How Do You Make BLADE RUNNER Music???

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

Well you got the background drone bit right. The rest was pretty pants to be honest.

[@TheCrowHillCo]

Thanks for your words of encouragement. I’m glad you’re not MY teacher.

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

@@TheCrowHillCo ………and visa versa x

[@donshekn9114]

cool channel though. youll probably be butthurt and hate me but thats ok too

[@decisive-dolphin]

@@TheCrowHillCo what a strange reply to a decent bit of criticism

[@rreprah9515]

@@decisive-dolphin Bro this is literally the opposite of criticism. Saying "lol ur bad" isnt criticism, its just needless feces slinging lol.

[@JohnPloskina]

Best way I've found to get dystopian future soundscapes is to walk around outside with a microphone.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

I'm not sure if you meant this as a joke or literally but it made me laugh for sure.

[@JohnPloskina]

@@Ayo.Ajisafe Every joke has that kernel of truth in it somewhere...

[@mattbondcomposer]

Oh daym.

[@kid.forever]

😂

[@MorningStar-369]

lol... true... blade runner visuals with the luxurious smooth ziggurats in the opening scene were not dystopian at all. Standing in a line in the supermarket watching few men with belly ahead of you with cart full of junk food is the dystopian scape

[@Owtyg23]

As someone who owns a cs80. (Believe me or not) it is an unbelievable piece of gear and still blows my mind I got it.

[@leftovernoise]

I'm jealous, but my back hurts just thinking about moving it anywhere haha

[@Owtyg23]

@@leftovernoise Probably taken about 2 years off my life moving it haha

[@FLH3official]

​@@leftovernoise You don't move it, you go to it.

[@Seeattle]

So how does the Deckards Dream compare in your opinion?

[@mrnelsonius5631]

Never used one but a huge fan of its sound. It’s kind of the perfect synth for being drenched in time based effects because of the tuning irregularities. It’s constantly rubbing against itself (like a real choir of voices) so it just sounds huge with some reverb and delay. Instantly evocative sounds, worlds within textures

[@Jobjoossen]

That was so good, despite being clicked together in 40 minutes, The Bladerunner score is so etched into the very fabric of me, hearing you build up this demo gave me goosebumps. I don't know how much it is the synth and much the artist, but it IS clear it is dear to your heart as well... And yes, I liked what Zimmerman did with the 2049 score, it was a homage to the original one without having the audacity to do better, just different without losing the DNA of the original.

[@ssdelko]

Blade Runner will always be that “I just got my first VCR” movie.

[@Seeattle]

Lol!

[@duncanthompson957]

Blade Runner at the time was oddly boring. It only took on its full resonance and majesty when watched a second time. VCRs made it the movie it’s come to be praised as. (It was pretty much a flop at the movies!) And for my money, the theatrical cut was always the best cut. Harrison Ford’s flat, throwaway voiceover really made it sing, and removed the grand air of pretension it has otherwise. Any director who choses to reinsert a cut unicorn dream sequence (heaven help us!) really needs to get a brother called Tony to save the family name, in my book. Talk about labouring a point. “You’ve done a man’s job, sir! Too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?”

[@duncanthompson957]

My “I just got my first Betamax” movie was Alien. An equally good groundbreaking soundtrack.

[@ssdelko]

@@duncanthompson957 Yep! That was the other one! LOL

[@willscherrer2642]

Or if you're a little younger, it's a "I just got my first Laser Disc" movie.

[@duncanthompson957]

I got to touch a CS-80 in the early 1990s. It was magnificent. One of two or three in the studio it was housed in. I worked in a small shoebox of a studio space in a studio complex in North London. Opposite our studio, on the other side of the corridor was a huge studio packed to the rafters with stunningly expensive keyboard equipment and a massive state of the art mixer. It was upkept by a Belgian dude for his absentee boss. The Belgian dude was an engineer/musician who just hung around tinkering on all the CS-80s, Polymoogs, what have you. His boss was some Greek guy, with only one name. Began with a V or something. But he never showed up.

