to true analog synth. Usually they are few who actually listen actual sound of synths that closely that they are bothered with such small details.

[@BonasBuden]

You already listed those synths in the video. I should have watched it again before answering..

[@MrWizard333]

very very pleasantly surprised by this

[@oliverstarke4120]

Thank you very much for the Pack. Very interesting Video.

[@tubeMonger]

Wow the demos sound so good and have a video that matches. Thank you for sharing us your work (including the patches).

[@RH-sp9zd]

amazing video :)

[@marcuunk8564]

Unbelievable !!! 🙏❤️🙏

[@Limbic1000]

this blew me away....omg thxx

[@rs-ii1fn]

You’re a legend for creating and sharing these. Thank you. Happy holidays!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx, happy holidays to you, too 😊

[@gordonthespeed4499]

Incredible work 👏

[@placidus_v]

Man, that's awesome! Great work!

[@emmas.h386]

Thanks for this! Really fun to watch and great sounds 😊

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Welp....Digitone II is now official. Going to try some DX/TX tones with that one? Apparently has a lot of improvements (more polyphony, more synth engines,...not sure if the scaling improved though).

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

will see if I’ll be able to get my hands on a DN2 anytime soon ... as far as I understand the info on the Elektron page, the FM algorithm is basically unchanged, just has more polyphony. Then, there’s the new engines: FM Drum and two VA variants ... cool stuff, but nothing new in terms of DX/TX-iness I guess 🙂

[@MyAlteredSoul]

Loving this pack

[@kenb7540]

Stunning video ! 👏👏 such an education as well as incredible sound design and playing on DN. Bravo ! 👏🙏

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx 😊

[@fractalimmersion]

Dude! That was honestly the most incredible analysis and replication. Thank you so much for that and I’ll be sure to check your other content out!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

cool, glad you liked it!

[@garcon.de.kasson]

Thank youuuuu!!!!!🙏🏻

[@shshvvvv]

It’s amazing. Thx you.

[@howardanderson3061]

I pulled the trigger to son when I made my original comment “Nice Sounds” lol That was an understatement! One of the most impressive I’ve videos I’ve seen on KZbin. Well done’ I will watch this one many times. Oh I love your channel name…Fun indeed.

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx :-)

[@SyncXIX]

Hi! Thanks for this video, it's really brilliant and you did a job that's nothing short of incredible! A video like this makes me think again about the S**T that's on YT today!!! tnxxx u

[@stujay]

What a fantastic video!

[@angeldc54]

Excellent, thanks for sharing this.

[@RobbekenSynthMusic]

Oh holy moly. This is excellent.

[@doradoradoramen]

Thank you very much for these excellent sounds.

[@PuRe_AdDicT]

Incredible stuff my friend :)

[@timrideout]

Just. Wow.

[@thegurkenkaiser9933]

impressive sounds & performance!

[@danyuld]

Excellent video and pack - thank you!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx :-)

[@jasonbesant4074]

Awesome work and instasub for the generous samples

[@acidjack]

thanks for this great Patches and Video !!

[@el_dani]

Dude, you‘re the Wizard!

[@JohnLunney]

This is a really excellent video.

[@tanguypaschal6657]

Fantastic covers !

[@mtate]

great video, thanks!

[@BrockDavisson]

Sounds great! Thanks for the pack!

[@AndresViolencia]

Fantastic job, instant subscribe.

[@maxmartinez6430]

Outstanding !!

[@ceetronic]

😮 Well that was totally impressive. Really enjoyable and can't wait to try out the presets. Thank you for the effort to put into the video!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

my pleasure :-)

[@aemagana3152]

Love all your research and esp. stats!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Impressive! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed all the tracks.

[@sierratango4467]

Wow! Great content!

[@howardanderson3061]

Nice sounds!

[@JazzPiano0047]

I love YT for this. Just wow.

[@prodbycatalyst9949]

Woah this video was very insightful and educational. Thank you, I’m going to subscribe and check out your other videos!

[@TheGuacamoleXplosion]

thx :-)

[@tragictheory]

Had me feelin' like Top Gun there for a second...