How to Sound Like Jean Michel Jarre
Search Google for the following: Chainer VST, Superwave P8, String Synth and String Theory VST., Create a folder on your hard drive called Plugins and copy the Superwave P8, String Synth and String Theory files to it. , Install ASIO4ALL if needed...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Search Google for the following: Chainer VST
If you are just using a rubbishy built-in soundcard, also find ASIO4ALL.
These are all freeware.
Chainer is a demo with only the save preset function disabled. -
Step 2: Superwave P8
,, Connect your MIDI keyboard.
Click on the System and Settings menu. , Choose a sample rate (96000 if you can manage otherwise 44000 will have to do).
Choose your MIDI in (usually the first available option).
Click on the button that says ASIO Panel.
If ASIO4ALL is installed you must do the following: set the ASIO buffer size to 512 samples and offset to 2ms.
If pops and clicks appear when audio plays, this size will need to be increased until it is at a playable and pop free level. , You will see a row of boxes with drop down arrows.
Click on one of them: navigate to the instruments menu and there you will find the three synths you have just installed.
For Oxygene 4:
Select system then settings and change tempo to
70.
Then back in the main screen load up the following instruments under each other:
String Theory, String Theory, Superwave P8 then String Theory again.
Where it says presets on the right hand side select the first String Theory as Percussive (number 5), the second as Bassline (number 30), Superwave P8 as Oxygene Part IV and the last String Theory as Dirty Little Line (number 35).
Learn to play Oxygene 4 with the route note of the chords in your left hand and the main tune with your right.
You should find it produces a cool sound! For Equinoxe 5:
Load up the instruments in the same order as last time.
Change the tempo to 79 and choose the presets as (in this order):
Percussive, ARP Geeseaplenty GSE, Bright Strings and Little Machines
2.
For Rendezvous 4:
Same instruments again.
Tempo back to
70.
Use the following presets:
Groove plink, Again...with feeling, Rendezvous 4 and percussive. -
Step 3: String Synth and String Theory VST.
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Step 4: Create a folder on your hard drive called Plugins and copy the Superwave P8
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Step 5: String Synth and String Theory files to it.
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Step 6: Install ASIO4ALL if needed.
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Step 7: Install and open Chainer.
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Step 8: Select your ASIO Driver or ASIO4ALL where it says ASIO Driver (drop down menu).
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Step 9: Go back to the main Chainer screen.
Detailed Guide
If you are just using a rubbishy built-in soundcard, also find ASIO4ALL.
These are all freeware.
Chainer is a demo with only the save preset function disabled.
,, Connect your MIDI keyboard.
Click on the System and Settings menu. , Choose a sample rate (96000 if you can manage otherwise 44000 will have to do).
Choose your MIDI in (usually the first available option).
Click on the button that says ASIO Panel.
If ASIO4ALL is installed you must do the following: set the ASIO buffer size to 512 samples and offset to 2ms.
If pops and clicks appear when audio plays, this size will need to be increased until it is at a playable and pop free level. , You will see a row of boxes with drop down arrows.
Click on one of them: navigate to the instruments menu and there you will find the three synths you have just installed.
For Oxygene 4:
Select system then settings and change tempo to
70.
Then back in the main screen load up the following instruments under each other:
String Theory, String Theory, Superwave P8 then String Theory again.
Where it says presets on the right hand side select the first String Theory as Percussive (number 5), the second as Bassline (number 30), Superwave P8 as Oxygene Part IV and the last String Theory as Dirty Little Line (number 35).
Learn to play Oxygene 4 with the route note of the chords in your left hand and the main tune with your right.
You should find it produces a cool sound! For Equinoxe 5:
Load up the instruments in the same order as last time.
Change the tempo to 79 and choose the presets as (in this order):
Percussive, ARP Geeseaplenty GSE, Bright Strings and Little Machines
2.
For Rendezvous 4:
Same instruments again.
Tempo back to
70.
Use the following presets:
Groove plink, Again...with feeling, Rendezvous 4 and percussive.
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