Top Gun Maverick medley on Genos 2

[Amwilburn]

Any long time members will remember me pondering whether to do an OTS demo of the Action Anthem style, or go all out and use registrations and modified styles. The latter won out, but took almost an extra year to figure out :p But I figured if I just did an OTS demo, this would sound just like everyone else's demo. So here's my version:

https://youtu.be/kGdLjL5EeE8

Super annoyed; the first complete take was nearly perfect, but my cell phone camera stopped recording at 4.5 minutes (wasn't full, the app just crashed). This is the 10th attempt (3rd take that made it all the way through) and it'll have to do (gotta move on and practice more new songs)

This demo features the Genos 2 felt and U3 upright pianos, the DX7II throughout, the new brass sections and the new orchestral drums I kept raving about. Too bad I didn't add a section to demo all the new basses on G2 :p

Enjoy! Lots of use of Bass Hold, as per Pedro Eleuterio's suggestion.


Mark

[Amwilburn]

Forgot to add:

The other reason I did a multi registration medley: there were too many rhythms and beats that the one style didn't cover. This mini medley (I'd originally planned to include twice as many pieces from the soundtrack) already encompasses 60 registration changes and 4 extremely modified styles to show off the new orchestral drums, the DX7ii chip featured prominently, and as well as ensemble mode (in the opening of the last segment, "Top Gun Anthem"

One of the drum fills was so complicated (to me) that I got a coworker who's a drummer, to notate the drum score so that I could program the fill!

Oh, and note, some of my manual SSS just wouldn't work by aligning the part volumes & dsps, so I actually created about 6 'transition' registrations so that I could safely jump from one to the next with no 'pops'. However, I accidentally played a key during one of these in-between transitions at 2:27 instead of the dx7 synth patch in the next registration.

Yes, you *can* create seamless transitions by turning off one or 2 (or all 3!) of the right hand parts on the next registration, then adding another one if necessary with a mixture of the destination voices, some also turned off, before you land at the target set of 3. (Usually, you hold 1 voice, and modify the other 2,like I do at the end, around the 10:51 mark when I switch back and forth electric guitars with orchestra and strings)

Like I've said before, programming SSS on Yamaha is a pain (same would apply to Ketron)


Mark