Pat Metheny - New England Digital Synclavier Demonstration - Old Grey Whistle Test - Roland G-303
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Pat Metheny - New England Digital Synclavier Demonstration - Old Grey Whistle Test - Roland G-303
Super rare footage from the British television show 'The Old Grey Whistle Test'. I believe the clip was pulled for years as the original broadcast included the tune "Tell It All', from "First Circle" and this was blocked by WBM Group from being shown on KZread. Great to have it back!
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Synclavier demo starts at 8:40
that synth tracked the guitar amazingly well considering when this was filmed!! Most have cost small fortune back then --- loved that comment "....let me just change the disk !..."
@lancepage1914
Жыл бұрын
A small fortune you say. That synth would have cost as much as a house back then.
@achtagon
11 ай бұрын
@@lancepage1914 I've been on a Synclavier research binge, and it was the $4500 per megabyte of memory cost that really ballooned the price. The Michael Jackson's and Big Studios of the world told them to max them out with 10 or 20MB of sample memory expansion, adding $100k
Clever chap, true talent right there. Just goes to prove ,if you recognize the gift early on, you will go far. Thank you.
Looked like a thomas from daft punk in robot form at the beginning
And now we have it as Arturia synclivier V. classic sounds
@WayneJoness
3 жыл бұрын
That is a great soft synth! I love what Arturia did!
This would put this interview right at about 1984 since The Falcon and the Snowman came out in 1985
What a nice guy!
Great stuff. Thanks for keeping this stuff alive!
Thank you 😊 💓 ☺ 💗
@WayneJoness
3 жыл бұрын
You are welcome!
He's right saying that playing Pop music live on stage is more focused on the appearance of the band or any particular singer. Jazz is something different you need to concentrate on the rhythm and the melody. It's more sophisticated.
Fabulous! Thank you
@WayneJoness
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!!!
@timcummiskey1178
Жыл бұрын
@@WayneJoness Metheny in his youthful prime!
I remember seeing this when it was on. Had to defend the telly in the university union building from people who wanted to watch snooker or something. (The stuff around the 10-minute mark where he demos the Synclav sounds like plausible synth pop!)
@WayneJoness
2 жыл бұрын
Hah! That is pretty funny! Glad to hear that you witnessed the original broadcast, must have seemed pretty ground breaking at the time!
@jandekker6008
2 жыл бұрын
@@WayneJoness Well, just the idea of Pat being on telly was pretty out there. And not long after this, he was on again!
@heatherstub
8 ай бұрын
Indeed. Wasn't that appearance the one where he found the "wolf howls" and had fun with that? Oh man! Pat's the man! I'm still in love with his music, and it's actually changed me. I think God had everything to do with it, too, because I was a real mess before I heard him for the first time in 1979 when "American Garage" came out. It was when I got to hear the series "The Search for Solutions" back in 8th grade, and the windows were open in our classroom. Then his music played, and I was instantly overtaken in the best way by the wonderful smell of the freshly-mown lawn and the music. For whatever the reason, that, along with Aromatique perfume by Clinique just got me! I also loved Chloe` and Pour Homme by Carl Laggerfeld, and every time I played his music, I had to wear one of those. I still wear the Aromatique, and I still absolutely love his music even now. Now if I could meet him and tell him my story, that would be the icing on the cake. There's so much to say, and I've always wanted to sing "The First Circle", because it was that song that opened the flood gates for me, and I've not been the same since. I just knew I had to spend the rest of my life doing what I love to do so much, and that's to sing! I cannot say enough, and it was an uphill battle for me for many years, because I battled severe chronic pain for 46 years of this 59-year plus life, and I don't regret it one bit! @@jandekker6008
Très belle archive !
@WayneJoness
2 жыл бұрын
Pat in his younger days!
Great video ! I like it very much. I like also the Synclavier which give fabulous sounds and I can suppose that Pat METHENY was not disturb with the latency. I think the latency is minimum in this Synclavier. 80s is fabulous than XXI century... Wouarfff ! !
@svenjansen2134
Жыл бұрын
You just play faster from the latency hihi
@ALIASZARDOZ
Жыл бұрын
@@svenjansen2134 Yessss ! Like Allan Holdsworth with his Synthaxe... Oh yeah !
@EgoShredder
11 ай бұрын
@@ALIASZARDOZ There are world class musicians like Pat Metheny, and then there are one off from another galaxy musicians like Allan Holdsworth.
