I was wondering recently what the old heads used to use to make their tunes, the bleepy kind of stuff from 91/92 I would assume there are soft synths these days that people could use, Massive has a couple of old sounds, but apart from that not much else I can find. So basically what keyboards/synths did they use in the old days, Anyone know?
The most famous synth I'd say was the Roland Juno 2, as it wasnt too expensive yet had some great rave type presets including the famous hoover sound.
It had digital oscillators which although not as 'phat' as analogue ones, were at least stable. The filter section was analogue though. The Juno 106 was also very popular.
A lot of roland kit was worthy of use in early rave tunes, the mc202 was a very good bleep machine, and being quite cheap it was accessable by producers on a lower budget.
I would say though, that most tunes from 91-92 were made using atari computers or amiga's. The atari 520 st came out in 1985, and had midi ports in the rear, meaning you could use it (with the right software) to trigger synths or drum machines etc. The amiga was later 1987 but could be upgraded with a hardware plug-in with midi sockets. Cubase had already been around for a while, bars & pipes was another decent music software release, and even trackers like pro-tracker were used to good effect, so there was plenty of music software to use. Sampling could be done with hardware plug-in sampler 'cartridges' (I had one for my amiga 1200).
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Korg M1
Korg Wavestation
Roland D-50
Roland JV
Roland JD
Roland Jupiter 8
Roland Juno 60
Roland SH-101
Roland TB-303
Ensoniq ESQ 1
Ensoniq SQ-80
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha TX81Z
That about covers all the popular synths
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As Above with a TR808 or TR 909 and you have everything you need .Originally Posted by J3D
Might have to win the lottery now to get some of them now like
I have a juno 6 and a alpha juno 2
never use them much but i cant part with them
Last edited by th3soundguy; 16th April 2011 at 23:37.
Jamie (J3D) gave a good list there, and I agree 99% with his choices. Would just add though, that anyone who could afford all that kit back then would have had to have some serious money behind them, and many of the best oldskool tunes were made on very limited equipment (some justice for example).
I would also add, many of the best rave sounds were made on very cheap naff equipment like shitty casio keyboards, plugged into FX modules to drastically alter the sounds and change them from 'cheese' to 'mental'- So back then, just as it is now, it aint 'what you got' its more 'what you can do with what you got' using imagination and knowledge, thats what gets results.
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dont forget many artists back then booked studio time and would try
to cram a tune out and mixed down with in a 4 hour period !
some times the results where quality ie. wishdokta
but other times well you can pick from hundreds of shite tracks lol !
many bedroom producers still had some alright gear i mean look at
Liam Howletts bedroom in his pocky studio flat back in 1991.
Now a days though definitely half of that gear cost a fortune
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The most famous synth I'd say was the Roland Juno 2, as it wasnt too expensive yet had some great rave type presets including the famous hoover sound.
It had digital oscillators which although not as 'phat' as analogue ones, were at least stable. The filter section was analogue though. The Juno 106 was also very popular.
A lot of roland kit was worthy of use in early rave tunes, the mc202 was a very good bleep machine, and being quite cheap it was accessable by producers on a lower budget.
I would say though, that most tunes from 91-92 were made using atari computers or amiga's. The atari 520 st came out in 1985, and had midi ports in the rear, meaning you could use it (with the right software) to trigger synths or drum machines etc. The amiga was later 1987 but could be upgraded with a hardware plug-in with midi sockets. Cubase had already been around for a while, bars & pipes was another decent music software release, and even trackers like pro-tracker were used to good effect, so there was plenty of music software to use. Sampling could be done with hardware plug-in sampler 'cartridges' (I had one for my amiga 1200
That's some propa old school information there. I've heard of trackers (never bars and pipes?) bit before my time, I never got my first computer till 1999, and even then the programmes were shit compared to now, even now I still don't understand how they used midi in those 91/92 days, or samplers for that matter.
that's a good list of keyboards, just the info I was looking for, cheers
gonna try and look for some softsynth variants, and maybe one proper keyboard, if I can find a cheap one, (£50)
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The yamaha tg500 made great pads. I think Essence Of Aura used on several of their tracks.
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