In honor of The Floyd reuniting...

[Scrap]

I thought I'd revoice the (in)famous Shine On You Crazy Diamond set of programs-in-a-combi that I posted on the forum some time ago (with the help of Claudio Lari). I decided to take advantage of the great ARP 2600 and Solina waves on the EXB-PCM05 expansion for the Triton/Karma to get closer to the original Floyd sound.

So, here's some Shine On (http://www.reprehensible.net/~scrap/crazydiamond.mp3) for y'all to feast your ears on.

[hephiroth]

damn that is accurate

-jeff-

[Liquid Shadow]

This thread is officially labelled Teh Winahr, by order of SCRASPZORZ-AH and OMGWTF LIKWEED SHADOH

[Scrap]

Rock on, niggens.

You will all fear my massively accurate-but-not-quite lead sound.

[Lurion]

WOW!!! Pretty neat man!!! That's amazing!!!!

[Cary]

Behold! the power of good KARMA

Nice job. The bottom of that filled out nicely.

[Jakob]

Very accurate, could have been the real thing.

[Scrap]

Heh, thanks guys. Behold, the power of a flexible ROMpler.

Sometimes you don't need ten billion different keyboards to get the job done. ;)

[Ael]

As I said...that's really good Cory!

[Awake]

Now if only someone could make a decent David Gilmour patch for guitarists. ;)

Listening to Roine Stolt Snowy White butcher Shine On for Transatlantic and Roger Waters is nothing short of painfull. Don't get me wrong, I realize just how nigh-on impossible it is to play that passage right (by which I do not mean "hit the right notes"), but if you can't do it, you shouldn't, IMO.

Marvellous work, Scrap. I have a question: how'd you like to apply that same patch and do us an MP3 of Cluster One from The Division Bell? ;)

[Scrap]

Marvellous work, Scrap. I have a question: how'd you like to apply that same patch and do us an MP3 of Cluster One from The Division Bell? ;)

I shall do just that...

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And here it is (http://www.reprehensible.net/~scrap/clusterfuck.mp3). I decided to change the pad around a little bit. Also includes fancy reverse sound effect. As always, one combi, custom programs, no sequencing, no sampling. I haven't heard the piece in a long time, so I think I've gotten a few of the chord voicings wrong, but hey, it's close enough. ;)

[Awake]

I shall do just that...

And here it is (http://www.reprehensible.net/~scrap/clusterfuck.mp3). I decided to change the pad around a little bit. Also includes fancy reverse sound effect. As always, one combi, custom programs, no sequencing, no sampling. I haven't heard the piece in a long time, so I think I've gotten a few of the chord voicings wrong, but hey, it's close enough. ;)Sounds pretty accurate to me. That's one of my favorite songs off Division Bell - it's that impossibly sad, weighty feeling that only Rick Wright can do. Thanks again. :)

[Scrap]

Try as I might, I still can't capture that Rick Wright magic... no matter how minimalistic I try to be. ;)

Truly one of the best musicians ever, he is.

[synthz]

Very nice! The strings sounds very full.. and i can almost hear hammond covering the bottom, is that right? Nice lead tone man...

[Scrap]

Yep, there's a full tonewheel hammond just in the background.

The lead sound itself took quite a few months to sculpt to perfection. Claudio was the originator of the sound, but the envelope wasn't quite right to me, and since it was a static EG, it didn't work so well with dynamic playing, but since the original album version itself didn't have dynamics changed by velocity, yet featured multiple variants of the sound with different filter envelopes, it posed a problem, so I kinda managed to find a decent middle ground.

Or so I believe, anyway. :)