166 Famous 80s Sounds! | How to play | OP-X PRO-3

[@buffplums]

4:34 Oh I love Save a prayer… in fact there are so many wonderful snips from the 80s … what a great era that was

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

I have to say great job for emulating all those sounds so well!

[@RealNilbu]

Rare Mattjohnson sighting

[@yamamushi]

The only demo video that has had me immediately go and buy the software, instantly happy with my decision to buy this :D

[@TheZooman22]

I am right behind you.

[@tedmuss]

the fact that you can actually play really good makes these videos so more enjoyable for us :)

[@artisan002]

I'm in exactly the right mood to sit through this whole thing (preset scroll videos aren't usually my thing), and your corrected presets have quickly become the best part of it all.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

These sounds were so accurate that when the player's timing was slightly different it's almost jarring, cos you feel like you're listening to the record. 👍

[@dugjay]

As soon as you started with The Camera Eye, it took me back to 1981 instantly. A lot of good times listening to this fantastic album!

[@robtoc]

100%

[@xDamageProducer]

A lot of super baked time listening to this album lol😊

[@ricomajestic]

This is great! I think showing how to play the various songs as well as showing the sound capabilities of the OP-X Pro 3 is a great idea. This will definitely encourage more people to buy your product. Keep up the good work!

[@ashkirby8896]

