Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Jakob BC]

Very nice setup, how limited the VP330 is? Everytime a musician use it, it's a different sound coming out, but I can't spot what features it uses for tweeking the sounds.

[radek tymecki]

NICE Didn't know that You have 2 oberheims

[VinceBlood]

VP-330 is a vocoder with strings ensemble and choir preset.

Controls are :
- Vocoder/Choir Attack
- String Ensemble Attack
- Release (Vocoder, Choir and String Ensemble)
- Chorus On/Off for Choir and Vocoder.
- Adjustable Tone for Vocoder and String Ensemble (dark or bright).
- Vibrato controls for Vocoder and Choir.
- Mix faders for Human voice and String Ensemble but also for direct Micro (you can mix or not your real voice on Vocoder sound or not).
- INPUT : "Hold" and "Pitch" for Vocoder
- INPUT : External synth if you want to bypass the choir sound as carrier.

Output is stereo (nice with Chorus activated).

I bought the OB-SX for a low price. Sound is warmer than OB-Xa, it is close to OB-X, sadly lots of voices need to be fixed on mine, only 2 work perfectly after calibrating, lovely sound altought.

[Mogwai]

Vincent: What is the white keyboard next to the OB-SX? It looks like a Clavinet to me.

[GeeJee]

It IS a clavinet

[Jakob BC]

It looks so



From Live 8. Stevie Wonder got such a funky sound out of a clavinet.

[jeremy]

I looove the Clavinet sound! :mryellow:

There are some great clavinet samples on the Roland SRJV80 board (keys of 60s & 70s), I like to use them from time to time

[VinceBlood]

Real Clavinet sound is really different because you have steel string under each key.

It is a bit like a keyboarded electro-acoustic guitar, small harmonics appears when you press several keys, so it is impossible to have a real convincing Clavinet sound with simple sample method.

So for me, nothing sound like real.

Here a demo :

Clavinet C (Mic B and D used)

[jeremy]

For me the samples sound just good, that's all I need, no matter if it sounds like the real thing or not, I don't use them to make believe it's a real one, but just to add a different color to my songs.

[Jakob BC]

Not a studio, just a crappy greenlighted picture of my keyboards on my newly arrived stand That thing is solid, those keyboards are like feathers on a cement floor.

[Nico_Noyau]

What a nice NordLead
It fits perfectly with AERO poster

You have a nice setup, my dear

[GeeJee]

Yeah, nice one... now we want some cool music

[Jakob BC]

That't the problem I have never learned to put together a track like in sequence it, which in fact is supposed to be the easy part. It is quite irritating with this lack og knowledge.

[Nico_Noyau]

You will see, that's not hard at all, I use a software sequencer, Orion Platinum, and it is really easy to use !!
I'll show you on MSN if you want

[jp8000]

Sonar is easy to use too