Merry-go-round

It all started last Thursday evening when I saw the 'Comparing PPG 2.2 & Hermann Seib PPG WAVESIM Software' videos on the MATRIXSYNTH website. I downloaded the VSTi from a somewhat confusing website and I tried it in Ableton Live. Very soon I came up with a 4 track sequence with 3 PPG voices (Buzz, Bells and Bass) and some CR78 drums. But at the end of the evening, when trying to save the session, Live hang. The next day I tried to recover the session, which worked. But trying to save the session made Live hang again. After some investigation I found out that the PPG VSTi caused the problem but I could not fix it. This evening I added 2 MIDI tracks for the Creamware MiniMax ASB (track 6 MIDI) and the Waldorf Q Keyboard (track 7 MIDI). I had to decide what to video; me playing the strings and solo or the Live screen. Sorry, but I choose the easiest way. What you see in the video are clips in Ableton Live which are pre-recorded in a loop. I added the strings on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. The strings and solo are both played live and not by Live.
The video and music is about 13 minutes long. You can download them from the video section of my website.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sequencer
• Sequence
• Synthesizer
• Electronic
• Roland
• XP-80
• Waldorf
• Keyboard
• Clavia
• Nord
• Lead
• Ableton
• Live
• Hermann
• Seib
• PPG
• WAVESIM
• Martin
• Peters

[zenstories]

This is great (as usual)! I have Ableton Live myself. Hope you'll be so kind also to share the Live file as you have shared your nodal files in the past. I'm a big fan of sequencer based electronic music and your videos is always very inspiring. This is also another chance to thank you for your instructional videos!...

[attorks]

@zenstories Thank you. I have uploaded the Ableton Live set file in the video section.

[imperialpod]

@attorks

Sounds good.

Am I right in thinking that there is no PPG WaveSim plugin in this track now because of the crashes u had?

I'm testing it now but only through VST Host and it seems stable.

I'm hoping Hermann hasn't used SynthEdit/Maker in his plugin as those 2 programs can cause issues,especially in Live and Reaper.

Those comparison vids showed his PPG WaveSim to be a great freebie,sounding VERY close to the real hardware. Would be a shame if he used Synthedit and not C++.

Cheers.

[attorks]

@imperialpod Thank you. I did use the PPG WaveSim in this video because it sounds a lot better and authentic than the Waldorf VST.

[zenstories]

@attorks Thank you very much. It was very kind of you!... :)

[guitarharpsichord]

not sure if i would want to do this ..however it does sound rather nice.!

[1cenobite]

thanks again always look forward to your music