To all lovers of classical music! This video is not about the best interpretation of J. S. Bach or about classical music! It is about the technical background of how notes or compositions were stored on a cassette at that time and can be loaded into the Roland MC-202. The sound settings of the synthesizers and the notes of Bach are examples from the Roland company!

Glad to hear that Bach's old 606-patterns comes into use after all these years 😎

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Haha... Yes, Bach loved the 606 and used it very often. 😜

@iancain6647

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@schwellhaimbassriot2660

2 жыл бұрын

he didn't have a 606 but he got the samples from emu

@Chris-vr8cd

2 жыл бұрын

And Bach said let there bass/highhat/ snare!

@tothejazz4828

2 жыл бұрын

I am willfully going to believe from here on out that Bach owned Roland gear

This is probably also a lot closer to what Roland had in mind when designing these instruments, as opposed to blowing up the world with whole new genres of dance music in the 80s.

@MegaBadgeman

2 жыл бұрын

Just look at all those hieroglyphics on the TR606. Heavy stuff.

In the 1980s my dad BUILT from scratch a 8 bit computer that used magnetic tapes to read the parameters and play classical music. He took a couple years to build it. Now we have those gadgets haha

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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I bought a new MC-202 in the eighties. Waaay before MIDI that was. My friend had an MC-101. With a rented TR-808 we recorded many tunes. Haven’t heard this Bach tune for over 35 years… Thanks for this video! 😊

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Would love to hear your recordings from back then. 🙂

@Schilliebillie

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic Me too! 😂Right after every radio broadcast the tapes were erased to save costs...

@molekulaTV

2 жыл бұрын

Rented? Hahhhhaaa

@pierremystique5335

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic hey man. Missing your stuff. Happy Holidays!!!

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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A logical progression from acid techno tutorials to Bach lmao

@DragonGrafx-16

2 жыл бұрын

This song needs some acid in it lol

@paidgovernmentshill_6950

2 жыл бұрын

Add some Mozart and make it a Mach piece...

@smakhaus897

2 жыл бұрын

Alphabetical order!

I am almost certain Bach would have used an ATARI ST and a Multimode Expander with an orchestral expansion. Just imagine what kind of music he would have done. And just dream about what he would have made with a Hip Hop card. Great job.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Haha.. Thanks Patrik! 👍

Awesome to see this classic Sony cassette deck again!

Ah, the nostalgic shriek of audio rate data transfer.

@DazMataz

2 жыл бұрын

With the data crickets at the start and end.

Nice! Switched on Bach part 2! 606 is a great addition! :)

As a huge Bach and 202 fan this pushes all the right buttons.

Had each of these units back in the day.. and recorded a lot of Bach and other classical works with them... all hooked up to an M-144 Portastudio.. 1 track for tape sync, and 3 tracks of 2-voices... Had dreams of being a simplified Isao Tomita... Didn't know myself when I bought my JX-3P and DX7... and ran them from an MSQ-100... all synced via the M-144... ... but as MIDI went berserk, so I retired the MC-202 and SH-101, etc... Still use my (heavily modified) DX7 as my controller keyboard though...

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Great! 👍

@MS-Patriot2

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, you managed to achieve what I only dreamt of in the 80s, still got the old gear, all works, and now I’m retired I might just try again.

@ozboomer_au

2 жыл бұрын

@@MS-Patriot2 Exactly what I'm intending to do when I retire in a few years :) Currently getting some more 'intermediate' theory into me, so I can get back to playing 'properly'... What wuth DAWs, VSTs, etc, it's so much easier to produce great music at home nowadays... but doing the production side of things well is a whole new skill set to work on...

@MS-Patriot2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ozboomer_au only just considering firing up Reaper again! Slow adopter here 😎

Super interessantes & kreatives Video! Danke & Daumen hoch!🎹🎼🎛

The texture on that SH-101, wow!

Im speachless. Wow! Way to cross boundaries! Love it!

