Dire Straits & Yamaha DX7

Espen Kraft2024-02-27

dire straits#yamaha dx7#dx7#dx1#digital#80s#brothers in arms#guy fletcher#alan clarke#hedge777#patch#programming#strings#money for nothing#mark knopfler

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The video segment explores Dire Straits' use of keyboard sounds, including the Synclavier, DX1, Emulator 2, and Roland Jupiter 8. Electronic Suponic's DX7 Banks are praised for their programming skills, with a recommendation to visit their YouTube channel for patches. The sounds showcased offer a rich musical experience reminiscent of Dire Straits' performances.

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Keyboard sounds used by Dire Straits on their album Brothers in Arms.

02:13

Synclavier and DX1 were primarily used for synth sounds, with the Emulator 2 used for the world tour.

The Roland Jupiter 8 was the only analog synth used in their music.

Electronic Suponic's programming skills for the DX7 Banks were praised, with viewers directed to his YouTube channel for patches.

The sounds showcased provided a rich musical experience reminiscent of Dire Straits' performances.

00:07[Music]

00:38this is made up of two different string

00:40sounds and here's the first one in

00:44[Music]

00:58mono

01:00and as you can hear the attack here is a

01:02little bit too slow compared to the

01:04original studio recording of course but

01:07uh the sound itself is really

01:10nice and here's the other string sound a

01:13little bit more bright and

01:15[Music]

01:28crisp and here the attack attack is much

01:31faster let's turn on the

01:35[Music]

01:49chorus the harder I strike the

01:53keys the less tremolo there

01:58is

02:05[Music]

02:13and that is uh programmed into the DX

02:15patch

02:17itself I've been a big fan of di Straits

02:20ever since the beginning of the 80s and

02:23as they started to use keyboards more

02:25and more I became even more obsessed

02:29with them and when Brothers in Arms came

02:31out in

02:331985 I was very curious about what

02:36keyboards or syns they used on that

02:38album and

02:42um keyboard magazine issued December

02:461985 to the rescue where Alan Clark and

02:50Guy Fletcher goes through exactly what

02:52they used and on the record they used

02:54mostly the syn clavier and the dx1 for

02:57the synth sounds No emulator 2

03:00but for the world tour Brothers in Arms

03:02tour they used the emulator 2 for

03:05Strings and the dx1 for Strings mostly

03:08there was just one analog synth in the

03:11whole synth setup for the brothers and

03:13arms tour and that was the Roland

03:15Jupiter 8 so uh when um electronic

03:19suponic presented his DX7 Banks a long

03:24time ago I was very impressed by his

03:27programming of the DX7 and I linked to

03:29his

03:30uh YouTube page YouTube channel in the

03:33video description is also known as hedge

03:35777 so all of these patches you hear

03:38here today are made by him so they're

03:41not M to share if you want them you have

03:43to contact him directly for access to

03:46his sisx Banks if he's willing to share

03:48them with you so uh let's check out some

03:51more of these sounds which are very very

03:55similar to what di trates used for many

03:59of their perform

04:04[Music]

04:22[Music]

04:28performances

04:33[Music]

04:49[Laughter]

04:50[Music]

04:58for

05:00[Music]

05:26[Music]

05:28the

05:29[Music]

05:38[Music]

06:28I

06:30[Music]

07:28oh

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