This video, via magikroom, shows what happens when you try to emulate the classic ‘Supersaw’ sound of the Roland JP-8000 – a virtual analog synth from the 90’s – using 10 hardware analog synths!
Massive overkill at its best? You make the call!
Technical details below:
Synths used:
- DSI Prophet 08
- DSI Tetra (2 of them)
- Analogue Solutions Telemark V2
- Analogue Solutions Leipzig-S
- Moog Sub Phatty
- Moog Slim Phatty
- Roland Juno 6
- Roland JX10
- Novation Bass Station 2
He notes that he panned and detuned the oscillators and added some Strymon effects.
That’ll be the JP8000 then.
Fixed
a JD-8000 is what you get when you crossbreed a JP-8000 with a JD-800?
cheers,
Aldo
You could stick them together with the glue leaking from the JD800’s keyboard.
Please don’t mention that. Mine just failed catastrophically. I just covered it again. Haven’t been able to go back, yet. I guess I’ll have to fix it one of these days.
Yes, it’s a digital… digital? hybrid? /8/
“Is a JD-8000 is what you get when you crossbreed a JP-8000 with a JD-800?”
with alcohol-fueled late-night editing…..
No love for the JX-8000 I take it?
So the ultimate analog monosynth is 6 Mono and 3 polys. That´s just gonna run me down like $15,000, for the supersaw sound. This sounds great though.
That was great. I really don’t have any other words for that. It was just great.
We’ll be doing this same thing on a Nintendo 3DS in a couple months when Detune releases DSN-12 ….. Bwahahaha!
What about SH-8000 ?
Why the evil laugh? Will it be actual hardware? I’m not even sure how u can mention an app on a Nintendo in the same breath as just one bit of that signal chain
Hm. STG did this a while back too. Maybe we could have a shoot-out? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_B8GfIHUvk
I was going to say, you could just put ten oscillator modules in a rack. Always a day late and a dollar short.
That change-over at 3:09, I suddenly saw the old guy dancing outside of the Six Flags bus.
N i c e ! ! !
Telemark and Leipzig sounded best i.m.o.
It’s academic considering the Nova with OS 4.1 can generate a 96-saw unison Supersaw.
A bit expensive for a Supersaw… That’s a supersaw for rich ^_^
OR NOT…
Sounds great! Now where’s my soundfont?
.krz as well, please!
no mention on the free Kontakt patches Magikroom and myself made from these sounds
Holy moley that sounds frikkin’ MONSTER!!!!
Why do the Analogue Solutions solo voices sound so much more beefy and better than all the others?
Sound bigger than someone who goes into mcdonalds and gets an order with a days worth of calories in one sitting and a Large Diet Coke to compensate for it!
and then farts it all out in one go.
Utter Madness! I must try similar immediately….
Nice surprise to wake up to seeing my video on here 🙂 I just did as a laugh to see what it would sound like…shook the damn room! Oh, and not rich, just been doing it for 26 years…I have a normal job like the rest of us!
you can reach the same result with the famous 1000 bagpipes rhodope’s mountains orchestra and it is fully analog !
cool video, nice sound from all that gear lying about!
1. not poly, honestly I feel the jp8000 is more flexible
2. you can get a richer and cheaper supersaw with a couple of cloud generator eurorack modules. stacking them for poly too!
still, all good fun 🙂
Sounds nice….still not the proper way to use the resources IMHO
less is more.
Looks fun, but it’s more a “bunch of saws” than a “supersaw”. The JP-8000’s control of the detune amount, the balance of the main osc versus the secondary oscs, and the high pass filter on top of aliasing free-runing digital oscillators are what give the classic supersaw its character.
Adam Szabo did a great job of dissecting and emulating the sound, along with explaining why people so often miss the mark…
http://www.nada.kth.se/utbildning/grukth/exjobb/rapportlistor/2010/rapporter10/szabo_adam_10131.pdf
I was going to share the same link…
Like you said, this is not really a supersaw… just a multi-synth unison patch.
I’d love to hear the guy in the video try this with the new Future Retro Mondovox. THAT would be super helpful.
People know the word “supersaw”, so that’s what they like to say. A bunch of saws together needs a new name. Maybe a “sawpile”. 🙂
8000€ supersaw, Only for very rich guy…
The Juno 106 saw is thin and crappy without the analog chorus, just as we knew all along. I’d buy any of the other synths instead in a heartbeat.
Good point, the video I made could be used as a side by side comparison of various analogue synths…was really surprised with the Analogue Solutions gear, as it had the most power…love my Telemark, is the most unique sounding out of all of them.