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37 mentions in 18 episodes.

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28:27 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“We were sampling some sounds with the sound design with Moogs or MS-20s, or a very rare synth called the Syrinx.”
Crash-cymbal substitutes and percussive sound design on Moon Safari came from analogue synths including the Korg MS-20.
1:08:27 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“We knew this MS-20 for so long. We bought it in a pawn shop in Versailles in 1985, and that's JB's first keyboard, and he still has it.”
JB Dunckel's 1985 pawn-shop Korg MS-20 is a lifelong instrument he plays like an extension of himself.
1:40:15 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“This is what JB does on the MS-20, and he does that every night on stage... the one that was bought in the pawn shop in 1985.”
The free-running, out-of-sync MS-20 loop on La Femme d'Argent is still performed live on the same 1985 unit.

Barry Cant Swim

46:38 · M1 · named · high confidence
“It's actually a Korg M1 acoustic bass, just doing this... on its own it sounds so shit, but in context you'd never know”
The convincing double bass on Wandering Mount Moon is the Korg M1 acoustic bass patch, which he says only works in context.
1:49:40 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“I have an original Korg MS-20 which I don't actually use as a synth... you can run audio into it and it has these incredible filters”
O'Flynn runs bass through his original MS-20's filters for resonant sweeps and harmonic character.
1:50:39 · Kaoss Pad · named · high confidence
“A lot of my setup is like I have a Korg Chaos Pad and all my modular stuff is more to affect sound than really create sound”
O'Flynn's Kaoss Pad and modular gear are used as processors to breathe life into otherwise ordinary sounds.

Bleachers

41:57 · M1 · named · high confidence
“I start with just some rhythm. So I'm on the M1. I like the drums on the M1. That's just M1 drums.”
Korg M1 drum presets, with their built-in early-90s reverbs, form the rigid grid at the heart of 'We Should Talk'.
48:07 · M1 · named · high confidence
“Well, then now it goes major, but this is a Juno and an M1.”
A Korg M1 layered with a Juno provides the suspended chord information in Call Me After Midnight.
1:01:37 · M1 · named · high confidence
“It's the M1, the Korg M1... I think it's the Piano 16 patch. M1 is a great keyboard and they're not terribly expensive.”
Answering a listener question, Antonoff reveals the piano sound in Call Me After Midnight is a lightly chorused Korg M1 piano preset.
1:17:02 · Korg synth (unspecified) · named · medium confidence
“That says Korg. I don't know which Korg that would be. It's cool. Just kind of suspending”
An unidentified Korg track providing suspended notes in the 'Dancing' session.
1:33:16 · M1 · named · high confidence
“gear that feels timeless. LinnDrum, M1, Copicat, et cetera”
Listed by a Patreon questioner as a signature part of Jack Antonoff's sound palette.

Bob Vylan

1:22:39 · microKorg · named · medium confidence
“And then I used MicroKorg to get some little bits in the end of it”
A microKorg added synth touches to the outro of 'Makes Me Violent'.

Bombay Bicycle Club

51:45 · Monotron · named · high confidence
“Shout out to the Korg Monotron. This tiny plastic instrument with AA batteries... nothing does squiggles better than this.”
The band's long-serving Korg Monotron (initially misnamed 'Mellotron') provides the dubby psychedelic squiggles on the track and has been used since their fourth record.

Charli XCX

33:42 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“we've loaded all these MS-20, MS-20 Phaser, Vermona, Prophet stuff”
MS-20 recordings from the studio jam are loaded as source material for the Concatenator plugin.
1:31:58 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“It's like one Minimoog and one MS-20”
The Korg MS-20 supplies the lower synth/white-noise layer in the heavy drop of 'rock music'.

Clean Bandit

14:44 · Polysix · named · high confidence
“A few synths that we leaned on quite heavily, like Polysix is in a lot of — that's in the build of Symphony. That stabby pluck is just a Poly 6 on a default setting with the filter opening up.”
Korg Polysix named as one of Clean Bandit's core signature synths, used for the build and the stabby plucks in Symphony's second verse.
19:53 · MS-20 · named · medium confidence
“I think that's an MS-20 doing the bass, just that sub.”
Korg MS-20 credited with the sub bass in Symphony.
45:57 · Polysix · named · high confidence
“And then the Poly 6... that's the same sound that we used in the verses in Symphony, which is this guy, the Korg. And you just take out the top end.”
The Korg Polysix reappears in Crybaby using the same patch approach as Symphony's verses.

