Excellent thank you so much.Micke wrote:Dave Lawson used the following setup on the Runaway Train soundtrack: Prophet 5 rev 2, Yamaha DX-5, Synclavier II (mono sampling), Emulator II and a Linn 9000.
The other synthesist Brian Gascoigne probably used a Fairlight but I'm not sure what else, although in this studio photo from 1985 you can see that he
additionally had a Prophet 5 rev 3, PPG wave 2.3, DX-7 and an Oberheim matrix 12:
http://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/art ... _in_st.jpg
(photo courtesy of http://www.muzines.co.uk)
The synth setup for "Henry: portrait of a serial killer" was pretty basic: Roland Juno 106, Korg Polysix and Ensoniq mirage sampler.
Hope this helps
I believe they used the Synclavier a lot on VAMP but I don't know what else. Besides Elias himself, there were five synthesists playing on the score.LoboLives wrote:Trying to figure out what was used on the Jonathan Elias score for VAMP (1986)
From my ears.
Emulator
Linn Drum
Sounds like an analog synth is doing the pads mostly...possible Jupiter-8 or Prophet-5?
Any idea what Cordio used on his later soundtracks like Aenigma, Touch Of Death, Shocking Dark or Zombi 5? Sounds like he added a DMX or Linn Drum to his set up and switched to more digital synths and samplers.Micke wrote:The Italian film composer/arranger/keyboardist/organist Carlo Maria Cordio played the synths and keys on the horror-scores to "Eaten Alive" (1980) and "Cannibal Ferox" (1981), both
of which were composed by Roberto Donati. A lot of the music from the first film was reused in Ferox.
The synths and keys used included Minimoog, Polymoog, mellotron, Logan and Solina string ensemble. Besides the aforementioned scores and his own work, for example the excellent soundtrack to Rosso Sangue aka Absurd (1981), Cordio was Stelvio Cipriani's keyboard/synth-player for about 10 years from the latter half of the '70s onwards (lots of film scores and library albums) - some exceptions where Cordio was not available are "Solamente nero" (1978, which featured Claudio Simonetti on synths) and "Nightmare City" (1980, most likely featuring Sandro Centofanti).
Cordio also also played on soundtracks by Riz Ortolani (he might have played on Cannibal Holocaust but he wasn't totally sure about that), Nico Fidenco (eg Zombi Holocaust, he often worked with Fidenco), Francesco De Masi (eg "Lone Wolf McQuade") the great Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovaioli, Nino Rota, Carlo Savina and others.
My favorite score by Cordio:
(the strings, pads and pipe organ were all done on the Polymoog!)
(Polymoog pipe organ!)
