Wood and metal... The golden age of quality synths.

The best compliment I can give you is to say, this music should have been sent with Voyager II to the interstellar space. Respect.

Simply beautiful! It's like listening to bittersweet ending / end credits of a movie.

Very beautiful cinematic music! Excellent composition! I’m getting my Korg Trident MK2 next week.

Absolutely beautiful. Vangelis would be proud of you.

Mighty on many levels!Well done, absolute love this piece of music.......

Boy this guy could make a triangle sound like a mini Moog. Just beautiful.Er anyone outhere with one gathering dust, free to a good home, I'm yer man.

Listened to it many times, mostly in the morning hours, half sleeping... in my opinion you've created the most wonderful piece of music here... touches my heart on many levels... thanks so much, bro, so well done! Greetings from a former analogue synth guy who turned to the didgeridoo as a professional... I still value good analogue synth music very highly. Best wishes from Germany. Olaf

@WilliamSalmela

8 жыл бұрын

+Didgehouse Thank you! I'm happy to have touched your heart with my music. Didgeridoo is a cool instrument and would go well along with some synths in electronic music, I guess.

Very Vangelis-esque. I like it. Kudos to the Trident (and to you too as the composer of this song, of course). Shame you had to sell it :-(

My God this is stellar. 6 years ago? I really hope you are still creating music. Can't believe I'm just finding you now. This is a masterpiece, man 👍

The best 'cinematic' sound demo of Trident synth on youtube! This beautiful machine just sing!.. Well done!

this is quite simply the best sounding synth I have ever heard. jesus christ.

Just came across this. I have a Delta, which is great but not a patch on this. One of the best demos EVER!

This is what a Korg Trident can sound like if you know how to program a synth being a Mini Moog owner since 1973 I own 2 Tridents best sounding analogue poly synth ever and don't underestimate the synth section the oscillators and filter are second to none I've pulled some of the best Jan Hammer type mini moog solo sounds ever and never goes out of tune.

Spectacular! wow!!! 💙😊

Fantastic instrument but Fantastic music...Bravo Mister !

Vastly underrated composition here. So cinematic and gorgeous! Marvelous job! :)

Wow. Majestic. I'm touched. Sounds like your soul and the Korg Trident are singing together.

I have to say "Wow!!!" That was inspirational. Listening to this I can feel your emotions about having to say goodbye to a dear friend. Exceptional performance.

Pheew, again a very nice track ! 👏👏❤❤ I could not afford this synth as a student at that time... Neither any available at that time, anyway ...This is why I studied electronics : to design and build my own ones ! 😊 It was a good choice, I have been in synthesizers business for 25 years.

This deserves way more views IMO.

Me back again, just had to pop by for another Trident fix! Superb music.

OMG William, you have created another chef d'oeuvre! Brilliant! Thanks! I'm sad you had to sell your Trident. This song certainly made me want to own one, one day...

A beautiful and exquisite piece of music. Bravo!

Both the synth and the song are very brillant ! Thank you for sharing !

How could anyone dislike THIS? This guy should be credited before Jean Michel Jarre, Frank Duval, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream! Better than any sci-fi movie or game soundtrack!

So much emotion. Tears of joy.

best wishes from North Wales.such an amazing experience ,thats what your music does!thank you!

Incredible!

Someday, if not very soon you will miss this like a lost lover. It will haunt you.

Amazing! Huge sounds and great composition... sorry to hear you had to sell this rare beauty, hope she's in good hands. Your Korg Trident sounded fantastic.

Great work William! Beautifully composed too. I was the happy owner of the Trident mk 1. I bought it brand new for more than 4000$ in Oslo, Norway 1981. When I bought an Oberheim Matrix 12 in 87 (I still have) I sold my Trident which I really regret, specially when listening to your great "Trident composition". It's a pity you had to sell it, you could have recorded an whole Trident album. Maybe I'll by me another one if the price is descent. How much did you sell it for? Best Regards!

Incredible music, absolutely beautiful. Might I even say perfect. It really is a warm bath of sound and emotion, I could stay here for a long eternity.

You did an awesome job, love this song, for me really epic!

True Science-fiction music like that we grew up with in the 1970s and 80s ... like Vangelis Heaven and Hell - The Music from Cosmos :)

Really excellent composition! I also love the sound of the Trident.

AMAZING!

Sounds awesome!

Love this track demo, thanks for posting. Influenced me to pick up a Trident Mk1, now on its way :)

This is simply glorious. Soaring, inspiring. Love it.

