How so? I don't care which synths I use, as long as the result sounds good. I don't see a part and think that it has to be a specific synth. I might think a certain synth will be less work than another but that's about as far as it ever goes. It's exactly like choosing the right spanner (wrench) to get to a nut in a tight space in an engine bay. Like a mechanic's toolbox, you have your favourite tools that you'll always pick up first - I love my ratchet ring-spanners - but when they don't look like getting the job done, you'll look elsewhere.
If I only had one synth to use, though, I'm sure I could still produce NOVAkILL songs, because what makes it a NOVAkILL song is not bound to the instruments we've used on it. In fact, the old songs we still play live have probably been through 3 or 4 total rebuilds - when we moved from hardware to software, when we moved from 32 bit to 64 bit Orion, when we moved from Orion to Cubase and again when I moved from Cubase to Studio One - where every instrument has been changed out for something else, yet they still sound like us. How could they not?
Then it was the wrong counterpoint to what I'd been saying. And I didn't like any of the synth sounds on either of those songs. The second one sounds like an exercise in making synths sound horrible, something I've never had any trouble doing, since I bought my first one in 1981. It's much harder to make them sound good._leras wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:52 pmThe point was the range of tonality of the sounds. From a light poppy clean sound to the dirty resonant.
Which synth? It's all synth, except the drums, but Billy Currie's Odyssey solo is very definitely not like anything Jarre would ever have even thought to do. This one is even moreso, although the song itself is not at all Punk -That Ultravox has a more punk edge to the song, but... the synth sounds like jean michel jarre. It's not a punky, or new wave, synth sound.