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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With the added drum machine, it reminds me a lot of Jacques Loussier's "Switched on Bach" rendition in the early 60s. Fun fact the S.O Bach vol.4 LP with this piece was my first ever stereo LP I got as a birthday present.. 8 years before I could afford my first stereo turntable and amplifier :-) Thanks for helping me revive those long time gone memories!

@pikgears

2 жыл бұрын

Switched on Bach was made by Wendy Carlos, not Jacques Loussier.

@petras8385

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yea

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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This sounds great, very Giorgio Moroder / Wendy Carlos. I see also a lot of classical music snobs down there in the comments. Go listen to your well tempered clavier if you can’t appreciate this.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Doctor Nemmo! Haha... yes, you're right. I only did what ROLAND suggested to its customers as an idea (programming, instruments & sound settings). So I will pass on the negative comments to ROLAND. I hope they do it better next time. 😉

@makipri

2 жыл бұрын

To me it sounds almost like Klaus Wunderlich. His Beathoven even added electronic drums over a classical composition.

Now our lives are complete after this. Thank you. Subscribed.

This data cassette’s contents is available as a wav. file & how to load from a PC, on Sunshine Jones web page under non-fiction & other data cassette releases. Great video ducktronic.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, I have the link to the Sunshine Jones website in the video description, for those who don't have the cassette.

Just amazing!

Beautiful!

Nice job, and thanks for showing the old school way!

So yesterday I had this classical song in my mind which i wanted to learn on piano but didn't know the title....now i'm scrolling around KZread and get this video recommend with exactly the song I had in mind. What a lovely coincident♥️

@24x7arts

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZYqFr6-OoKitk6w.html

I was just thinking, it's friday, time for Ducktronic & Audiopils, & voila here you are. That reminds me of the Commodore 64, if you missed one bleep the whole project didn't work, technology came long way since then. 👍

@conradhartgmx

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, just came here from the AudioPilz video. :)

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was a bit more complicated back then than nowadays. 🙂

@XHALE303

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic But especially more time consuming. 😊

@LocaliLLocano

2 жыл бұрын

Holy moly this is amazing

Roland Tecnology is amazing

Sheesh that hits HARD and sounds awesome!

Loving it :)

So cool...I remember having to do that type of data transfer for my Korg monotribe to get it to update. Haha this was beautiful btw

Absolutely wonderful. Brilliant! Joe would have loved this. Nailed it. Seb. (Luiz DePalma)

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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Well, I enjoyed that. Thank you for the video.

I love you Guy! Oh so interesting! Thx

Epic!

Amazing

I love it !!!! Great work !!!

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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The heart of my start✌️

A Alesis SR16 Drum machine também utiliza esse mesmo tipo de transferência de dados. Via tape in/out.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that may be. Back then, many devices used data cassettes to store presets or programming.

Mental video! Great stuff :)

Love Bach!

Back in 1700s i used to pop my head with these in the club

@LambruscoPeter

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that sounds cool!

this is gold

very cold

Bach would be proud of You

Magic stuff 🌈⭐️

Now this has me wondering - would there be a way to create custom data cassettes? Rather than manually programming the 202. I suppose it's probably easier to send convert MIDI information to cv/gate and then to the 202, though...

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, CV/Gate is the best way to control the MC-202. So far I only know the data cassettes with the demo tracks from Roland.

@JiglePee98

2 жыл бұрын

there is a program which can convert midi data into these data audio files that the 202 can understand and vice versa but i it's quite expensive as i recall.

@MystiQ078

2 жыл бұрын

using cv/gate routes it through the internal cpu which sadly causes delay better use din sync in and program it with a pattern through cv/gate and then use din syn and it will be perfect in time with the rest of the synths.

geilo 😎🤘

How about a version with some knob/slider tweaking for squelches, filter sweeps etc?

@hughchapman5319

Жыл бұрын

+1

that's a cool cassette deck

Awesome. Little fast and a bit of reverb might be a nice addition. Cool though, thanks for uploading.

There’s another great version from ceephax.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Where can I find it?

