Oxygene instruments explained

[VisceralVoids]

ARP 2500 at 4:50... holy cow

[Kohntarkosz]

Interesting that he refers to the Synthi AKS as being packaged in a "James Bond" case, because that's exactly how I've always described the look.

[ranXerox09]

I'd be afraid of receibing an electric shock while playing one of those old synthesizers, full of cables, lol

[Mr12345678910trent]

thats were dubstep came from lol

[cyberfennek]

heaven on earth

[XN4KX]

I'm French :)

[KiopGenJin]

@XN4KX Watch out for pigs ;-)

[Krkrbs419]

Love this guy, he's a great inspiration..I wish he'd have more American tours/concerts though. Especially Chicago or Indianapolis would be fine. I wish I could of grown up with those instruments like he did, back in the pioneer days of Electronic Music. Everything was so new and analog!

[kemalettinkamu]

The coolest French ever!

[laromande]

3:25 Eminent is my favourite of all!

[GNeuman]

Love his collection!



[pcuimac]

He is in heaven! So am I, seeing that collection.

[CastilloDanes]

Amazing man - thank you God for Jean Michel Jarre in this world !!!!!

[ryanstewartmusic]

That was a very fascinating and interesting video. Jean Michel Jarre IS the true pioneer of Electronic Music. I have most of his albums and love every single one of them.

[nzxsin]

QUUUUUUEEEEEEEEE BESTIAAL EL ÚLTIMO INSTRUMENTO!!!!

[chairuser4]

Synth heaven

[jeffmcnctv]

Deadmau5 eat your heart out.

[Diachron]

Fascinating.

[PaprykarzSzczecinski]

the last one is most interesting (:

[elchafa]

Where is this taken from? Where can I see the rest? Fantastic video.

[KiopGenJin]

@elchafa Oxygene Live in Your Living Room DVD

[DunleGoaleidoscopic]

"... BackUp notes when the brain is not working anymore..." \o/

[Petterrific]

2:32 Oxygene 5 <3

[ThePreciousguitar87]

This is really interesting, how all this sounds are created!

[OVNIPATAGONIA]

maravilloso, simplemente un deleite ver a quien ha revoluvcionado la musica electronica en este tiempo , admirable

[SPFXsynthesisers]

He is awesome and has a real love for these instruments.

Jean uses my music software I developed for Kontakt 4 (arp quadra)and we exchanged many emails and he is such a nice down to earth guy-considering his genius he is really down to earth and approachable.Great guy.

[chreuneubeul]

c'est un investissement .

et puis ensuite ... ya de quoi s'éclater ...

[tryptychUK]

The Moog Liberation was NOT the first portable keyboard. Roger Powell of Utopia designed the Probe years before, (also used by Jan Hammer).

[PhobiaGuy]

@tryptychUK listen again, he says "this eh moog, the first ever portable keyboard designed by robert moog..."

he means it's the first portable keyboard that moog made, he had not made a previous one!

[Musiclogist]

haha 6.45 scared the shit outta me :D sooo coool!

[thanxx]

The mans a fucking lunatic!

[prosoloist]

@thanxx in a good way, of course!

[thanxx]

@prosoloist Yeah man all the way.Still to this day

the hairs on the back of my neck stand up whenever

i hear ANY one of his tracks.

Lunacy at its finest im afraid:)

[piotrek0389]

9 Justin Bieber fans

[geohaki]

jarre he is a great artist!!! but about electronic music,the gods are KRAFWERK!!!

[zedster911]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[earthacademy]

9 people listen to Kenny G...

while at the dentist. :-D

[ChanticleerHegemony]

@earthacademy HAHAHAHA good one!

[typeanoise]

I think I just blew a load in my pants.

