Frayo Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 I am an avid 80s junkie and I have listened to hordes of Depeche Mode. I was wondering, does anyone have an idea of what kinds of keyboards they use? Do you know what kind of keyboards today make these sounds?? "When all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail" AIM: RaiyoKun EMAIL: frayo@earthlink.net www.livejournal.com/users/frayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortenJ Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 Roland System 700 Roland Jupiter 8 ARP 2600 MOOG Prodigy is some the synthesizer Morten Access Virus TI keyboard,Alesis ION,Yamaha Motif ES 6,Roland Fantom XR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Blues Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Hi, Mid to late 80's ,they used Emu Emax extensively. Not just a sampler ,as you know ,and today you may be able to recreate the Transform Multiplication function on any Emu sampler,really. But then you would need to have the original samples used by D.Mode .So it's a non-starter, me thinks. Early on in their humble beginnings they did start with lot's of Sequential Pro Ones,if my memory serves me right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren. Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by Frayo: I am an avid 80s junkie and I have listened to hordes of Depeche Mode. I was wondering, does anyone have an idea of what kinds of keyboards they use? Do you know what kind of keyboards today make these sounds??Is not what they use, but HOW they use it. I'm an 80s junkie, too. Represent! Who Put The ' M ' In MySpace? don\'t_click | day_job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frayo Posted December 1, 2003 Author Share Posted December 1, 2003 Good point. The sound in particular is the harsh metallic sound from Master and Servant (1984?). It isnt a DX-7 I dont think. I have a DX-7 and use it all the time, and I have yet to hear anything remotely like that come out of it... "When all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail" AIM: RaiyoKun EMAIL: frayo@earthlink.net www.livejournal.com/users/frayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix. Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 "Master and Servant" was on Some Great Reward, which used a bunch of samples of banging on metal and such (I'm assuming using E-MU Emax's). Later, on Music for the Masses, DMs sampling moved on to vocal samples. There is an extended technical article on Alan Wilder's Recoil site www.recoil.co.uk that covers some DM (I'll dig up exactly how to get to it) and may have more info on the gear. DM also has a pretty deep site. I'll see what I can find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthlover Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Here is a decent link which lists their gear. http://www.tuug.utu.fi/~jaakko/dm/keyboards.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesperDK Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Hi Frayo! Synths used by Depeche Mode: Moog Source, Moog Minimoog, MIDI Moog Arp 2600, Arp Odyssey PPG Wave 2.0, PPG Wave 2.3 Roland Promars, Roland SH-1, Roland System-100M, Roland System-700 Roland Jupiter 8, Roland Juno 106 Roland JD 800, Roland JV 1080, Roland JP-8000 Roland A-50, Roland A-90 Korg DW 8000, Korg Wavestation, Korg 01W/ProX Korg Prophesy, Korg Trinity Acces Virus Yamaha CS5,Yamaha CS80, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha DX7II Yamaha CS6X, Yamaha CS2X Emulator 1,Emulator 2 & Emulator 3 Emax 1HD, Emax 2, Emax 2Turbo Oberheim 4-Voice, Oberheim OB8, Oberheim Matrix12 Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 Sequential Circuits ProOne Akai S900, Akai S1000, Akai S1100 Akai S3000, Akai CD3000, Akai S3200XL, Akai S5000 Akai MX1000 Clavia Nord Lead Waldorf Wave Kurzweil K2000R Native Instruments Reaktor And a lot more for sure :-)) All the best JesperDK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix. Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Interesting point, though - I've been a DM fan since 1985 or so, and it strikes me that they don't really make a big deal out of their gear lists. Most interviews are about songwriting and stuff. In fact, it wasn't until Ultra that I remember any big article that had gear lists (and I think that was due to Tim Simenon's involvement, and then Mark Bell when they were working on Exciter). After all, it's what you do with the gear - not what gear you use... right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJDM Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Originally posted by felix.: Interesting point, though - I've been a DM fan since 1985 or so, and it strikes me that they don't really make a big deal out of their gear lists. Most interviews are about songwriting and stuff. In fact, it wasn't until Ultra that I remember any big article that had gear lists (and I think that was due to Tim Simenon's involvement, and then Mark Bell when they were working on Exciter). After all, it's what you do with the gear - not what gear you use... right?Excellent point Felix. DJDM.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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