1980's Synth Pop (PRJ inside!)

Hi Rich,

I've just purchased a Fantom G8 ex-demo from Roland and I've been looking for .prj files to help me learn how to put songs togther on the G8.

The .prj file you posted to the rolandclan website says its currently not available.
I noticed from one of your links, you've faithfully recreated an 80's a-ha track, the sun always shines on TV.

Is there any possibility i might be able to get a copy of the project file for this please ?

Thanks
Dan

Hi Rick,

I'm really impressed with what you've done and that you are prepared to share your project.

Have you done any more songs yet and is there anywhere to download it from?

Cheers

Dave

Would anyone have time to upload this outstanding project file to Rapidshare? (Since the attachments are disabled for now)

And thanks a lot Rbarkhouse for this generous contribution.

Yeah that would be great to make the prj file available!

Adilhan wrote:

Would anyone have time to upload this outstanding project file to Rapidshare? (Since the attachments are disabled for now)

And thanks a lot Rbarkhouse for this generous contribution.

Seriously anyone?

This forum is supposed to praise Fantom G, and these kind of topics will do the best for this purpose. But with the file. Novice users like me will discover FG more by reverse engineering from those kind of projects, and then upload ours in the future. Not necessarily in rolandclan servers, this is not Pavlov's responsibility. But we can share the links to other file servers.

I'm probably being really thick here - but I can't see any download options to get the PRJ file/ Any pointers ?

too bad i've missed the attachment..perhaps it was lost along the way they migrated the forum last time?

appreciate if anybody could reupload them, i would love to learn & see how it was done on the FG..like Adilhan says, reverse engineering way of learning

The drums are really good. They perfectly match the style you are playing.Which drum kit do you use for the song 'The sun always shine' ?

Hey everybody!

Haven't been hanging around here much lately, I had no idea there was a two page discussion going on about my tracks :)

Sorry the PRJ file became lost in cyberspace... here is a new copy, hopefully everyone can grab it!

Unfortunately I haven't done any more 80s covers production... started on a Duran Duran tune but got distracted with some other project and haven't returned to it :)

Cheers!
Rick

P.S. If you're wondering why I haven't made any new tunes, check out "Accordion Solitaire" for Android programmed by yours truly :)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ara.accordion.free

grace25 wrote:

The drums are really good. They perfectly match the style you are playing.Which drum kit do you use for the song 'The sun always shine' ?

One thing I learned doing these songs: you usually get the best results when you go looking for individual kick, snare, clap, tom, etc. sounds, instead of trying to make a particular drum kit work.

For these songs, instead of using one rhythm track containing a full drum kit, I have separate tracks for kick, snare, etc., and then on each track I load up one of the "Menu" patches (Snare Menu, Kick Menu, Perc Menu, etc.).

Then, I go through each drum on each key, and try to find one that best matches the tune. Once I find one, for example, G#3, then I can just sequence with that one note on that track. Make sense?

This has the added bonus of letting you individually mix the kick, snare, and other percussion, and even use different effects if you want. Once I started programming like this I don't think I'll ever go back to using a regular "Kit" again :)

Check out my posts on the first page of this thread for some more info.

Hope this helped!

Rick

rbarkhouse wrote:

Hey everybody!

Haven't been hanging around here much lately, I had no idea there was a two page discussion going on about my tracks :)

Sorry the PRJ file became lost in cyberspace... here is a new copy, hopefully everyone can grab it!

Unfortunately I haven't done any more 80s covers production... started on a Duran Duran tune but got distracted with some other project and haven't returned to it :)

Cheers!
Rick

P.S. If you're wondering why I haven't made any new tunes, check out "Accordion Solitaire" for Android programmed by yours truly :)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ara.accordion.free

cheers for the reupload!

Hi all,
It seems when loading the eighties project ( I'm using a Fantom G V1.50 ), there's nothing at all, no patches, no songs, no kits ,...
What am I doing wrong here ?
I've tried the Fantom librarian, but all I could find was the Aha strings ( no underwear I believe :)
Can someone help me out ???

I have never updated to the latest OS (doesn't fix any of the real problems anyway so I don't see the point)

It would in no way surprise me if 1.50 could not load projects created earlier than 1.50 :P

The Eighties project works fine here with OS 1.50.

The following appears on my Fantom-G6:

5 Songs
203 Phrases
1 User Patch "A-Ha Strings"
1 Sample
5 Wallpapers of vintage video games :-)

There are no User Live Sets or User Studio Sets other than the usual initialized ones.

And thanks to rbarkhouse for sharing! The songs are well done!