Identify this synth (Aphex Twin inside!)

[f__p]

Hi guys, hope this will be an easy quest for you.. Basically, I'd like to know which is the synth all over the first Aphex Twin albums (most notably, SAW 85-92 and Surfing on Sine Waves) and even in some Cristian Vogel tracks. You can hear it, for example, playing the main sequence in the song Tha (the second in SAW), and it has a very peculiar sound, an almost vowel-like resonance.. If you listen carefully the filter sweeps you'll easily get what I mean..
If I remember well, it can also be clearly heard in the song Audax Powder..

Thanks, as always

[nathanscribe]

I'll have to go listen to it to check, but before I do, from what I recall at the time he had a Roland System 100M, SH-101 and Korg MS-20 & SQ-10 ... DX-7... Casio FZ-10 sampler... TB-303... not too much else at the time. I think the collection really grew later in the 90s. The early stuff was done on not much kit, 'mastered' direct to C60 cassette, etc. He also had some DIY fx boxes and would circuit-bend stuff. So it might not be a regular off-the-shelf piece of kit you're listening to.

EDIT: just had a listen to Tha... can't tell, but it sounds like there's a sub-osc in the mix. I'm not familiar enough with the Korg to say, but I'd hazard the 100M or 101 there.

[f__p]

Thanks! Yes, there is definitely a second oscillator or a subosc.. I think the feature which is the most clear (and maybe useful to recognize it) is the filter's character, really unique... Which synth (among the ones listed above) has that vowel-like filter?

[nathanscribe]

Without listening to the other tracks you mentioned, the MS-20 is the one with LP and HP dual filters, and that setup can give vocal-like effects. But you can also run external kit through the MS filter, so maybe that's what's going on. I'd have to listen properly to hazard a better guess.

[chroma17]

He had a Sequential Circuits Studio 440 at the time, and I believe the polysynth he was using was a Juno 6 or 60? But I also remember reading a thread recently which claimed that SAW85-92 was mostly Matrix1000. Also definitely some 606 on Polygon Window.

[Solderman]

Sounds like an SH-101 to me. (So sayeth the member with the biased avatar)
Nearly the same sound, filtered a bit lower, is the bassline in Actium, the last track.
A bit brighter version shows up in Polynomial-C, which is on the Classics album.

Now if only I could ever figure out what the h**l that sound in Digeridoo is.

[schmidtc]

Which Vogel tracks were you thinking of? I'm a big fan of the tresor and defunkt stuff.

[nathanscribe]

Now if only I could ever figure out what the h**l that sound in Digeridoo is.

According to what he said in an interview in early '93, he'd made some DIY boxes that basically did one sound each, and mixed them together.

The kit list I mentioned above was checked against the same interview (from Future Music, April '93, page 22, if anybody's interested).

[SleepingInsomniac]

The kit list I mentioned above was checked against the same interview (from Future Music, April '93, page 22, if anybody's interested).

yea im interested, but when i go to that date i get 'No entries found for specified date'
http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/page/futuremusic/199304
u got a link?..

[f__p]

Thanks guys.. Well, I would never have imagined that sound coming from a sh101, but if it's so, good then!

[Voodoo Ray]

There's got to be a Juno in Schottkey 7th Path. One of my favourites from the album.