Saturday Synth Porn: The synths of Depeche Mode.
Keyboard Mag has published an interesting photo essay on the band’s synths.
Featured in this shot:
In the foreground is an Oberheim Matrix 12. To its left on the keyboard stand is a Roland Alpha-Juno 1 above a Roland Jupiter-6. To the left of all that is producer Ben Hillier, partially whited out by the Mac’s flatscreen display. On the other wall, to his right, is where things get even more interesting. That big rack contains two vintage ARP 2600 analog synths, and at far right is an EMS VCS3 above an M-Audio MIDI controller keyboard.
it seems they like classic stuff. good to know that, thanks for the info 🙂
Interesting gears for interesting peoples… but what’s about the old gears used? Anybody knows?
whatever happened to the emulator II they used to use
the emulator is very outdated synth with a giant floppy disk, now just use a laptop to edit samples etc
Yeah but the low 8bit analog filters are classic in sound boo and the look of those E2 are beautiful