HAIM

1:01:12 · Trident · named · high confidence
“that's my Korg Trident. It's the first vintage synth that I bought... the buzzy bass sound on the Phoenix song 1901”
Rostam bought the Korg Trident to chase the bass tone from Phoenix's 1901 and uses it alongside piano in Down to Be Wrong.
1:12:06 · A5 guitar processor · named · high confidence
“this guitar pedal is an outboard 1U unit called the Korg A5... once you find the right preset, it's the exact tone”
Rostam tracked down the Korg A5 that The Edge used, calling it plug-and-play for the Numb guitar tone and other Achtung Baby sounds.
1:49:05 · M1 · named · medium confidence
“it was like the Neptunes or Timbaland mixing real instruments, organic instruments with the M1 or whatever”
Danielle cites early-2000s producers blending live instruments with Korg M1 sounds as a formative influence.

Hayley Williams

1:24:22 · MS-20 · named · medium confidence
“There's an MS-20, it looks like she used, and maybe a Prophet.”
Inspecting Steph Marziano's session, Daniel spots an MS-20 used for the grinding bass layers in Parachute.

Jamie xx

18:00 · Delta · named · high confidence
“this synth, the Korg Delta that I got in Japan, where when you take your finger off the note, it plays another note”
A Korg Delta bought in Japan provided the string-like counter-melody in 'Breather' using its note-off retrigger mode.

Kasabian

17:02 · M1 · named · medium confidence
“Usually people can go and they'll show you some like Korg M1 and you go, nah, it's definitely not that, mate.”
Serge uses the Korg M1 as the example of a wrong-sound suggestion, contrasted with co-producer Mark Ralph instantly identifying the synth and delay he was imagining.

Lorde

12:00 · Polysix · named · high confidence
“This is basically just like a drum loop beat I made, a Korg Poly 6 playing super basic chords, and Ella's vocal on an SM7”
The very first Favourite Daughter demo was built on a Korg Polysix playing simple chords.
31:24 · Polysix · named · high confidence
“the next big element for us was just the Polysix arp... Polysix is on almost everything and often takes centre stage”
The Korg Polysix arpeggio is described as a cornerstone of the sonic language of the whole Virgin album.

Maribou State

23:45 · MS2000B · named · high confidence
“We had a Nord Stage and a Korg MS-2000B”
Early Marabou State writing trips ran on a Korg MS2000B, which they later felt sounded one-dimensional.
32:44 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“and then also these MS-20 bits... the MS-20 is like my favourite synth”
The Korg MS-20 doubles melodies in Black Oak and is processed to sound organic, like a talkbox or sax — named as their favourite synth.
1:23:05 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“I've got a Prophet-8, MS-20, Moog Matriarch, and a Nord Stage”
Liam's live keyboard rig includes the MS-20 alongside Prophet, Matriarch and Nord Stage.

Olly Alexander

46:34 · Korg MS-10 · named · high confidence
“They're called a Korg MS-10. I do actually have a single analog synthesizer in my room... it's really good for these white noisy little sounds”
The only hardware synth in Harle's Hackney room; used for the white-noise percussion details in Cupid's Bow because no plugin reproduces that noise.
57:38 · Triton · named · high confidence
“There's a synth that I can get up on my screen for you, which is the Triton, which is a synthesizer that I very much love. And it's these drums here”
The gated snare and drum kit on 'Beautiful' come from the Korg Triton, whose internal effects he auditions and strips back.
1:30:48 · Triton · named · medium confidence
“Another Triton. A lot of Triton on this”
Many of the one-shot vocal-style samples and counting '1, 2, 3, 4' hits in 'Polari' also come from the Korg Triton.

Porter Robinson

1:45:48 · M1 · named · medium confidence
“The M1 organ is still in there. We got the sub coming from the Juno.”
A Korg M1 organ patch (inspired by Coldplay's 'Fix You') carries the funeral-like breakdown in Russian Roulette.

RDS

31:45 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“we were playing with, I think, the MS-20, just slamming the rezo up and making these alien, almost theremin noises”
A single-note MS-20 patch with hand-drawn resonance automation created the wild theremin-like lead melody in Pressure's build.
1:29:43 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“there's this bass that we tracked on the MS-20... we love the MS-20, that noise on the filter sounds so nice”
An MS-20 bass gives Exhale its rhythmic undercarriage, with the filter noise prized as part of the sound.

Rudimental

54:09 · M1 · named · high confidence
“It's a bit like M1, and I think it was a blend. I had like the actual M1”
An actual Korg M1 sound was blended with the Serum preset for the Green and Gold riff.

St. Vincent

55:08 · MS-20 · named · high confidence
“this Buchla and the Publison, and a symphony of MS-20s run through an amp captured by ribbon mics”
Layers on 'Sweetest Fruit' include multiple Korg MS-20s re-amped and recorded with ribbon mics.