00:22 Van Halen - Jump 00:36 Rush - Tom Sawyer (Sweep) 00:51 Rush - Tom Sawyer (Solo) 01:00 Rush - The Camera Eye 01:21 Rush - Subdivisions 01:46 Journey - Separate Ways 01:56 ELP - Lucky Man 02:08 Gary Numan - Cars 02:10 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F 03:03 Nena - 99 Luftballons 03:48 Madonna - Holiday 04:26 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 05:03 Howard Jones - New Song 05:28 Toto - Africa 05:55 Spandau Ballet - True 06:18 Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok 06:20 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is 06:52 ABBA - Money Money Money 07:04 ABBA - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie 07:24 ABBA - Summer Night City (Wembley Intro) 07:53 ABBA - Eagle 08:10 Queen - I Want To Break Free 09:07 Queen - I Want To Break Free (Solo) 09:37 Queen - Radio Ga Ga 10:07 Barclay James Harvest - Life Is For Living 10:20 Barclay James Harvest - Victims Of Circumstance 11:24 Barclay James Harvest - In Memory Of The Martyrs 12:08 Barclay James Harvest - I'm Like A Train 12:45 Barclay James Harvest - Waiting On The Borderline 13:07 Barclay James Harvest - Back To The Wall 13:30 Barclay James Harvest - Echoes And Shadows 13:50 Pink Floyd - One Of My Turns (Prophet) 14:50 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Live Solo) 15:10 Pink Floyd - On The Run 16:17 Pink Floyd - Signs Of Life 17:37 The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius 18:11 The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture 18:17 The Alan Parsons Project - Separate Lives 18:31 Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight 18:53 Jean-Michel Jarre - The Time Machine (Laser Harp) 19:13 A-ha - Take On Me 19:52 Alphaville - Forever Young 20:46 Styx - Sail Away (Solo) 21:04 Styx - Fooling Yourself (Solo) 21:17 Europe - The Final Countdown 21:39 Van Halen - 1984 (Upsweep) 21:50 Van Halen - 1984 (Strings) 22:03 Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love 22:43 Prince - Let's Go Crazy (Organ) 23:10 Prince - When Doves Cry 23:26 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (Pulse) 24:07 Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise 24:23 The Cars - Let's Go (Synth) 24:35 Simple Minds - Don't You (Synth) 24:58 Steve Winwood - Valerie (Synth Solo) 25:15 Supertramp - Dreamer (Wurly) 25:30 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (Solo Lead Synth) 26:54 Madonna - Borderline (Minimoog) 27:11 Marillion - Incommunicado (Lead Synth) 27:22 Fatback - Is This The Future (Bass) 27:32 Bon Jovi - Runaway 28:07 Van Halen - I'll Wait 28:20 Van Halen Love Walks In 28:38 Manfred Mann - Pluto The Dog (Minimoog) 29:04 Manfred Mann - Earth, The Circle Part 2 (Minimoog) 29:17 Van Halen - Dreams (Strings) 29:30 The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Organ) 29:49 Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (Synth) 29:58 Industry - State Of The Nation 30:14 Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine 30:27 Pink Floyd - Mother (Flutes) 30:37 Pink Floyd - Shine On (Intro Synth) 30:47 Pink Floyd - Shine On (Final Lead) 31:01 Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Synth) 31:13 Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (Harmonica) 31:23 Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Lead Synth) 31:38 Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields (Arpeggio) 31:50 Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields (Brass) 32:08 Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Bass Drone) 32:20 Jean-Michel Jarre - Singing Saw 32:44 A-ha - Cry Wolf (Bass) 32:58 A-ha - Cry Wolf (Stab) 33:13 Allan Holdsworth - Pud Wud 33:24 Alphaville - Big In Japan 33:32 Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Intro) 33:46 Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Bass) 34:07 Carsten Bohn - Minor Majority (Kochbeck Live Multimoog) 34:31 D Train - You're The One For Me (Remix Version Bass) 34:42 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Bass) 34:55 Electric Light Orchestra - Here Is The News 35:04 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein (Lead Synth) 35:15 Falco - Der Kommissar (Bass) 35:27 Falco - Der Kommissar (Pad) 35:42 Foreigner - Juke Box Hero (Bass) 35:58 Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You (Pad) 36:16 Genesis - Many Too Many (Strings) 36:34 George Duke - Love Reborn (Minimoog) 37:10 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Intro Synth) 37:29 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (Intro) 37:41 Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance 37:58 Nena - Leuchtturm (Blup Blop) 38:13 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Part 1 (Bass) 38:24 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Part 1 (Brass) 38:35 Pink Floyd - Any Color You Like (Synth) 38:52 Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (Pulse Synth) 39:03 Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (Narrow Saw Synth) 39:18 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Synth Horns) 39:34 Pink Floyd - Dogs (Lead) 39:48 Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces (Intro Noise) 40:02 Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky (Sync Bass) 40:15 Pink Floyd - Hey you (Synth Bees) 40:30 Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There (Bass) 40:41 Pink Floyd - Keep Talking (Synth Solo Lead) 40:56 Pink Floyd - Mother (Flutes) 41:14 Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Synth) 41:25 Pink Floyd - Sheep (Bleating Synth) 41:37 Pink Floyd - Sheep (Laser-Gun Synth) 41:49 Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Show (Mellotron) 41:59 Pink Floyd - The Thin Ice (Synth Sweep) 42:27 Prince - 1999 (Synth) 42:51 Prince - Baby I'm A Star (Lead Synth) 43:04 Prince - I Would Die 4 U (Noise) 43:21 Prince - I Would Die 4 U (Piano) 43:38 Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Synth Stab) 43:51 Pulp - After You (Sample and Hold Arpeggio) 44:01 Rick James - Super Freak (Synth Lead) 44:16 Styx - Babe (Solo) - wrongly labeled as Rush 44:24 Rush - Countdown (Intro Synth) 44:36 Rush - Frewill (Synth Lead) 44:47 Rush - La Villa Strangiato (Minimoog Synth) 44:57 Rush - New World Man (Bass) 45:07 Rush - Tom Sawyer (Intro Bass Sweep Growl) 45:31 Rush - Subdivisions (Intro Bass Synth) 45:43 Santana - Old On (Arpeggio) 45:53 Seal - Crazy (Staccato Synth) 46:14 Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities (Intro Synth) 46:34 Steve Miller Band - Threshold (Intro Synth) 46:50 Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance (Synth Lead) 47:00 Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands (Intro Portamento) 47:16 Styx - Too Much Time on My Hands (Intro Bass) 47:38 Tatu - All The Things She Said (Intro synth) 47:47 The Human League - Don't You Want Me (synth Brass) 48:00 The Who - Baba O�Riley (Intro Arpeggio) 48:07 The Who - Baba O�Riley (Intro Lead) 48:15 Toto - Rosanna (Synth Lead) 48:26 Van Halen - Feels so Good (Intro Synth Organ) 48:40 Van Halen - Jump (Alternative Patch Versions) 49:07 Yes - Arriving UFO (Intro Sound) 49:22 Vangelis - Blade Runner Theme (Synth) Outro: 49:39 Madonna - Live To Tell (Chords)

[@mattthomas1784]

Tysm for the songs & timestamps ☆☆

[@ashkirby8896]

@ You’re welcome, I copied it off from the link in the description!😄😏😉😎

[@rickaggen]

I had OP-x Pro II and loved it, but when I saw this video I went and upgraded to OP-X Pro 3. It's amazing, all the Pink Floyd and Van Halen were the kicker for me, but all of them sound amazing! Great work Sonic Projects!