[italokid80]

Today, this analog "prehistoric dinosaurs" enter in on small PC, but remember, ALL the eletronic music masterpieces was maked in the analogic era. Today NOONE MAKE NOTHING. Where is the "smart guys"of computer?. So, keep the "primitive tools" in the museum, because you'll never see in this life another Oxygene & Equinoxe

[mailbishie]

I am surrounded by my 1 million plus instruments, that can make interesting sounds with some phasing ans saome musical intent. They are hard to service, the ARP 2600, CS80 and Memory Moog gave me an Ulcer, Geiss Matri Sequencer still rocks, Analog is still the best the 2600, cs80, MM are hard to tune,dust kills it. Eminents (my country, Holland!) still rocks, AKS, VCS3 are iron giants, So here u go!

[jonlawsb]

@MoodMan35 The Eminent 310U that Jarre demonstrated WAS used for all of Oxygene 1. The String Ensemble from the early Eminents is iconic in electronic music. The GD-DG-GD notes at the start of Oxygene 1 are simply echoed thru a delay (he used the EHX Small Stone). The actual sound used was a mixture of the Organs strings and flutes - thats the difference between old organs and synths - organs let you layer sounds in real time during a performance.. Jarre used Elka organs too..

[jonlawsb]

@jonlawsb BTW meant to say "he ALSO used the EHX Small Stone " that's the Phaser effect Not the delay! :P

[Heidcast]

@MoodMan35 You mean the Eminent 310...

[magicact]

Meanwhile the young Tony Banks was so poor he had to get a Melotron 2nd hand from King Crimson.

[thomasey2]

Thank you for sharing with us the where is made, love to know the why and how is made peculiarities.

Congratulations, loving your creation since the beginning.

[martinstatic]

Haha at 1:14

"There is no memory so I need a few of them"

They're about 3 grand.

I fucking love that.

[amonster8mymother]

Moog rhymes with vogue.

[myoldreteacher]

JMJ should write a book about the history of synths, or maybe he should guest lecture somewhere. I'd willingly pay to go and hear him educate the masses on such topics, whilst treating us to some of his glorious compositions in-between... Now what a 'concert' that would be!

[maelstrom1981]

FUCKING GREAT VIDEO!! WHAT A STUDIO!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO

[NunoCartino]

Jean is my hero, true genius!

[DJKickstarter]

You can find many of these synths at vintagesynth com - one Fact The Sequenser was specially built for Jean Michel Jarre. Only one in existance. The AKS Synthi by EMS (spycase) is also used by Pink Floyd on Dark Side of the moon on the song - On the run - a free vst emulation of the AKS synthi called KX-synth-16 can be found on kvraudio com

[biglover70]

the godfather of godfathers of synthesizers!! I he dies no one can never better play than him!!!

[GamerX7800X]

Hmmm.. JMJ looked a bit chubby here.. i guessed he lost some weight:)

[impablomations]

Synth Porn...wonderful :)

[muzengarecords]

Massive!  Jarre is truly outstanding!

[ProbTron]

Woe all those awesome old analog synth's :)

[otorres2393]

"backup notes, for when the brain is not working anymore..." lol...I love it. you are the best jarre...genious, yet humble.

[alexsanto]

Jean Michel Jarre Museum

[betrayedbysorrow]

My introduction into synthesizer and electronic music begin when I started to listen to Jean Michel Jarre. Equinoxe was my very first cassette that I bought from him. This is a a great video...very informative.

[TechHouseIncMusic]

One word: Genius

[TheAztecLast]

lindos juegetes :D

[djole70]

what is the name of the last instrument?

[MrKetoujin]

@djole70

the last on the video is a theremin, it works with electromagnetic fields.

It´s almost 100 years ago invented by a guy from russia called Lew Theremin.

[tryptychUK]

The Theremin

[djoutwork]

number one!!!!

the best!!!

dj outwork

[miniGMgoit]

Lets rob him?

[MacFarlane92]

Its amazing that most of that equiptment can be all compressed into buttons on a very expensive keyboard.

Nothing will beat the analog's though.