@ALIASZARDOZ
11 ай бұрын
@@EgoShredder Yes absolutely !!! I am totaly agree with you.
Its almost funny how long we have come. QuickScribe writes out sheet music automatically nowadays
Omg. What's this, like, 78, 79? And the tracking he had on that midi! I have a hard time getting sound that good today, with tech that's 40 years newer. He was SO far ahead of the curve.
@DJBuglip
2 жыл бұрын
Lol, he's having to program in parameters in DOS. That's insane. I was in middle school doing that on a TRS-80, that's the dawn of time.
@JanPBtest
Жыл бұрын
@@DJBuglip I don't think the Synclavier used DOS, they had their own OS? Same with parts of their hardware? Anyone knows for sure?
@m13v2
Жыл бұрын
well „dos“ was once a generic term. there’s even been a „dos“ for ibm 360 mainframes. given that ned even designed their own cpu in the synclavier i am pretty sure they also wrote their own „dos“. the terminal (monitor and keyboard) is also a classic. a dec vt 100 connected to the synclavier.
@eddievhfan1984
Жыл бұрын
At the time of this video, MIDI had yet to be widespread, and I don't think NED had yet designed any kind of external MIDI interface for the Synclavier. Pat's guitar is being tracked by the Synclavier interface itself, with no MIDI message translation. As to whether it's GR-300 triggered ramp timing or zero-crossing timing, IDK, but I'd bet on the former.
@MacXpert74
Жыл бұрын
He was talking about making music for the movie ‘The falcon and the snowman’ which came out in 1985. The music for it was recorded in 1984, so that’s when this video was made. The MIDI standard was released a year earlier in 1983.
Nana!
Wow! Just wow!
@WayneJoness
7 ай бұрын
Seriously, Pat has been delivering Wow! for 40+ years!
I assembled all NED keyboards the last three years of their existence.
@WayneJoness
10 ай бұрын
Wow - that is VERY cool!
I was trying to identify the language used in a video I saw of Suzanne Ciani creating music and voices for a pinball game. I searched for some of the syntax and found a very old magazine mention a proprietary language called The Music Composition Language for the Synclavier II. Some of the comments on that video were claiming it was BASIC, which I assume would be classical MML. However the syntax looks more similar to what I saw in the magazine. In any case, maybe someone on here can verify she was using a Synclavier. After seeing this video I am 99% sure she was since it looks pretty much identical to me.
@WayneJoness
Жыл бұрын
Wow, very interesting!
Daft punk at left side the first second ?🧐😮
@Gencoil
3 ай бұрын
They're time travellers!
Recorded the tv programme as a schoolboy in the 1980s. I couldn’t get my ear around the sound of a ‘trumpet’ slightly delayed coming out after the plectrum hitting the strings on the Roland as he played and him really feeling it -Are You Going With Me live.
People used to really rock shorts. Simpler times.
@WayneJoness
Жыл бұрын
I think all that vintage computer gear ran pretty warm too.
who remembered C-LAB ? 😅
Oscar Peterson = Jazz... Charlie Parker = Jazz... Miles Davis = Jazz... Pat Metheny = fusion/pop with some jazz influence
If I could get a synclavier II for less than 10k I would take os over anything out there.
Why's the host sitting with the T-800?
So i guess the G303 was the pitchh tracking device.
And that’s how protools was born
@WayneJoness
11 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHA! Very good! 😃
8:25 now got to say in 2022 how the hell did he do that?
@recsund
Жыл бұрын
the guitars got a midi out?
@skyscratch
Жыл бұрын
@@recsund I thought it would be but New England Digital (who made the Synclavier) developed a guitar interface for the Roland guitar synth Pat is using here. If you click on the video description, there's an interesting piece from Pat describing how to play it.
@recsund
Жыл бұрын
@@skyscratch 🤙wicked!👍
La computadora es digna del garage de Willie Tanner
Is it Pat Metheenie or Methenie?
Wow. And I thought Finale 1.0 was bad.
@WayneJoness
Жыл бұрын
A whole new level!
expensive toys those synclavier..
@WayneJoness
6 ай бұрын
With Pat and Lyle they certainly made some great music with the synclav!
Think it was called just Whistle Test by 1984. He was with the Group, playing a Roland Guitar Synth live when it became just Whistle Test. Are You Going With Me in 1985.