Walk Of Life

[Zebasan]

Hello,

Here's my conversion of Walk Of Life, Dire Straits for the NS4

Thank's for your feed back,

[jatr007]

Hi, don't want to compete here, but I created my own version of Walk Of Life from scratch before I saw your thread. Hope it helps somebody.

Organized in a split:

<C4 ... B3 Organ
C4<>C6 ... DX1 solo synth
C6< ... 2nd DX7 solo synth for quints

[jatr007]

And the supporting mp3.

[WannitBBBad]

Thank you Zebasan and jayr007 for your different takes on the song!

As both programs require dropping the B3 if the user wants to play the two synth parts (like my program for the Stage 3), you might want to try taking advantage of the mono synth low and high note priority modes. For example, using the program by jayr007, I assigned synth A as mono with high note priority and synths B and C as mono with low note priority, and then overlapped all three synths over the same zone. Layer Scene 1 uses synth B and C, and Layer Scene 2 adds Synth A. While playing the B3 with the left hand, the right hand can cover both parts playing two notes, the lower being the DX1 and the upper being the DX7. It takes a little practice playing the parts cleanly, but it works well. I hope this helps, take care.

[jatr007]

Thank you WannitBBBad, great build and it works very well for the solo.

For continuous playing from beginning till the end of the song, how do you change from keeping the B3 left hand while playing a single DX1 for the start and then adding the higher DX7 for the solo, and later when coming to the verse where it should be again the DX7 only without the DX1 sound if I'm right? Pedal control could be the answer?

Thanks

[timmmy000]

Ah low note - high note...
I tried to recreate the higher 5th-sound by adding an amount of ringmod...I will compare your versions with mine...

Thanks for sharing

Best regards
Tim

[WannitBBBad]

Thank you WannitBBBad, great build and it works very well for the solo.

For continuous playing from beginning till the end of the song, how do you change from keeping the B3 left hand while playing a single DX1 for the start and then adding the higher DX7 for the solo, and later when coming to the verse where it should be again the DX7 only without the DX1 sound if I'm right? Pedal control could be the answer?

Thanks

If you want to keep the DX7 mono synth, there are a few possibilities depending on how you want to play it as the transitions are pretty quick. In order to move to a polyphonic DX7 from mono mode, it would be easiest to simply switch to a 2nd program, but you could also not use high-priority mono for the DX7, letting the low note double the DX1, and adjust levels with the CP. As another option, consider sampling your DX1 sound (synths B and C), so the DX1 sound could be on a single synth; you could then use a mono high-priority DX7 for the second synth with the DX1, and a polyphonic DX7 for a third synth on the verses on the upper split. Good luck!

[jatr007]

Many possibilities how to switch from one to another. The best option for me is to use a simple switch between scene layers.