Italo Disco Old School | Breakdown & Tutorial (sort of) included

I’m currently working on my 4th version of “Midnight Drive“ and I wanted this one to have strong elements of “Italo Disco“. Not necessarily octave bass and vocals this time, but a more walking bass feel with a basic drum groove and poly brass. And my 6 reasons for doing this version in an Italo Disco style, is these 6 pieces of classic gear, much used in Italo Disco back in the day: E-MU Drumulator - a very much used drum machine in Italo Disco Roland Juno-106 for bass - sequenced from the Yamaha QX1 Crumar BIT01 - classic Italian synth with great brass sounds Roland Alpha Juno 2 - Bells Roland Jupiter-8 - phasy pads Emax II - samples saxophone (ideally I would use the E-MU Emulator II, but it is sick at the moment) Support this channel on Patreon: The QX1 is programmed with two different banks (patterns), one playing the intro/vers-part and one playing the chorus-part. These two patterns alternate in repeat-mode. I’ve chained these two parts together in “chain-mode“ ins
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