RetroSound‘s Marko Ettlich shared his take on Jan Hammer’s Crocket’s Theme, from the Miami Vice soundtrack.
“I sampled my synths for this cover version and I used the EII factory library,” he notes. “In the original track, Jan Hammer used the Jupiter 8 for random arpeggio bass, Fairlight voices, Linndrum, DX7 Koto…”
Technical details:
All synthesizer sounds: E-MU Emulator II sampling synthesizer (1984)
Drums: E-MU
Recording: multi-track
FX: reverb and delay
See our interview with Jan Hammer for more on the Miami Vice soundtrack.
I programmed and played it at an Yamaha DSR-1000 those days. Koto sounded probably the same because it’s the same family
Really well done !
the crocket song sucks, compared to several other miami vice songs.
the following is hammer´s finest imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDddvzHFv44
it is called “black mercedes”.
taken from the episode w/phil collins.
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That EII isn’t even powered on. Nothing showing on the LCD display and all the LEDs are off.
what nonsense you write. No LCD data can be seen from this angle. and when the soundbank is charged, no LED lights up.
sampled pads sound nice
it all sounds very muffled I guess it adds to certain sounds
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