[@luismendieta6348]

So when you buy OP-X Pro 3, all these banks are included?

[@NekroSlaughter]

Still waiting on an answer.

[@Minolta_Andy]

The Queen I want to break free solo is pure class. Fantastic keyboard craft !!

[@vimfuego8827]

All synths in one softsynth, incredible, The first O-PX was ground breaking and I still use it, but this overhaul is mindblowing.

[@AstorSkywalker]

Thank you Sonic Projects, many of us are not synth programmers, but love to have the ability to thinker with it. Great patches. This is the way it's done. Great product, great patches, great sounds, ability to customize, tweak and create new sounds and of course great demo from a great player. Will buy immediately!

[@LittlealxYT]

No mistake. the best instrument here is your mind. incredible to be able to play all of these, so much experience. i wish i had the ability to do this.

[@hiya-z8r]

You do have the ability though. It's all from within you. Unlock that part of yourself.

[@synthuser3656]

38:24 the Pink Floyd patches are fantastic!!! Especially the Any Color one! I jammed along the original track with this patch and it's an absolute revelation!

[@jezpower]

Fantastic love this VST, one of the Best!!! and I have nearly everything out there!!

[@DemMusel]

really enjoyed this demo. Great playing and patch programming.

[@amulpatel]

Out of all the soft synths on the market Sonic Projects stands above in its on lane .. simply incredible after all these years

[@TheZooman22]

I have tried a lot of VSTs. I like Arturia, but it tends to get quite expensive when you want to really get the tweakable versions of the synths.

[@127Foxtrot]

Just awesome, and let's not forget, you're one incredibly talented player ! That Vangelis Blade Runner ending, wow ! 👍

[@ItsCarlnotCarla]

Very Very cool thanks for having Rush on there, You nailed most some were very close, Great job

[@usaroman]

I've been using sonic projects obx pro for a while. it's good to see an upgrade. Thanks 🎉🎉🎉

[@SgtSteel1]

This must have taken god knows how long to put together. So many familiar sounds. Thanks for doing this.

[@SaulFejes-st9if]

I agree' lot's of hard work. It's amazing.

[@SilasHemmingway]

Wow, spot on replication! This is the video I didn't know I needed to watch today...at 4:30AM

[@kvngphresh448]

Same at 3:30am 😂

[@voidFutureVector]

The 80s in a box. My wife and I just stood here listening to this for 40 minutes taking hit after hit of nostalgia.

[@cmonster67]

Damn, memories. Loved that you did Rush early and I was just grooving along. But when you did On the Run, that just blew my mind! 🤘🤘

[@simdrew1993]

I love this product! Just bought it yesterday! Sounds great! Love the 80's sounds. 😀

[@floofycatz]

I can see myself drowning in caffeine as I stay up days on end going through each sound, dying a happy person of lack of sleep :) Amazing promotion even though it's not, but fantastic it is! Thank you

[@TurboLoveTrain]

50 minutes of 80s synth is still better than everything from 2010 to 2024. Some of these songs can only be found on the way back... get the .wav files before the disappear. :o

[@sowth_music]

Do not hate on one of the peak eras of music (2010-2015).

[@connorlanganmakesmusic]

Man has not heard to Pimp a butterfly

[@robertsaca3512]

I love 80's also, but I wasn't deaf from 2010-2024

[@FortbloxNET]

This is so true

[@kurt1391]

@@sowth_music 2010-2015 might have been a peak area in music, but not in any country I know. It was a desert wasteland in the US.

[@markramsay6399]

Fabulous video! Have this synth, amazing it is. Your video is incredible, huge effort has gone into creating this! mark / Edited to add I cannot think of another patch video where I have sat and watched 50 odd mins of patch playing. The actual playing is fantastic, but so is the synth. What a combination!

[@westempire47]

This is what I forgot to buy hahah thanks for uploading this video I knew I was missing another vst

[@chetjohnston7687]

This guy is the keyboardist that ever high-end cover band wants to hire.

[@djwickit]

One of the most slept on soft-synths of all time. I tell people about it all the time.