[@swalshcomposer]

I actually had the chance to work for Vangelis a few years back, best experience of my career. Vangelis is the nicest and wise person you'll ever know.

[@starsunderer]

Flash Gordon was awesome, your crazy. Can't wait for the sequel.

[@kiminthemix4251]

The sound is astounding..I got a plug_in called Messiah from memory moon which recreates the exact sound. It even has a preset called blade runner. And i loved your energy and enthusiasm.

[@maitreya1906]

Bladerunner score is sick man I do all my art projects listening to it. Literally no bodies of work out there like it, and still searching

[@VitaKet]

Check out "The Ascent" OST.

[@Ancient_Entity]

Yes... bladerunner is my all time fav film, and the music is a big reason why

[@aaronmarshall]

One of the biggest secrets of Blade Runner’s sound are the reverbs. Lots of Lexicon high end verbs. You can put the cheapest, dumbest sounding synth through one and if you have the right envelopes of saw waves going into the correct reverb, it’ll get to Blade Runner vibes fast. The reverb is more important than the synth for that lead. Eventide DSP sounds good, the old units like 4000 or 7000, but I think Lexicon PCM 70, 80 or 300 is great too.

[@stevenpagano]

Vangelis used a 224 on Blade Runner.

[@henrahmagix]

10:50 OMG THAT'S IT! god it's so recognisable, the pitch bending down 😍

[@AlexRaptakis]

Vangelis did what he was best at, thus we now have the term "bladerunnery". A sound that we didn't know we wanted, but we needed. Zimmer did great justice to the sequel of the film. He has a great understanding on character, thematics, andstill manages to put his own characater without ruining anything at all.

[@snoolee7950]

did not need the sequel, which was made as a shameless cash-cow. bad movie junk. even the original director said the remake was just... (insert term). and lots of dead space and time-fill in the movie. you can feed people candy bars and tell them it is steak and many people go along with it.

[@urdnal]

I was really disappointed with 2049's score. I was really hoping for something vangelisy as well as bladerunnery. I'm not a musician, barely a music fan. All I know is that I can't even remember one single piece from the entire thing. It's like it wasn't even there. Sure there were some sounds, but I can't recall a score. Good thing the movie was good otherwise.

[@daelra]

@@urdnal Agree. Too much soundtrack and not enough score in the new one. The bluesy/jazzy aspect of the original was the sort of the total opposite of the soundscape stuff. It's the juxtaposition of the old and the new that made the original soundtrack so good. This ties in with the replicants having synthetic memories and feelings. As someone else put it. "a strange nostalgia of a memory that doesn't exist".

[@Quark.Lepton]

I’ve just discovered that-remarkably and fairly surprisingly-Arturia’s little Microfreak coupled with an outboard FX unit like Bluesky can recreate all of the Deckard’s Dream and all of the CS sounds with the same depth for around $300. 😵‍💫

[@cablevamp3163]

Microfreak can produce buchla tones too

[@GrootsieTheDog]

Well, "300.00" isnt totally accurate because you have to add the price of the efx into that equation 🤪

[@shaft9000]

Yea and I heard that microfreak also replaces an entire RA Moog Modular system, too! and whenever you're hungry it knows to enter the super-secret Serge 'Soup Kitchen mode'

[@Quark.Lepton]

@@shaft9000 You’re wrong-it doesn’t. But for those of us who are forced to consider costs for basic living these days, it’s an affordable option to achieve some acceptable, pleasing results-my point. My druthers though-I’d prefer having a Deckard’s Dream and a CS, just like our mate Christian! 😄👍

[@Quark.Lepton]

@@GrootsieTheDog Indeed. I use a Behringer Virtualizer, ‘which, compared to the Bluesky, is remarkably and fairly surprisingly….’ 🤣 …is a hundred quid at your local B&Q…. 😁

[@prod.byshroom6112]

I make experimental hip hop beats and have been using a lot of the cinematic libraries I acquired when I bought Komplete 11 but have never seen anyone use the samples like you did. This inspires me to keep experimenting and pushing my ideas.

