There's a patch called Alaska 2021 that I'm pretty sure is an homage to Eddie Jobson's gorgeous synth break on the first album by prog group UK, released in 1978. I think Jobson was using the Yamaha CS80 though. Memorymode does a really nice job. The key to this gorgeous effect is polyphonic portamento.
https://soundcloud.com/user-807249936/a ... memorymode
Alaska
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huggermugger
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Re: Alaska
I think your right, sounds very similar to that track. U.K. were a great band.
Re: Alaska
I'm always psyched when I see posts that reference U.K. and ELP sounds!huggermugger wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:26 pm There's a patch called Alaska 2021 that I'm pretty sure is an homage to Eddie Jobson's gorgeous synth break on the first album by prog group UK, released in 1978. I think Jobson was using the Yamaha CS80 though. Memorymode does a really nice job. The key to this gorgeous effects is polyphonic portamento.
https://soundcloud.com/user-807249936/a ... memorymode
I loved the Soundcloud clip!
From the useless trivia department, the UK tune you covered in your clip is from By The Light Of Day. Jobson did use a CS-80 and I'm sure he used the CS-80 ribbon controller while he held the chord stationary, in order to achieve the polyphonic portamento effect. And you helped sell a Cherry Audio product because I'm picking up this synth for this effect alone!