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You know what's interesting about this (for me, anyhow)? Listening to your favorite albums and knowing what synths they used, you can get a mental picture of what a given synth sounds like in typical situations (i.e. the sounds that make a synth famous lik a hard-synced P5 lead), but it's not as easy to picture the same synths being used in less typical applications. As a guy who previously owned a CS-80, I have a good feeling for what it sounds like generally, but I've never touched an ARP 2600. So, in my brain, a 2600 sounds like all the hard, pulsing, filter-chomping noises and analog percussion one hears on Depeche Mode records (and I love those sounds, BTW) and maybe a little Zawinul from Weather Report, but it never occured to me that Music For Airports could be a 2600. Of course I know it's possible and that's what makes ownership of a classic synth different than casual listening, but the 2600 wouldn't have been my 1st (or 4th or 5th) guess. Hopefully that makes sense...
I can't imagine someone making analog percussion loops out of a CS-80, for example, because a CS-80 is all Vangelis leads, lush pads and crazy ring mod, don't you know. ;-) Then again, I'm sure someobody's done it!
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It´s most definitely not Music for Airports as I´ve got this album. Eno used the ARP 2600 a lot on it ("lovely sound", as he said).
Stephen
You know what's interesting about this (for me, anyhow)? Listening to your favorite albums and knowing what synths they used, you can get a mental picture of what a given synth sounds like in typical situations (i.e. the sounds that make a synth famous lik a hard-synced P5 lead), but it's not as easy to picture the same synths being used in less typical applications. As a guy who previously owned a CS-80, I have a good feeling for what it sounds like generally, but I've never touched an ARP 2600. So, in my brain, a 2600 sounds like all the hard, pulsing, filter-chomping noises and analog percussion one hears on Depeche Mode records (and I love those sounds, BTW) and maybe a little Zawinul from Weather Report, but it never occured to me that Music For Airports could be a 2600. Of course I know it's possible and that's what makes ownership of a classic synth different than casual listening, but the 2600 wouldn't have been my 1st (or 4th or 5th) guess. Hopefully that makes sense...
I can't imagine someone making analog percussion loops out of a CS-80, for example, because a CS-80 is all Vangelis leads, lush pads and crazy ring mod, don't you know. ;-) Then again, I'm sure someobody's done it!
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It´s most definitely not Music for Airports as I´ve got this album. Eno used the ARP 2600 a lot on it ("lovely sound", as he said).
Stephen