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Excerpt of an interview with Vince Clarke via Digital Trends.
DT: What would you consider the first song you wrote that made you think, “Hey, I can really do this”?
Vince: Probably a track called “Ice Machine,” the B-side of the first Depeche Mode single [“Dreaming of Me,” released February 21, 1981]. I was working it all out. The harmonies came together, and the melody came together. Everything came together.
DT: The work that you created in that era came to define the electronic movement. Did you have a conscious sense of the scene shifting away from guitar to synthesizer?
Vince: Not really; it was more of just what interested me at the time. Gary Numan was out there, and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark had their first single, “Electricity” [released May 21, 1979]. The B-side was a track called “Almost.” It was almost acoustic music done with synthesizers. I heard that and thought, “Well, that’s interesting. That would be a cool thing to do.”
DT: What was the first synthesizer you bought?
Vince: The Kawai Syntheszier-100 F. It cost 175 pounds, I think. I bought it in 1980.
DT: Where did you get the money for it?
Vince: I had lots of jobs. Getting that synth was the only thing that was important to me.
Side note: How cool is Vince’s rig in this photo!?
References: Digital Trends, Gear forum.
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Happy birthday to Dave Gahan from(yesterday)❤️
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This man is honestly so inspirational years and years ago he was an addict and he recovered from flatlining now if you don't think that's inspirational you need to get the hell out. He was truly truly amazing and Depeche modes music got me through difficult times love you Dave I hope you had an excellent birthday ❤️ -
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Depeche Mode - Dreaming of me (their first single) Live 1981
To be honest, I love ‘Speak and spell’, it’s so dreamy and naive
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Roland VP-330 & SVC-350 [1979]
Probably the most notable example of the Roland Vocoder plus is Laurie Anderson’s 1981 hit “O Superman”.
The Vocoder Plus is a paraphonic ten band vocoder and string machine manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1979 and 1980.
If you’ve ever wondered what paraphonic means- it’s when a synth can play multiple pitches at once, but those pitches share part of their electronic signal paths.
Back in the late 1970’s, synthesizers were still pretty expensive to manufacture. Paraphonic synthesizers aimed to achieve something that sounded similar to polyphony at a fraction of the cost.
Getting back to the Roland Vocoder Plus- it had a string section, choir and a human voice sound. Its three sound sections offered different presets, editable with de-tuning and vibrato.
Like Roland's other string machines of the era, such as the RS-202 that came out a few years earlier in 1976, it featured a BBD-based ensemble effect that thickens the strings, and optionally the choirs and vocoder. The term “BBD” stands for bucket-brigade device and is a discrete-time analog delay line.
The VP-330 is very similar to Roland’s SVC-350. The SVC-350 is basically a rack-mount version of the VP-330 with a graphic EQ section, although the SVC-350 has 11 bands instead of of the VP-330’s 10.
Notable users: Vangelis (this synth was used on the Chariots of Fire and Bladerunner soundtracks), Yellow Magic Orchestra, Vince Clarke, Laurie Anderson, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd.
References: Vintage Synth Explorer, Matrix Synth, Retro Synth Ads (photo), Wiki.