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What kind of keyboards/Synths were used to make the 1982 Rap hit "The Message"

― startrekman, Friday, 8 October 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

space-age ones.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

funky space-age ones

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 8 October 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link

funky space-age ones WITH A MESSAGE

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 8 October 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

funky space-age ones WITH A MESSAGE that suggested they were unaware of the nature of the mysterious force that protected them from "going under"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

the Broken Glass Everywhere 2000 sampler/drum machine/synth/sequencer.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

with optional white lines.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Try the classic future-retroistic Roland 808 Drum Machine for starters!

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

ask the Ghost Exits.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

the ghost exits used all these awesome archaic Korg digital drum machines. Then they sampled everything into Akai MPCs. And only I could tell the difference, but dude, it sounds...different. The beats coming straight out of the Korgs had an airiness and rawness that was lost in the MPC. OF course, then shit stopped crashing so much.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

They used the Xindi Temporal Oberheim 300 Subspace Drum machine

― startrekman, Saturday, 9 October 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Do people not bother programming synths anymore then

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 9 October 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Nope, now they have artificial intelligence.

― startrekman, Saturday, 9 October 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought people stopped programming synths when the DX-7 came out.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 9 October 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Nope synths program themselves, they use Neural Nets

― startrekman, Saturday, 9 October 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought people stopped programming synths when the DX-7 came out.

I heard the only dude to actually figure out how to program that thing was Brian Eno.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 9 October 2004 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link

c'mon man, 6 operators, algorithms define which are carriers and which are modulators, aka Oscillators and Low Frequence Oscilators, or if not LFOs. your basic additive synthesis of plugging an audible oscilator into another audible oscilator.

just kidding. The technology, how to program it and such, is easy. What's hard is understanding or visualizing how these things relate and can make useful sounds.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 9 October 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link

the dx7 had no knobs. nothing to twiddle. where was the fun? now, the korg ms20. loadsa knobs. lots to twiddle. and if you were adventurous, patch leads...

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 9 October 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

someone actually made a DX-7 editor, a big device with tons of knobs, kinda like Roland did through the 80s with their PG line of editors, where even as late as the D-50 you could buy the PG-1000 and have a modern digital no-knob synth connected to a big device covered with sliders.

http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/pgs.shtml

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 9 October 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i want a DX-7, Ob-x, Ob-xA and prophet 5

― startrekman, Sunday, 10 October 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a DX-1, Matrix 12, xPander and prophet 10

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 10 October 2004 07:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The Pro-10 was nothing but 2 prophet 5's stuck together.

― startrekman, Monday, 11 October 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I want really is a NED Synclavier, memorymoog and a Mini-moog

― startrekman, Monday, 11 October 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Now i want a J8-xp

― startrekman, Monday, 11 October 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I want an unbreakable contact mic

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The Pro-10 was nothing but 2 prophet 5's stuck together

which still makes it twice as good.

Two Lines music in NYC has a Synclavier for sale. The big metal knob feels niiiice.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

What about the JX-8p

The matrix 12 was 2 xpanders connected to a keyboard.

― startrekman, Monday, 11 October 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

grand master flash used the prophet 5 sequential circuits, we can recognise the funk lfo effects and the heat of the sound, for sure prophet 5 and their write it in an article , synthesizers : prophet.

― analogsynthmuseum, Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link

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