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Blade Runner Setup on the P1


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Hi Everyone,

 

I'm new to Casio and I was wondering if any one knows how to set up the P1 to play Blade Runner's opening theme. I've checked the downloads but to no avail.  I've seen on the net people playing it but no one has left any details on how to set it up. One guy had an Ipad hooked up to his casio could that somehow be producing the sounds he's playing, I thought you could only play Solo thru the ipad?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

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I haven't done it myself, though watching Mike Martin's excellent Youtube demo of the 'Bladerunner' set up, I understand that Mike set the XW keyboard into 'zones', using different patches in each zone (and maybe a 'phrase' running too?) I think he explained the set up in the comments section.

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  • 2 years later...

Not to raise the dead topic, but just got my new P1 a couple of weeks ago and am interested in starting to make some tracks now that I'm getting familiar with the architecture... Have been watching Mike's tutorials and was stoked when he said the Blade Runner patch would be here on the forum, but danged if I can find it. A search just leads to some threads which mention it but don't direct to it. Hep me, hep me!

 

NM.... found it. CS80 bank. Sweet!

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Good question because I'm not aware of any tone or bank explicitly named "CS80" that was uploaded by Mike Martin. I did find the solo-synth tone "Vangelis.ZSY" in the "XWP1_Soundbank1.zip" file here, which the pdf document in the zip archive explains is the main sound Mike used for that particular YouTube video. That tone is, as Mike's document explains, an emulation of the tone from the Yamaha CS-80 that Vangelis used in the Blade Runner soundtrack. AFAIK Mike did not actually release the Performance file or other associated sounds, sequences or phrases that he used for that video. But he did explain some of what he did in the comments and as I recall also in one of his live clinics (I can't remember which one) so it shouldn't be too hard to re-create. 

 

One reason Mike may have had for not sharing a Performance: There is a practical difficulty associated with that because a Performance will point to the memory locations of various components in the author's machine, which may not be where the user who downloads the Performance and those components will or can put them. But that problem can be easily overcome by putting the components where you want them and then editing the Performance to point to their new locations. It shouldn't stop anyone from sharing a zip file containing a Performance and the required components, as I have done here now several times. I haven't received any questions about that so I assume that downloaders have followed that process successfully. As most users will quickly discover, Performance mode is the key to getting the absolute most out of the XW-P1; Mike's video is a prime example of that.

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