THE PRODIGY SYNTH TUTORIAL

I prefer the more human version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcOhrtAFc-Y

How the fuck did Liam make so many bangers... One of the best producers of all time

It’s like watching a YouTube video unlocking the secrets of the universe. Amazing.

To electronic musicians... This is as important as Hendrix 's guitar or Bonham's drums. Bravo Alex!!!

My mate did some tech servicing for Liam at his room in Tileyard. As a long time 2600 owner, my mate asked me to visit to help setup his 2600 as he was having issues getting the gate / trigger working over midi. In the corner was a W30. It was the same one Liam used on What Evil Lurks EP. My inner child raver was very happy.

I was at a huge music festival in Australia called the Big Day OUt. I was 14 years old, on acid and had lost all my friends. I was hustling to get to where Slayer was playing completely lost. All of a sudden this sound came into my brain that was insanely amazing and unfamiliar and mind blowingly intoxicating. It was soooo loud and commanding. It was the synth line from Voodoo People i later found out and it was The Prodigy and the beat dropped and a whole field of people just went insanely ballistic and i completely forgot about slayer and joined in. One of the greatest moments of my young life!!!!!! MY life took a big turn at that point. Thankyou Liam Howlett for blowing my brain into another dimension and giving me the loving gift of dirty, twisted synth madness derangement syndrome. xoxoxox

I make sample hunting videos, and I've covered The Prodigy at length, it's always fascinated me, been a fan of them since seeing Out Of Space on MTV in about 1992. having familiarized myself with most of their samples, it's been amazing to see the other side of their music production. I've literally been waiting for a video like this for god knows how long. Thank you so much.

The name Prodigy is still exactly what describes the band perfectly. What they have done in the 90s is incredible. R.I.P. Keith Flint.

Liam is a pure genius and The Prodigy is a unique band. Thank you Alex for this video and all the nostalgic vibes you share. <3

I never even thought the poison riff would have been done on a JD. Nice one Alex you got the remedy!

Oh my word, I do love the Prodigy.

Boy, I sure remember my introduction to The Prodigy. I'd been doing a bit of LSD with my school friends and older girlfriend on the weekends and listening to a lot of music by The Orb and back in the day one of the only ways to find new music by a band was to swing by the record store and see what was in stock. I stopped by a store that was not my usual haunt but it was close to where I lived and I believe, it's the only time I bought music there but immediately, I beelined to the "Electronica" section and flipped through the CDs until I found the section for "The Orb." What seemed like bad luck at the time turned out to be good luck as there wasn't any CDs by them at all, however, just back from that was this stark white CD that just said "The Prodigy Experience." I didn't know if it was the name of the band or the name of the album but I liked the cover, and I wanted something new to listen to so I bought it. The way it was laid out, I thought it might have even been saying, "Experience The Prodigy" Friends, let me tell you, as someone who was looking for something similar to Little Fluffy Clouds or Outlands or better still The Fountains of Elisha mix of Outlands ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATZxJJn8xaM ) by The Orb, I was not ready for The Prodigy. On the first play, I hated the CD. I felt like I got totally screwed. Back then though, you boughts it? you keeps it. So, there I was, stuck with this CD. So I listened to it. I listened over and over trying to find my way in and, as it was for many, Out of Space is what finally broke me and I realized I liked at least one song on the CD. The Jericho started to make sense to me then Wind it Up. Eventually Weather Experience with its spooky, uncomfortable vibe mixed with the soaring hopeful synths worked its way under my skin. Before I knew it, this unusual CD with it's challenging music worked its way completely into my life and is the soundtrack to so many of the ridiculous things I did in my youth. When Music for the Jilted Generation hit it was all over, I was a dyed in the wool fan. Shortly after I got my hands on the Poison CD single (I still have it) and that 95EQ mix of Poison became one of my most played songs of all time. All of this is just a long way to say how much I love The Prodigy and how cool it is to see how they made some of the sounds that were my constant companions for many, many years. What a band.

Hot damn!!! Spot on!!!

What a way to turn my "I don't feel good" day into a Wow Alex Ball grooves to the Prodigy like I do!? :D This is the coolest tutorial I have ever seen for music Also for SMBU you are right he used a Chorus (more like Doubling Echo, where two different takes of Korg Prophecy both slightly alternate versions of the same patch. If you hear the album version, in headphones the left side is the Original Prophecy patch Liam did in 1996. Whereas the right side is the Doubled Prophecy patch for the 1997 album. Been listening to The Prodigy since I was three in '97. So The Fat of The Land has always been one of my favourite albums of all-time. :D

I like how your 303 has all the silver rubbed off around the top knobs. Very well used instruments make me happy.

The Prodigy is what got me into synthesizers. I came across a W30 on Craigslist in an unrelated search. Thought it looked interesting and came across the VSE article mentioning Liam Howlett. Blew my mind how large of a role the W30 played in their first couple of albums.

R.I.P. Keith. A true one-of-a-kind artist, who helped move mountains in popular music, and a good man.

Prodigy, synths AND Alex Ball! This is overkill :-D

The Prodigy and their sounds inspired me so much! It’s unbelievable how less their impact on pop music has been discussed. They actually laid the path for a whole new generation of electronic music where genres blended and merged altogether. I do know that they didn’t invented all of their style, but of cause they brought it to the mainstream.

I bought "Experience" back in 1993 as a 13 year old. It was one of the first CDs I owned. "No Good" came out a year later. Liam was making the rawest rave sounds ever heard. It's great to hear these synth patches deconstructed so faithfully.