sfd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:34 am He's aiming for a soundtrack. Not a synthpop tune. "There must Be An Angel" isn't so synth-y at all
I'de be interested in hear somehting like "1984" or "Sounds Like A Melody" made with Proteus, M1 and / or DX7
Either way, Starting off with a soundtrack project by looking for synths is starting in the worng end.
You're right, of course. I'm more thinking like Bones did, as in covering a wider era, basically 1982-1987 (the songs, DX7 and PPG) and 1988-1993 (Proteus and M1). [And just so you know, I once did a cover of 1984 using the Proteus 1. ]
Honestly, I'd start out buying a PPG software synth (the electric pianos of the DX7 would also be suitable, but mostly for movie genres we'd hope to forget... ). That way, it'd be easy to start coming up with themes that would work well for the synth and time (yes Bones, I know I'm referring to the mid 80's ).
Speaking of which, I recall Wolfgang Palm had true PPG clones in his store before, and now there is only the one I pointed to above. I don't know if it covers all of the old synths' territory. Does anyone know?
Also note el-bo's long post. A lot of good pointers and thoughts in there.