Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1977)

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"Keyboardist/Songwriter Gary Wright performing "Love Is Alive" on the Midnight Special TV show, 1977. Featuring a young Steve Porcaro {keyboards for TOTO, Herb Alpert, Pablo Cruise, Brothers Johnson, etc.} on synthesizers along with a rockin' female cowbell player ;-) Awesome Minimoog bass. Enjoy this great song from the 70's decade of musical innovation & legendary songwriting."

SIMMONS SDS-800

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MOOG Prodigy

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Roland Juno-106 Parts

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Roland Juno-106 Main Board

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Alesis ION

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Oberheim OB-X

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Also see this one on Matrixsynth-b.

Octave CAT SRM II

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"The Cat is similar to the ARP Odyssey, but not as similar as some people think. Things that make this synthesizer unique are: The 2-voice keyboard, which has a second sample-and-hold for the second voice, so both notes die out when you let go of the keys. Each oscillator has a sub-octave output allowing you to get 4 separate notes from the machine at once (although two must be octaves of the other two). VCO 1 also has a triangle wave output, which ARP left off of the Odyssey. Finally, the keyboard is switchable between 2-voice (poly) and 1-voice (mono) modes, allowing you to work monophonically if you want to. The ARP can't do that, so if you're using the ARP's ring modulator you will get random timbres if you aren't careful to release each key before pressing the next one.------ Dave Wilson from synthmuseum.com"

Also see this post for a video demonstration including differnces of the SRM 1 and 2.

blk frnt 02

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GENIUS AT WORK

flickr by Roytex.

"John Carpenter mans the keys circa June 1978 at Sound Arts Studios in Los Angeles. The soundtrack for "Halloween" was written, performed and recorded in about two weeks."

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Update via the comments:
"No..no..no, this picture is definitely not from the original Halloween session back in June 1978*. I'm pretty sure it was taken during the Halloween III sessions at Alan Howarth's Pi West Electronic Music Studio, Glendale CA, ca. June/July 1982.

* the music for the original Halloween movie was recorded at Sound Arts, Los Angeles and featured Moog modular programming by Dan Wyman."