MOD playing: Distant Call

[vesee]

Very nice man! You are great. Can you give me the music sheet. Thanks.

[youftyczka]

omg, old times... great song, amiga was great

[omniambience]

Thanks for doing this - I just wish you'd recorded directly off the synth instead :-)

[RitterBoxerShort]

Great!

[jdean9]

sounds very similar to the original !

[JackDigital]

I remember this song. I think I got it from a CU Amiga coverCD.

[moejoe1337]

Very well played! Love the original. :)

[SpeeBeta1]

after this, i downloaded the song of the mod archive, what a good sound :)

[Slurfs]

Excellent! Most who "copy" a song almost never play it correctly! you have great timing and also "pixel perfect" notes ;) Can I download a recording of this somewhere?!

[cmatsuoka]

Thanks. This version actually doesn't match the original note by note, I changed some parts to be more natural to play, the dynamics are not nearly as subtle as the original and notably most acciaccaturas are missing (due to long release and reverb). I placed the original audio in helllabs org, subdirectory media.

[Slurfs]

Hehe, yes you are right... you don't play exactly as ut DOES sound but your sure tricked me :) At 0:37 you play identical to the original module AFAIK. I better listen a bit to the original song but your version is great! Kudos to you and off course to Mr.Man for the original ;)

[melomonster007]

Wow! I love "Distant Call"! Great performance !!

[dvibe]

Classic module! Well performed live version! :) I wonder what Mr.Man would say? :)

[cmatsuoka]

Probably "hey, the final part is missing!" ;) I had to finish the piece earlier because my camera only records 180s of video.

[Holydiver7019]

Yes i have heard this song as a track for the Scala mm300 program !!

Very nice song.

[ononto]

what tone are u using here? i mean what patch?

[cmatsuoka]

It's a patch called, well, "Distant Call", I made it based on the Nice Piano from the XV Collection (which is in turn a variation of a JD piano) with lots of chorus and reverb.

[Svetlailieva]

Wow! You are great!

[cmatsuoka]

Thanks, but that's not true, this piece is quite easy to play -- and you're much better at the keys than I am :)

[TrackMan068]

Beautiful thing.

[Juninho8Slo]

Who sings this song?

Thx. :)

[cmatsuoka]

Nobody does as far as I know. It's instrumental only and written as a 4-channel Amiga Protracker module file.

[MaxSynths]

I remember this song very well! Ah the old good amiga years! Thank you for sharing.

[deckscoopex]

Jesus H Christ.. The first video in _thousands_ that actually made me sign up in youtube to be able to comment :)

Did Protracker stuff for.. countless of years back in the day and tought this was one of the most amazing Amiga songs ever written.

Thank you.

[cmatsuoka]

Thanks, I probably played some of your modules when testing my player for Linux. I also compiled a tracker history graph, perhaps you find it interesting, look for "tracker history graphing project" :)

[deckscoopex]

Very nice stuff that graphing project and seems accurate as well! Started with PT1.1a in 91 or 92. Good times :)

[helicoptered]

What music software you use for Linux out of interest?

[cmatsuoka]

Mostly mplayer for mp3 and xmp for modules, and the Juno built-in sequencer for MIDI. I wrote my own utility (fsex) to transfer patches to/from the synth.

[tomekkicaj]

I love it!My Juno-G is arriving in 2 days and I'd love to learn how to play this song. Wouldn't it be trouble for you to download it to some MIDI file and email me?

[cmatsuoka]

I didn't record it in the sequencer, but see my previous comment to see where you can download the original Amiga module. I probably could transcribe it to sheet music if that helps, and provide the Juno-G patch I used to play it.

[rteteng]

yes please, it will do me a big favor if you can send me the transcribtion note for note. thank you very much. I have my juno g for one year now and still tweaking those parameters. I guess this will inspire me again .thanks

[tomekkicaj]

Yes please I would like to have the transcribtion, I tried to follow your play while whatching the video but I gave up :)

[ru25dy]

Perfect, man can I borrow your piece or did you compose it yourself , what is the name of your piece ?

[ru25dy]

please if i can have a favorcan you download it to me midi file and email me. thanks

[cmatsuoka]

It's called "Distant Call" and it's originally a Protracker mod file written by Mr.Man of Andromeda. You can find this file googling for "Distant Call" "Mr.Man".

[frankwer]

Andromeda is alive, too bad they don`t have Mr.Man in the team nowadays. Really nice played there!

[cmatsuoka]

Interesting, what are they doing these days? Any information on the whereabouts of Mr.Man?

[Novetrix]

Hmm... Y'know what? :3 If you managed to get the southern "twang" grace-note thing in the song, that'd make it sound amazing ^-^

[cmatsuoka]

I was waiting for someone to make this comment. There are two reasons why the effect isn't there. The first, and weakest, is that their placement make them rather unnatural to play (but for accuracy they could have been played). The real reason is that I had to add reverb and envelope release to compensate the lack of a sustain pedal, and under that circumstances the extra note sounds like a chord instead of a slide.

[Novetrix]

Ah, gotchya :3 Yea, I can see that ^^

Well either way, I like the song, and I like how you play it.

Good job :P

[rinotrip]

PROFIE!!!!!!

[Novetrix]

I share your love for this song!

I still have my Amiga 500, EdPlayer, and Distant Call.

I've spent countless hours learning how to play it.

I shall get a video response soon =D

[NOlivarria]

I just bought I juno g and I am so happy with what it can do. I think the Juno G makes a great first synth because the price is very affordable and it can do so much that you are forced to learn all the parameters in and out to fully take advantage of what the Juno G can do. I've just scratched the surface. Check out so loops that I created using the Juno. Man am I having fun!!

[PrviSet]

5 stars!!!

[andersonmagalhaes1]

Percebi que vc explorou bem, o reverb e o uso do pedal sustain.

[cmatsuoka]

Na verdade o reverb e release foram adicionados para compensar a falta de um pedal de sustain.

[vmanzonivieira]

bem q eu desconfiei!

hehe

eu geralmente uso esse patch em algumas músicas hehehe

[vmanzonivieira]

isto aí tá com cara de JD-800 piano

é um preset!

se não for deve ser o Nice do XV collection...

mas ac q é o JD-800

[cmatsuoka]

É o Nice modificado. O sample usado no .mod vem provavelmente de um JV-80.

[robsonjoao1]

which patch are you using?

[cmatsuoka]

A custom patch based on Nice Piano from the XV Collection, as stated in the description. Get Nice Piano, increase the cutoff frequency and envelope release, and transpose down one octave.