favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synths!)

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favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synths!)

Post by squatski » Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:32 pm

fave classic doctor who music go! 8-)

mainly on about the incidental music not the theme. Moderators will probably move this thread as it's to do with music more than general synthesizers but maybe we can turn it around to make it look like it's a synth thread :lol:

I honestly think all the 70s stuff was all ... forgotten the name of the synth but there's a clip of roger waters using it, has a matrix pin thing on it and looks straight from a science laboratory!

hmmm sadly all I can find on YT is mostly 80s stuff

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Re: favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synt

Post by desmond » Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:32 pm

squatski wrote:I honestly think all the 70s stuff was all ... forgotten the name of the synth but there's a clip of roger waters using it, has a matrix pin thing on it and looks straight from a science laboratory!
You're thinking of the EMS VCS3 (Putney) (or the EMS Synth AKS suitcase version), which was used by the Radiophonic Workshop, but plenty of other stuff was too...

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/radio ... kshop/2579

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Re: favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synt

Post by Rob Ocelot » Sat Mar 04, 2017 6:03 am

Definitely the VCS3 but also the Synthi 100 (aka the Delaware), which has an absolutely massive pin matrix!




Most of the 70's incidental music was by Dudley Simpson with a real orchestra, except for some early Pertwee experimental stuff.

A lot of the late 70's/early 80's incidental music by Paddy Kingsland and Dominic Glynn used the Yamaha SY-2 (especially if the CS-80 was being used elsewhere), Jupiter-4, and ARP Odyssey Mk 3.

Over the years I've made it a point to seek out many of these synths (alas I'll probably never find or afford a VCS 3 or CS-80) but I managed to find a Jupiter-4 and SY-2. The SY-1 and SY-2 are fantastic underrated monosynths with very nice feeling optical aftertouch -- glorious sounding, especially when multitracked.

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Re: favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synt

Post by cornutt » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:50 pm

It's worth pointing out that the original Dr. Who theme, from the early 1960s, was done by the Workshop without any synths (because there weren't any). It was all done with tape studio techniques: record samples of sounds on analog tape, speed them up, slow them down, filter them, etc., and then cut the tape into pieces and edit the pieces back together in the desired order. That's how a lot of electronic music was done before Mr's. Moog and Buchla showed up.
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Re: favorite Doctor Who incidental music (oldskool who, synt

Post by Baus » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:43 pm

Here's the BBC Documentary that Cornutt's point is referring to.

It's starts at about 7 minutes.

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