Thanks for the comments guys

I just added the Moog vocoder to the gear list I posted above. According to Casey it was used on both scores.

Hi fellow VSE'ers and electronic music lovers! There have been a few threads about Vince DiCola before here on VSE but I thought it was time we had an appreciation thread for this excellent musician/composer. I absolutely love his synth-driven soundtracks to "Rocky IV" (1985) and "Transformers" (198...

Esus: No, not much I'm afraid. I don't think I've heard any of Serio's scores before (and he seems to have done quite a few).
His unreleased score to Alone In The Dark sounds interesting though:

Sure, the PPG 340/380 was definitely part of Froese's setup, at least during the European tours (fall 1980 to early 1981).

I don't know in what way the Linndrum was modified. However he did use stock sounds, but highly compressed and timed.

The sequencer in Emu's polyphonic CV/Gate keyboard had a 256 note capacity. The Oberheim DS2 could do more than 16 note sequences. EMS had a sequencer that could do 256 separate events. Afaik the E-mu 4060 polyphonic keyboard/digital sequencer (1977) had a 6000 note capacity, and floppy disk storag...

I think the widespread use of synthesizer for more robotic type music was only really codified in the 80's with the popularity of sequencers. Most of the example of synth heavy albums from the 70's that I really like strike me as being rather the opposite. Aside from that german band that will not ...

Wicked cool stuff, Micke. I sometimes consider the DX-5, even though it's probably not as versatile as the DX-1. To your knowledge, did Harold Foltermeyer use either of those synths for his Beverly Hills Cop score? He used the Moog 15 for the famous bass line. The Axel F bassline is a stack of Moog...

MrFrodo wrote:Awesome stuff< micke. Leave it to you.
Do you research this stuff for a living?

No, this is just a big hobby for me

No, Faltermeyer used a DX-7 (among other synths) on BHC. He added a TX-816 to his setup in late '84/early '85 and a Synclavier for BHC 2 (1987). As far as the DX-5 is concerned, it's one of the synths featured on the soundtracks to Runaway Train (1985) and Labyrinth (1986). It provides the slap bass...

Actually, the DX-1 was released around the same time as the DX-7 and DX-9 in 1983. I don't think it was available outside of Japan until 1984 though. The DX-5 on the other hand came out in 1985. The mighty DX-1 was also used in some movie soundtracks eg 2010: Odyssey Two (David Shire, 1984), Phantas...

Yes that's probably the reason why a lot of people believe it was released in 1978. Some test-run Quadra's were actually manufactured in the last months of '78 (Joe Zawinul received the very first one!) but full production didn't start until the beginning of '79. A street date of march/april '79 see...

These are from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, even though they weren't used in the film. Can any of you ascertain just what kind of gear was used for these songs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJVAjftml0 In 1984, when this song was recorded, David Frank's setup included a Minimoog, Oberheim sy...

The ARP Quadra must be amongst the early synths to feature an arpeggiator, coming along the same year as the Jupiter 4? Yes, but the Quadra wasn't released to the market until the spring of '79, several months after the Jupiter 4. I have no idea why most sources out there give it a release date of ...

It's allright, you're forgiven mpa

And yes, the VP and 505 are cosmetically very similar.