DX5 Playing Alphaville "Forever Young"

"Forever Young" Instrumental cover. I tweaked the JX-8P filter live for the song intro which sounded quite accurate (I guess it was originally done on a Jupiter 8 and the JX-8P did the job well).
The vocoder style effect in the intro was finally made with the Access Virus TI Snow, sampled into the Emax (they might have used the PPG Wave for it on the original recording).
Gear used (L to R):
Roland JP8000,
Roland JX-8P,
Emu Emax.
Backtrack recorded on its entirely, track by track, by me using Pro Tools. No original audio was involved. Also used:
Access Virus TI Snow
Simmons SDS 8 for a couple of effects/drums.
Original song composed by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens.
Performed here by DX5 Jose Maria Bara.

[@pilotdrift05]

One of the greatest songs ever written (because of the synths)

[@luanadepaula92]

One of the most beautiful songs of all time. I just love Alphaville.. thank you for playing so beautifully 😍

[@DX5]

Glad you like it!

[@cariocatotal7095]

As beautiful as you.

[@BryanMurphy-gh6qe]

The intro was very accurate. One of the best intros ever.

[@DX5]

Thanks: the Roland JX8P filter has some similarities with the JP8

[@valdeitosilver1312]

The Alphaville, themselves, couldn't have done it better. Outstanding cover!

[@DX5]

I think they would have done it much better. Thanks anyway :)

[@leonardopb5015]

Wow very beautiful . Magic keyboard . Alphaville forever .

[@familywilson6479]

Wonderful playing, the music is beautiful

[@petermoore8811]

So warm and good. Why has music like this disappeared?

[@wArGa5m1]

it hasnt, you just need to be gen z and know where to look

[@md4111]

@@wArGa5m1bullshit , music like Alpahville is gone . Gotta go back to 80s and 90s to get real music nowadays

[@ImWagnxr]

@@md4111 19 Year old male here.... I've explored many different genre's from all over the world and I end up back to music made in the 80s / 90s (Russia has some good tunes from that time too.) I vouch for ur comment, No lie written

[@beyondreamtime420]

@@ImWagnxrgo and list to some Buckethead! There is plenty of nice music out there ! Just need to know where to look for them. But you are partly correct because musics is writing with feeling first but now it’s mostly ai and the leather of the music have limited now ! Due to many youth short and tick tok but in same time you have people pumping 20 , 30 mins songs and this are the one you have to look for

[@rajnag86]

Yes, we're forever young!!! Keep your spirit alive!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@retrosound72]

The 80s hymn. 🙌 Wonderful cover. Happy 2022. Keep up the great work.🎹✨

[@DX5]

Happy 2022, RetroSound. More synth music to come on both channels :)

[@retrosound72]

@@DX5 :)

[@JMPorteroG]

It is a lovely version as expected. Thank you very much again for sharing!

[@DX5]

Thanks Jose Manuel.

[@rafaljankowski2807]

I keep returning to this one all the time. Thanks.

[@guibstube72]

Excelente trabajo amigo. Simplemente genial. 👏👏👏 Gracias por compartirlo. 😎👌

[@ricardolucas9882]

Fantastic👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@moonfestmadness]

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power, but we never say never Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip The music's for the sad man

[@DaveNob-by5ut]

Nice just sooothing and relaxing. Have a nice beautiful sounds ❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😢😢😅😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@rukkyfav5994]

So beautiful❤

[@MrDARKON32]

Gänsehaut ist wieder angesagt.. einfach nur genial wie immer danke

[@DX5]

Danke

[@william1411]

Awesome music i like the synths!

[@wilcle1]

Outstanding!!! Nice nice job!!And thanks!!!

[@BitAudioStudio]

muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuito bom! ESSA MUSICA E ATEMPORAL, Belo trabalho!

[@MrDoeringerMartin]

Wonderful 💛💫

[@christianputz1492]

Nice Sound

[@lucianorocha3301]

Thanks for sharing this amazing video!

[@welhazinaziha3949]

Such a beautiful masterpiece !

[@rainbowbridge4766]

Wonderful!

[@NoeG242]

Espectacular! La otra versión estaba increíble por su propia cuenta. Dijiste que esta tiene mejoras, y cumpliste. Genial! Simplemente GENIAL!

[@DX5]

La intro no sonaba muy parecida en el vídeo anterior. Aquí se parece más. Gracias Noe.

