U-HE REPRO DEMO - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

This is a very good composition! Thank you so much for this visual + audio 😊adventure!

Great recreation of a much loved song Woody - really inspiring!

Nice one ! BTW, what sound library are you using for the drums programming?

Zero Sykess uses a ton of synthesizers and drum machines. Good music.

LOL.. I remember one of the first bands I played with doing this song. We had a Juno 6, A moog Rogue, Jen SX1000 and old Korg drum machine and bass guitar. Way back early eighties.. THen I worked at the only decent music shop in Manchester England and Andy McCluskey came in looking for a keyboard and we did a little duet.. Nicest guy I met in ages working in the music shop.

Cool video. Yep Repro-1/5 are fantastic analog emulations. I enjoyed the way you showed Ableton too. I've never understood how that software worked, and now I do, so it was also a bit of a Live tutorial :) btw the MCORE switch makes a huge difference to the DSP with Repro-5.

One of your best Woody. Its incredible we have such tools at our fingertips today. Back in the late 70's early 80s we had to pay £50 an hour for a studio and bring along our own heavy gear. The original version is more subtle as it was more compressed.

OMD used a KORG MS500

It’s the same but it doesn’t sound like the original instruments, the synths in the original are tight, attacky and punchy.

Great video. OMD was one of the bands that first got me interested in synthesisers. I remember when I got my first synth a casio cz 101 back in the 80s, this song was one of the first I learnt to play and do a cover version. As I couldn't afford a drum machine or 4 track tape recorder, I remember getting a drum hardware peripheral for my sinclair spectrum called specdrum made by Cheetah. In the absence of multitrack recording I used an amstrad hifi which had a tape to tape deck to lay down tracks by recording on one tape then recording across to the other tape at the same time recording playing live. Swapping tapes over to build the tracks up.

No way was that arp done on a SH-101. Messages was recorded before it existed.

brilliant!!

It was a Korg MS10 they used to toggle the sequence. I still have one, I also went the same art college as Andy and Paul and we would cross paths in the music room known as the Annexe, we rarely spoke, as I thought he was a pretentious Pratt at the time. But they are one of my fave bands and still going strong.

Great track, always been a OMD fan and deconstructing the track in it's rather simple elements really show the genius in their music.

This is the type of songs I called autumnal. Probably the best song they wrote.

It was a Korg Micro Preset they used. Bought from Andy's mums mail order catalogue. This sounds really good-congrats

U-He do the best analogue recreations I've come across ( and I owned a Pro-One back in he day). You can choose the level of resolution you want to use - and if you select the CPU-bothering Divine/ HD high resolution, it really does sound fantastic. Though unless you have Skynet, it's probably best to save that for the bounce down. Repro and Diva are the nearest you'll get to a synth costing thousands.

Love it!!! Next do Le Femme Accident. The extended version from OMD Greatest hits.

That sounded great Woody. Just in general, I've don't recall anyone attempting an OMD track recreation before? That's shocking, they're such a good band.

Hey Woody, it was a Korg micro preset M500 (my first synth 1981)
I hate to rain on your arpeggio but it is a repeated note (repeat function) and the rotary footage selector cranked in time to the music (well I'm sure everything was played around this)
3 minutes of trying to not fudge the timing is a living hell trust me, as the footage dial is clunky.
Absolutely nothing sounds like this korg, and they used it on almost everything including the woosh on Electricity and one layer of the Enola Gay riff.
If I could I'd send you a sample set

I always love your work Woody and this is certainly no exception. I also have to confess at never having heard the original of this before.. You have however very much inspired me to take an OMD Song and remix it.

Woody I just tried a synth I think you would love its on sale at sweetwater for 49 bucks its the XILS PolyM and it is Unique and fantastic!! You should look at it!

Repro comes with an incredible selection of presets.

Very well made.

