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hello so I thought it'd be fun to do a
video recreating the baseline from depes
Mode's classic track Enjoy the Silence
which was done with the legendary Roland
system 700 let's take a look in 1989
depes mode were beginning work on what
was to become their seventh studio album
violator and in the Years preceding this
album they'd come up with quite a tight
procedure in how they went about
producing records and they decided that
this album was the opportunity to break
that Paradigm a major part of that was
limiting the pre-production and
pre-programming so that they were free
to take a song in any number of
directions they felt like in the studio
without the baggage of existing work and
enjoy the silence is a case in point
Martin Gore's original demo which has
since been released is just sustained
chords on a keyboard and a solo vocal
and it's basically a ballad now Alan
Wilder and producer Mark Ellis but known
as flood pushed to try and arrange the
song in a kind of uptempo pseudo disco
style Gore was reticent but let them
experiment and they got the drums going
on an aai s1000 and then made that
amazing Baseline on floods system 700
still unsure Gore was persuaded to come
up with a top line which he wrote on a
synthesizer but then re-recorded with a
guitar and from there they added PPG
wave emu emulators 2 and three and of
course gayan and gor vocals and the song
We all know and love came together and
it's become one of depes Mode's biggest
hits okay so let's try and recreate the
sound now what they had was the
sequencer which I don't have and the
keyboard the sequencer was providing the
gates that go to the envelope generators
the voltage registers were being used to
sequence the filter and then the
keyboard CV was being used to control
the oscillator pitch so someone was sat
there pressing the key or keys on the
keyboard as it ran along to to play the
Baseline basically so in place of the
sequencer which I don't have I've got a
Roland mpu 101 mid CV box got CVS going
to the oscillators and also coming via
this mixer to the filter so I've got a
keyboard CV in place of the person who
was pressing the keys I've got Gates and
then I've got another CV a velocity CV
which is velocity to control voltage um
which is going to the filter in place of
the voltage register so it should be
running so if we turn up an
oscillator there we go so that's
oscillator one is a square
wave okay and then oscillator
2 another Square wave up the
octave and then I think there's a third
oscillator tuned up a
fifth but Blended
in so you're mainly hearing oscillator
one but there are three oscillators
going on I believe those are going
through the filter which will set up
into the VCA and the VCA has got a
really tight envelope generator so
minimum attack time really short decay
of like 100 milliseconds lowest sustain
level and then about a 50 millisecond
release so let's set up the filter so
let's close it now we can't hear
anything and then we're going to turn up
the resonance a little bit to about two
we don't want if I just play with it we
don't want like that we want a much more
subtle amount of filter resonance so
let's leave that there for now two
things are modul the filter I think uh
so first is this envelope generator
which is set basically completely flat
and can you hear it makes a little
click a little Splat that is definitely
in there so I think it has to be coming
from um the the envelope generator
basically and then more important than
that of course is that sequencing of the
filter so set that up coming in maybe
about there somewhere if I just take
that click out put it back in too
much somewhere about
there and I've got via this mixer a
touch of keyboard CV as
well maybe too much resonance that's
better that is very close now there's
many many variables you know all these
are continuously variable controls and
you know what were the values on the
sequencer you could spend your life
working out exactly what that was but
this is basically the
sound so as ever the point of this video
is not so that you can go and set up
this exact sound on your Roland system
700 cuz that would be applicable to
about one person who's watching this
video the point is to understand the
principle of how this kind of sound is
made so that you can make your own
version of it with your own synthesizers
for use in the context of your music so
to that end let's do a little spin on it
based on the ARP 2600 and
sequencer what about another twist with
a Coram s20 in a sequencer
and what about with software with a mini
monster so what you need oscillators
resident low pass filter amp envelopes
and a way to sequence the filter cut off
on a per step basis that could be
software that could be Hardware that
could be absurdly expensive it could be
dirt cheap it could be anywhere in
between um you should be able to get
hold of something that can do some kind
of sound like this but if you do
absolutely love the sound of the system
700 then I have multi sampled
it that is available on my patreon huge
thank you to my patrons for their
ongoing support thank you to you for
watching the last thing I'm going to do
is my own cover version of Enjoy the
Silence with Clement veners on vocals
cheers
words like violence break this
silence come crashing in into my little
world painful to me bece right through
me can't you understand oh my little
girl all I ever wanted all I ever needed
is here in my
arms words are very
unnecessary they can only do harm
vows are spoken to be
broken feelings are intense words are
trivial Pleasures remain so does the
pain words are
meaningless and
forgettable all I ever
wanted all I ever needed is here in my
arm words are very unne
necessary they can only do hard
All I Ever Wanted all I ever needed is
here in my
arms words are very
unnecessary they it only to
WR all everyone wanted all I ever needed
is here in my
arms words are very
unnecessary they can only do hard
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