[@rivstg13]

Thank it for showing all these sounds !! I have this program and so glad to see so many Rush sounds that I may not have known about plus so many others

[@thex2thaz]

4:29 oh wow. I heard this exact pattern and synth on “The Salmon dance (Labrat remix)” chemical brothers.

[@winstonschwarz1636]

Excellent vid mate. You have inspired me to fire up my Arturia! Many thanks.

[@safwanfallatah8611]

This been my dream plugin since a decade ago, I’m definitely buying this now.

[@joelonsdale]

This was a real treat - a walkthrough of so many iconic sounds! The only ones I didn't think were spot-on sound-wise were The Final Countdown (the attack was too slow perhaps) and the Berlin bassline (not sure about that one). Although there were a few I wasn't familiar with most are stored indefinitely in my chemical-memory....

[@Fensta]

you have a brilliant memory / muscle memory to recall all those riffs, respect man :)

[@mmiller6873]

RUSH being one of my all time favorite bands - you had me at the intro mate

[@mortjoer]

You sent me right back to a song I have not heard since on the radio in the 80s Life Is For Living - Barclay James Harvest Thank you ❤

[@artisan002]

I never ever would have processed it this way, but the second you hit that chord with 'Pink Flo Th Thin Sweep', my brain shorted out and matched it with Be Near Me by ABC. It's not identical, but they have enough sonic commonalities that I jumped to the wrong song. LOL

[@amnonhoppe]

I enjoyed this so much more than I expected hahaha😁

[@rickaggen]

I sent a text to Sonic and asked them if they were going to add some floyd, they text me back and asked me if I'd downloaded V3. I immediately went and got it. What and update! The sounds are incredible. Wow! Good job guys, keep up the great work! Can't wait to see what V4 has. ; ^)

[@jimbonsf]

Amazing demonstration! Thank you.

[@cosmicaddress7851]

Well done. Great synth, patch programming and playing!

[@carlmagnussen7773]

At last, a keyboard free synth! Omg, all those yeas terrorized by looking at unnecessary keys! The programmers not even being polite enough to make the keyboard invisible, at least when its needed or should I say not needed! I cant express my frustration towards this enough! You are on the path SonicProjects! others can learn from this! And btw, a very nice sounding and looking synth you guys made, makes!

[@HLubenow]

Damn, this sounds good! So we're finally there. This one sings. It's got that certain something, that still was missing in the older plugins.

[@lqr824]

excellent work, especially Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds--it was a shock not hearing the vocals with that

[@cyberprompt]

wow. this is a fun "name that tune" kinda vid. some are definitely harder as they don't exactly match the recording, but I love it.

[@freshmint5130]

So much work done! This is phenomenal! Btw, my favorite 80s sound is this one 47:28 =)

[@vlefteris]

Sounds like T. a. t. u. - All the things she said

[@magicmastera]

This is so cool. Amazing Synth, amazing playing skills. Wow. 🎉

[@greghalter934]

That Duran Prayer though! I just zoomed back to the best decade in history! Thanks for this!

[@E4RLIES]

1st class🏆 The Sounds, the playing… All superb❤❤❤

[@sassymonkey]

It’s almost like soothing ASMR for 80s pop music lovers. Ahhh…

[@PrettyCoolFriend]

So you can just play everything? That must be fun. Inspiring.

[@robertfrance8535]

Tremendous work.. very cool!!! Of course now I am driven to go make a playlist with all of these - because these earworm teases are driving me nuts…. :)

[@Janomix]

The best emulations from classics hits I've heard, even over real synths! Congrats! Q.: Can play these full bank on my old version 2? Thanks again.

[@RayR]

Still a very worthy purchase above so many over-hyped VA plugins on the market today. 46:50 even though the original was a memory Moog OP-X nails the sound I've listened to for many years.

[@nightrangerrules938]

Great job! You nailed everyone of those classics! 🎹

[@tragus44]

instant buy , sounds awesome!!

[@vindumusic]

Super interesting VST, gonna definitely get my hands onto this for a review :)

[@AllanGildea]

You had me at 'BBBBMMMMMMPPPHHHHZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ' with the 'Jump' preset. I will never tire of that.

[@KBizzy]

No way. The greatest sounding synth VST ever has an upgrade? The original sounds more analog than any modern one. This is exciting!

