Learn how to make old school Italo Disco / Synth pop in under 12 minutes

Do you want to make old school Italo Disco/ Synth pop using old gear and techniques, while at the same time wondering how to do this? This tutorial is for you then. I go through what it takes and I’ll even perform the work-in-progress live. Support this channel on Patreon: Episode 2 in my series where I construct, and perform a track totally dawless and with only 80s synths, samplers, drum machines and modules. In this episode I take a look at Italo Disco, a very popular genre in the 80’ies and its sound has some key signature sounds and structures that I go through here. Each episode ends with me performing the song, recorded in one take. Could be sour notes, playing errors and more, but it’s the raw performance. No autotune or post editing. The track in episode 2 is called “Greyhound“. I go over each synth I use, why I use it and the different parts will be broken down to show you what I think each part contributes to the song. I also program the drum machines or sequencers to show how these old machines work. *the patches I refer to in the video (free download) had to be taken down due to many people having problems installing them* Dexed can be downloaded through this site: Check out my latest album here: Thank you for watching! Listen to more of my music at: My tracks pay homage to all acts of the 80’ies like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, OMD, Euryhmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, A-ha and many more. A use mostly old gear on my tracks and among them Roland Juno 6, Alpha Juno 2, D550 and JX-8P. Korg DW-8000. Roland TR-626 drum machine. Yamaha DX7 and TX802 and drum machine RX11. I use the Novation Mininova as a vocoder on all my tracks. Effects are usually handled by Strymon and TC electronics. Sampling is done on my E-MU ESI-4000 and I mostly use that for drums. Please join me on social media: Facebook: Instagram: Please subscribe on my Youtube channel: