The Synth Sound from Sweet Dreams (TUTORIAL) #synth #eurythmics #novation

As requested in the comments section, we bring a recreation of that iconic Sweet Dreams synth sound!

[brettpontecorvo]

Very clear teaching. Super helpful. Thank you for this video.

[seeyouintheeighties]

He came out with it in recent years,
The sh101 made the pwm punchy bass coming out of left speaker, Annie Lennox upon hearing it went to the obx that was owned by the picture framing shop owner who told them they weren't allowed to use it, they used it regardless and made the string sound coming out the right speaker, they also used the obx to make the main solo string synth half way through the song.
If you type in "Dave Stewart hospital interview Eurythmics" he does a presentation showing the multitracks of the original song

[sinikoncar]

I heard an interview with Dave Stewart a few months ago. He said people never realize that the main sequence is done with two synths. That's why it never sounds right when people try to play it with a single synth.

So there's your next video: Listen real carefully and recreate the sequence now with two synths. That would be really interesting.

[beigemusic]

sooo simple and yet so efficient ! thanks

[LFOVCF]

If you pan the track hard left then right, you'll hear the two seperate parts making up the riff,

[KiR_d]

Wow! I've started to "sing" that ) It's a hit obviously. As I've never was Eurythmic's fan.

[jfn]

Several sources claims they have first hand information from DS, who apparently stated OB-X.

[profd]

The Wikipedia article on the song states pretty confidently that "the MCS Drum Computer provided drum sounds, and also triggered sequences on a Roland SH-101 synthesizer, used for the synth bass line." A Sound on Sound article by Tom Doyle is cited in defense of this claim. But you seemed to nail the sound pretty well with the Bass Station. And as somebody in the comment section pointed out, there do seem to be two synths in the riff.

[horder]

Greqt video thanks. Out of interest have you worked out how to trigger the drum machine via midi when using the bass station' s sequencer? I couldn't find anyway with my TR6s which was really frustrating.

[rfish]

My money is on the Juno! But who knows haha

[annother]

I'm afraid the first 4 notes or so aren't quite right.
It's starts with the first low note twice, for example and then the following couple of notes need to be reordered

[DanChristos]

Very cool. It's close, recognisable, but it's not right. The riff is wrong for a start, and listen to the synths, they have some kind of envelope follower shifting the filter I think. or something... I'm not sure.. It's hard to explain, but in the original it sounds a little more bubbly, like bubbles going bloop.. haha. I dunno. It's very different, but awesome none-the-less.

[fernando]

só comentários de gringos ldjskdjsj
muito bom!

[remi]

Do dire dire dock from Mario 64 (FM synthesis)

[daviduk]

Robot AI narration voice sounds awful.