[@kevkev5935]

As a kid in the 80s these have been burned into my consciousness. Ahh how I miss the 80s.

[@JosephMurray-z7q]

Me to

[@BarryCorbin2024]

Love the OP-X Pro! I've used it on covers of Lucky Man and Africa. Sounds great!

[@hawkz25]

jeeze some of these sounds are otherworldly... mesmerizing!

[@TheBrianDightman]

BRAVO… I wish more synth demos would just go through presets. The great playing on top is a bonus.

[@thatviewer-4142]

It's at a million views now. Well deserved.

[@georgesmith7758]

That's coolest thing since the shirt pocket. Sounds were spot on.

[@RichardDenRooyen1973]

cool, someone plays the sound with the right songs... saved this for later research

[@tomf4547]

You could spend a lifetime playing with that machine

[@JohnBillington]

Wow, this is worth it just for all these presets! Great job on those!

[@GusELP]

eLp solo, excellent! Thanks Bob for this sound.

[@joselmoreno]

Kudos for knowing how to play all the riffs!

[@TylerandMoRoll]

Love how All The Things She Said is just thrown in 😂. Sounds great! Just didn’t expect it since it’s not an 80’s track.

[@recoveryguru]

2002 🤣

[@dexsmith1864]

@@recoveryguru Trevor Horn was behind this, THE master of the 80s productions and sounds

[@djrichierich808]

what would be an amazing addition to this would be if we could request "Famous sounds" and buy the patches.

[@lueezec358]

I 🩷 80’s music and keyboards. Thanks for sharing!!

[@csilt]

This is great, as a guy that has a lot of old and new analog synths I still like hearing the real thing but am impressed what VSTs can do these days. I do have Spitfire for orchestral stuff

[@steveme8284]

That is great. Im new to the keyboard so any help is appreciated. Those are all the songs Id love to have on my keyboard. This project must have taken a long time to get it right. Bravo.

[@humansRAdisease]

The synth riff in New Order's Age of Consent has always been a quintessential 80's sound to me.

[@OhMar1210]

Man. I really enjoyed this !

[@ElectroIllusion]

This is the BEST synth remake of Pink Floyd "On The Run" I've heard!

[@Martin_Demsky]

Yes, but honorable mention is very old program by Daniel Fisher from Sweetwater created on Kurzweil K2000.

[@Esperluet]

Totally agree

[@LudwigSC93]

Ah I miss the 80's. I was fortunate to be a preteen right when all this great stuff started coming out. Incredible music came out of that decade. Loved the Rush! 44:16 might want to fix the title on this one :)

[@anthonyskellern5970]

Awesome - fantastic work!

[@djtomt]

Damn - you got it all figured out! Impressive.

[@is_what_it_is]

Made me wanna shout: "Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left you'll find my fa-vor-ite axe!"

[@antoniomarcello3936]

19:52 Forever Young

[@EphemeralProductions]

interesting trivia factoid: Pat Leonard used an actual Fender Rhodes with chorus in the intro for Holiday. :) this sound is a very good approximation!

[@pauld.9856]

It's even better if you've known the songs since they came out. Nice flashbacks ❤ PS you could and should do some more compilations of 80s sounds. There are so many more legends SO MANY MORE 🙏

[@vrlord7949]

Great what you can do with this instrument - know them all, those songs - and a Wakeman minimoog!

[@ShanesQueenSite]

These are fantastic sounds - Axel-F isamazing, and the Queen ones are perfect - wow. !

[@ShanesQueenSite]

Just subscribed too - would love to see more of this !

[@aleix76tube]

Proud owner of OP-X PRO 3.

[@armstronglance]

Excellent super patch demo! The lucky man patch was pretty foolproof!

[@TJBeats-x4o]

Might buy this, sounds brilliant. Defo need some 80s synth vibes in my tracks

[@soundmaster1966]

17:40 Love this as a sports anthem❤

[@holgerbahr8961]

Hello @SonicProjects It would be a nice feature if we could use the cursor/arrow-keys in the preset browser.

[@Fourth4Element]

4:26 🤘 7:04 👍 9:07 👌 21:15💪 37:28 ✌️ 48:39 👈

[@TomBrislin]

Really great sounds!

[@mcdonamw]

This is so awesome. Such memories.

[@DrWaltman]

OMG! I totally forgot about this beauty! I just found a registration email from 2006!! It sounds awesome!