@Psychoakustik

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f2afxbF8o6Synto.html

@BenColemanUK

2 жыл бұрын

Also this version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata he did live kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6Roj8h_lqjHmKg.html It's fantastic (I think he's using the 101 & 303, but not it's not the internal sequencer on the 101)

@audiobutcher

2 жыл бұрын

Union Jack - Fromage Frais (1995) kzread.info/dash/bejne/o62mq7WFqcS4YMo.html

if you like this you'll also love the classic album "switched-on bach"

Wow ! Du hast es drauf ....

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Danke Carsten! Und schön, dass Du jede Woche reinschaust! 🙂

danke für diese Studie , interessant und lehrreich ! es war mir unbekannt , das es eine "zweite Stimme" der Aufnahme auf der Kassette gibt. ist das bei den anderen Daten ebenso ? war auf der original Kassette hierbei ein Unterschied zwischen der A und B Seite ?

@DuckTronic

8 ай бұрын

Hallo! Ich bin mir nicht mehr sicher ob alle Tracks auf einer Seite oder auf beiden Seiten verteilt waren. Und ja, alle fünf Demotracks haben eine zweite Stimme für einen zusätzlichen Syntheiszer dabei. 👍

@adreamsa

8 ай бұрын

@@DuckTronic , DANKE Ihnen für die Information , schön das es Menschen wie Sie gibt

Really cool ! I found it miss just some deep chord on a pad for the background and that could done a great electro remix

waaaaaaaau it is strong :)

I ALWAYS thought, that on the MC-505, the patch sounds are something like four layers of PCM data, which should be relatively easy to create on computer software. So I always wanted to try to create some PCM files from my own short samples, phrases that I’ve recorded, and then load them over the MIDI cable… I haven’t ever seen any user friendly way to enable the PCM upload into the MC-505. I need to change out the busted LCD screen and probably swap it’s battery for a new one as well, as I have not done this in over twenty years of owning the 505. Is there a way to swap out the batteries on synths without loosing everything when you do it? I guess I’ll back up everything first just to be safe, and I don’t think I feel comfortable swapping the battery out while it’s turned on, so probably it’ll need to be over a bulk dump and restore. THANKS FOR SHARING!!

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I don't have an MC-505 and can't help you. But the manual should tell you how to make backups.

@DoctorNemmo

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure you won’t lo data if you change the battery quick enough.

@gelatinous6915

2 жыл бұрын

The MC505 uses samples from a ROM (read-only memory) that can't be changed

*Sabre Wulf* love that tune :D

Qué pedazo de flash

I really like that 'harpsichord' sound. I wonder if my Roland SH-01A (101)can make such a sound?

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

It should 🙂

@gasolineandwine

2 жыл бұрын

It's just a narrow pulse wave, any synth that allows you to manually set the pulse width of an oscillator should be able to do it!

@ASH-ou4cg

2 жыл бұрын

@@gasolineandwine Thanks for this. The SH-01A allows for such an adjustment. I will have to give this a shot!

Tangerine Dream!

The whole world is asking why you didn't twist the sliders while playing?

@falangistavaleroso9689

2 жыл бұрын

yes, that is what I wanted. Do a another version Ducktronic

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, good question... Maybe I should do an acid version of Bach. 😉

@falangistavaleroso9689

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic sure

@igneousfriction3035

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic yes, please do

@matatias

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic PLEASE

Cool . Félicitations de France ⭐⭐⭐

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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Roland Bach 👍🏼😇

Klasse!👍👏🤗ma gut das ich die ganzen maschinen noch habe,aber leider die cassette nich😀

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Die Files der Kassette gibt es in der Videobeschreibung 👍

@jochenreich683

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic wunderbar.ich danke dir👍

My green cheek conure was transfixed. We thank you.

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

😅 Thanks!

Ххе, по звукам кассеты вспомнился ZX Spectrum.

jsb - would be proud of you 👍 keep rocking, cheers 🤙

Waiting for new covers from you

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Unfortunately, new videos will only come again at the beginning of next year.

How did you convert from midi/tablature to mc-202?

