Yourcollection of keyboards is unsurpassable - you must have some great memories of playing these in your Jamiroquai days! Are there any in the collection you consider your most prized possessions?
Toby: I have had pretty much every analogue keyboard at one time or another, but have distilled them down to the ones that I use the most, and that do something that no other does. Saying that, the Jupiter 8 seems to do everything extremely well, and would be the one that I would keep on my treasure island. The Memory Moog comes a close second... If you have time, the Synthi AKS is extremely rewarding too, as is the ARP 2600.
@telecharge thanks for replying. Yeah I previously found this page! :-) I had a listen and IMO it is fairly different to the sound on at record though. It sounds quite bit like a regular EP with plenty tremolo. The record sound is more metallic IMO. I guess if there was an app which resembled the Nord Stage 2 I could make a start.
I will have a look into those synths Toby referenced in that interview. Though I will keep in mind, this particular track came after he had left the band. Love his playing though actually. I think he was always a bit under appreciated? Perhaps? in the shadow of jay. But hey ya go not time to talk about things like that when someone just lost their father. Poor dudes.
I hadn't heard of x-station before today. I looked up quite a few long (20-30mins) demonstrations of it on YouTube, it looks like a fantastic piece of kit. Btw- I hope u didn't have to dig too deep to find the thing! (Guilty)
I would dearly love to try out those patches, I'm actually amazed that there's an entire bundle, furthermore that it's still out there for download! I tend to think most ppl have moved on from jamiroquai.
I don't own one of those x-stations, this would be amazing if I did. I suppose if I had the knowledge, I could try and match those sounds on one of the synths I DO own (on iOS I mean). But I don't really have a good idea what I'm doing with each knob and dial. I can obviously hear the changes as I dial, but to actually describe like 'yeah this gate is effecting the envelope of LFO 1' etc. no! I'm fairly in the dark. Learning more through experimentation. But still beginner!
Forum member Syrupcore recommended the X-Station here a few years ago. Mainly because it's an awesome midi controller with all controls laid out in logical Synth controls. Oscillators, LFO's etc. Can be mapped.
These sounds are available now as a free download for all X-Station and XioSynth users. You can download the patches, or even play them online with our custom patch player. Just click on the player window to start.
That quote you gave (from Novation), I google'd it. Appears to have been written taken from an Australian site called Innovative Music.
"These sounds are available now as a free download for all X-Station and XioSynth users. You can download the patches, or even play them online with our custom patch player. Just click on the player window to start."
I was really happy to hear that you could actually try out the sounds in their 'online player'. But by the looks of it.. Whatever player they had on their page has long since passed. (The page has broken/image placeholders, and a horizontal section where presumably the flash player would have been).
Let me know if there's any on that list in particular you're interested in. Think there may be 40-50 patches not sure. I'll try to find out. (They're included at the beginnng of a Factory bank, and I'm not sure where Jamiroquai sounds end and Factory start)
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