Cars (Gary Numan) JD-Xi tutorial

[@derekbonthrone1]

Thanks, David. Really enjoying your tutorials and replicating them in my JD XI. Happy New Year to you to and best wishes for 2024

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

You're very welcome Derek and it's great to hear that you are enjoying my videos. All the best to you and your family for 2024 🎹🎶👍

[@daveclarke1335]

David,once again thank you for the breakdown and effort you put into your vids for us jdxi users,got the week off so I’ll give it a go,happy new year🎉from a wet rainy bristol😊

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Many thanks for all your support for my videos Dave and I wish you and yours a very Happy New Year. All the best, David 🎹🎶👍

[@terrypaulucci226]

Thankyou David ,hope you and family had a nice christmas and wishing you all the best for 2024.this one seems quite hard tbh but will give it a go.great sounds again my friend keep em coming mate 😊

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Many thanks for your support Terry. We had a fairly quiet Christmas, it's soon over isn't it! Give it a try Terry I really like the drum sound on this one. All the very best for the New Year to you and your family. 🎹🎶👍

[@frankcanha]

Happy holidays, and wishing you a happy new year, and thank you again for another great video David! 🤩👍🎹

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

You're very welcome Frank best wishes to you and your family for 2024. 🎹🎶👍

[@petervandenbosch6353]

Thanks David. Best wishes for the new year.

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

You're very welcome Peter, all the best to you and your family for 2024. 🎶🎹👍

[@jaimeross7507]

David!!!!......John and I are sooo glad You uploaded this one again.... this one was Funny and Brilliant all at the same time. From the shortwave radio thingy...to Roland JDXi....We have both learned so much from You.....David You are a truly wonderful human being.....Best Wishes to You and Family.....ROCKIN IN 2024!!!

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Lovely to hear from you Jaime and thank you and John for all your support for my channel. I'm so happy to read your comments and glad that you're enjoying my videos. My very best wishes to both of you for 2024 and I'll definitely keep on rockin' 👨‍🎤 All the best, David 🎸🎹🎶👍

[@andysmalls9307]

Happy new year david that is great tutorial gary newman is one of my favourite artists and you have done a great job on cars if you shut youe eyes you would think it was him playing very good look forward to more tutorials i like it when you play them from scratch so easy to follow so thanks david it makes me look good when i play them to my wife lol

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial Andy and a Happy New Year to you and your family. It's really nice when people appreciate the time and effort that goes into one of these videos. All the best, David 🎹🎶👍

[@paulhedley2864]

The drums on the third section of the creating the cars backing track reminded me of Kraftwerks "Tour de France", that could be a great tutorial 👍

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Thanks for the suggestion Paul, I hadn't noticed the connection. All the best, David 🎹🎸🎶👍

[@jumpstar9000]

Happy New Year to you as well, David! Numan is so perfect for the JD-Xi. I just remembered I was supposed to get back to you with my Oxygene track. Lobg story but I got *really* sick and a lot of stuff going on. It is up on my channel if you are interested. I got a bit carried away 😂 Alright David, thank you for all your videos and wish you the very best. Christian

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Happy New Year Christian. Sorry to hear about you being poorly, I hope that you're feeling a lot better now. I will definitely take a look at your video and many thanks for your support for my channel. All the best to you and your family for 2024. 🎹🎶👍

[@ZOMM0]

Good stuff David. Has anyone ever mentioned how much your voice sounds like Gary? !!

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Many thanks for your great comment. No, nobody has ever mentioned the similarity before, but I'll take it as a compliment. All the best, David 🎹🎶👍

[@InfectedSpl33n]

This is a great tutorial. Thank you. Just one question. How to you program the JD to play all the saved parts in a sequence. That's the only thing that I'm misding. Any advice would be great.

