Wanted - Dimension Pro patch - Resolved

I only listened quickly on my netbook speakers (crappy) but it sure sounds like DX7-ish electric piano.   So see if you have anything that has that DX7 type patches.

Poco


Thanks Billy.  It is a surprisingly difficult sound to emulate.
 
Poco

Well, the DX7 was kind of special - and definitely had a sound to it.   But yeah, NI's FM7 and FM8 can probably get you that sound.  There are some other products out there that come somewhat close as well.   There might even be something close in DImPro if you really explore the wavs/soundsets.

If you happen to have FL Studio - it might have some as well (for example Sytrus, and other FM type synth plugins).

i agree with ba_midi , it's definitely a DX7 "whitney houston"y patch :) 

90"s forever !!!

Yeah this is a combination of 2 pianos. The bell one is a tine keyboard a la DX7 though my DX7  is an old version 1 and is noisy. Yamaha are the people for this sound as I spent years trying to emulate it on stage with my female singer exactly for Whitney power ballads. I used an old 77 note Yamaha electric piano which had a whooshy chorus setting. 

Had a look around my collection and on the Korg legacy wavestation you could try:
ROM 8 patch 26 X Roads
ROM 11 patch 26 Tine Piano
RON 7 patch 26 Vibe Roads
These would work if combined with a standard piano.
Both need a bright sparkling reverb but the tine piano needs eq ie boost top end a bit and cut the bass a bit.
I expect lounge lizard would have a few patches but am not in the studio for a while to see.
Hope this helps.

Dim Pro has a program patch in the Electric Piano folder called "DX Tines" that's the fundamental sound you're hearing...Layer some strings in there and you should have the sound you're looking for...I didn't spend a lot of time analyzing the sound (I don't need the $20 and my fee would be substantially higher anyway ) but the basis is definitely the DX7 sound...I'm still not hearing the "chuff" that you reference...

And besides there's someone on KVR who'll give $75 for a patch.
And I think I've just earned it.
Mind you, Gabrielle wasn't very pleased when I ripped it off her head.

Its definitely a DX7. The Dimension Pro patch "DX Tines" is pretty close. With a little tweaking and some chorus you can get very close to that sound. Sounds like there's some layered strings on it too.

I think I will just focus on getting a sound that I like, even if it is not quite the same.  But....  I really do like THAT sound.
 
Thanks, all.
 
Poco

Hey Poco. How's this sound:
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8892497

Poco


I think I will just focus on getting a sound that I like, even if it is not quite the same.  But....  I really do like THAT sound. 
   
Poco

Poco,
 
You can get very close to that sound with the suggestions that have been made...I really like the "sound" of a lot of things, but I'm rarely ever able to exactly reproduce them...Sometimes something "magical" just occurs during a session...You're probably not ever going to achieve that exact sound with Dim Pro, regardless of how much layering you do...If you can't lay your hand on a DX7 then the closest you'll probably come is NI's FM8 or a Synclavier (which is so rare it should be on the endangered species list)...

Well, I have found a real DX7, so it looks like I will spend hours getting close to that sound, recording samples three semitones apart, and building a sfz sound bank (I found a neat-free sfz bank builder on the web).  I've done this with my Korg for GVI (Giga Virtual Instrument).  It's just a lot of work.
 
Planet Earth,
 
I want this sound for an album project I am doing.  My wife and I met in school on vocal scholarships, and this song has been in our repertoire for 25 years (mid 80's - hence that Whitney sound).  We are doing an album of our faves over the years.  Everything from Alison Krauss' Heaven's Bright Shore to a Norah Jones-esque tune (her Come Away sound) to Larry Norman's Outlaw to more modern Celtic sounds (kind of a contradiction - no?).  I am spending more time on this one than most of the projects I do. 
 
Not to be too much of a downer, but I was diagnosed with leukemia last year, and this is my "farewell" project.   Both of our kids are musicians, and this will be a remembrance.  I want it to be good. 
 
Best,
 
Poco

I hear a full-tines-like patch (perhaps with some bottom rolled off), a synth string patch layered behind it, then a slightly more tubular (tubular-bells) like lower part comes in (but not with the heavy 5th overtone like a tubular-bells patch has). They all sound DX/FM-ish to me as well. There seems to be a more natural piano sound going in and out of the mix under the bell-like tone, sometimes becoming dominant over the synth-bell sound. The synth string thing happens through most of the song. I remember some DX patches that were piano with string layered patches, which may be what I'm hearing.

Did you try the Kore 2 download.  I still think it is closer than above.

I want this sound for an album project I am doing. My wife and I met in school on vocal scholarships, and this song has been in our repertoire for 25 years (mid 80's - hence that Whitney sound). We are doing an album of our faves over the years.

That is so cool. I'd love to help if I could--and I'm sure most of the people here would, too. I'm still wondering how you're going to be able to reproduce this with Dim Pro and/or a DX7? I understand you've found a DX7 and you can make your own samples, but that will take a lot of work, and keep you from what you really want to do: produce this collection. (Besides, for all we know, it could have been a DX7-II, or TX-series module, which had slightly different filters and amps.) And as you can see, each of us here hears something slightly different in the sound. (Maybe if you posted a sample of the specific sound you wanted, we could be more helpful. There are a few keyboard parts in the song, and we may not even be talking about the same thing!)

What if--and this is just a suggestion here--what if you "re-imagined" the song with different sounds or parts? It's still the same song you remember--the same melody, same words, same feelings...but with a different approach to it. I did that for my mom for her last Christmas with us. I recorded John Lennon's "Happy Christmas", her favorite Christmas song. I'm no John Lennon (as people like to remind me!), and I didn't have access to the guitars, bells and Harlem Childrens Choir, so I did it "my way". I knew if I tried to re-create the song, I'd fail, so I did what I could with what I had. She loved it--not just because it was her favorite song, but because I put some of "myself" into it.

I'm not suggesting you do this because re-creating the sound would be too difficult. I'm merely offering a suggestion that you spend your talents and time in a way that gets you closer to what you ultimately want: something from you for your family. It's just a thought.

I wish you the best of luck, and If there's any other way I can help, please just drop me a PM. I have FM8 and a Roland D-10, and while I could "layer" sounds to get something similar, I know it still wouldn't be "exact". But I don't mind trying....

Steve

Steve and all,

Your suggestion is a good one.  I came up with a sound that fairly well catures the spirit of the orginal, and my wife, the keyboard player and "real" musician in our duet says she likes it.  As she put it, "if you didn't have the other one to compare it to, you wouldn't know the difference".  So I am going to get back to what I like doing: making music.  Sometimes, there's just too many choices for your own good, and you spend a lot of time trying them all, only to find that you had a good answer all along.

Best wishes,

Poco