[@adastra123]

Your enthusiasm made this video. Class stuff. Kudos from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@sworntoavenge]

Vangelis was the first time I'd ever heard synth. I feel like my interest in the genre has always been pursuing the sounds that I heard as a child, without ever truly approaching them.

[@NateHorn]

Great video - I'm on your tails Christian now all I need is an immense amount of talent and I'm set

[@SvenHeitland]

wow, that was great. i love blade runner. was watching your video and had to switch off my speakers (was concerned to disturb my neighbours). so I switched to headphones and that was the point i was completely blown away. could not belive that you could reproduce the sound to quick. fantasic job. Thanks

[@MrDCPatterson]

I've spent years skirting the prickly admission that I just want to sound like Vangelis ❤️ and occasionally I admit to that and have a great time. I'm torn between Bladerunner and Chariots of Fire as being my most profound musical origins. It is lovely to find I'm not a lone nerd, but there is a perhaps an entire generation of us! PS Christian, that is the easiest to understand review of the Deckard's Dream I've ever seen, and now my wife understands why I need one. Thank you!

[@TraxtasyMedia]

This is my first vid of your channel and when you played the Bladerunner chords I nearly felt to tears. So AMAZING

[@emodateplus]

10:08 That bass right there! Perfection!

[@DanaVastman]

Had a CS60 for 5 years when I was a we lad of 28...sold it to a fella in Japan during the dawn of midi...for PEANUTS to "upgrade" to ALL the new stuff as it was a PIA re tuning... but listen to my early stuff captured on cassettes & it brings back sooooo many lovely memories.

[@ChristianPauchet]

You did a great job on the entire atmosphere and texture, that Vangelis thing he used so well to build up his notorious sound signature. Very good job indeed. Cheers!

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Great video. Beautiful sounding synth. Very much my sound-Blade Runner is definitely the score I’ve listened to the most in my lifetime.

[@Lance_G]

Magnificent homage 🙌 absolutely a huge fan of Vangelis and his work so to hear this done so beautifully warms my heart.

[@flowinsounds]

that vinyl was a prized possession of mine in the 90s. just a beautiful work

[@gagsmedia]

CH it’s a pleasure watching you work :)

[@danandkiko]

That's some great sounds. I was fascinated to hear all the elements you thoughtfully put in. I love BR and synths, but am not much of a keyboardist. Even still, I learned a lot from this exercise. Thanks.

[@DavidLilja]

Beautiful! And some nice tips there. Appreciated! My best trick is what Gary Numan and Andy Gray said in an interview back in the days: process, process, process!

[@CoreFinder100]

That was awesome so enjoyed it, could imagine the music playing with the movie

[@0therun1t21]

That was beautiful, thank you!

[@Barrxn]

Beautifully done

[@McTroyd]

I've been trying to get into synths since I first learned of their existence in the 80s. A mere ~17 years ago I finally bought a Yamaha keyboard with MIDI over USB capability (very new for the time!). The closest I've come to making soundscapes THAT big, though, would be thanks to a Korg NTS-1 I bought with a gift card from my father. I liked the novelty of "building" your own synth, but wasn't ready for just HOW BIG that little thing can get, as a mono synth with onboard effects. If I ever had to produce a soundtrack like that, the NTS-1 would feature prominently. It might even be... _instrumental._ 😁👍️

[@musicbycandlelightmbc3225]

I absolutely love Vangelis and he was the first and most influential composer I learned from to create instrumental landscape pieces. Vangelis used the Juno-106 a LOT in his earlier recordings! So I purchased one at the time. I'm 65 so synths back in the day were plenty like the Jupiter 8, Crummar strings, Farfisa synth, Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, Moog, etc. The Proteus 1 has a few selections that resembles Vangelis's cluster of instruments. His staple set up he uses today is completely out of this world. He is self-taught like I am. He find him quite unique and highly versatile with his creativeness for movie scoring. His own solo albums are amazing. Sound Libraries today that I heard are vast for such Ambient scores in my opinion. Some examples would be like, Analog Dreams, Elysion, Lunaris, Cosmos, Xosphere, Aurora, Arkhis, Apollo, Bioscape, Etheral Earth, Stray Light, Experimenta Minima, Atom, Cycles and Cinemorphx just to name a few are all good to create a plethora of dark to light ambient instrumental landscapes.