[@nickmelucci]

Masterful. Thanks for playing and posting this.

[@radegast75]

Excellent

[@danfaz9314]

Wow!!! I always wanted to see how this song was played. Amazing!

[@margvelasquez6960]

Yesssss

[@BitAudioStudio]

cara vc e foda demais! PERFEITA PARABENS!

[@80sman80]

True sound emulation of this great cover, as usual. Great work once again Jose.

[@DX5]

Thanks 80's Man!

[@freyjulundr]

its not emulation if you use the authentic keyboards from the 80s then its just real

[@DX5]

@@freyjulundr Yes, but I don't have the very same gear Alphaville got on those days. Thus, I need to emulate some of the sounds with different gear :)

[@adrianmontelara70]

Me encanta la intro de esta cancion. Simple pero encantadora.

[@maxiarcari7115]

Muy bueno! desde el primer acorde un tema inmortal

[@DX5]

Totalmente de acuerdo.

[@marcelocampos70]

Linda música....very good ! By Brasil

[@wendelrodrigues9348]

the best cover i´ve seen

[@robertoencinas1478]

Muy buena tu versión es lo más similar a la original que e oido sos un genio felicidades, el estribillo de esa music es mortal gracias🇦🇷.

[@domingoruiz561]

Yeeeih! Wonderful, Very nice keyboards.

[@TheLena9191]

I'm so thankful to have found your channel!

[@DisnerC]

Impressionante! Incrível! Esplêndido!

[@lamacchinadeltempo5737]

Excellent! 👍

[@airtonrodriguesdeoliveira9447]

Muito linda sua versão.

[@DX5]

Obrigado

[@almerindapassos5870]

Linda

[@almerindapassos5870]

E um classico

[@natalyboronenko152]

It's so beautiful tune 💞. Great work, bravo! 👏

[@DX5]

Thanks a lot!

[@superdanilo2007]

Here 2:54 starts the sweet solo melody🤩

[@djflash44]

Great work, all your covers are fantastic.

[@DX5]

Thanks Aldo

[@maykongames591]

espetacular dx5 vc toca muito que deus abençoe sempre

[@DX5]

Obrigado Maykon.

[@olivervus3655]

Wow I'm blown away! You earned another sub!

[@rock89ss]

super amazing!!!!!!!!

[@lorenapasquetti8627]

Veramente bella!👩‍🏭⚘

[@RetroReminiscing]

Love it !!! x 100 ! 🤣 Just superb playing from you always ,Sonique

[@DX5]

Thanks. Just a few improvements done after realizing the intro sound didn't sound close to the original song on yesterday's take :)

[@almerindapassos5870]

Ficou linda

[@ivanvinante2048]

Bravissimo..ti ammiro tanto...

[@alessandrokelvin_]

Wow!! Amazing!

[@olivierdavid69]

bravo !!!

[@beyondreamtime420]

Thx you brother now I can jam with your backtrack !

[@jopioeverest3175]

epic!

[@giuseppinoligorio1526]

Molto bravo mi è piaciuta Happy cildren pylayon bravo complimenti

[@Jabo76]

Wonderfull (again😉 )👌😊

[@DX5]

Bit more now, with the improved intro "voice style" sound.

[@bharat5194]

Tastefully done

[@vanhai1397]

Back to dance in 1992!!!

[@ChrysthianAlmeida]

Wooowwww. So Good. Congratulations.

[@alexjimgameplay]

Thanks... 🎉

[@juanblat]

Goood! Congratulations!!❤

[@adrianoourique8474]

Sensacionaĺllllllllllllĺlllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aioros0]

Super 👏

[@Oivaan]

Incrível

[@Nightdare]

The JX8P does the job so well, that some people think Alphaville had acces to a prototype 8p when recording the song (They hadn't, and even IF Roland handed out samples for testing, they surely wouldn't let them out of the factory, let alone the country)

[@DX5]

Yes, I do remember that. Original does clearly sound a Jupiter8 to me. Bernhard had one (at least) on his setup IIRC.

