Noriyuki Iwadare

"This one has my go-to Analog Brass! I have a lot of usual choices for instruments in my mind"

"I'm sleepy as heck right now and am fighting the urge to crawl back into my futon while editing a bass. Hang in there, Trilian!!"

"I also use a PC DAW, of course. Right now, it's MOTU Digital Performer 10. "

As seen in his studio (third from bottom).

Noriyuki Iwadare praises the Korg Triton Rack Synthesizer for its unique and irreplaceable sound, as highlighted in an article by ALBORADA DEL GRACIOSO.

"I also use this occasionally to produce analog bass. Easy to edit, easy to understand"

As seen in his studio (first photo).

As seen in his studio (second from bottom). "This one ultimately became my only FM tone generator"

In this interview, he says that he used Ivory in 2009.

"I seldom use it now, but I use it as a substitution sound source when I have to work in a hurry" Iwadare also said in a tweet that he bought it for Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994): https://twitter.com/iwadaren/status/1445765250985312266

"Almost all songs used to be made with this before, and there's a large amount of timbres in it, so it's a reliable instrument that anyone could manage to understand"

In this interview, he says that he used Trilogy in 2009.

"As for what I recorded at home, I had a tuned-up mandolin that created some mystifying tune, somewhat like a biwa."

In this interview, he says that he used the E - mu E - 6400 in 2009.

"I still make use of this for leads, sequences etc. It doesn't have any other merits, in my opinion"

Kontakt 5 can be seen in the Digital Performer screenshot in this Facebook post.

"A piano sound source, this thing is still used a lot"

(Version 4 or 5) In this song by Iwadare from 2016, the Joochin Dulcimer patch from Ethno World is used at 0:26.

In this song by Iwadare from 2016, the Euro Zither patch from SR-JV80-05 is used.

"I also own MachFive, so I still use it. " Only the first version of MachFive was around at the time Iwadare wrote this.

In this song by Iwadare from 2016, the Steel String 1 Finger patch from SampleTank 3 can be heard.

In this fan mail page from his old site, Iwadare mentions Pro-53 when asked what software or MIDI sequencers he uses when he creates music.

In this fan mail page from his old site, Iwadare mentions the M3R when asked what software or MIDI sequencers he uses when he creates music.

In this photo gallery page from Iwadare's old site, the microKORG appears in a picture.

In the photo galleries on Iwadare's old site, the Trinity Plus can be seen in a picture with the description "KORG microKORG, Trinity Plus, Roland HP-2000".

The Motif Rack can be seen in the second picture on this page from Iwadare's old site.

"As for the sequencers, I use Digital Performer by MOTU. The Soft Synthesizers I use are Battery, Sample Tank and Pro-53. Synthesizers are JV-2080, Trinity, Triton-Rack, VIRUS, JUNO-106, DX-7, M3R, U-220, SG-Rack, D4, Proteus 2 and more. Sampler is E-mu." It must have been the very first version, since Battery 2 was released after the first capture of this message on the Wayback Machine.

"As for the sequencers, I use Digital Performer by MOTU. The Soft Synthesizers I use are Battery, Sample Tank and Pro-53. Synthesizers are JV-2080, Trinity, Triton-Rack, VIRUS, JUNO-106, DX-7, M3R, U-220, SG-Rack, D4, Proteus 2 and more. Sampler is E-mu."

"As for the sequencers, I use Digital Performer by MOTU. The Soft Synthesizers I use are Battery, Sample Tank and Pro-53. Synthesizers are JV-2080, Trinity, Triton-Rack, VIRUS, JUNO-106, DX-7, M3R, U-220, SG-Rack, D4, Proteus 2 and more. Sampler is E-mu."

A PowerBook G4 can be seen in his studio (third photo).