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Forever Young (Alphaville)
By Fábio Pavan
Patches for Forever Young - Alphaville (1984).
Download both files into the synthesizer. There, edit and bind "Warm Pad FY" to Zone 1. The other zones use factory tones.
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Eyes Without A Face
By Fábio Pavan
Patches for Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face (1982). All-in-one, octaved and with long bend!
Zone 1 - tone "EWAF Base"
Zones 2 and 3 - tone "MelowSawEWF"
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Eye Of The Tiger
By Fábio Pavan
Patch for Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger (1982). All-in-one.
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80s Synth-Strings
By Fábio Pavan
I desired to replicate 80s Synth Strings tones from Casio CT-X800. I included a Modified file.
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Glassy (vítreo)
By Fábio Pavan
I desired to replicate two tones from Casio CT-X800, the EDM pad and glass pad together. The DSP can be turned off. Vítreo is glassy in Portuguese.
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Jump
By Fábio Pavan
Patch for Van Halen - Jump (1984).
This got nice! I used the standard saw wave instead of Oberheim's one, because the second one varies across the keyboard range.
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Don't You Forget About Me
By Fábio Pavan
Patch for Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (1985).
This was the best I could do with my current synthesis skill, in Hex Layer and supported by YouTube formulas for other keyboards. Maybe a perfect patch can be achieved in Solo Synth, despite monophonic.
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Church 2
By Fábio Pavan
Choir, organ and synth-pad. Designed to play in Catholic churches. There's a harpsichord in layer 4, which you can activate by the respective volume slider.
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Joes Section
By Jokeyman123
With renewed interest in my XW-P1, and after working at hex layers with the PX560-I decided to recreate-a bit old-school stylistically-a hex layer for the XW-P1 which is similar to one I have uploaded here for the PX560 already, which I divided up into zones and with slightly different instrumentation. This is a little different, the drawbars/sliders are so handy on the XW-I have programmed a trad jazz section of instruments-all layered together across the entire keyboard to be brought in and out with the drawbars. Nothing fancy as far as dynamic control from the keys-just straight through the drawbars. 1-6 are 1) flute, 2) mute trumpet, 3) alto sax, 4) acoustic piano, 5) breathy sax and 6) tremolo vibes. Sure wish I could midi the PX560 to the XW and use the XW drawbars to control levels in the PX560 hex layers-but as hard as i have studied, I do not think it is possible. There are no specific cc messages to control the hex layer dynamics in the PX560. Would be very cool if anybody AlenK maybe? Brad? Mike Martin? Would be a killer feature......maybe, somebody?? Japan-firmware update?
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XW PolySynth - barwa głosu do utworu Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
By Grzegorz
XW PolySynth - barwa głosu do utworum Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
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Lead Tone from Main Title of Escape From New York
By AlenK
The 1981 movie Escape From New York starring Kurt Russell features a synthesizer soundtrack composed and performed by director John Carpenter and the film's sound designer Alan Howarth. This is an attempt to recreate the lead sound from the main title of that film. You can hear it at about the 35s mark in this video of the movie's opening credits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxpq5V7rjA
There are three required components in the zip file: a Performance, a solo-synth tone (which provides the filtering action) and a modified (user) PCM tone. Load them where you want in your XW synth and edit the Performance to point to where you stored the two tones. This tone was created on the XW-P1 but should also work on the XW-G1. If for some reason it doesn't, then the user PCM tone may be the problem. It can be recreated on the XW-G1 by taking Saw Lead 1 (P269) and changing its attack value to +50.
PS. A full description of how the emulation was crafted can be found in The XW-P1 Companion: Volume 2 - Emulation Examples.
PPS. Apparently, the file formats for some of the components are different enough between the P1 and the G1 to make this download incompatible with the G1. However, if you follow the principles used in creating it as described in both of my documents, with enough effort it should be possible to do on a G1.
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Hard Sync Lead from "Let's Go"
By AlenK
This is not the first patch for the XW synths released here that emulates the hard-sync lead from "Let's Go" by the Cars on their 1979 album "Candy O." It's just my personal take on it. The original was done on a polyphonic Prophet 5 synthesizer. However, this emulation is monophonic because on the XW synths, the solo synth is the only synthesis mode that supports hard sync. Note that this tone exhibits noticeable aliasing above about middle F. It should work on both the XW-P1 and the XW-G1 models.
PS. A full description of how the emulation was crafted can be found in The XW-P1 Companion: Volume 2 - Emulation Examples.
