Favorite synth sounds

JUGEL · Post by **JUGEL** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:18 pm

I still have to say I love sound in "The Bells" .. I'm still curious to find out what that was actually done on... Have heard several times that it's of course an FM synth .. but everyone always says a different one (DX7, DX100, SDE Expander??)

the bells
not so great of a video .. didn't even know there was one until just now..

sound comes in at 00:56

Visionism · Post by **Visionism** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:26 am

The single note that starts Love, In Itself by Depeche Mode.

Honorable mention for any lead sound ever used by Mark Kelly of Marillion before 1985 (Assassing, Garden Party etc)

iProg · Post by **iProg** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:59 pm

The square lead with a breathy panflute layer in the IQ song Leap of Faith (Martin Orford)
Most of Scritti Politti

Assorted Rush sounds - my favorite band!

ronP · Post by **ronP** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:26 pm

iProg wrote:The square lead with a breathy panflute layer in the IQ song Leap of Faith (Martin Orford)
Most of Scritti Politti

Assorted Rush sounds - my favorite band!

RUSH sounds . . . The ring mod chime lead line on "The Enemy Within" from the Grace Under Pressure album is one of my favorite keysynth parts of all time. Geddy Lee really knew how to program and play the PPG 2.2!

stalla · Post by **stalla** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:08 pm

Visionism wrote:The single note that starts Love, In Itself by Depeche Mode.

I think it comes from a DX7

iProg · Post by **iProg** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:55 pm

Amen to Mark Kelly, his Prophet Pro-One leads are awesome, especially in Incommunicado and Assassing

Tom Schuman of Spyro Gyra has some really nasty lead sounds, check out his solos in songs like Fairweather and Free Fall!

Post by **shaft9000** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:36 pm

OB-X (my synth fetish A#1)
Rush - The Camera Eye, Jacob's Ladder, Subdivisions
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
Tb303 - Hardfloor, FUSE/plastikman, Stickmen etc.
EMS synthi - Floyd's 'On The Run' , early Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schultze, Gong, Eno
Moog - modular: Chris Franke on the double 960 , ELP
mini: Bernie Worell, Wakeman, Kraftwerk, Geddy Lee
CS-80 - Vangelis 'Soil Festivities' and 'Spiral', ELO 'Time'
ARP2600 - JMJ Oxygene (bubbles, fx and arps), lots of early Depeche Mode, K Schultze
ProOne - Yaz 'Upstairs at Eric's'

fingerbib2000 · Post by **fingerbib2000** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:00 pm

so many to choose from...one that sprung to my mind are the strings on the opening to Running Up That Hill, and the synth chords later for that matter...

Bitexion · Post by **Bitexion** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:17 pm

Here's my alltime fave sound:

http://home.online.no/~tom-rf/RV2.mp3
Comes from the Elka Synthex

jimi_t · Post by **jimi_t** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:39 pm

JMP wrote:Not a music synth sound, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this topic is a sound effect in the Star Wars Espisode 2 (Clone Wars) movie. Presuming created on a synth or synths......

It's the exploding mine sound... dropped by Jango Fett in the asteriod field whilst being chased by Obi Wan Kenobi. All the action music and other sound effects pause to quiet for this sound to blow you away with the amazing visuals. If you've seen the movie, you'll know the sound I mean.

That big blue yoke? Yeah, thats well cool in THX quality sound

JJQ · Post by **JJQ** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:32 am

I just love Vangelis playing CS-80 brass. Bladerunner, Chariots of fire ...

Also minimoog, simple leads & bass.

And th 303, undistorted pulse wave, acid.

Ive heard a lot of amazing 2600 sounds of al types

Gear: Pro-One, TB303, JP-8, Xpander, CS-50

sebazo · Post by **sebazo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:14 pm

I Love Pink Floyd's sound in
Shine On You Crazy Diamond I to V (especially those ambient chords...my god!)
Shine On... VI to IX (the way the synth mixes with the slide guitar... i think they wanted to emulate the sound and it sounds great)
Welcome To The Machine
Cluster One
Marooned

I love Rick Wright sound in his last album (Broken China), Radiohead in Kid A and Amnesiac and Keane in it's last album "Under The Iron Sea" (did you know they have no guitars??? AMAZING!)

xibalba · Post by **xibalba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:45 pm

ok yall can laugh all you want but my first exposure to any synth like sounds were from my nes, that is when i started to become exposed to any kind of electronic sounds. Back when the nes first came out i use to sit by the tv with a cheap tape recorder and record the sounds that came out of it. Yea ok go start with the laughing

neandrewthal · Post by **neandrewthal** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:16 pm

No way. Those sounds kick a*s.

My favourite synth sounds would have to be analog FM ones. Here is a good example:
About 30 seconds in the drums, guitar and screaming will go away and you'll hear the solo synth in all it's bubbly, blurpy glory. Awesome!

premieklovn · Post by **premieklovn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:40 pm

The typical 80s snappy polysynth "hit-a-funky-chord-and-increase-the-LFO-amount"-sound.

Can be heard on Imperiet - Du ska va president + shitloads of other tunes.

++every single sound from Wendy Carlos - Timesteps.