[@lassekarlsson5385]

classic

[@alexadrianbarberito]

fascinante

[@rafaelealyciasouzadossanto2904]

Parabéns meu irmão

[@AntonioTorres-lo4xu]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@akana_]

Even better than yesterday’s hah

[@TheLesungBatu]

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power but we never say never Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip The music's for the sad men Can you imagine when this race is won Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune The music's played by the, the mad man Forever young I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever? Forever, and ever Forever young I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever? Forever young Some are like water, some are like the heat Some are a melody and some are the beat Sooner or later, they all will be gone Why don't they stay young? It's so hard to get old without a cause I don't want to perish like a fading horse Youth's like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever So many adventures couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams swinging out of the blue We'll let 'em come true Forever young I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever? Forever, and ever Forever young I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever? Forever, and ever Forever young I wanna be forever young Do you really want to live forever? (Forever

[@TheLesungBatu]

Song start at 0.18 seconds

[@gersonvitorio9653]

I want know this music. I play violão. I from Brazil.

[@dennisbaumann8868]

Sehr Schön. 👍 hat was. Auch wenn ich er der Verfechter der 90er bin. Ist das doch was feines!

[@NickRay1969]

Please please can you do a cover of Enola Gay by OMD 👍👍

[@fabiomontagnolahammond78]

Congratulation Great job. Pad for intro is synth Brass?

[@synthfluencer]

Great! I admit I had to compare the 2 versions but I understand what you mean. Second version's choir sound fits better. Do you know what synth Alphaville used for that sound? Some say it's a PPG what makes sense to me.

[@DX5]

A PPG wavetable, more than probable. The full gear list for that Alphaville album: Linn LM 1, Roland TR 808, MFB Sequencer, Roland Jupiter 8, PPG Wave 2.3 with Waveterm, Roland system 100M, Korg MS 20, Korg MS 10, Solina String, Arp Odyssey, Simmons SDS 5.

[@retrosound72]

The synths for FY : Jupiter 8 main pad. PPG wave. Odyssey solo lead. Logan String Melody 2 strings

[@DX5]

@@retrosound72 Thanks for the input. The previous list was directly provided to someone by Bernhard, so I assumed it was the Solina String. Thought the Logan or any other complementary gear might have took part on the recording.

[@luizsongs]

great performance, what notes do you play with left hand?

[@mustafaserkankaya740]

😇👏👏

[@andreas.k.]

meister!!!

[@Krzychu-bh4rl]

I used soundtrack in my cover too :)

[@DX5]

That preset seems to be made for that song :)

[@Krzychu-bh4rl]

@@DX5 but it's perfect for any pad. I often layer it with another sound. On my cover of this song it plays along with OXYGENE PAD from D-50. Truly magical combination :)

[@phillipsfilms8023]

Sounds JUST like it. Was the DX5 the same synth Alphaville recorded the song with?

[@DX5]

The synth I play that riff on is a Roland JX-8P (DX5 is my nick name ;) . However, the filter and oscillators sound quite alike the Jupiter8 in a certain way, which was the synth used for that filtered pad.

[@missa739]

Can you make a tutorial please

[@bayuandre7762]

video like 90s

[@bowieleijte-officialchanne8387]

*Late 2008 - 2015 I'd say

[@mariogarrido8555]

Hola disculpa que sonido ocupas para el sonido del 00:12 gracias

[@mariogarrido8555]

Ahh y disculpa pero te quedó genial de los mejores covers que he escuchado … aparte que es como la pista porque mucha gente hace los covers pero toca la parte cantada con un instrumento X … acá esta la pista genial como para ser cantada … saludos 👋

[@DX5]

Saludos Mario. Es una tabla de ondas (wavetable), como las que tenían los PPG Wave.

[@jeancarlosoliveira03]

em 2:55 que timbre é esse mesmo ?

[@DX5]

Acho que fiz programando uma sawtooth algo filtrada con um oscilador só, e o ataque do VCA levemente retrasado. O original foi feito num Arp Oddyssey

[@San-fr3zk]

Привет!) 1)Would you like to buy yourself an emulator 2 like Alan's?))) 2)What price did they cost you Emax and Emax-2???)) Thanks for the answers!!!!!!!) I'm sorry if there are mistakes, I'm writing through a translator

[@DX5]

Privet!. 1) Yes :) 2) I cannot say how much have they cost me. They are going more expensive with age.

[@gretschgirl66]

No more live ?

[@DX5]

Tonight :)

[@gretschgirl66]

@@DX5 yeah !

[@GodsonTetteh-u8c]

You are serious

[@CaspCic]

Whats better than a keyboard? More keyboards!

[@DX5]

😁

[@henryglzeuphrates1970]

capo

[@andreauribe6454]

Que lindo se puede cantar encima😢