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A Minimoog Lead Tone
By AlenK
Here's a brassy Minimoog lead tone inspired by a song called "Journey" by the brilliant Canadian progressive-rock band FM from their seminal album "Black Noise" released in 1977. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VigL6jN3vY, with the lead sound being emulated here starting about 2m21s into the song. The amount of portamento in the patch fits that song but should be adjusted for faster or slower tempos. This patch should work on both the XW-P1 and XW-G1 models.
PS. A full description of how the emulation was crafted can be found in The XW-P1 Companion: Volume 2 - Emulation Examples.
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Generating Random Values
By AlenK
Here’s an example of a technique to generate a single random value within the solo synth that holds for the length of a note and that can be used to modify parameters of the solo synth such as filter cutoff. How it works is fully described here. This example merely modifies the pitch of a single oscillator in order to allow you to clearly hear the effect. The file should work on both the XW-P1 and XW-G1.
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Adding Functions to the Foot Pedal
By AlenK
This is an example of using the step sequencer within a Performance to allow the optional foot pedal to do things beyond the standard functions supported directly by the XW synths. You can read about how it works in section 5.2.3 of The XW-P1 Companion, Volume 1 (Rev 4 or later). This example merely switches between tones in two zones but you can use it as a template to do something more useful. It should work on both XW models: P1 and G1.
There are two required components in the zip file: a Performance and a step sequence. Load them where you want to in your XW synth. Now edit the Performance to point to the step sequence.
NOTE: Control of the step sequencer for this application requires the "S.Seq NRPN" parameter in the MIDI Settings menu to be set to "On"; see page E-70 in the XW-P1 User's Guide or page E-82 in the XW-G1's User's Guide. This is a global setting that is not stored in a Performance hence must be enabled manually.
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Phrase Selection Using Pattern Buttons
By AlenK
Here is an example of a technique for selecting phrases for playback using the XW synth's pattern buttons. It should work on both the XW-P1 and the XW-G1. There are two required components in the zip file: a Performance and a step sequence. Load them where you want to in your XW synth. Now edit the Performance to point to the step sequence. If you want to use your own phrases rather than the presets in the example you will have to edit the step sequence accordingly. Before editing be sure to read this post and section 5.2.2 of The XW-Companion, Volume 1 (Rev 4 or later) to understand how it all works.
To use the Performance hit the STEP SEQ button. Now press a pattern button and hit START/STOP or the optional foot pedal configured to do the same thing to start playback of the selected phrase. Most of the phrases in the example are programmed to play Part/Zone 1. However, several play a different part chosen from parts 8 to 16. Also, most of the phrases play just once but one of them is programmed to loop endlessly. Hit START/STOP or the foot pedal again to stop it.
NOTE: In order for phrases to play only once rather than repeat endlessly it is necessary to set "S.Seq NRPN" to "On" in the MIDI Settings menu; see page E-70 in the XW-P1 User's Guide or page E-82 in the XW-G1's User's Guide. This is a global setting that is not stored in a Performance hence must be enabled manually.
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Simulated Sample-and-Hold
By AlenK
This is an example of a little trick to simulate a sample-and-hold effect. It uses both of the solo-synth LFOs to turn a continuously changing waveform from one of the LFOs (LFO2) into a discretely stepped version. This works on both the XW-P1 and the XW-G1. How the technique works is described here.
This example starts with a triangle (Tri) wave for LFO2. Change it to Sin, SawUp or SawDown to hear different effects. While here the stepped LFO modulates the pitch of a simple sawtooth wave it could be used to modulate anything.
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Simulated Stepped Glissando
By AlenK
This is an example of a cool special effect that modifies a smooth portamento pitch glide between two notes into a series of discrete steps. It should work equally well on both the XW-P1 and XW-G1. A full description of the technique can be found here.
Note that this example uses just a single oscillator with a simple sawtooth waveform. The technique can be used with any of the pitched oscillators (Syn1, Syn2, PCM1, PCM2) configured with any waveforms and with any envelopes. You can also extend the technique to the external input oscillator using an additional virtual controller.
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Duophonic Emulation
By AlenK
Here is a simple patch to illustrate emulation of duophonic operation using the normally monophonic Solo Synth. It is able to play two pitches at once from the keyboard using oscillators Syn1 and Syn2. If you press one key both Syn1 and Syn2 play the key's pitch, as expected. If you press two keys the first one that is detected will play Syn1 and the second one will play Syn2. If you press additional keys Syn2 will play the pitch of the last key pressed while the pitch of Syn1 will not change.
While the tones used in this example are very simple there is no reason they could not be more complex with different waveforms, envelopes, filtering, etc.
This tone was created on a XW-P1 but there is no reason it should not also work on the XW-G1.
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