garranimal wrote:The original had tons of matched transistors. Will the new ones be doing this, or some new voice design? Surface mount technology, or the big old stuff?

What did they do for the recent Modulars..?

They were pretty authentic, I think...

Can anyone tell me what it cost back then to expand a Sync II to 768 MB sample RAM? And what would that memory look like, considering that, in those days, 128KB memory in home computers was already kind of a chip. I'm not sure about the SyncII, but for the next generation of Sync 3200/6400, 4MB ram...

The Naked Eyes interview from E&MM tells of the making of that album, and includes references to Fairlight, a small amount of Synclavier, Prophet 5, TR808, PPG Wave 2.2, Linndrum, Simmons kit, OBXa, Emulator, and Roland Vocoder Plus - mostly the Fairlight, PPG and Prophet.

Favourites that spring to mind:- Go West early production (eg, We Close Our Eyes, synth sounds and arrangements are great) Scritti Politti (Dave Gamson's synths and arrangements are superb. He even makes DX7's sound good!) Propaganda, particularly "A Secret Wish" (Steve Lipson, Andy Richards synths ...

ted1986 wrote:They used various presets from the Yamaha DX7 in that song as well.

Which ones / which parts?

Really interesting album with great sonics. Thanks for the link!

PPG Wave (multitracked, main synth riff), SH-101 (x2 bass)

Maybe some other stuff.

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/go-we ... enson/1308

No. Unequivocally a JX-8P. One of Trevor Horns favorites. "I still have my Roland JX-8P too - love that as well" " "I'm a factory presets guy - I hardly have the time now to work with a synthesiser, although back in the Dollar days I used to work all the kit then." Sure, he may well have had one at...

mjmaguire wrote:The JX-8P was used liberally on Propaganda's album "A Secret Wish"
Does anyone know where I can find those sounds?

I think you'll find that was the Jupiter-8, not the JX8P...

It's just analog-style subtractive synthesis - the range of sounds a subtractive instrument can produce depends on i's features, and how the various components are designed and built. Some are simple, where you don't get very far away from basic waveforms run through a low pass fitler, shaped by sim...

Dunno, but why are you asking, out of interest?
Presumably Google didn't throw up a crew list anywhere..?

Nakatsu_Hime wrote:Also, I learnt a new word today - Rompler.
I don't think I like this word.

Some romplers are great synthesisers, including a lot of Roland ones, like the JD-990, XV-5080 etc...

There is a mailing list here:
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Emusic/Synth-diy/
http://www.sdiy.info/w/Main_Page

I know people on this list have been building clones of great synths, and will help you out with ideas.

Micke wrote:There's another article in the april 1989 issue of SOS that may be more informative but it isn't 'active' on the site yet.

I just had a look at my copy, and, much like the MT piece, the SOS article you refer to doesn't mention anything specific about the synths used, unfortunately...

Now if I have a sampled analog synth sound with a strong resonance, I don't think I would have the control of that resonance as I would using the original instrument, correct? Yes - if something is baked into the source, as in the case of source samples, all you can do is use the other things at yo...