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

This is not MIDI. The MC-202 can store and read tracks via a special data format. I demonstrate how to play a track from the original Roland data cassette into the MC-202. 👍

Wha wha wee wha !👌👌👊 hot 🔥

This is really beautiful, Great Work!

The first one honestly sounded like it could belong in a 2D JRPG from the 90s

geil..ich muss es auch ausprobieren...kann dir zb das MC202 hack tool sehr empfehlen 😃

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Cool, das Tool schaue ich mir mal an. Falls Du zufällig die andere Data Cassette (oder Audiofile) mit Star Wars, Popcorn usw. auftreiben kannst wäre ich Dir sehr dankbar. 🙂

@acidjack

2 жыл бұрын

ich frage mal rum, zumindest die files sollte ich bekommen können :)

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Das wäre cool. Ich habe ewig gesucht und bisher nichts gefunden. Danke Thorsten! 👍

I'd start the video with the last section at 5:20 and have the explanations afterwards

so classically tuned in modern ways.

😂Großartig!!!

Classical music on a 303, coming soon? 😉

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Not for now, but maybe again sometime. Acid is probably more liked after all. 😅

This sounds like the backing to a Japanese video game and I'm in the wilderness exploring as I seek to level up my characters and acquire better gear.

Really cool- it’s interesting to see the mc 202 shine like that over the sh 101. It almost has a more “pure” tone. Still really similar, but- it’s almost like the 202 is more c64 ish than the 101.

lol, was not expecting the old school loading screech

¿me pregunto si esta música tiene Copyright, o se puede usar en videos?

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Copyright always has an expiry date. In most countries, a piece of music, like any other copyrighted work, becomes non-possessory and available for use by anyone, including commercially, 70 years after the death of the composer/lyricist. From that moment on, the work automatically belongs to the "public domain". However, this removal of protection varies from country to country, and the clarifications and legal interpretations are correspondingly incredibly complex. If there are copyright problems, KZread will tell me on its own or even block the video.

A bit better at 75% speed but this is better patch than 90% of the synth covers out there. They always use reverb and shit, doesn’t sound good. This is way better nice work.

Sounds great in 1.75x speed. :D

@subtension

2 жыл бұрын

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i didn't understand, how did you transfer it from sound to midi ?

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

The MC-202 does not understand MIDI. The audio cassette contains digital data (1&0) in a special data format that the MC-202 understands. At that time, this method was often used to save presets of synthesizers or to load them into a device. 👍

@benitobanana3943

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuckTronic ty i understand now :)

There was another data cassette i am searching for: File Number 201 - Star Wars Cantina Band File Number 202 - Popcorn File Number 203 - Modern Zodiac Someone out there?

@DuckTronic

Жыл бұрын

I have also been looking for this for a very long time. I hope it is still somewhere, then I can make a video about it again. Please let me know if you ever have the files. 👍

Sunshine Jones?

エモいとしか言いようがない

Quite soothing, a bit unexpected but still very nice :D

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Some variety. 😅

It runs a little fast :O Man, i hope Behringer recreates the MC-202 too and also adds the audio interface for "hardbit-rock" dumps and imports. Would be great so you don't have to rely on USB input only.

The voice of this guy in the intro sounds like Amir from Jake and Amir

IN REAL TIME WAS GREAT

Hall aus einem Quantec Gerät wäre fantastisch!

@DuckTronic

2 жыл бұрын

Ich muss gestehen, die habe ich noch nie getestet. Vielleicht ergibt sich ja mal eine Gelegenheit. 🙂

The first example gives me Zelda vibes!

Now add a 303 🙂

I have a load of old files and patches for various old synths on cassette. I knew my luck wouldn't last for them so I bunged them all on Minidisc and they've never failed me yet. Can't fault that.

What's a dada cassette?

@DuckTronic

Жыл бұрын

sunshine-jones.com/roland-factory-data-cassettes/

Make one Ave Maria

Ceephax - Prelude in 303 Major

Sounds like a Commadore 64!

Electroclashic

should use Gounod's melody.