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Hi there and many thanks for your comment and question. When you press the Play button on the JD-Xi it will begin playing whatever sequence/program that is currently selected. If you select another sequence before the current one ends it will continue into playing the new one. Unfortunately that's the only way that I know to play saved parts to make a complete song. All the best and Happy New Year 🎹🎶👍

[@mildred714]

Hey, I’d love to chat with you if possible. I’m trying to pick out a synth… and I’ve been looking at Roland’s mostly…. And minilogues. I move been researching both are great. My goal is to play stuff like old DM, Fad Gadget, OMD, Tubeway army/old Numan stuff. This seems like the way to go. Seems like we have similar tastes. Would you recommend this over a jp-08 or ju-06A… the boutiques? This seems to have many more options and better noise for wanting to play early to mid 80s stuff? Think this would be a good way to start out? Yeah I’m a beginner but I know what I like… and can learn quick enough if something keeps my interest. You recommend looking into anything else besides this? I’ve checked out Behringers… I don’t think they’re for me. And to be honest the Roland boutiques seem to small and cramped compared to this? And Minilogue does seem cool but people keep saying I’m not gonna get the sounds I’m looking for… What do you think? What does anyone think?

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Many thanks for getting in touch. First off, I'm not an expert on synths. I enjoy playing with the couple that I have, but I don't have any personal experience of other makes and models. What I can say, is that I've had the JD-Xi for almost five years and I am still enjoying using it. It is packed with such useful features some of which I'm still discovering! The build quality is not the best, it's very plasticy! The little keys feel very fragile and in my opinion not designed for the velocity control that they have. I turned it off on mine. The sequencer is brilliant! It's easy to program or just record into. I use a lot to create rhythm backing tracks for my guitar. My other keyboard is a fairly old Juno-D that I picked up for £200. It's a great keyboard with some excellent sounds. The full size keys work wonderfully with the velocity control. Neither keyboard are particularly easy to tweak the sound without diving into menus. Filtering is good but envelope shaping is awkward. The analogue synth on the JD-Xi only has one oscillator and I've never really explored it much apart from the preset voices. The two digital synths are more interesting and you can blend and modify up to three voices/oscillators. I've never used MIDI so can't help you there, but I do know that both keyboards have it. I watched a lot of KZbin reviews before buying any new equipment. I'm definitely not disappointed with the JD-Xi. If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to try and help. All the best, David 🎹🎸🎶👍

[@liujiankang3218]

Thanks David ❤❤ How to make the sound in the very beginning ?

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

I will make add some extra information for the beginning sound - thank you for all your recent comments - all the best, David

[@Morth_1410]

I am writing in polish, but translate this text by Google please. "David, czy mógłbyś podczas opisywania kolejnych kroków programowania zrobić zbliżenia wyświetlacza? Jak zapisujesz kolejne ścieżki? Dopiero poznaję ten model Roland. Pozdrawiam🤘🤘🤘"

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Przepraszam, że nie odpowiedziałem wcześniej, ale nie miałem dostępu do komputera, aby móc tłumaczyć Google. Mój aparat jest skonfigurowany w prosty sposób i nie można robić zbliżeń bez poruszania aparatem. Programy zapisywania omawiałem w poprzednich filmach. Aby zapisać program, przytrzymaj przycisk SHIFT i naciśnij MENU/WRITE Naciśnij przycisk ENTER Możesz teraz nadać programowi nazwę lub po prostu nacisnąć przycisk ENTER Ponownie Teraz wybierasz lokalizację pamięci, w której chcesz zapisać. Zatwierdzić przyciskiem ENTER i zapisać program do pamięci przyciskiem ENTER. Możesz zapisać program zapisu w wielu lokalizacjach pamięci i zmodyfikować go. W ten sposób tworzę utwory, które tworzę. Mam nadzieję, że to tłumaczy ok Wszystkiego najlepszego, Davidzie 🎹🎼🎵 👍

[@Morth_1410]

Dziękuję za informację. Mam jeszcze jedno pytanie. W jakim ustawieniu systemowym nagrywasz ścieżki? Rec only, Play only czy Rec and Play? Czym one tak naprawdę się różnią, bo instrukcja bardzo ogólnie to opisuje. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

Używam różnych metod nagrywania sekwencji. Niektóre są nagrywane na żywo, inne korzystają z rejestratora krokowego, a jeszcze inne korzystają z programowania bezpośredniego. Jeśli obejrzysz jeszcze kilka moich filmów, zobaczysz je wszystkie w akcji.

[@Morth_1410]

OK👍

[@Wonky4925]

Dude, that aint the end...

[@DavidGordonJDXi]

The aim of the video was to show you how I created the sequences on the JD-Xi. On the multi track there are a few layered synth lines and added claps at the end, but they basically follow the same patterns.