Favorite synth sounds

MrFrodo · Post by **MrFrodo** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:11 am

I'll just rattle some off at random:

Styx: "Fooling Yourself," "Crystal Ball," "Mr. Roboto"
ELP: "Lucky Man," "Hoedown," "From the Beginning," "Fanfare"
Weather Report: "Birdland,""A Remark You Made" and the whole rest of Heavy Weather
Tears for Fears: the entire Big Chair record
Phil Collins: "In the Air Tonight," "Susudio," "Only You Know and I Know"
Michael Jackson: "Thriller," "Human Nature," "PYT," "Bad," "Leave Me Alone"
Richard Marx: "Hazzard," "Right Here Waiting"
Survivor: "Is This Love," "The Search is Over," "Across the Miles"
Def Leppard: "Love Bites," "Gods of War"
Cyndi Lauper: "Money Changes Everything," Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "She Bop"
Rick Wakeman: everything from Fragile, Close to the Edge and Six Wives of Henry the Eighth
Tony Kaye: everything from 90125
Toto: "Rosanna," ""Afroca," "I'll Be Over You," "Pamela," "Lovers in the Night"

I'll leave it at that for now. But, I doubt I'll have to type any more, since most people will have probably mentioned everything else.

Panurge8 · Post by **Panurge8** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:11 am

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery (especially the moog prototypes).
Wakeman: Moog and Tron on And You and I.
Tony Banks: Early Pro-Soloist and later Prophet 10 and Quadra.
Patrick Moraz: Solo from Sound Chaser and riffage from Gates of Delirium.
Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant): Octopus
Jon Anderson: Minimoog on Olias of Sunhillow
Automatic Gainsay: Korg PS-3100 demo

clusterchord · Post by **clusterchord** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:21 pm

OB-X - Tangerine Dream - "Tangram" shimmering gentle pads/stirngs and "Exit" - chord comping/brass and Jarre's "Magnetic Fields" intro. absolutely stunning.
Yes - Tales form topographic oceans - Wakeman doing square wave portamento leads on RAM minimoog, Patrick Moraz on "Relayer"
Tangerine Dream - Chris Franke sequencing dbl'd octave moog modular IIIP bass (stratosfear, force majeure)
Genesis - Tony Banks playing M400 Mellotron Choir, on The Lamb, Selling England..
Saga, album "Silent Knight" - minimoog and multimoog leads n brass, polymoog chords
Peter Gabriel - loads of Fairlight II-X on PG IV (Security), moog15 and Prophet5 Rev2 muted pads on PG III and IV
Saga with PPG Wave 2.0 on "Worlds Apart" leads, choirs, bells and TD leaqds on "Exit"
PPG Wave 2.3 Choir on Propaganda "Secret Wish" and TD's "LeParc"
Eminent 310 on Jarre's Oxygene
CS-80 noise leads n ring mod and Rhodes on "Short Stories" Vangelis n Jon Anderson, BladeRunner Brass.
Pro-Soloist on "Stratosfear album by TD, and of course Tony Banks leads thruout 70s

AstroDan · Post by **AstroDan** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:08 pm

I really like all synth noises - the one that stands out for me is the lfo 'breakdown' in the middle of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" when he starts tweaking with the filter cut-off. I'm guessing it's the 2600. Just the most incredible sounding filter. I've owned ARP's and other synths with great sounding filters but nothing has ever matched the way that recording sounds. Every time I hear it on the classic rock station I ponder how I could come up with $6,000.

mis psiquicios y yo · Post by **mis psiquicios y yo** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:19 pm

clusterchord wrote:OB-X - Tangerine Dream - "Tangram" shimmering gentle pads/stirngs and "Exit" - chord comping/brass and Jarre's "Magnetic Fields" intro. absolutely stunning.
Yes - Tales form topographic oceans - Wakeman doing square wave portamento leads on RAM minimoog, Patrick Moraz on "Relayer"
Tangerine Dream - Chris Franke sequencing dbl'd octave moog modular IIIP bass (stratosfear, force majeure)
Genesis - Tony Banks playing M400 Mellotron Choir, on The Lamb, Selling England..
Saga, album "Silent Knight" - minimoog and multimoog leads n brass, polymoog chords
Peter Gabriel - loads of Fairlight II-X on PG IV (Security), moog15 and Prophet5 Rev2 muted pads on PG III and IV
Saga with PPG Wave 2.0 on "Worlds Apart" leads, choirs, bells and TD leaqds on "Exit"
PPG Wave 2.3 Choir on Propaganda "Secret Wish" and TD's "LeParc"
Eminent 310 on Jarre's Oxygene
CS-80 noise leads n ring mod and Rhodes on "Short Stories" Vangelis n Jon Anderson, BladeRunner Brass.
Pro-Soloist on "Stratosfear album by TD, and of course Tony Banks leads thruout 70s

Very nice taste, i must say

mis psiquicios y yo · Post by **mis psiquicios y yo** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:34 pm

The atonal sounds on Hedphelim by Aphex Twin.

