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Hey, in songs like "On the Run" by Pink Floyd off Darkside, how do they get all the weird synth sounds? It sounds like something is looping, but what type hardware do you use for that stuff?
 
GroovyGroundhog said:
Hey, in songs like "On the Run" by Pink Floyd off Darkside, how do they get all the weird synth sounds? It sounds like something is looping, but what type hardware do you use for that stuff?
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Its a sequencer.

There is other stuff happening like changes of reverb, panning, possible tape looping, changing the settings of the synth, etc. but the main lick is an old-fashioned sequencer. It would be very easy to do something like that today with just about anything from Cakewalk to Fruity loops.
 
On "DSOTM" Pink Floyd were making ample use of the VCS3 synthesizer, aka the "Putney." It is a very primordial analog synth that you don't really play traditional with keys because the tuning is so bad. You pretty much set up a sound and let it do its thing.

Best bet to get something like that is look for the freeware synth called the Arppe 2600. It's free and is based on a synth (the ARP 2600) that is of a very similar vintage and approach.

It's just analog synth craziness. Don't try to sequence or program it via MIDI--just set up a patch and see how it works. If it sucks program another. That's how they did it back in the old days.
 
Using Cakewalk how? Midi?
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I would get very comfortable with a subtractive synth first. Wright and Waters had a lot of stuff going on there and the Putney had a gang of modulation options (Its the same synth Pete Townsend used for that Who song) but a ARP2600 and there are like 3 different companies making a VST version, would be a good start since it allows you would route audio to different locations
 
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