Dream Theater's "Images & Words" synth sounds ?

[Meshuggan]

Hello all,

I ma huge fan of this album, and i was wondering if any of you could advise me as to which vstis to get to have the same sounds that the album synths. I know that Kevin Moore, the keyboardist, was using this gear:

* Roland JD-800
* Korg DW-8000
* Korg DSS-1
* Roland D-50

thanks !

[beej]

DW800 is a crappy digital synth (well, a hybrid, but these days most VSTi will sound better than this)
DSS1 is a grungy 12-bit sampler - again, there's much more power in most free samplers

D-50 and JD-800 - these romplers are harder to get in VST form, there's very little about that has that Roland sound, especially as much of what makes them distinctive are the samples, the programming, and the effects. D-50s are *very* cheap though, these days...

[Shy]

Korg DW-8000 is far from crappy, it's a fantastic sounding synth. And yes, only its waveform generator is digital.

[Cygnus X-1]

The Kevin Moore lead is explained here and it seems that you could reproduce it with almost any soft VST out there. The author of the article used the Nord Modular.

+1 for what beej mentioned. Lately I have been trying to emulate the lead sound of Alex Argento (listen to it at: http://www.myspace.com/alexargento ) on his debut EGO, and I can't get the same exact sound. Alex uses the JD-800 exclusively to get the sound, according to him it's just a percussive organ & sawtooth patches run thru the JD-800 distortion which contributes the most part of the sound. I can not find any vst fx that has the same sound

[stratcat33511]

I still use my 6000 as a controller!
but sadly I no longer have the long flowing dark curly hair

Korg DW-8000 is far from crappy, it's a fantastic sounding synth. And yes, only its waveform generator is digital.

[MaliceX]

I'ma try recreate that. Watch this space.