[@musicbycandlelightmbc3225]

@ghost mall Sure can brother. It's all over Vangelis' Direct Album - particularly the piece "Elsewhere" which uses a well known Juno-106 preset. You have yourself a fantastic synth. Simple but effective and well loved. The Roland JX-3P is another great synth if you can also get the PG-200 controller. This particular synth also came as a rack sound module. Anyway, cheers!

[@pontram]

But my first Vangelis Album, Heaven and Hell, is from 1975, and in 1984, when the Juno 106 came out, Vangelis already had done most of his earlier recordings like Opera Sauvage, L'Apocalypse d.A., Albedo, Spiral, Beauborg, China, See You later...Juno could be used on "Mask" (1985) though. There is a slow track with a string synth sequence and high synth string accompanyment, where I would think the Juno was used (Movement 2). I always get the chills when I hear this track...

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

The sine wave is not an extra oscillator - it's the same osc but the sine bypasses the filter and is mixed in at the VCA stage.

[@johnwinstondarby]

That is how YOU make Blade Runner music...it is also how I listen to your Blade Runner music. Superb!

[@Oceanwireaudio]

Great stuff Christian, really enjoyed that.

[@scottyhughes9179]

lovely, thank you Christian.

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Gorgeous autumnal backdrop. Sounded great to my novice ears.

[@AuralVisions]

YES!!! This is gold, thank you!

[@MatheoRamet-mc3qb]

Hwo did i miss that youtube ?? Been searching for that for a long time. Very grateful for all your work !

[@jacobrandallholmes]

Love your content! I’m currently an MM in media scoring student at Frost school of Music because of your channel! Thank you! ❤️🙏

[@markdarnell614]

My dad bought me a CS-60 when I was a kid...cost about $450 new - when it first came out. I was oblivious to how Awesome the baby brother to the CS-80 really was! I made my 1st Demo on it, and I remember mixing the ring-modulator, with the sub-oscillator & filters to get strikingly realistic bowing sound! I loaned it out to my half-brother, who refused to return it, as he traded it for a used truck! Got it back through law enforcement! - and then ...SOLD IT! God! - what it would be worth TODAY!!!

[@IanWaugh]

Hey Christian - Love this! Love Bladerunner. Played a CS-80 for 2 minutes back in the day when a boy/girl duo who was headlining at a club I was working at had one. They cost £5K back then (about £40K) now but then you could buy a couple of houses for that! No idea how they could afford one! What tickled me were the drawers containing mini panel layouts for storing presets. Japanese ingenuity 😁 Can't justify a Dream but will certainly get a Behringer DS-80 although that will probably arrive about the same time as Bladerunner 3! 🤣

[@GuidoGautsch]

Great stuff! You could consider picking up a Hydrasynth to go with it. Not only is it an amazing synth in its own right, but comes with a poly aftertouch keyboard AND the ribbon controller, so you'd get all the expression capabilities of the original as well if you use it as MIDI controller for the DD 🤩

[@imme.7106]

Memories of green is a great song.... before even considering the wonderful integration of synthesized textures that make the song iconic. It all works when there's a true musician behind the knobs and sliders!!

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

I would love to hear what Beethoven would do with such a setup!

[@DiamondWoodStudios]

I think you would have explain a few things to him before hand 😅

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@DiamondWoodStudios He'd have to get caught-up to be sure, but it's worth bearing in mind he was one of the first users of brand new Renaissance music technology which his peers thought were too complex or new-fangled to be of any use. Electronic music may well be beyond his tastes, but I'd hope he could at least appreciate how the technology has moved-on. Since he was familiar with acoustic advances of the time, my way would be going-over the evolution of electro-acoustic instruments, then electric, then onto pure electronic, and hope he can keep track of how the sound waves get translated.

[@bcanuck]

@@kaitlyn__L Renaissance art (1350 - 1620 AD ) Beethoven (17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) Nothing "brand new" from the renaissance to Beethoven or anyone else living during Beethoven's time. Beethoven would master any music of any time regardless of what time that is.

[@NickBDesigns]

Awesome thanks for showing off the beautiful synth

[@ScottGlasgowMusic]

Fun! I did a score years ago called STASIS which was a time-travel terminator type film. The director wasn't sure of music direction and I said "imagine if I walked into Vagelis studio then used his gear to create your score?". Director loved the idea so that is exactly what happened. Cool video.

[@garaughty]

My go to synth for this type of sound/music is U-he Diva... awesome on so many levels !

[@jordanwalton9091]

love the video! great work

[@joshuatiley4298]

That was fantastic.

[@Russtopia]

For huge spaces, get an Ensoniq DP4 or DP4+ or ASR-10.. Hall reverb of 2+ minutes and incredible, tunable detune with this gear that nothing else since seems to recreate.

[@blahpunk1]

Love your poor man's Blade Runner!

[@sschmidtfilms]

Just missing the Crystallizer now. That plug-in is great and Hans and Ben used it all over 2049.

[@rbingraham]

Damn I remember that plug-in. What happened to it? I used to have it but since I'm just not at all into these types of synths I never really made use of it or followed it's demise I guess.

[@georgenelson9038]

From sound toys?

[@SkillGamingNL]

@@georgenelson9038 yeah, the soundtoys crystallizer

[@2fathomsdeeper]

The Roland A-80 had one patch identical to what Vangelis used. I ran that and a Kawai K1II factory tenor sax patch to play along with the soundtrack. Only thing missing was a breath controller for the sax, but could still nail it pretty well on keys.

[@stevenpagano]

I must have watched this video five times, but never noticed the Analog Solutions Colossus until today. I never heard anything quite as. glorious.

[@awpMusic1]

I recently discovered a great little monosynth - the Dreadbox Typhon - fantastic sound and fantastic effects - well worth checking out. Deckards is beyond my budget for now.

[@milgeekmedia]

When I heard that pitch bend the hairs on the back of my neck shot up! (I am probably the only non-musician commenting here so I don't understand your technical stuff... I just understand what makes me go wobbly when I hear Cyberpunk-esque soundscapes.) Excellent video and demonstration, thank you.

[@fusion-music]

The lmk4+ controller keyboard aftertouch function is setup in the "controller" function. You decide which function it will operate (like expression or voice). I learn a lot from you, and this is a fascinating synth. Moog sacrificed polyphony for the beefy richness. It was a good move.

[@clc2432]

Nice simulation! I'm hoping that Jóhannsson's unused BR 2049 score will be released so we could hear his singular musical perspective.

[@Concreteowl]

Flash Gordon is a fantastic film. It perfectly matches the kinky kitch vibrancy of the score. If you don't like it you haven't lived.

[@travislee9662]

Totally agree. I was little when this came out and we first got HBO. Every time it was on me and my brother was watching it lol

[@69shakti]

Go Flash Go! Classic

[@cordellscott]

He's a miracle!

[@travislee9662]

@@cordellscott He saved everyone of us!

[@inception8]

Very cool. While I was listening to this being put together it reminded of something I was trying to put my finger on it... The Book of Eli.

[@avsystem3142]

Speaking of movie soundtracks, there is a company, Monstrous Movie Music, that is transcribing many B movie soundtracks, e.g.. the score from Rocket Ship X-M (1950) by Ferde Grofé. Some of the sci-fi and horror movies of the 1950's and later actually had some really nice scores by name composers, A favorite CD of mine is "Sci-Fi At The Movies" with tracks by Bernard Hermann (The Day The Earth Stood Still), James Horner (Krull), John Charles (The Quiet Earth), Miklos Rosa (Time After Time), and John Scott (Yor, The Hunter From The Future).

