Yamaha CS01II plays ICE MACHINE by Depeche Mode by peahix published on 2011-05-18T21:57:00Z The Yamaha CS01II is the first real synthesizer I ever owned. I got it when I was about 14 years old, back in 1985 or so. I noticed that I could get reasonable approximations of most of the sounds from Depeche Mode's "Speak & Spell" album with it, but at the time I didn't have the means to make decent multi-track cover versions, even after I got a 4-track. Recently I was studying the Depeche Mode 5.1 surround mixes, and realized that I could clearly hear all the distinct parts of alot of the songs, so I decided to throw together some renditions using just my trusty old Yamaha CS01II as the sole sound source (including the drums), just to see how close I could get to the originals. This version has no vocals at all, but otherwise it comes pretty close to the original. The actual musical arrangement is about 100% accurate. The sounds themselves are of course only approximations, and most of them don't have the same level of timbral detail as the ARP originals. I sequenced the whole thing in Cubase via a Kenton Pro Solo going into the custom CV/Gate inputs on my CS01II, recording each monophonic line in one at a time. Cubase provided the reverb and EQ, otherwise it's all CS01II. Genre Synthpop Comment by Aquifex03 nice work - the the mini CS synths, also the big ones 2021-03-10T22:57:39Z Comment by mvk_il It's so VERY :) 2016-08-21T18:51:55Z Comment by Ramsey Sounds unbelievable we both chose to do a version of this and 2 weeks later we meet! excellent job 2014-09-23T22:42:57Z Comment by PiliPali Records The Mix 2013-03-24T11:07:35Z Comment by Spacelight Very close to the original , better than my version , Great 2012-10-25T03:36:34Z Comment by Jam Jar Jimmy My favourite warm up piece. You've done justice to all of these. Braw! 2012-09-12T14:55:48Z Comment by denial.of.service simply stunning cover ! utterly emotive in its vox-less faithfulness ! 2012-02-20T18:36:18Z Comment by ledcat4 thank you 2012-01-08T04:36:58Z Comment by Peter Mörck Absolutely brilliant!!! 2011-05-28T13:19:50Z