[sdiy] rick wakeman sound

[Richard Brooks]

synth at oldmail.charlielamm.com wrote:
> He used a lot of minimoogs.
>
> Of what I've heard, the best modern stuff for mini emulation is the
> Virus Access C (get the latest software rev, it has the best Mini
> filter sound).
>
> Emu has something called the Vintage Keys Pro; its synth emulation
> factory sounds are, for by and large, an embarrassment, but with some
> tweaking you can get a decent mini sound out of it.  It also has a
> decent mellotron string sound, with some tweaking there you can sound
> like "Heart of the Sunrise".
>
> Software wise, AAS Tassman, to my ears, produces a good mini sound as
> well. Arturia has a title called "Mini Moog V", but I have not heard
> it.
>
> If you get any of this going, and try to get his playing style down
> (during solos, he used a lot of pentatonic scales with lots of
> trills, no pitch bend, some glide, etc) you should be somewhat close.
>
> And keep a beer close by, so you can swill it while you play.  That's
> what I remember best about Rick W.

Here's a place to start!
http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/midis.htm

I'd lay off too much beer and stay on proper food as I met him around the
time he had been given doctors orders to stop his bad eating and drink
habits or it might kill him.  AFAIR his teeth were falling out apart from
other things.


Richard Brooks.


> --CL
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Mustafa Umut Sarac wrote:
>
>> Which software or diy synthesizer give me old rick wakeman tone ?
>>
>> Mustafa Umut Sarac
>> Istanbul
>>
>>
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