Update via Zero Divide: "Was just checking my MySpace and noticed that MFB's got demos of some of the new gear coming out soon available: http://www.myspace.com/manfredfrickeberlin"
"ESX Wave Organizer is a program that allows you to organize, edit, and create .esx files for the Korg ESX-1. It uses a standard Windows “drag-and-drop” interface, letting you add .esx, .wav, .aif, and .aiff files to the ESX Wave Organizer workspace. It is available for free..."
YouTube via benpumpkin. Folktek on Ebay. "The second version of a Folktek favorite, updated and upgraded, re-upped and re-envisioned - created by Arius Blaze and Ben Houston. This second version adds greater potential and possibility. Video by Big Pauper of Token Recluse, Harmonic Field played by Arius Blaze (first attempt at play after completion, hot off the block). For more info visit: folktek.blogspot.com - folktek.com and ariusblaze.com - this video is part 1 of 3"
YouTube via simonsound1 "You should be watching me turning the dials and patching the pins on the EMS Synthi VCS3, but my video camera corrupted the file. So instead you get to hear the VCS3 provide a new soundtrack for the strange 60's cycling safety film 'One Got Fat'. I didn't 'write to picture' so its no work of art! But I do think the VCS3 offers a suitably weird soundtrack to this already odd film."
YouTube via gavin916freak. BOSS DR-550 on Ebay "cool lil machine i got for $35 off craigslist, doesn't save very well but easy and simple to program, I figure Ill just make an hour long drum CD with it, just simple old school styled beats for fun mainly, well this descriptions gone on long enough :)"
Image via this Sound on Sound article on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer's ‘I Feel Love’. Note the article is primarily on the Moog modular and the image caption states "Giorgio Moroder with his Moog modular system" but that's actually a Roland System 700. I wonder what the story is behind this shot - is it his system and studio, was it sent in for the article? Regardless, it is a great article and Sound on Sound is a great synth magazine. Note the Roland MC-8 system and ARP 2600 to his right. Minimoog to his left. This one spotted and sent in via Thomas.
"1982-04-11 Best performance of this song I have ever seen"
I never realized the synths in this one reminded me a bit of Jean-Michel Jarre's Rendez-Vous. Some synth spotting: KORG Maxikorg 800DV, ?. Anyone recognize the bass pedals? They don't quite look like Moog Taurus pedals. What's under the Maxikorg. A bit OT, but does anyone else think the dude from the Twilight films looks like a young Robert Smith? I haven't seen them yet.
Update: some notes on the synths via Wid on the AH list:
"So here are the 3 main synths Matthieu Hartley used by 1980 :
- Korg Mini 700S.
- Roland SH-2.
- Roland RS-09 aka String Organ (late version with multicolored switches).
That's basically the sounds for "17 Seconds" : the Mini Korg was used to play the bass lines, the Roland SH-2 the higher register. Check out the video clip of "Play for Today". On stage, Hartley played the Mini 700S invariably, but switched between the 2 Rolands.
By then, Hartley was plugged in a Roland JC-120 amp. The SH-2 was dropped when Hartley left.
The RS-09 and Mini 700S were still used for "Faith" in 1981. Robert kept the RS-09 but added a Korg Maxi 800 DV to the rig. The intro of "Holy hour" was played with a RS-09, for example. "All cats are grey" and "The funeral party" were played with both RS-09 and Maxi 800 DV. The Korg Mini 700S was played by Simon Gallup on stage (for instance, on the intro of "A forest" and on "At night"). But this synth was not used after 1981, as far as I know.
Smith began adding some bass pedal synth too, by 1981 : in studio, some pictures clearly show a Moog Taurus. On stage their preference went to a far cheaper Eko K320 (played until 1982, for example on "Cold" by Simon Gallup).
The RS-09 was still used in 1982 : the synth heard on "One 100 years", played on stage by Lol Tolhurst. The Maxi 800 DV too (on "Cold" for the bass line, added to a - well I think, for this one I'm not 100 % sure, sorry - Korg Trident).
That's it for early early Cure synths. I really do not know if any of these synths are available on softwares such as Reason.
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The demos were ertstellt with a miniature power. the expansion for it and the new nanosynth before I put the next times.
