Billy Currie

Billy talks about using GForce impOSCar2 in this interview.

Q. Does Oddity2 make an appearance on Doppel and if so can you give a name of a track where it’s easily spotted?

"Yes. When we started working on the prototype back in 2014 I found a sound that actually started my whole album off. I loved it because it was a rubbery, repeating sound that reminded me of Steve Reich in 2050. It was just mad and I laid it down before playing some viola over it. It was very inspiring and that eventually became the track Gleam.

On Tremolo Shudder it was used for the bass part. That’s a tough sound with some amazing character.

In Full Cry, was all Oddity2 except the flappy rhythmic sound, which is Omnisphere. I used the sounds that I downloaded from your site earlier this year. Programmed by PKH. I loved them!

At the end of Viola Reach there’s a lovely rough, distorted sound from Oddity2 too."

In the details on his 2013 album on his official music page, Billy Currie says he used the Ivory German D preset on a song.

Billy talks about using GForce Virtual String Machine in this interview.

Billy talks about using GForce Oddity in this interview.

Q. At what point did you start to use computers for music making and can you remember what your initial sequencer was?

"Initially I used the UMI sequencer - the one that crashed every time you breathed. I then did a lot of stuff on my first solo album, Transportation, using Pro 24. I didn’t feel like a cheat because I’d been into technology for years but I did a whole piano track called Rakaia River (Mountains To Sea) using a Technics piano and Pro 24, no proper playing. When Miles Copeland came down and I told him, he looked a bit disturbed by the prospect. I had a blast creating that album though - using technology to the maximum."

On the first album article for his 2013 album, Billy states he used a Nexus patch in one of the songs.

On this page, on one album, it says he used a CS-80 pad sound from Atmosphere.

On this page, Billy states he used an Omnisphere synth pad on one of his tracks on his 2013 album.

On the notes for his 2006 album Accidental Poetry Of The Structure, it states Billy used Minimonsta for the bass sound on the title track.

"I used a Korg T3 which belonged to Dead Or Alive, and that has a lot of good string sounds. Cubase was the main software package, although it wasn't used throughout, as there's not even timecode on some tracks. The Yamaha grand piano was there, and a Korg M1. I had a Fishman pickup on the viola, which is a fantastic English design, and a Barcus-Berry violin. I used my old Oberheim polysynth, and an Akai S900 sampler with a lot of 8-bit violin samples done for the first solo album, which were still perfectly good thank you very much! Then there's a D550 module, an Oberheim Matrix 1000, a lot of drum samples on an Akai S1000, some from an Alesis drum machine, some Prophet VS, a few bits from a Yamaha TX816 rack, and an OSCar solo on 'Ukraine'. I still use the Yamaha KX88 as the master keyboard because I like the touch, but it could do with more splits and it's not very easy to program. But there's less equipment here than on my first solo album — I hadn't really rushed out to buy any new equipment."