@tonyadebonojo5431

6 ай бұрын

This comment helps me express what i couldn’t find the words for till i read yours. All i can say now is if you know you know ❤

Wonderful man, great work

Excellent!

I also have a Trident Mark 1 with Kenton midi retrofit. I love what you’ve done with your ‘Farewell Trident’ piece - it made me fire up mine again after many years of sitting idle. Great job!

Great!! love this

Amazing.

Very good composer on vintage synth and pretty good synth !!! Thanks

This is crazy!

God damn, that was EPIC! Great work and I'm sure you already miss it. Korg, IMHO, is one of the best, if not the best, all-around synth makers.

Hi William, quick question... I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about how you created the S&H effect on the Trident... I understand its with filter resonance and keytracking on, but did you record various individual short hits and then edit/slice them into a short timespan in the DAW to simulate S&H? If not, how were you able to generate random voltages on the Trident? Did you send S&H from other synth via MIDI or CV IN > Filter? Thanks for any insights, this is a fantastic piece and showcase of the Trident's power.

Excellent track on a excellent instrument!

Great Track excellent music

Great track with that great, deep, gorgeous instrument! I own an MKII one.

very very good;sound is fantastic

Very cool! I have the Trident MkII and still love it.

Great sounds, especially the strings. Must have been quite a long job to program everything. And finally, the song is great too!

Superb

Good stuff. Thank you! =)

Daym man. make a few more of these tracks like this brilliant piece of work, press them to vinyl and i would buy your album for sure

haha this is a thousand times finer than my "farewell Trident" effort from a few years ago...you truly made it sing...love it when things get spinetingling from 3:30. i bet you miss it

W O W ! Respect!

Very nice

Omg my bank is gonna LOVE me!!

I shed a tear

It just goes to show you; it’s not what you have, it’s how you use it! Kudos! ✌🏻😎🎹🌴🌞

Nicely mixed also.

wonderful. oh god wonderful. you truly managed to bring the sheer size of the sound of this thing to the surface. I find the sonic palette of whats going on here truly shocking. w h a t a s y n t h !!!!!

Nice!!

I had to come back again and listen to this one again William. I just might be able to get one of these. I dream of combining the Trident with my Yamaha SK30 and see what the results I could come up with

@WilliamSalmela

4 жыл бұрын

They're both great instruments with an incredible sound!

Great piece. Sounds somewhere in between Jarre and Vangelis. And just wait for Behinger. They have already bought the name Trident (2019).

Hienoa, kiitos hyvästeistä: )

Where can i get this track in high quality? Amazing stuff!

Awesome synth, I've been given the luck to own one. I wish I had your ability to play with her sounds :)

Like the nod to Alan.... Love it all. It does beg the question, why why why did you sell it

Hearing a lot of Rick Wright in this. Great composition!

I have one and I was searchin youtube and i just said to my fiance "Doesn't anyone do anything cool with this keyboard? (Meaning kinda modern-ish and mystic).." and then I stumble on yours... I havn't found that random note thing you have on here on my keyboard, something about keyboard tracking..? And awesome about the midi! I didn't think it was possible.. Cheers from Regina Canada..

RIP :-(

Beautiful, I hadn't heard of this model before. Was it Korg's answer to the Jupiter 8?

WERE CAN I GET ONE THATS WHAT I WANNA KNOW

First... Holy shit, this is one of the best sounding synth demos I've ever heard! How did you play the drum parts? Vintage synth explorer says there is no Midi or note CV / gate input.

@WilliamSalmela

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! As I stated in the video and the description I had a MIDI retrofit kit installed to the Trident. Easy to install, cheap and highly recommended.

@lownrgy

7 жыл бұрын

mod is indeed cheap and works great. it has some latency issues especially when playing rapid notes, some really fast arpeggios are impossible to keep in timing. however we should consider to be lucky we actually have current midi mod for this instrument

Okay, this is uncommonly majestic!! I used to own a Korg Trident, but never made it sound this good. What interface did you use to record this with if I may ask??? I only have a crumby focusrite and have synths like a Korg Lambda and Delta and JEN SX-1000 ( mono synth) + a Moog prodigy, Kawai SX-240 and Elka Wilgamat. They all sound amazing with my Roland DEP 5 FX Rack and Ibanez UE 405, but they get lost in translation once I mix them down ay 24 Bit. Your composition quite honestly sounds EXTRAORDINARY!!!! :) Thank you for this upload!

@WilliamSalmela

8 жыл бұрын

+Sjobeck7 Thanks! It's recorded through a Fireface 800, but I think the prime quality is lost with the youtube compression. You have quite a nice synth collection.

