Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2010 album Returnal.
Music from Returnal
Artists on Returnal
Gear Used On Returnal
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal (2010). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Studio Equipment used by Oneohtrix Point Never on Returnal
Q: Do you use the computer to generate any of your sounds per se, or is it strictly a way for you to edit and arrange?
A: "Not really. I use YouTube a lot. I use some other synths. But I don't use any sound-generating software."
and later in the interview:
Q: Do you think of YouTube as an instrument?
A: "Well, I was, but post-working with Antony [Hegarty, on a piano-and-voice version of "Returnal"], I'm into the piano again. My mom and dad will be on the next record, you can bet that."
Q: It's interesting because you have YouTube, this very abstract and impersonal thing, next to this synthesizer you've known since you were one year old. It's a divide.
A: "Well, I feel like any analysis of our generation has to start with the idea that we're linkmasters between centralized and decentralized cultures. Before Prodigy, through Prodigy, through Navigator, and now, Tube. What that means is that we're primed to be cyber-anthropologists and make "discoveries," but we still remember a time when we'd go to Newbury Comics and check out the staff picks. It's such an important part of the psychological makeup of our generation. It's just my social and familial reality. It's really heavy for me, but when I step back and look at all of it, it makes perfect sense."
Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Oneohtrix Point Never on Returnal
Avg price: $2,000.00
Q: Every time I've seen you play, you're using a [Roland] Juno-60. Is that your bedrock?
A: "It was my dad's. He bought it in 1983, when I was one year old. He bought the Juno because he couldn't afford the Yamaha DX-7, which was like the pop synth at the time."
Q: And you just inherited it at some point?
A: "Yeah, I really loved it as a child—it looked like a cockpit dashboard. I think it made me resent the Samick piano upstairs. Like, the Juno was in the dark, in a cold basement under a plastic sheet, and the Samick was upstairs and it signified MOM BEATDOWNS. She was my teacher, strict Russian-style, but she let me quit piano, so she wasn't really that strict. Anyway, I started using the Juno in high school. I was in a jam band with my best friends. We wanted to sound like Herbie Hancock Thrust. "
