I said, ‘What’s so special about it?’, and he said, ‘Look at the knobs, the filters and all of that – it is a ‘synth-e-sizer’!’. I hadn’t even heard the name but he connected it and it was the first time I’d heard that fat analogue sound. That was the Minimoog and we thought, ‘This is the next step’. First the drum machine, next the Minimoog and then Florian then bought an ARP synthesizer.”
And suddenly Kraftwerk had a sound like no one else… “We used to make our music in a pop song type of structure, but everything was made with ‘computer music’,” says Flür. “I think we were the first. I’ve not heard of any other group that used those instruments so early. They were brand new.”
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I will definitely watch/listen to the full episode. Here is the Musicradar article on it:
This is also a "software downsizing " advice I guess. Do we really need 15 of them?
"So I started to subtract things out of my life, and I started getting very good at the things that I kept. For instance, software synthesizers. 90% of what I do is done on one software synth. I’ve been working with that thing for so many years now, and I still haven’t run out of ideas.
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Here’s a shiny new interview with Mieda-san about his thoughts on designing Korg’s PS-3300.
I didn’t know anything about it!