I don't comment that often, but just to let you know that i think the world needs more of your satisfied smiles. : )

Yep. It is indeed a VST/AU plugin recreation of the Sequential Pro One, with quite a few extra bells and whistles (literally AND figuratively!). Having an actual Pro One which I refurbed after many years of non-use, I can also confirm that the U-He is a pretty accurate recreation sonically speaking. Plus of course the settings are programmable and recallable with in the DAW.

Indeed, in a mix, I really can't tell the difference sonically between them. And final bonus, i don't have to use an external MIDI box to control the u_he version.

The Repro 5 is of course their Prophet V version, and is equally as good. Can highly recommend them.

Love OMD and Messages is one I have done a couple of times, First time on a purely Hardware setup and more recently on my PC using VST's. Agreed it is hard to try and nail OMD's exact sound, more than likely because of the Synths that they used back then. With a little searching you can find out what kit they used and then find VST's which are close enough to those Synths to recreate their sound. I've nailed the drums on Enola Gay nicely using that method :)

You can't beat the old classics, great work..

Thanks for the clip. First Album I remember obsessing about at 2 or 3 yo was OMD's Architecture and Morality. They even played a gig in the park in Hamburg so I got to see them then at that tender age. Needless to say I was awestruck. Hehehe. It's entire production is so dark and mysterious sounding. In my view their best one. Wouldn't mind if you elaborated on some of these song's production/equipment at one point ;) ... On an unrelated note I was curious if you had already looked into the new ExpressiveE Osmose Synth? Looks like an absolute game changer or rather the next generation for performance in sound design. Amazing team of creators behind that one. Anyhow, Cheers and thanks again Mate 🙏🕉

It worries me, this kind of thing... (Not really. Nice breakdown and re-creation!)

Honestly the keys are really close. I think since OMD uses a bass guitar and the drums sound real but heavily processed in the real song I think thats what is missing here?

And it's 1981 again!

Very refreshing channel, thanks, If anyone reads this, can I connect my daughters P45 to a SW synth? She is bored of piano, thought it could be a fun thing to do?

bravo 🙂

How about U-He Hive 2..?

Much too much talking

I just watched and commented on another of your vids and mentioned the U-he plugs and lo and behold, this one comes up in my suggestions afterwards along with a Hive vid you did that I will watch after this one. Yes, this is a plug of the Pro one. I played electric bass for several years before I started playing bass on a synth (my original instrument that I grew up playing was Piano). I used the hardware version of this for many years playing left hand bass and various keyboards with the other hand. I tried the Moog, the Arp and a couple others but the Pro one won hands down for bass sound. Used an arp to begin with, but it's sound was just not quite right even tho it worked. Sort of had a hard edge to it that I could not seem to conquer. And the Moog had the opposite problem. It was too "mushy". When I heard the Pro one I was smitten and bought one immediately. I kept waiting for someone to emulate it in software once that became a "thing" and these guys did a fabulous job. This is a Pro One on steroids! Never owned a prophet 5, but now have it's software version since it and the one come packaged together and it's just killer as well. Even the free U-he plugs are special. OK. Going to watch your Hive vid since I now own it. It will be interesting to see what you do with it. No matter how much we learn about music and all these incredible resources we now have to perform it on, I always like to see what others are doing with it. Always more to learn. I had a piano teacher once who I loved and one of the first things he pointed out on the first day with him was this. He pointed to his desk and he said "those are two things you can study all your life and never know all there is to know about them". On that desk was a Bible, and a Hannon Studies book. I'm now 78, and he was right.

OMD is good, no doubt. But every time I hear someone mentioned SC Pro One - the Yazoo song starts playing in my head. Yes, yes! "Don't Go!", yes it is. Actually Vince Clarke used Pro One a lot on his productions, at that time Pro One was his favorite synth.

Super❤

Very cool, thanks!

Well done!

Great

Nice...

Hi Woody Great Track. What did you use for drums

Everyone's saying the Softube Model 80 sounds better, but I like the sound of the Repro 5 better.

Yes, it's the Pro One emulator. I used to own one as a kid, and now own Repro :-)

Bloody Brillaint Woody!

Excellent demonstration! What drums are used in this project? Thank you!