Baba O'riley- the who

[Analogkid]

Guys, I have the music and can figure out the arpeggiator on this song but does anyone have a clue what the patch might be? organ? synth? rhodes?

[gusjdt]

If I remember correctly, its a simple sawtooth program running on an arpeggiator with delay. I can't find the song, so I can't be too sure about the actual patch. You're going to have to work with the arpeggiator tempo and delay time to get it to sound right. You also have to work with the amp envelope of the program so that you get stacatto arpeggiated notes.

Hope that helps out a bit :D

[Drusillus]

I had this same question a while back:

http://www.jordanrudess.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2153&highlight=baba

[Analogkid]

Hey guys thanks for all the help!! I recently joined a who tribute band and the guys rightfully want to do this song ASAP! I just bought an Alesis 8HD so hopefully I can pull it off!! :biggrin:

Brent

[Finndog]

I use the Arturia Minimoog V for Baba....

Good luck playing it live....it's a whizbanger to do.....heck The Who ran a tape....lol

It's in the Arpeggio patches with the name JMB_80's



Finndog

[SerFox]

If you would want to build up a patch from the ground up to replicate that sound, Here is what I reccomend:

Say you are using a dual Oscillator synth like the Reason's Subtractor, or a dual osc VST, or even a standalone module, have these settings:

Have one Osc on a Sawtooth Wave
The other Osc on Square
You want the Mix to lean onto the Saw more, so have either the volume of the Saw at full and the Square at 30, or if your device has some kind of mix have it about 70% to Osc 1.
You will also want to add some Noise with a very short decay, so it sounds more like a percussive tap.
Have your Flter Envolope cutoff on LowPass at 70%, and add a teeny little bit of resonance to it.
Now add 10% attack and 15% release.

I know it seems long winded, but it's a porettyt simple synth to replicate. Oh, and if you're gonna be playing along with it, you'll have to shift your tuning up, since they were slightly detuned to recording.

I don't know if the posters of this are still looking for this information but there it is for anyone who wants it.

[Analogkid]

If you would want to build up a patch from the ground up to replicate that sound, Here is what I reccomend:

Say you are using a dual Oscillator synth like the Reason's Subtractor, or a dual osc VST, or even a standalone module, have these settings:

Have one Osc on a Sawtooth Wave
The other Osc on Square
You want the Mix to lean onto the Saw more, so have either the volume of the Saw at full and the Square at 30, or if your device has some kind of mix have it about 70% to Osc 1.
You will also want to add some Noise with a very short decay, so it sounds more like a percussive tap.
Have your Flter Envolope cutoff on LowPass at 70%, and add a teeny little bit of resonance to it.
Now add 10% attack and 15% release.

I know it seems long winded, but it's a porettyt simple synth to replicate. Oh, and if you're gonna be playing along with it, you'll have to shift your tuning up, since they were slightly detuned to recording.

I don't know if the posters of this are still looking for this information but there it is for anyone who wants it.

Thanks Ser,

i did some reasearch on Baba and found out it was produced on a Lowery Berkshire TBO1 organ on the marimba setting. I picked out a cheesey home organ sound on my Fusion and played the sequence and looped it. Its not 100% perfect but its pretty darn close

[SerFox]

It's just one of those sounds that will remain hard to replicate. Personally I'd rtaher make my own sound, but that's just me, I prefer to be original with my work, even when doing covers.

[Analogkid]

It's just one of those sounds that will remain hard to replicate. Personally I'd rtaher make my own sound, but that's just me, I prefer to be original with my work, even when doing covers.
You can actually come kinda close with some mixed guitar and accordian layered- once again not perfect but not bad either!