This is the list of synth that PetShopBoys used on their latest album.... > For Very they used: > > Korg M1Rs > Akai S1000s > Akai S3000s > Roland S770 > E-mu Systems Proteuses > Oberheim Matrix 1000 > Roland MKS80s > Roland MKS50s > PPG Waveterm > Roland JD800 > Roland Juno 106 > Sequential Circuits Prophet V > Roland R70 > Fairlight CMI > Macintosh running Notator Logic > Dynaudio monitors > > > This is according to Music Technology magazine (Dec 1993) > > They also used a TB303 and a TG500 a bit. > > I quote > > "Chris still uses a Fairlight to write on - quite a few of > the songs had basic demos done on that. But we had nightmares > trying to make it talk to everything else over MIDI, so I > dumped its sequences into Notator on the Atari, which is what > we were working with at the time." - Pete Gleadall (Programmer > for Very) > > zerohour@suburbia.apana.org.au - Suburbia Unix BBS - +61 3 596 8366 - Michael Dvorkin From colin@octavo.demon.co.uk Mon Jan 23 10:14:19 1995 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 14:50:15 +0000 From: Colin Fraser To: Scott <1SHW1010@ibm.mtsac.edu> Cc: ANALOGUE@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Question... On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Scott wrote: > What synth do you believe BEST produces that warm hum sound, like the Pet > Shop Boys use in practically all of their songs in the background. An equipment list given for the Pet Shop Boys december 93's Music Technology lists the following analogue keyboards - buy one of each and you should have plenty warm hum sounds at your disposal :-) Oberheim Matrix 1000 Roland Mks 80s Roland Mks 50s Roland Juno 106 Sequential Prophet V Other digital synths and samplers (uugh!!) include... PPG waveterm Fairlight CMI Some Korg M1rs Several Akai S1000s and S300s Roland S770 Emu Proteuses Roland JD800 Peace Cf