[beavismaxim]

WOW! SO YOU MAKE THIS MUSIC ;)

[joseloxo]

legendarios instrumentos. Grande JMJ

[joseloxo]

legendarios instrumentos. Grande JMJ

[joseloxo]

legendarios instrumentos. Grande JMJ

[joseloxo]

legendarios instrumentos. Grande JMJ

[joseloxo]

legendarios instrumentos. Grande JMJ

[equinoxe67yahoo]

beautiful equipment, thanks

[plague1715]

the 2600 sounds sooooo awesome!

[stulle63]

Wow, what such treasures.

[illumjoe]

my life is complete.. I can die in peace now

[solnegrolunaroja]

They reminded me the Electronium invented by Raymond Scott in the late 50's. This early electronic musicians were great sound engineers too

[Zoolookuk]

So that's how you get around old synths not having memory, just have lots of them!

Great video, thanks for posting.

[ACIDJACKS]

"synth porn"

[riverwey]

62 this year! Still looks good though! I forgive him the weight!

[neogen79]

" kind of boring white noise.." ;]

[fschd1]

Jean Michel you are the man

[impablomations]

VCS3, Moog Modular, Mellotron... pure, unadulterated synth porn... amazing.

[MrMukkemacher]

Genial! that synthis are the best.

but his english is'nt very good.

I'M SO JEALOUS

[lukaszswietek]

Oh. I can see that he put on weight

[davidgtr]

come on whos not jealous ;)

[Theotim92]

@SheHasFunnyCar

Wendy Carlos was born Walter Carlos !

He/She's a transsexual.

[Ivanspaintingdotcom]

SheHasFunnyCar only has a funny car, no brains. I wonder how do people like that even end up in a jarre oriented post?

[noconfig]

VCS3!!

[Randodomtyyppi]

He's the BEST!

[pfernan]

Nordish, i see you have no idea who Jarre is.

[lucio788]

is that a JP8080 on top of the Eminent?

[JeremiahsLament]

Yes!! That was a Boss RC-20xl looper and a EHX small stone Phaser!!

[patchcordadams]

i don't think its going to be better then this studio!

even in a dream you cannot imagen this load of gear!

jarre is king of synths!

[nordishXtro]

i wonder where he got all the money from to buy all this exspensive stuff

[bowserb61]

No kidding. Its like a museum. I'm gonna guess he has between $750K and a Million dollars worth of equipment there. Its always cool to see someone really using pure analog though.

[Greensmurf]

Playing gigs to 3.5 million people might have something to do with it ;)

[patchcordadams]

his oxygene record sold over 6.000.000 copies and he did a lot more then only oxegene, i think with his money he can build ten of these studio/museums, the only problem is there are not enough synths left!

[SynthJocky]

He would of made the money to buy this equipment over a very long time of performing in concerts and selling albums. Plus he would of collected these synths, maybe one or two a year. There's no way he bought this stuff all at once

[ChronologieIV]

Selling records and concerts (and concert tickets) during 30+ years ;)

[kibidk]

God is playing with his toys :-D

He seems genuinely proud of all those analog synthehsizers. I bet he takes good care of them.

Analog syntheziser compared with modern digital synths is kind of like comparing vinyl's to cd's. They both somehow still lack this kind of soft weightless sound the analog equipment pocesses. Just my humble opinon. :-)

[navyboydjray]

@kibidk Its like a museum of analog synth. very sweet.

[arpejo7]

@kibidk No friend: He is a human like us... He need eating a and drinking like us and he born and die like us...

[noizy4]

The first synth was the EMS VCS3.

[RavenMadd9]

Thanks

[RavenMadd9]

What was the first synth called

[mfitz1969]

The VCS3 (sometimes called the "Putney") made by Electronic Music Systems of the U.K. Pink Floyd also used these during the Dark Side sessions and on tour. I believe the company will still build you one of these to order.

[finnpet]

Amazing instruments! No PC based VR synth can´t do better.

