Radiohead

This is great - a lot closer than you give yourself credit for.

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Nice. Kind words, thanks.

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i agree with @stuartlayton, I think it sounds great!

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Loving your work brother ! What’s the basic chord progression ? (I started mapping it out in ChordPolyPad this afternoon and got a C maj, Csus4 and a strange Csus4 with a D# in it?

Thank you. Actually, I found a midi file for the song. I just deleted one Octave Bass note to have 4 note polyphony.
Although I can play it on Piano, I don’t have the right notes in my head. But I can give you the midi file.

Radiohead - Everything is in it’s right place.mid (10.3 KB)

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Very, very nicely done.

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Thank you guys. Though, I think it sounds quite different to the original, it sounds pretty warm to me. A4 is often said to sound too cold. Not to me. It’s only one osc and one filter here.

Agreed, much closer than I thought the A4 could get. Care to share the patch sysex?

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Sure. after work :slight_smile:

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This should be the patch (I don’t use sysex very often).
EIIRP.syx (415 Bytes)

Yesterday I double tracked the recording and panned it hard left and right. Listening through headphones today, I thought it’s almost too much. I loaded a version to youtube, where I only used the original recording. Sounds better imo. Anyway.

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A fine effort @unifono! Actually sounds really close to me. Next up, try your hands at the vocals please… :grinning:

Seeing them play this live at Meadowbank, Edinburgh was unreal. Just the way they closed their first set with it and how it turned into a borderline rave for 5 minutes or so then exiting the stage one by one leaving this wall of sound/samples looping, then coming back into, I think, True Love Waits. Stunning.

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Funny how you misremember things. This was apparently the set list that night!

Setlist

Airbag
2+2=5
The National Anthem
My Iron Lung
Morning Bell
Videotape
Nude
Lucky
The Gloaming
Where I End And You Begin
Paranoid Android
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Fake Plastic Trees
I Might Be Wrong
Idioteque
How To Disappear Completely

Encore 1

You And Whose Army?
Bodysnatchers
Just
Karma Police

Encore 2

There There
True Love Waits/Everything In Its Right Place
Creep

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Find that funny that the shipping fee is the same all over the world, but 24 bit wave priced 16Ā£ while mp3 is 11Ā£, why ? :slight_smile:

Btw, i saw radiohead first gig outside the uk @ the roxen club (rip) in tel aviv, still have the ticket somewhere :slight_smile:

Thank you!

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i think, for ā€˜some’ and personally, one of the most influential bands in the past three decades. a band that has evolved continuously and keeps bringing emotions through music and i’m glad they’re still Radiohead :relaxed:

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…and this sounds really good Unifono, i was waiting for the vocals to come in :grin: well done :relaxed:

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Thanks. Maybe next time. I have to stretch my vocal cords until then. :grin:
by the way. If someone wants to give it a shot… A patch recreation of the idioteque synth line would be interesting.
For those who maybe don’t know, it was sampled from this recording. It was at the time when Fm synths were invented… Before the Dx7.

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I think this is still my favourite electronic music track. Over 20 years old and still sounds fresh and slamming. I’ll forever be trying to make drums like this and dream of finding a sample like Paul Lansky.

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ā€œIdiotequeā€ began with a rhythm created by Jonny Greenwood on a modular synthesiser. Feeling it ā€œneeded chaosā€, he experimented with found sounds and sampling. Greenwood recorded 50 minutes of improvisation and gave it to singer Thom Yorke, who took a short sequence and used it to write the song. Yorke said: ā€œSome of it was just ā€˜what?’, but then there was this section of about 40 seconds long in the middle of it that was absolute genius, and I just cut that up.ā€

Taken from Idioteque - Wikipedia

Which was originally taken from Thom Yorke Talks About Life in the Public Eye : NPR

(Personally, Everything in its Right Place is my favourite, but this one is excellent too, as is the whole album)

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