Le son Funk et Electro Funk des années 80 lui doit tout, merci Dave Smith qui a pensé le premier à controler ce synthé avec un microprocesseur le Z80, de midnight Star à Genesis, tous l'utilisait , j'en possède un midi rev3.3 et c'est une merveille.
Patrick Cowley article on a website saying most of his stuff was just a single Prophet 5 overdubbed over and over again...so credit it to the Frisco sound as well.
DV: Do you still retain a love for and a collection of hardware synths from the 1980s and 1990s? Plus, do you find the proliferation of software synths available to electronic musicians today useful in your current workflow?
I still have my original Prophet 5, that I used on ‘Rainforest’ and ’19', plus a Moog and lots of Korg rack synths. But I do love the Omnisphere and Ivory soft-synths amongst others.
DV: Just what synths and drum machines made up that archetypal ‘Hardcastle ‘ sound spanning the days of ‘RainForest’, through to ’19' itself? That’s a simple one – it was an 808, a Prophet 5 and DX7 flute. That’s all that was used in Rainforest, plus a real piano.
Interview of Hubert Eaves III from D-TRAIN about the Prophet 5 : All of the D-train material was soley Prophet 5: bass, leads, strings, brass, F/X. You can recognize it after having one for awhile. Prophet 5 in particular was the central analog synth in NY club music for the first half of the 80s.
That first album of Man Parrish except for a few overdubs was basically done in my bedroom on an eight track/channel Tascam tape recorder and mixer. Hip hop bebop was just basically me playing around with some sounds and grooves that then got developed into the track you here now. I basically had three synthesizers and the drum machine on that track. Prophet One (ProOne) Prophet 5, an Oberheim Expander Module and the 8 step analog sequencer that came with it, and of course the Roland 808 Drum Machine. You have to remember, this was all way before midi, and before computers! We had to do all kinds of tricks to synchronize the different tracks on tape to play at the same time… Everything from punching in and out of the track, overdubs, and using the 808 drum machine to send trigger pulses, via the rimshot pattern, to advance the analog sequencer to the next step. We basically wrote the sequencer rhythm part on the drum machine, and the sound of the rimshot pulsing would drive the analog sequencer. Remember we had no midi. We used something called “control voltages” to two oscillators back in those days. Basically it was a nightmare… LOL
Producer [Assistant], Arranged By [Rhythm], Backing Vocals, Handclaps, Piano, Synthesizer [Moog, Moog Bass, Prophet] – Kashif
Artwork – Georges Tourdjman, Roger Jorry
Bass [Guitar] – Sauveur Mallia
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Pierre-Alain Dahan
Engineer – Paul Scemama, Steve Tayler*
Guitar, Percussion, Vocals – Slim Pezin
Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals – Marc Chantereau
Programmed By [Prophet Synthesizer] – Joël Fajerman
Synthesizer – Georges Rodi
