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I was listening to Eurhythmics' "Love is a stranger" earlier tonight, and I finally remembered what this synth was called.

In addition to being Dave Stewart's workhorse synth on the first 4 or 5 Eurhythmics albums, it was Gillian Gilbert's main synth on New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies and Low-Life albums, so give it up for the little Octave Voyetra 8! :D

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amazing video here - most of the instruments are pre-synth, but there's some cool old-skool synthage to be had. Cool to see 360 Systems and RMI represented. :D

In case you're curious, the RMI featured a sort of card reader; you either filled in little squares or punched holes (don't remember which) to "draw" the waveform you wanted, and the RMI would read the waveform and create it.

Its 2 most famous users were Rick Wakeman (on his 2nd go-round with Yes) and Roger Powell, who used one both with David Bowie and with Utopia.

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Richard Tandy of ELO has always been one of my favorite keyboardists. He was the first keyboardist who made me want to do keyboard-heavy music. I at one time knew what he used, but that knowledge long left my brain.

Skip to 1:57 if you want to get right to the man at work:

Oh, and this - Jean Jacques Perrey rocks my all-time favorite, The Moog:

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