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MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDE OFFICIAL NEWS GUIDE FROM YAMAHA & EASY SOUNDS FOR YAMAHA MUSIC PRODUCTION INSTRUMENTS Edition 05|2011 Contents Interview: Oliver Palotai 3 MOX6/MOX8: Music production and computer integration 6 New MOTIF XS / XF sound­ library „Phat Analog II“ 10 DTX Workshop: DTX700/900 & Addictive Drums by XLN Audio 11 Back to Black Neo Soul Rhodes for MOTIF XF / XS / ES 13 Sounds & Goodies 15 Imprint 25 OLIVER PALOTAI YAMAHA MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDE 3 05|2011 INTERVIEW: OLIVER PALOTAI Although he was addicted to jazz Later on, you have had training on the a music teacher, because it is fun to teach for a long time, Oliver Palotai got jazz guitar – at this point it was clear that good students. For me, teaching is more into harder fairways and is now you have found yourself as a musician. fun than half­heartedly doing a production almost permanently on tour as a But first you have completed your for a moderate band or singer. keyboard acrobat for bands from graduate degree in music education. Was the international progressive and the teaching profession intended to be After so much musical „seriousness“: Why heavy metal area. He mot only your „save harbor“? did you choose Metal as your favorite shows his talents in Kamelot, but Actually I have graduated a degree with a genre? Or has it just happened? is also associated with the Sons Of double major: music education and profes­ Seasons and other bands. I was still at the academy of music in Nürn­ sional musician. So I had two exam recitals. berg when I received a phone call from the As every musician I had always doubts whe­ management of Doro Pesch, the German You have received a very classical training ther I could really live from making music. metal queen. They were searching for a on playing the piano. Did your parents For this reason I also studied English lite­ keyboarder who could also play guitar for have to drag you to the piano lessons or rature and musicology in Tübingen. Then, the next tour. After the tour they offered me have you enjoyed them? one day in a lecture, I‘ve noticed I could the membership in the band and from that In fact it depended on the respective organize my fellow students into two cate­ time on my contacts in the metal scene ex­ gories: There were those that were sitting teacher ­ and over the years I certainly hab ploded. Other bands and tours followed, there like in earlier school days, without about ten teachers. My first teacher was a unfortunately that meant I was losing my any real interest, and those who listened Korean with a very classical understanding regional contacts in the jazz and classical to every word of the professor with ardent of pedagogy ­ tears were flowing occasio­ scene. Sometimes I was on the road for zeal. And because I couldn‘t count myself nally, but I’ve learned a lot in a short period around nine months; this year alone I was to the second group, I became aware that I of time. My real love for the piano started at home for one month ­ maximum. already found my vocation in making mu­ at the age of 13, when I was taught by a sic and being a musician. So I stood up Certainly, your most prominent role is blues­ and jazz­pianist. He taught me the in the middle of the lecture with the only being the keyboarder for Kamelot. How basics of improvisation. From that moment thought: „Even If I have to sleep under a did a German keyboarder come to a on, no one needed to force me playing the bridge, from now on the only thing I want band from Florida? piano. However, I still never stopped expan­ to do is making music“ and left the faculty. ding my classical repertoire. However I have to admit that I still work as Well, before I founded my own band „Sons EUROPE.YAMAHA.COM 4 YAMAHA MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDE 05|2011 of Seasons” I‘ve never played in a German point, were the salaries allow us to delegate often instruments are provided locally, for band. Even Doro‘s cast was American. and not having to do everything by oursel­ example on our South America tour, where I was lead guitarist with Blaze Bayley, ergo ves, but it was a long, hard way to get that you have one flight per day. The 7­models toured with the British, CirclellCirle were far. are more on hand than the 8­models, and from Florida and so on… The international I also appreciate consistency. scene is not as large as it seems. Actually You‘re performing on two Yamaha MOTIF I always meet the same people at the festi­ synthesizers – one 8- and