Comments on: Mamunia

By: Darienzo

Darienzo — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:36:16 +0000

Many synths are capable of this. Its called portamento. You can control the amount of portamento between a note and the next. The more portamento you use, the more of the slide effect you hear. It has to be done with monophonic (one note at a time) sounds. Vintage synths from the 60s and 70s, mailny monophonic, had that portamento capability.
I think the synth in Mamunia is probably a Minimoog.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:25:57 +0000

Does anyone know who the man at the end of the Mamunia video is?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:10:29 +0000

Question about the keyboard (or it merely which setting) was used at the end of the song. When this first came out everyone called it a “Synthesizer”. Well, now EVERYTHING is called a Synthesizer. This is a unique sound, that reminds me of a continuous sine wave (?) that smoothly climbs up or down through all of the in between notes to the next note (key) pressed instead of “ending” the previous note and “beginning” the new note. Perhaps it can be called a “slider” (“bender” or something), but that has no control over exact notes. If one was to replicate this sound they’d need a sine wave generator and a means of rapidly cranking the up or down frequency to the next “note” and stopping on it exactly. (1) What kind of a keyboard (or setting) is capable of doing this, and (2) are there other songs out there that have this same kind of sound?