The melody lines on Spacelab by Kraftwerk.

The sequencer lines on all Ricochet by Tangerine Dream.

The dramatic lead on Welcome to the Machine is really something.

Post by **wiss** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:50 pm

the sounds of aliens decending to earth is always my favorite

Neonlights84 · Post by **Neonlights84** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:57 pm

MitchK1989 wrote:wailing distorted synth all throughout the sammy danger remix of black history month (originally by death from above 1979)

Or any of the sounds in "ballad of a paralysed citizen" by the faint.

Awesome selections mitch. I adore the fuzzy buzzy patch in "paranoiattack" myself

Bob-omb · Post by **Bob-omb** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:37 am

xibalba wrote: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

Nothing wrong with that. I love these sounds too!

My fav synth sounds:

* Eminent 310 through Smallstone Phaser
* Vangelis horn lead/pad on the CS80
* Bandpass filtersweeps with some resonance on the MS20
* Minimoog lead on Shine On Your Crazy Diamond by Floyd
* A leadsound I've done on my Moog LP
* Every sound you can get out of a Mellotron
* All the GX-1 sounds on The Visitors by Abba
* Minimoog(?) riff on The Robots by Kraftwerk

Alex E · Post by **Alex E** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:26 am

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.

I know exactly what you mean. I really liked that sound. I haven't heard it in a while but its one of the coolest sound effects ever.

My favorite synth sound has been used a lot on many Eurodance tracks, and it's either PWM or 2 detuned saw waves. IMO The best use of this sound is in "Tonight is the night" By Le Click or "Who is Elvis" by Interactive.

I have many more favorite sounds, but a lot of them are all from a trippy parade that traumatized me when I was a really little kid: The Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland, which is still done at their other park "across the street" and I saw it this year.

Om · Post by Om » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:27 am

Two of my favorite synth sounds are featured extensively on "You Think You're A Man" by 80's drag queen Divine. Should I be concerned?

The first one is the classic deeeep gregorian vox sound from the Fairlight library. The other is the sound they use to make the choppy, 16th note staccato chords. That effect was pretty common in 80's eurodance music but I wish I knew which synth they used in this instance because it had a very distinctive character... Sort of square but rounded... ahem...

Om · Post by Om » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:33 am

wiss wrote:the sounds of aliens decending to earth is always my favorite

The aliens don't make any sound when they descend to earth. I know this because they told me when they took me up to their spaceship.

I have to go now. Nurse has my medication ready.

Panurge8 · Post by **Panurge8** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:38 pm

Om wrote:The aliens don't make any sound when they descend to earth. I know this because they told me when they took me up to their spaceship.

How odd, the aliens that captured me had a VCS3 on board and played the Doctor Who theme song as they decended to earth in a glistening haze of radioactive purple vapor.

What an awesome sound!

Analogue Crazy · Post by **Analogue Crazy** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:52 pm

I like the huge killer sound off 'Sleepwalk' by ultravox. I belive thats a CS-40M.

megawatt · Post by **megawatt** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:43 pm

MrFrodo wrote:I'll just rattle some off at random:

Styx: "Fooling Yourself," "Crystal Ball," "Mr. Roboto"
ELP: "Lucky Man," "Hoedown," "From the Beginning," "Fanfare"
Weather Report: "Birdland,""A Remark You Made" and the whole rest of Heavy Weather
Tears for Fears: the entire Big Chair record
Phil Collins: "In the Air Tonight," "Susudio," "Only You Know and I Know"
Michael Jackson: "Thriller," "Human Nature," "PYT," "Bad," "Leave Me Alone"
Richard Marx: "Hazzard," "Right Here Waiting"
Survivor: "Is This Love," "The Search is Over," "Across the Miles"
Def Leppard: "Love Bites," "Gods of War"
Cyndi Lauper: "Money Changes Everything," Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "She Bop"
Rick Wakeman: everything from Fragile, Close to the Edge and Six Wives of Henry the Eighth
Tony Kaye: everything from 90125

I'll leave it at that for now. But, I doubt I'll have to type any more, since most people will have probably mentioned everything else.

Much respect - I love the fact that the choices above read like the play-list from American Psycho

some of my favorites tones are from:

Bassline from "(Under Me) Sleng Teng" :by King Jammy
Assault on Precinct 13 Theme - John Carpenter
all the p5 on Making Flippy Floppy from the Talking Heads
All the sounds from Relevee by Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom (DFA)
All the synths from David Bowie/Brian Eno Low album.
Night Drive - Model 500