{"id":903,"date":"2009-09-28T03:39:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synth-studio.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T19:27:31","slug":"rocking-with-the-xv-5080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.synth-studio.com\/blog\/audio-music\/rocking-with-the-xv-5080\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking with the XV-5080…"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDIT: Updated version with different patches with some more bite for “vocals”.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, like many days, I was going through the thousands of patches in my Roland XV-5080 and came across a few replicating some of Jon Lord’s (Deep Purple) organ sound.\u00a0 So, I decided to remaster an old MIDI of one of my favorite Deep Purple songs on the XV-5080, Child In Time.<\/p>\n

The two organ patches I used for this song are called “Fire Perc” and “HeavyTraffic” from the “SR-JV80-08 Keyboards of the 60’s and 70’s” expansion board .\u00a0 I customized both of the patches a little bit until I was happy with them.<\/p>\n

Next, after spending more time than I would have liked to looking for a suitable guitar patch for the song, I gave up and made a new one.\u00a0 I wasn’t really going for emulation and just made something I thought sounded nice in the song.\u00a0 I spent a fair amount of time on the guitar patch.\u00a0 I’ll try to remember to write something about it later.<\/p>\n

The next thing on the list was the drums, I used the “Studio Set” kit from the “SR-JV80-10 Bass & Drums” expansion board and customized some of the cymbals and crashes a bit.\u00a0 I also routed the drumkit to a separate audio output on the XV.\u00a0 So that I could amp it up a bit during recording, I set it to output from the XV dry, and added a different reverb and very minor EQ to it.<\/p>\n

After that, I worked on the “vocals”.\u00a0 Normally I don’t bother using or keeping “vocals” in MIDI music.\u00a0 But, seeing as Child in Time is as much a great organ piece as a voice solo, I decided to keep it.\u00a0 I settled on a smooth mellow sound using a couple patches on the SC-8850 which I think does the job of keeping the melody of the song’s lyrics.<\/p>\n

Here’s the recording, let me know what you think:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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