Ultimate Zebra Challenge : Greatest Synth Sounds of All Time

[mäxchen]

the synth solo sound in "Istanbul" from the album "mit meinen Augen … Lage live". on this album there are a lot of other synth solo parts with very good sounds...

max

[Prunesquallor]

A little more reading and the SH-2 crops an awful lot - Dave Stewart certainly owned one.

I guess the SH-2 has the same Osc as the SH-1/09, but two of them. The SH-09 is a bit more flexible than the SH-2 otherwise (audio input...). I'll check the circuit diagrams.

Back to Sweet Dreams...

According to this feature, they had a SH-09, a Juno 60 and a Prophet 5 at the time.

http://www.eurythmics.me.uk/Articles/ar ... asp?ID=194


As for other classic sounds, is there no love for Japan here? IMO pretty much all the sounds in Ghosts were classics, but I'd plump for the opening lead and the pluck. Tin Drum was a great album. I always skip the first two tracks, but the rest...

My other choices would be:
A couple of sound from Rush (the pads in the break about 3 min into YYZ, and the solo about 2 min into The Trees) - Obies and Moogs, lovely...
The bass from Phat Planet by Leftfield.
The opening pads in Mmm Skyscraper I Love You by Underworld.

Cheers!

[hakey]

Loads of suggestions, not much consensus.

If we can decide upon a couple of representative sounds from each I'll vote for both W. Carlos and Tomita.

How about the spacey (Bode filtered?) bells and the phased choir from ?

[benburling]

How about we draw up a candidate list and work from that?

I'll +1 for eurythmics sweet dreams!

Cn www make a rule that we link to YouTube for each sound and timestamp it? What do you chaps reckon?

Ben

[Gino Cortesi]

Sweet Dreams as the next challenge sounds good to me.

I also like the idea of a link and time for each entry.

For me I don't have a strong opinion on what sound we try to recreate, just that we choose one

Best regards,

Gino

[mleghorn]

OK, here are a few rather old favourites of mine:
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Walter/Wendy Carlos - all sounds in "Switched on Bach" and "Timesteps"

I would be overcome with joy if someone could make Zebra patches that reproduce all the sounds in Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach. Wendy has made the MIDI for this album available to the public. Can you imagine how awesome it would be to restore the original Switched-On Bach with Zebra!?!

[Ghostwave]

One of my favorite synth sounds of all times:
The background arp in Street Hawks's main theme, which was composed by Tangerine Dream.



I never tried to reproduce it on Zebra as I don't master it nearly enough (and don't even know if it's possible)

[waltercruz]

necro-reviving the thread: I did a Have a Cigar lead patch for Zebra that I even use to play with my Pink Floyd cover band. I tought that I had posted it here on kvr, but as I can't find, I will post it here.

[Chris-S]

I never tried to reproduce it on Zebra as I don't master it nearly enough (and don't even know if it's possible)

Should be possible. 90% is the right playing and the (phaser?) fx.

In this video Kebu plays the ARP on a simple Alpha-Juno.

[Brittlestem]

As for other classic sounds, is there no love for Japan here? IMO pretty much all the sounds in Ghosts were classics, but I'd plump for the opening lead and the pluck. Tin Drum was a great album. I always skip the first two tracks, but the rest...

Agreed, get's my vote.