@andinbriwel1092

7 жыл бұрын

Sjobeck7 Focusrite AD isn't bad, at line level input, anyway. Just watch your gain staging, and don't over-modulate anything going in. Record not peaking at 0dB but like -12dBfs, then level it where you want during the mixing. Use the line-in, not mic-in. You won't notice a huge difference in quality between a focusrite interface and something allot more expensive as long as you pay careful attention to levels. Preamps, that's another story. For mic-level inputs you will hear significant differences from better preamps than the focusrite has - but, even then, you can pick up a good preamp, like a 1073 clone or something, and run the analog out from the pre into the focusrite line input and get great results ;)

@steadfastcoward

6 жыл бұрын

And he also says it's in need of work :)

Very nice. Which reverb is on the main melody? So good...

@WilliamSalmela

8 жыл бұрын

+relis music The reverb is ClassicVerb (TC Electronic Powercore) which I often use for a really spacious effect - when I want the reverb to be part of the sound. However, the short "plucked" squarewave lead sound is layered realtime with the strings with a very long decay time, which also contributes to the feeling of a long reverb.

Nice work chap. Just looked at ordering a midi retro fit for my trident which my old man very generously handed down to me. How come you sold yours?

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

Treat her well

Noooooo! How could you sell it?! Amazing music! Is it available for download i HQ somewhere? If I had that instrument and made such music with it, Id rather sell my woman, he he. Just a fantastic song. Thank you.

@WilliamSalmela

8 жыл бұрын

+74goldenjet You're right there's a woman involved.. ;)

@74goldenjet

8 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, had to be something. Women... :-) Well, Im glad you got to make that track with it, at least.

Trident with Pedal MS04 : kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHl-yMihpq-0ZcY.html

I think you need a Trident, mate. We all should collect. what a tragedy. Do you miss it?

@WilliamSalmela

4 жыл бұрын

I have missed it, to be honest ;)

HELLO can you explained 1'50 about the sample and hold effect??so it's from an other synth with the mk1 filter outpout????

@WilliamSalmela

Жыл бұрын

It' all Trident (it doesn't have an audio input for external sources). The effect is a pseudo "sample & hold". It's actually the filter resonances of 8 individual filters that are slightly out of "tune" with each other because it hasn't been calibrated (probably since the early 80's). If you listen to it closely you can hear a cycle of 8 individual filter resonances repeating.

@XOEYZIIE

Жыл бұрын

@@WilliamSalmela ok understood so the 8 sequences are 8 filter /OSC that give their best hier as an LFO effect S&H!!!!

@kolmenenkelinsanoma

Жыл бұрын

@@XOEYZIIE Yes, each time I trigger a key one of the 8 voices trigger, but the oscillators are not heard but only the self oscillating resonating filters (which are randomly out of tune).

@XOEYZIIE

Жыл бұрын

@@kolmenenkelinsanoma OK VCF SSM 2044 FOR trident PPG 2.3 USE it also with external CV!!

@XOEYZIIE

Жыл бұрын

electricdruid.net/ssm2044-lp-filter-designs/

Wonderful, my kind of stuff. Shame you had to sell it. Mike

Good God man, what possessed you?

@WilliamSalmela

8 жыл бұрын

+LFOVCF The Holy Spirit... I hope?

5++++

Prochain clone chez Behringer ?

Take one function generator and a good set of testen elec's (scope and multimeter) and youre there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why did you sell it

@WilliamSalmela

4 жыл бұрын

End of an era in my musical journey, money/space issues.. Would love to keep all the synths I ever had, but not just for a collection but then I should use all of them too.

@bradleylinemihler

4 жыл бұрын

@@WilliamSalmela oh sorry to hear that. it was always an underrated synth, and I agree you should only get synths if you are going to use them!

Why did you sell it? Why would you do such a thing?

Great work William, compliments. Making a whole track with just one piece of gear is even more inspiring when you consider the inherent limitations the analog synths have. I wanted to try this with the Korg Sigma, kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGd2krKEhre5iKw.html if you want to continue the challenge feel free !

shame you had to sell it

WHY?>>>>>>>> this .....? never part your favorit synth .....

@lownrgy

7 жыл бұрын

exactly, you pry trident from my cold dead hands

You ruined almost everything with that reverb and cheap compression. The Trident has a significant tone which needs to be treated carefully.

@WilliamSalmela

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry. Can't please everyone. :D

@AshBashVids

7 жыл бұрын

Ironically, I hear both on your videos.

@lownrgy

7 жыл бұрын

funny, i compress shit out from it