Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – If You Leave
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2009 single If You Leave.
Music from If You Leave
Gear Used On If You Leave
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – If You Leave (2009). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Paul Humphreys
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Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Paul Humphreys on If You Leave
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expensive tools he cannot do without. The Fairlight is a writing tool via its versatile composition/sequencing section, Page R (so-called because of its positioning on the computer menu). The X suffix indicates the MIDI update, which came as something of a blessing to OMD in that they weren't too happy with the Fairlight's sampling facilities. Now they can link it to their Emu II.
"And," says Paul, "the MIDI in the Fairlight is really fast — we've had no flamming problems (split second delays) like we've had before when we've had long MIDI chains. It's most noticeable on bass things, I think — when we were in LA last October we hired in some gear to record 'If You Leave', our gear hadn't arrived from England. I was playing keyboard bass on that, a JP8, DX7 and an Emulator II, and I had real problems with flamming of the separate bass sounds that I'd MIDI'd up on each of the three keyboards, very percussive bass sounds, very sharp attack, so it was very noticeable. We had to do a lot of adjustments to get that right."
