Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

It's not hard to afford synth as long as you got a job. It all depends, like Jakob said, on what things you choose to spend money on (beside the bills). If you choose to spend money on partying, new clothes, a car, motorcycle or electronic stuff (Flat screen TV, DVD, videogames, computers etc) you ...

I bought an E-bow for my Fender Stratocaster so now I can make some sounds with my guitar that can be mistaken for a synth. Next purchase will be a melodica, a glockenspiel and a smallstone phaser. Then I'm going for a new bass and a Moog LP II.

Jakob BC wrote:Yes what exactly are ya doing with these? As far as I remember you have also shown pics of Jupiter-8 and Prophet-5, just to mention a few.

JMJ replica covers.

Though that plucky sound could just as easily be done on the ARP2600, as always with some of these sounds one can't be a 100% sure unless one asks JMJ.
It could have been the ARP if JMJ used an external sequencer. I don't think that he played that by hand (I bet Francis could do it ;) ).

AFAIK ...

It will probably get sold. The price is stupid though. I didn't pay anywhere near that for mine a year ago and I wouldn't spend that amount on a one trick pony. The Solina is a great machine but there are cheaper and equally good string machines out there. My advice is to keep searching. Don't let ...

Nice. Contemporary strings, the melody is even more minimalist sounding than Jarre :shock: perhaps some reverb :punch:

And I miss those swoosh effects :( :punch:
More minimalist than Jarre? If you're thinking about the end - yes. But then the old man himself was pretty minimalistic on the ...

I haven't tried it yet, but as a start Im very sceptical about it. Not the sound but the programming process. I have never seen it as an advantage to cut down the amount of knobs. It makes the synth too isolated.
I totally agree with you on that one. But compared to other VA:s with few knobs the ...

Ugly. But I don't like synths with handles. Too 80's.

But I did like the version without the neck. Looks a little bit like a Pro One.

So he still had his EKO Computerhythm back in 1992. Cool!
Then I guess that he still owns it considering that only two EKO:s have changed owners (AFAIK) since then. None of them belonged to JMJ. Ok, one of them might have been JMJ:s. But I don't think that this is the case.

Too bad he didn't ...

Looks nice but it's way too expensive. I'd rather keep using my Mtron.

GJ: Nice one. I agree what you said about the MS20.

I'm thinking about getting a PS3 (again) just for this game. :) I loved Vice City but disliked SA because it was too much "gangsta". Hip Hop is not my cup of tea. Besides that it felt as if they've made a map with too many dead spots instead of improving the graphics.

But GTAIV seems to be ...

I think some else here also suggested that the Rhythmin' Computer isn't a standalone piece of original kit, but merely a combination of the Harmonic Synthesizer and Minipops, or HS and EKO CR.
That could be true. But if the EKO was used on Oxygene it would be only as a trig device. There are no ...

Yeah but he failed to mention the Minipops on both. Meaning there could be other things that he also, either thought wasn't worth mentioning or he'd rather keep the 'secret' of how he did it to himself.
Very true. But he did say "Rhythmin' Computer". So at least he mention that he used a ...

I remember discussing it in late 2006 on EM forum, and it's been discussed here. But I still don't know if he used the 2600 or the RMI for that sequence. Or how it was sequenced in the first place, though LeoDav makes a pretty good case that it was done with 2 ARP sequencers.
I don't think that ...