I remembered a great deal of the opening, and the electrifying scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken, but how does it work as a whole experience? True Romance is a high benchmark to start a review of Tony Scott’s career, as I doubt there’s going to be a film that tops it. To answer one question no, I had not seen True Romance all the way through before today. He was a director with an undeniable visual flair, and I shall be addressing whether the critics had him right or wrong did he place style over substance? If so, is that such a bad thing if the film supplies impressive and enjoyable entertainment? So, in no particular order, lets revisit Scott, and may he rest in peace. He only had the occasional box-office hit, and most of his films were panned by critics many often claiming him to place style over substance. It could take a good two weeks to finish this post, but I think it could be an interesting endeavor, as Scott had a very interesting career as a director. Such a fact has inspired me to visit Scott’s complete filmography, all 16 of his features. True Romance and The Last Boy Scout are two of those films where I’ve never been too sure if I’ve actually seen them all the way through. To commemorate his death, I was going to do My Top Five Tony Scott movies, when it soon became apparent to me that I had only seen about five of his films Man On Fire, Top Gun, Unstoppable, Enemy of the State and Domino. Therefore, it wouldn’t really have been a Top Five list, it would have been the only five. There is still a great deal of mystery surrounding the North Tyneside-born director’s suicide, details that may take months to reveal themselves, hell, we may never know. 3 ms, the decay at 2.47 s, the sustain at 3.4 dB and the release at 2.05s, now route it to the cutoff of the filter and the level of each oscillator and that's it.I am sure that you are all aware that on Sunday 19th August, director Tony Scott jumped to his death in the San Pedro port district of Los Angeles. We need the envelope 1 to have an attack time of 1ms, a decay time of 500 ms and a release time of 300 ms, now we need to route this envelope to the filter around 4 Khz.įor the final part of the breakdown, we have the chords, so start we need to start we the default settings which are two sawtooth waves with 4 voices each, detune them a little with an LFO now add the sub-oscillator with a square wave, now for the important part of this patch, we start tweaking with the envelopes.
#The midnight days of thunder blog Patch#
This Bass couldn't be more classic from the genre, often called running basses, with this patch we started in oscillator "A" with an MB saw waveform with 3 voices and slightly detune, in oscillator "B" we have a Basic Shape and we put the wavetable in its fourth position and this one only has 2 voices, but the most important part of this patch its to make it plucky and to do that we have to use the envelopes. So now that we are done with the oscillators it's time to play with the envelopes, in envelope 1 set the attack at 5 ms, the decay around 1.5 s, the sustain at -9dB and the release at 1.1 s now route it to the cutoff of the filter which is around 6 Khz, by the way the filter we choose is the German LP and it has a little bit of resonance.Īlso after I was done with my Serum patch I added Vinyl distortion with the effect from Ableton. Let's start this breakdown with the first thing you hear as soon as the song starts which is the arp, this is the main element of the track because it plays throughout the song, as always we will use Serum to recreate this patch, so from the default settings, activate the oscillators and choose Basic Shapes in both of them, put the wavetable in its second position and give each oscillator 4 voices and detune them a little, now in the oscillator "B" give it just a little bit of FM coming for oscillator "A".
#The midnight days of thunder blog how to#
The Midnight is one of the most popular artists of Synthwave and their song "Los Angeles" has to be one of their most emblematic, from their album "Days of Thunder" this song combines dream-pop with classic 80s sounds making it perfect for all Synthwave lovers out there, so in this tutorial we are going to teach you how to make this track to perfection, so let's give it a listen.īefore we forget a quick reminder that all the presets in this tutorial are in our Outrun Premium Pack and all of our Synthwave/Outrun/Retrowave related products have 20% off with the code: SW01
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