[@markonemusic]

Great demo, really captures that Vangelis spirit. A big part of his workflow was to work the polyphonic aftertouch on the CS80 to dynamically bend certain notes. You owe it to yourself to get a Poly-AT keyboard like the Venerable Roland A80, Oh, yes, and the big ribbon controller to do those big chord dives. I’m sure there must be a midi one of those too 😎

[@jayneubauer3401]

Kurzweil makes one

[@Unison_Detune]

Thanks Christian, them that don’t get composition for film do not appreciate the brilliance. Lots of little tips here, thank you.

[@MrPruks]

I would love to listen to the whole track - I thought it was excellent!!

[@harrysdesignery-editsnstuf4947]

this was released on my birthday and it has inspired me to keep pushing for me synthwave sound

[@WhitbyStuff]

Every time someone pronounces Moog properly another Angel cheers.

[@dykodesigns]

It sounds excellent! I really get that Blade Runner feel from it. The koto / plang sound at the end contrasts nicely with the megadrones.

[@AynenMakino]

For dystopian soundscaping I've been getting a TON of good use out of the Roland system 1m combined with the Intellijel Rainmaker. The 1m is particularly great for the low end there, while the Rainmaker can really add more richness across the whole frequency spectrum if you mix the delay and comb filter together. The constant moving around you can do in the stereo-field also really adds to the final result.

[@koumospecial]

13:30 … man this is it!!! Well done ✌️😎👍

[@mikezimmerman9547]

Ho ho ho hohoooooollld on Christian.....Flash Gordon is a classic. You take that back!!!!!

[@acimbobby]

really good return to that era. You got the thing nailed down with those vintage sounds. No mention of a Fairlight sampler going on in this. Vangelis... He really played it for real. And the YES singer sounded good with that stuff too.

[@kubrickguy]

Brilliant thank you!

[@PRATIK1900]

Your brother Joe after watching Blade Runner 2049: "wow that's literally me"

[@vividphotography]

Watched Blade Runner again last week the directors cut after many years of listening to Vangelis Juno to Jupiter now.

[@jackduxburymusic]

The walkthrough I was waiting for - Christian is the 🐐

[@clivehunte3026]

Nice low end rumble at 4.53 - headphones a must!

[@71goaliemask]

I just relistened to the Blade Runner soundtrack the other day after a VERY long break. Holy moly does it stand up well to the test of time.

[@alexandrebout4762]

the ASM HydraSynth is so close to the CS80. it reproduces wonderfully the sounds of Vangelis and especially those of the CS80. it also has a polyphonic aftertouch keyboard. with the same dynamic ribbon as the CS80. which allows it to obtain the same sounds and especially the same modulation effects while playing live.

[@Quark.Lepton]

Totally-that is one hell of a powerful synth. It’s next on my list. If you haven’t seen it, you should check out Loopop’s Hydrasynth review along with all of Christian’s brilliant review.

[@tajobi9984]

if you felt like extending out that demo to a full album I would definitely spend some time listening to it. I could use more soundtrack to my present/future dystopian life

[@siryba8855]

There are no words to adequately describe the feeling I had when you added the reverb for the first time to that Dekard’s Dream patch and played those low notes with your left hand while playing the melody with your right. Spot on.

[@theboytheycalljonny1]

Have you made a springboard? Very handy for other-worldly, metalic, muted, rich and dynamic sounds and super cheap / fun to build. All you need is a bit of wood, then for sound generation add hooks, springs, nails, tin, metal bowels etc. think resonators next…can be anything depending on desired sound (mallet, spoon, scraper) Finally secure piezos / contact mics to board, add fx pedals (looper, feedback, distortion, delay reverb). Fun!

[@AndreaGiordaniComposer]

Drooling! That's all I can say for now!

[@NicholasBryantBonzaiSequoias]

Getting a poly-aftertouch keyboard would bring the Dream to life! Perhaps an Ensoniq SQ-80 .. if you can find one - not selling mine!

[@NicholasBryantBonzaiSequoias]

As to dystopia - it's daily life now :( Also my minilogue XD provides lots of scary sounds - and delicate bell like timbres. Usually add some modular sequences and swooshes for extra drama.

[@bobrogue]

Hydrasynth and Deckard's - Best Friends.

