Recreating Yazoo's Situation using a Sequential Prophet 5

[@LFOVCF]

I was on holiday at Butlins, and they had a day disco for kids. The DJ put this on, and I'd never heard it before. That bass line sounded massive! As soon as I heard Alison sing, I knew who it was. I absolutely love it, and you've done a great job Matt.

[@Manmademadman]

Matt--- I've heard a bunch of re-do's of Situation over the years, and this is the most accurate to my ears. Very very well done, Sir!

[@MattCulpin]

Thank you

[@mattcharles1505]

Another superb recreation.

[@groovey-ish3986]

Absolutely brilliance!

[@chovuse]

Except for the snare drum sound which was slightly more drum like in the Original, I find this is the best recreation of the original sounds. Well done !

[@iloveesr]

That is superb

[@lisajohnson1528]

Never know why this was never on the album when it originally came out excellent cover banging tune respect

Very close, indeed!

[@jdrukman]

matt! it's jon from bass kittens. we emailed and twittered over the years. great to see you have a YT channel now and OF COURSE it was on top of my recommendations. awesome job. these sequential reissues are so fantastic (we have the prophet 10 desktop) aren't they! can't wait to see what else you cook up.

[@MattCulpin]

Hey Jon, how's it going? Yep, we live in a great age of synths, just wish I had room and unlimited pots of money 🙂

[@MarcHefti-q7x]

Mega respect for this work! Very well done. I'm sure your channel will grow more and more with this quality! Very good song selection. Well-produced videos (including chapters, thumbnails, etc.). I have subscribed to the channel and look forward to more videos from you! Thanks!

[@GlenWisbey]

A brilliant recreation of an absolute classic

[@adrianoconnor3020]

Loved your Eurythmics recreation,this is excellent,great job 👏👏👏

[@Robotique69]

Matt, never stop! Your vids are so far pure platinum for my soul! 🎹🎚️🎛️

[@MattCulpin]

Wow, thank you!

[@GNeuman]

My mates and me loved their album Upstairs at Eric's....

[@2112jonr]

Yay, subscriber #500 ! Great work on these Matt, love this and Fade to Grey. Would love to hear more 🙂

[@MattCulpin]

Thank you

[@nostalgeejays]

Well done. Loved this song since the first time i heard it in the 80's. Used to have it as the ring tone for my phone for many years. Wishing I would have just a single percentage of Vince's talent when it comes to music composing/writing.

[@synthsandstuff]

Nice to have some background info Matt, you and the P5 did a great job!

[@discodave6153]

Nice job, one of my favourite VC compositions

[@markaprill6501]

Nice one.

[@russellyoung6498]

Great work Matt. I'm a newbie to your channel, and am greatly impressed so far. Thank you!

[@ant0ine217]

Great video, good job, subscribed 👍

[@sock_park]

That was great. Subscribed, gonna catch up on the rest of this series. Thank you!

[@glenl8395]

Fantastic work again.

[@SharpblueCreative]

Being Boiled would be interesting to do. I know Alex Ball has done one but would be great to see how you do it. Great set of videos you’ve done so far

[@MattCulpin]

I'll definitely do a Human League track, I've always loved Empire State Human!

[@Andy-kd1kb]

Martyn Ware still plays Being Boiled live using the Korg 700s

[@Andy-kd1kb]

Vince used his Roland JP330 vocoder for his "Move out!" Vocal too of course.. I'll dig out my pics of the studio, I think he or Eric might have bought the Roland interface..

[@petriteittinen2530]

Nicely done!

[@synth-eticfantasies5683]

excellent recreations! I'd love to see you use a more modern analogue synth like the korg minilogue (not the XD version).

[@MattCulpin]

I'm waiting for the UDO Super Gemini so will definitely be using that. I don't have any of the Korg Minilogues, will probably be using the Moog Matriarch next, or a bunch of Eurorack suff 🙂

[@idosynths3255]

Really great work - loved it!

[@mattavalon]

Brilliance

[@dereksawle]

Great cover, true to the original 👏👏

[@RichardDenRooyen1973]

awesome❤

[@GNeuman]

Great work❤

[@johnpearce9023]

Love it! Playing it alongside the original really shows how much effort you have put in. Would really like to see some of the trials and tribulation you experienced during the patch creations/programming. What other synths do you have?

[@MattCulpin]

Thanks! The Pro One (or at least) the clone I have of the Pro One does actually get closer to the original sounds, but as it's racked, it doesn't look great being played from a remote keyboard on the other side of my room. I will get round to re-doing this and will share pictures of the patches from the Behringer.

[@Mouxbar]

Instant new subscriber - you have great taste in the 80's synth classics. Now I hope you do the the original Human League and not mark 2 ;-)

[@MattCulpin]

Thanks 🙂, I'll probably do both, but definitely start with MKI

[@jackbenimble376]

❤

[@THTSound]

Great 👍

[@offworldnetwork]

What a crisp recording ... dare i say, better than the original!??

[@universalvibe72]

Nice work🎉🎉. Did you pitch the master tune .5 cents?

[@howdoworld]

❤❤❤

[@TheMazo02]

2:11 wrong ending of the melody :( :( :( :(

[@nrsynth8945]

terrific programming! Are the patch available?

[@MattCulpin]

Hap[y to share the patches, not sure how though. I guess I'd need a Librarian for the Prophet 5. Any suggestions?

[@olefonken]

I second that - would be great with the patches! Either sysex Liberian or midiox should work. Or maybe just make some patch sheets of each is easiest..

[@vicseven6456]

Id be very interested in the midi performance files!! Also, what did you use for drums? Sorry if I missed the info.

[@darrentolley1068]

hot

[@cannonstudios]

There are three inevitabilities in this life..Death, taxes and I will NEVER sell my Pro-One...

[@MattCulpin]

I guess I can dream that Sequential might one day resurrect them, like the Prophet 5.

[@cannonstudios]

Yeah. I good friend of mine and a total synth head was blown away by the ProOne when he heard it...@@MattCulpin I had a prophet 6 for a while...constantly out of tune, I flogged it!