[plastik212]

omg a real freak hehe..i like it :)

[WouterJ]

He's not really that different from us guitar players who still marvel at plugging our Telecasters directly into a Fender bassman or our Strats into a Twin Reverb, we could get those sounds from a Line6 modelling amp but where's the fun in that?

[JimK1rk]

He is a Master!!!!

[glennster74]

nuclearhythmics - JMJ was not on speaking terms with his dad in the 70s, and didnt marry Charlotte Rampling until 2 years after Oxygene, so he must have paid for many of these by himself, the rest was funded by money from Oxygene. JMJ had a carreer going almost 10 years before Oxygene anyway.

[navyboydjray]

@glennster74 Why was JMJ not talking to his dad, and did they patch things up ever.



[glennster74]

@navyboydjray - the two Jarres didnt speak because Maurice moved to USA in the early 50s and I think JMJ saw that as a betrayal of his mother (who died a couple of weeks ago, by the way) and maybe even himself. But he never really explained this. They sort of got on speaking terms again in recent years, maybe the last 5-10-15 years or so.

[empiremonkey68]

I'm just jealous, all i could afford was a CZ-101 ! but would dream of a Jupiter 8, ah...maybe one day

[mech808]

omg!

wonderfull..

[empiremonkey68]

You are right, synth hardcore porn at its best. I just wonder where he got all the money to buy this kit back in the 70's. This stuff was not cheap.

[nuclearhythmics]

His dad Maurice Jarre (recently died) was an Oscar winning film composer and his wife, Charlotte Rampling was a british actress so i'm sure he was well connected and found the means to support his synth gear addiction. He desearves whichever toy he wants for research with his awesome talent for composing electronic music. I especially like Zoolook which included Laurie Anderson and Adrian Belew.

[KiopGenJin]

@empiremonkey68 When he made Oxygene he had very little equipment. It's on the album notes. As he became successful after the album was released he could through the years start getting other stuff. He definitely didn't have all this back then. He needs it all though for a live concert performance, ie 4 times the amount of instruments.

[discothief]

Synth Porn!!

[FUHGI]

that theremin is scary...

[feldstecher]

schöne seppa

[DJGahann]

O_o check out that Moog Modular, it takes a telephone exchange operator to handle that patching ;-)

[bne1972]

Thats why i appreciate his music even more nowadays. Because it took alot more effort and time back in the 70's to make this recording with equipment regarded nowadays as primitive.

I wonder if he knew back then that his music would be years ahead of its time.

[anomaly189]

He speaks English with a French accent but very well

[tagomi]

XDDD  obviously Friend !! XDDD

[aguacate36]

jean michael jarre is one of the best music sintetizer in the world nice video very very nice 70`s sintetizers

[Bryan198026]

I'm pretty sure that is a theremin. You also hear it on Oxygene III. True theremin sounds can be simulated with other synthes but I don't know how good that was back when the album was originally recorded. He could have done it with another synthe for the new version though. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on a few of those. Is the Synthi AKS only an SFX sort of synthesizer or can you make actual music with it?

[KiopGenJin]

@Bryan198026 You can make actually "music" with the AKS, yes, it can be used tonally as well. He used the AKS for the "theremin" sound on both Oxygene 1 and 3. Either the AKS or the ARP2600. All analog synths are capable of this "theremin" sound. Jarre's sound though is a very filtered saw or pulse wave, which are more harmonically rich than the pure sine wave of real theremins. He said he was trying to evoke an opera singer with that sound.

[Bryan198026]

He did use a theremin on Oxygene didn't he? I have the original album and I could swear there was a theremin part in Oxygene I.

[Majonezus]

O Rly?

[KiopGenJin]

@Bryan198026 No he didn't use the Theremin on Oxygene, it's doubtful whether he used in on Oxygene 7-13 either, as it doesn't make its self obvious. He did not have the instrument at that time, as he was just starting out.

The theremin sound you find on most of Jarre's work is actually not a sine wave as it is on the theremin, but a more expressive sound - a filtered saw wave, which has more harmonics than a sine. All synths are capable of this sound, so it's nothing special in that regards.

