Wings - With a Little Luck synth sound?

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How would I recreate that organ/train horn synth sound? I gather it was done on a Prophet5 (Is that what Denny's playing in the video? edit: Doesn't look like it...). I downloaded Prophanity, but I don't even no where to start.



edit2: I wonder if this was actually done with a CS80...
edit3: ME80 sounds closer; but I'm still pretty overwhelmed.

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Denny is clearly playing a CS-80 in the clip. That doesn't necessarily mean that it was a CS-80 on the record. I think that it probably was a CS-80. From listening to it, it has that independent voice modulation that you get from the CS-80's poly aftertouch. I don't think it would have been a Prophet, regardless. Wings' London town album was released in March 1978. Dave Smith just barely got the Prophet prototype working in time for the NAMM show in January 1978, so even if McCartney had first dibs on a production model, it is unlikely to have been on Londontown. (The Prophet is featured on Wonderful Christmas Time, released in 1979.) I read somewhere that the Yamaha CS-80 was theoretically available in 1976, but wasn't REALLY available to mere mortals until 1978. Paul McCartney, of course, is not a mere mortal. In another video Denny Lane and McCartney are each playing a CS-80, because, if one is good, two are better. FYI there's a bootleg demo of With a Little Luck on Youtube without the synth. It is boring compared to the released version.
Steve Conslaw

Put your hands up and come out slowly. He has a synthesizer, and he's not afraid to use it.

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My other favorite CS-80 records are Love Stinks by the J. Geils Band and Bloody Tourists by 10CC.
Steve Conslaw

Put your hands up and come out slowly. He has a synthesizer, and he's not afraid to use it.

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