one 7-model, Two keyboards are enough for you? Or vals all over the world. are you just bored from a Rick-Wakeman- memorial-altar? How does this transatlantic cooperation I recently saw a band, in which the key­ work? Is there some kind of virtual boarder almost disappeared behind and rehearsal room? between all his keyboards – I won‘t menti­ No, prior to our tours we meet and rehearse on the name. Honestly, I could have done in Florida or in Germany. The same applies the same with two MOTIFS and Split­Per­ for the songwriting process. Of course in formances. It is something completely dif­ the pre­production phase we‘re exchanging ferent, if you prefer vintage gear and thus files a lot. carry around your Hammond or Rhodes. But otherwise you can do everything with Besides Kamelot you also play in other two workstations and some expertise. How­ Bands - your own Band „Sons of Seasons” ever – you only have two arms. has just released a new album. Which instruments are you playing and what is don‘t you? I assume that the MOTIF XF8 What do you value the most from the your part in the band? is responsible for the pianistic moments, MOTIF? right? I write most of the songs, orchestrate them First of all, the excellent workmanship and and play guitar and keyboard live on stage. Actually I‘m playing two 7­models on live durability. I once placed my brand new ES7 My role also includes tour management, gigs. Mostly an ES7 and a XS7. The rea­ on his stand on the stage when our bass booking, driver, merchandise vendor and son why the 8­model (XF) is basically used player came on stage. He‘s having the crew member. We gradually come to that in the studio is its weight. In addition, very most awkward hairstyle I’ve ever seen, it EUROPE.YAMAHA.COM YAMAHA MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDE 5 05|2011 Does it help to be able to play the hard Let´s talk about your parents again: riffs on the guitar as a keyboarder while Wouldn‘t they have liked for you to take composing and arranging? up a proper profession instead of playing heavily distorted music as a long-haired A lot, and not just in making metal. Even metalhead? in pop music recordings, I grab the gui­ tar and also the bass. Sometimes I start Haha – no, my mother hates short haircuts songs even more based on riffs than at men. My parents always supported me playing harmonies, therefore I begin with and my decisions. They regularly come to the six string. It is always advantageous my concerts till date, no matter what style. to be able to play other instruments. For I‘ve been very fortunate. my classical orchestrations for example I better have to know how a violin works However, you‘re doing a proper job, since in detail. between your shows you‘re giving music lessons at your hometown. Which advices Who is the source of your musical do you give your students for their further inspiration? life? First of all, of course the classical compo­ Between tours I produce Bands and solo­ sers. I love baroque music, ergo there´s artists, orchestrate for bands and write film no time in my live where I neither heard scores. I also give lessons, but I fix the limit nor played Bach. Also important was and to a few hours per week. As I already said, is Chopin ­ especially his etudes ­, Scott it means a lot of fun to me to educate ­ Joplin and the wide catalog of jazz lite­ it‘s a certain share of proud to see my stu­ rature like Bebop, Chick Corea, Keith dents growing with their instrument. Some Jarrett, Gonzalo Rubalcaba ­ this is my of them are now professional musicians or passion. study music. Basically I‘m a proponent of practically blocks his view completely. He is a very classical pedagogy ­ which leads us more than two meters tall and moves like Didn‘t you play in a jazz trio? to the beginning of the interview. Regularity, a whirlwind with disrupted motor function. effort, and discipline are the pillars of suc­ Trios, quartets, quintets, big band etc. It‘s He turned around and knocked the MOTIF cess. There are no shortcuts! a big shame that I never had the time for down from the stand which crashed to the more than just a couple of jam sessions ground. The plastic sides broke off and it within the last ten years. Back then, as looked completely ruined ­ but till today it‘s I was in the early 20, I made the first pri­ flawlessly working! Then at the Bloodstock ze at the national competition finals at Festival a stripper laid her enormous and „JugendJazzt“ hosted by the Deutscher soaking wet breasts on it – survived! Mis­ Musikrat (German music council).

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