[ElFrankus]

This guy is a genius, isn´t he?

[EnglishBobTheDog]

Think he would be better off with a laptop and some plugins!

[Tow0]

Vsts and laptops are the reason why most electronic music sucks nowdays. And why would anyone pay to see a gig where someone press play on laptop ?

[EnglishBobTheDog]

It was a joke!

[Tow0]

thank god :D

[Naltoidais]

You've obviously never seen a Kraftwerk concert then.

[Majonezus]

Yep, laptops concerts suck, except Kraftwerk.

[matthehat]

Don't write off laptops, not everyone can afford to buy synth hardware. Give hardware synths to the crap electronic musicians and they will still be crap. Give a laptop and a midi controller to Jarre and he'd probably be as good as ever.

[DJGahann]

Well put. It takes a good man behind the machine to get a good result.

[hahahahohaha]

I agree...

[senhorlampada]

Hope most people are not pirating their soft synths! :P

Oh... and the tip to be good is: explore your hardware... :D

I was amazed some years ago, when I plugged my ol' Yamaha psr-400 to my bass pedal... Oh the sounds! ;)

[mpearson58]

I think one of the most fascinating things about JMJ is that his arrangements of instruments on stage look more like something out of NASA mission control rather than a music concert.

[BluDevil93]

I was convinced for years that the sound at 1:27 was a theremin!

[ajittffcure]

Absolutely wonderful ! I wish I had all those instruments like Jean Michel Jarre. The Theremin and VCS3 are absolutely fabulous instruments.

[Bryan198026]

One of the few times I've ever wished i could see. I'm curious what all these gadgets look like. I have a therimin but I'd love to get myhandson a few of those others. That Synthi AKS is pretty fascinating to me.

[arhaznook]

The AKS is about 24"X24" and it has just round knobs on it. A very little display area and that is it. Most of these are just an array of knobs. He has a very intersting keyboard that is about the size of a wall piano but it is curved so the keys are a lot longer and looks very ergonomic!

[duranasty]

i like the pre laser harp at the end,are these all jmj or is it a working museum.

[diazpepe]

3:39

EH small stone pedal :D

[sumkunol]

Very interesting.

Check out those manboobs too

[stereoloov]

Es verdad!

Tiene tetillas!

Supongo que a Charlotte Rampling le da igual...pero tiene tetillas!

[didjeridu100]

MAGICIAN ! ! !

[Brunto80]

Thnx for this... interresting:)now i know how he makes his music :)

[kidmachinemusic]

DJ newsagent, YOU are the wanker mate! fuckin idiot!

[DaftJarre]

Agreed!

[safmagandi]

and you are the next genius man who will do a great things in his live i guess :) hahaha

[manrose58]

ballbag

[bmusician08]

Very intersting. He save the best for the last! I want that poetic instrument:) I got FantomX! with High beams! wish I could do that with it!

[Luisifer9]

Awsome!Thanks for sharing!

[superredhawk1]

This guy has magic in his "boxes"

[charliepippin]

When geeks go mad (in a good way)...

[skalkmusix]

JMJ teach as....this is so cool...

damn i love this man and his work

true pionner

[rva1945]

This video alone is a piece of creation, imagination, and a piece of history of modern music too...long life to Jarre...

[cedmuse]

wowowowo !! how can we obtain this incredible sound 1:28 to 1:35 ? does any vst instrument exist? i want this sound !!!

[polosid]

cedmuse... try with "spook keys", there is even a vc3 emulation around...

[vjrei]

That is a sine wave, like a theremin. Is one of the basic waveforms a synth has. Remember all those are very old synth and any vst has those sounds only with effects and stuff on top. Analog synths are just more fun if you have spare time and sound bigger.

[polysmart]

Awesome intro. The only thing I didn't like is that he pronounces Moog as a Moo+g, but I guess a man of Jarre's stature and French origins is forgiven :)