I bought the Oberheim Xpander, after a few hours I did this recording. This is my first analog/hardware synth, I have only been using software synths before...
it sounds very close to Mario Schönwälder. I am just improvising, did record 4 tracks one by one.
The bass, should have been recorded through a sequencer, to get that berlin school sequencer sound...
I will try to do it next time..I am also considering to buy a hardware sequencer.
All feedback is very appreciated thanks!
My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
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My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
Last edited by SOLAR77 on Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
Nice work. I like the feel of this track, very epic.
Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
Thank you a lot!Infinity Curve wrote:Nice work. I like the feel of this track, very epic.
I will try to record more when I have received my midi cables... I have also bought the explorer editor.
If you ask me, The xpander is almost unusuable if you want to tweak it in real time...but the xplorer editior really opens upp a new universe for this synth!!!
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
i disagree, but if its your first synth, im sure you'll get used to her!SOLAR77 wrote:, The xpander is almost unusuable if you want to tweak it in real time..!
BTW awesome
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
nice track! 
somehow this reminds me of rain falling on a roof as a ninja looks contemplatively out at the city.
somehow this reminds me of rain falling on a roof as a ninja looks contemplatively out at the city.
Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
Is that the highpass filter on the pad? I'm borrowing an Xpander at the moment, and seems like most of the brighter sounds I get are 'cleaner' sounding than this. A pleasant multi-track improvisation, btw.
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
I wouldnt have thought that myself but reading it from you made it a clear picture in my head with this track.jeffrey1121 wrote:nice track!
somehow this reminds me of rain falling on a roof as a ninja looks contemplatively out at the city.
Really nice little improv too. Awesome sounds.
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
Hello, I do not remember exactely, but what I remember is that I did use the presets I might have tweaked slightly such as cut off on the filter and resonance.Solderman wrote:Is that the highpass filter on the pad? I'm borrowing an Xpander at the moment, and seems like most of the brighter sounds I get are 'cleaner' sounding than this. A pleasant multi-track improvisation, btw.
Regarding "cleaner" sounds, well I do not know, but I can tell you that I use a quite extensive effect chain also to produce this sound, and a lot of reverb which make it sound less "clear" I guess.
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Been watching too many ninja movies ?jeffrey1121 wrote:nice track!
somehow this reminds me of rain falling on a roof as a ninja looks contemplatively out at the city.
If you ask me ninjas are probably the last thing that I had in my mind.
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Re: My first recording with Oberheim Xpander
it's probably the percussive sound - something similar is used in a lot of scores for an "eastern" sound.
I like the fizziness of the pads, what's being used in the "extensive effects chain", if you don't mind me asking?
I like the fizziness of the pads, what's being used in the "extensive effects chain", if you don't mind me asking?
