Top Gun Maverick theme medley on Yamaha Geno 2

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Not much to say: the first take I made it though (4th attempt) was nearly perfect, but the darn cell phone camera shut down only 4 and a half minutes in! so I had the entire audio but only the first 3rd of the video. This was attempt #10, way more flaws than the 4th attempt, but better than the ones in-between. I am clearly not a perfectionist when it comes to these.


Originally I'd considered using just OTS and the factory style Action Anthem. But of course, when I listened to the soundtrack more, there were too many rhythms and beats that the one style didn't cover. This mini medley (I'd originally planned to include twice as many pieces from the soundtrack) already encompasses 60 registration changes and 4 extremely modified styles to show off the new orchestral drums, the DX7ii chip featured prominently, and as well as ensemble mode (in the opening of the last segment, "Top Gun Anthem", and the new felt piano and U3 pianos.

One of the drum fills was so complicated (to me) that I got a coworker who's a drummer, to notate the drum score so that I could program the fill!

Enjoy!

Oh, and note, some of my manual SSS just wouldn't work by aligning the part volumes & dsps, so I actually created about 6 'transition' registrations so that I could safely jump from one to the next with no 'pops'. However, I accidentally played a key during one of these in-between transitions at 2:27 instead of the dx7 synth patch in the next registration. Hopefully I don't make that mistake when I perform this next month (last time I had to perform the keyboard concert because covid prevented Baartmans and Knudsen from coming up to perform. This time, Knudsen is already booked elsewhere in the USA, and RIP Baartmans, who was a genuinely kind and funny man)

Yes, you *can* create seamless transitions by turning off one or 2 (or all 3!) of the right hand parts on the next registration, then adding another one if necessary with a mixture of the destination voices, some also turned off, before you land at the target set of 3. (Usually, you hold 1 voice, and modify the other 2,like I do at the end, around the 10:51 mark when I switch back and forth electric guitars with orchestra and strings)

Like I've said before, programming SSS on Yamaha is a pain (same would apply to Ketron)

Mark

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