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de betekenis van het fenomeen 'stab' word een beetje te ruim genomen...Origineel geplaatst door Bass
Deze stab is een pianostab origineel gesampled uit :
Marshall Jefferson - Move your body :
Origineel geplaatst door Bass
Deze stab is een pianostab origineel gesampled uit :
Marshall Jefferson - Move your body :


Origineel geplaatst door Arv
Prodigy was er ook zo gek op (experience)
wat de fuk maakt het eigenlijk uit waar de hell het vandaan komt?![]()
Origineel geplaatst door Arv
Prodigy was er ook zo gek op (experience)
wat de fuk maakt het eigenlijk uit waar de hell het vandaan komt?![]()


)Origineel geplaatst door dob
bij nader inhoor lijkt me jouw sample toch idd. een akkoord uit een reggae of dub plaat.
Het is in ieder geval zo het beste na te maken... vooral dat typische gepitch krijg je dan omdat het een akkoord is.
De klassieke Juno stab is volgens mij deze, ik heb ff een stukkie opgenomen, uit "do it to the crowd" van Twin Hype, het zijn die 3 teuh, teuh, teuh geluiden.... toch?
www.knoppenkast.nl/ravestab2.wma
Being an old techno rave guy from the late '80s / early '90s and a long-time sound "detective", I'm always on the lookout for hints to what might have originated old classic sounds. Like many here, I've always been fascinated by the characteristic, ubiquitous synth stab heard in many Techno / House tracks of the era, for example in Landlord "I Like It", SoundFactory "Understand This Groove", or Outlander "Vamp". For younger viewers who are not familiar with that classic stab, it's this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=202&v=-P1g6FLjYBQ
A few years ago I bought a LinnDrum, and had MIDI installed on it by Bruce Forat. At the same time, I had bought from Bruce a demo tape (a CD, these days) with the official audio demos of all the Alternate and Individual EPROM sounds that were sold by Linn when the LinnDrum was in vogue (early to mid'80s).
I finally today gave a careful listen to this tape, renaming all the tracks properly, and look what I found in the demo for Violin, Orchestral hit, FM sounds and Tambourine?? (check out the mp3 below , the sound is at 00:31:
http://synthmania.com/Misc/From the Linn EPROM demo tape.mp3
Yes, that "FM Harpsi 1" definitely sounds like the classic stab, and it was produced way before Landlord (which was 1989). There's no date on the documentation that comes with the Linn sounds, but since Linn Electronics went out of business in 1986, and the DX7 came out in 1983, these EPROMs must have been produced somewhere between 1983 and 1985.
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Since right before the harpsichord stabs there are other well-known DX7 FM sounds, there's no doubt they used a DX7 for all of those sounds in the EPROM. Hence, I immediately ran to my DX7 in my home studio and started experimenting with the "Harpsichord" sound. But no luck, it was definitely not that sound. That sound was too bright and different.
Then it dawned on me. Linn was an American company, they had a DX7 shipped for the American market. DX7 were shipped with different factory patch sets. In Europe/Japan they were shipped with ROM1A, in America were shipped with ROM3A (that also has the classic "What's love got to do with it" harmonica, btw). There is one patch on the American market DX7 called "25 CLAV ENS" that definitely sounds like that stab.
I messed with chord notes a few minutes, and played a regular Dmin chord. Wow, now it sounds very similar, but it's too clean.
Of course, that's because I'm using today's audio interfaces to sample the sound, very clean and hi-fi.
Hence, I put the sound in an editor, and simply converted the waveform to 8 bit... magic... now it sounds very similar to the Linn EPROM sound... of course, there are many other variables, who knows how and through what they sampled the original, (and that patch is quite dynamic too, so any subtle difference in playing will result in a very different tonality).
At any rate, in mp3 example below is the original taken from the Linn demo tape, and then my rendition from my DX7. Yeah, it's not perfect, it's not 100%, perhaps I should have used 4-bit and filtering, but hey, I'm doing this in five minutes here... but I have a strong feeling it's that one. They just called it "Harpsichord" in the EPROM but the patch is the "Clavichord" instead, (or Clavinet):
http://synthmania.com/Misc/Linn FM stab sound done on the DX7.mp3
I have absolutely no proof of this, as I'm using my ears only, but what I think happened is that sample somehow made it to some sampler's memory from someone back in the day who had that EPROM for their LinnDrum, it got copied and passed from hand to hand, and the rest is history...

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