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Here's my gift of the week to the good people of this forum.
I've searched around for a good patch for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and found mixed results. Some people made some good patches with samples, but that doesn't cut the mustard for me - firstly because they immediately give themselves away as samples when you play at anything other than the root pitch, and secondly because I avoid samples where possible out of sheer old-school prejudice!

There are some great patches for the NS2 for the multi-layered chords, but they use both slots, so no good for the lead if you only have one board.
So i used the B3 organ to supplement a detuned saw with chorus, LFO instead of phaser and the results are pretty OK IMHO.
That left slot A free for my nice Moog synth lead.

Anyway, there's my justification for revisiting old ground out of the way, and here's the patch.

Performance tips:
- The Mod Wheel is set up as a morph to control the levels of Synth B and Organ together, so you can do the fade-in at the beginning of part 1
- The Preset II button in the organ section switches to a slightly different organ - you can add adjust 8th drawbaw while playing, to add that high G which is hard to reach
- Sustain pedal will sustain the chords but not the lead, so you can change chords more seamlessly
- Lead Moog synth has aftertouch vibrato, (although Richard Wright probably used mod wheel for that originally).
- Recommend tweaking the main FREQ knob and the amp drive on the lead synth (slot A) to get the brightness to your liking.

• Shine_On_2.mp3

Thanks

& C . U. next week !!!

this is great, many thanks!

Hi,
I will give it a try in the future but using all my synths and expanders, so do you know which sounds on which keyboard Richard Wright was using? In your opinion, which one among my Synth I should use for what? I have prophet 08, Matrix 1000, Emu Proteus 2000, D50 and of course NL2X and Stage 2?

Hi Quai34. i think Rick was using a ARP Solina Strings (don't know which combination though, maybe a full or strings only), a B3 with slow leslie and a Moog Taurus for the bass. Of course you have to add to the pad the Wine glass Harmonica, which they recycled from a previous project and (wikipedia source) an EMS VCS3, which i can't hear what patch could possibly be.

I can't add anything to Paciozzos answer. FWIW In an unrelated topic I made a Nord sample of a wine glass harmonica (aka Armonica) - quite a unique sound nord-user-samples-nsmp-samples-f14/glas ... ica#p52953

Nice!! I have to play this tune at an outdoor concert next month, you just made it better!

Don

Thanks.
Very nice also to play around without Pink Floyd in mind...

I agree with you, old-school way is much better!
Thanks!

This program is seriously the greatest thing ever. That lead sound is so rich I love how the frequency knob can adjust its character. Can't wait to use it on some recordings.