[@lokelosk]

I've seen that Deckard's Dream unity in your desk quite a few videos ago and always wondered why it's there. Now I know. Such a cool synth.

[@RockweedAK]

Thanks for the walk through… slowly convincing me to check out the Deckards Dream… Could anyone fill me in on what reverb was used, and what the larger fader bank to Christian’s right was?

[@dustynmartin3806]

Call me frugal, simple, and new-fashioned; I just use Serum for the large majority of my synth designs. But almost any subtractive synth should be able to do the trick. For "Bladerunner/Synthwave" motifs, I adhere to a relatively simple routine: Mold "building block" wave shapes (sine, triangle, sawtooth/ramp, and square) to taste and adjust tuning/unison to establish timbre, apply filters, shape ADSR envelopes for both OSC amplitude and filter, and for garnish maybe add a really slow and shallow LFO to either the master fine tune or individual OSC's fine tune to simulate VCO drift. After that, I allow reverbs and delays to really set the atmosphere of the sound (proper FX usage, in my opinion, is what really sets that chilling dystopian vibe).

[@violentene]

Very nice!

[@YouBredRaptorsMusic]

my problem with this is, that a feel a big part of the SOUND of the cs80 isn't from the Sound Engine itself, but from the tactile input the synth features. between the multi point aftertouch across all keys, and the MASSIVE ribbon controller, a lot of what you hear in vangelis and other's work on the cs80, is about how they were able to interact with the synth in real time. sadly, nobody that i know of has all the same features on a midi controller at the moment. I really wish Black Corporation sold a big 73 or 88 key midi controller to accompany the Deckard's Dream.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

If you can find an Ensoniq TS-10 61-key or SQ-80, that might work. And yes, it has to be the TS-10, not the TS-12. The TS-10 has the same 61-key keybed with velocity and polyphonic aftertouch as the SQ-80. The TS-12 has a 76 hammer action keyboard with channel aftertouch from Fatar.

[@YouBredRaptorsMusic]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino I mean, yeah you could go that route. Those things are close to $1,000 these days. The Kurzweil Midiboard has poly aftertouch too and it typically a few hundred cheaper. But that still only gets you poly aftertouch. Neither of those options have a big ribbon controller too. Technically you could piece something together. I'm just saying, It'd be cool if a midi controller specifically for cs80 style emulation was on the market. All in one unit.

[@electronictiger]

Cool stuff! Think you got close to the spirit of the Blade Runner score. And the Deckards Dream is beautiful sounding synth indeed.

[@Musik_Arbeiter]

Great video Christian! I think you captured the thematic presence of the film pretty well with the gear used. Deckard's Dream sounds excellent! 🤙🎹🎶

[@jasonmateus924]

I found you very excited at 11:52. I totally understand why.😂

[@Netsuko]

I've been down in the dumps for years now. I keep spending money on plugins, instruments and hardware, yet I never make anything. Watching your enthusiasm is very likely going to get me back to actually creating stuff.

[@vodun]

You gotta find inspiration.

[@ElJuloProduction]

Good stuff sir ! Nicely done for the pitch enveloppe ! I'll try these with the cs 80 arturia. I play on Roland Fantom, it would be to compare the 2 versions ! (Or mix 🙃)

[@papastratman218]

I like to run my Deckard's Voice (Eurorack) through the Erbe-Verb. Such a big sound.

[@davenuremberg]

I was a little bit horrified eery time you said you won't be able to demonstrate the after touch...I have one and honestly without having an MPE controller, a ton of this synths beauty is lost. Yes it sounds beautiful in the demo, but really the expression you can get using MPE aftertouch and pitch modulation is the reason I love this synth so much. Chris, I cannot stress how much you should try this with a linnstrument!

[@richnewman]

Nick from Sonic State did a demo of the original Dreadbox Nyx that's squarely in Blade Runner territory. And I can confirm that that synth, with its onboard reverb, does get the job done nicely.

[@dominiclaberge3337]

I put my DDRM through a Nemesis Delay and a Nightsky and it just sounds beautiful while adding tons of extra functionality on the signal path.