Synth(s) used in "Ghosts" by Japan?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 62 posts since 5 Dec, 2004
I've been wondering which synths were used in "Ghosts" by Japan. There are some very unique sounds for its time; they sound a lot like FM to me. Then again, the "Tin Drum" album was released in 1981, so it could not have been Yamaha DX7 (as it came out in 1983), which was my first guess until I checked the years. David Sylvian and Richard Barbieri are credited for keyboard programming, so essentially the question is which keyboard(s) they programmed and how. Anyone?
- Beware the Quoth
- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 62 posts since 5 Dec, 2004
Thanks! I did a search for "japan ghosts" so it didn't pick that one up, too specific. They really did stretch themselves, like Sylvian said in the SoS interview. Heh, "tried to emulate fictitious musical instruments" -- the true purpose of a synthesizer, IMHO.
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- KVRer
- 1 posts since 23 Jan, 2016
Barbieri used mainly three synths during his time with Japan. Roland System 700, Oberheim OBX and Sequencial Circuits Prophet 5. On Ghost the most prominent synth is the Oberheim with detuned oscillators that synth really is the sound of the two last albums of Japan. You can do the same type of sound with any Oberheim SEM and most SEM clones I use a Anyware Instruments Semtex XL and it can do any Japan sound seamlessly.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33159 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
colobenima wrote:Barbieri used mainly three synths during his time with Japan. Roland System 700, Oberheim OBX and Sequencial Circuits Prophet 5. On Ghost the most prominent synth is the Oberheim with detuned oscillators that synth really is the sound of the two last albums of Japan. You can do the same type of sound with any Oberheim SEM and most SEM clones I use a Anyware Instruments Semtex XL and it can do any Japan sound seamlessly.
Its entirely possible that in the last 7 years, the original poster has worked it out.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
- KVRAF
- 35275 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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Winstontaneous Winstontaneous https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=98336
- KVRAF
- 2351 posts since 15 Feb, 2006 from Berkeley, CA
That is a reasonable surmise, yet any Mick Karn fan knows that Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters.whyterabbyt wrote:colobenima wrote:Barbieri used mainly three synths during his time with Japan. Roland System 700, Oberheim OBX and Sequencial Circuits Prophet 5. On Ghost the most prominent synth is the Oberheim with detuned oscillators that synth really is the sound of the two last albums of Japan. You can do the same type of sound with any Oberheim SEM and most SEM clones I use a Anyware Instruments Semtex XL and it can do any Japan sound seamlessly.
Its entirely possible that in the last 7 years, the original poster has worked it out.
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 31 Mar, 2017
The main drone sound was a Prophet 5 and the big string sound also. The stabby chord sound was the Oberheim and the amazing s-hold sound at the beginning and end of the song was a Roland system 700
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el-bo (formerly ebow) el-bo (formerly ebow) https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=208007
- KVRAF
- 16369 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
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