Danny Elfman

"I used Guitar Rig quite a bit. If you listen to the song Insects, and to a lesser extent, True, there’s a lot of really crazy guitar effects that were all played through Guitar Rig. In fact, I did such a lot of crazy guitar shit that I’d intended to do an extended mix, so one of these days I’m going to make my own mix of Insects and you’ll hear shit tons of me working in Guitar Rig [laughs]."

"I have things patched digitally through Pro Tools, but I've also got groups coming up through the [DM-3200]. So I can take groups of instruments and mute them - I don't like having everything virtual. Also, as I bring in different instruments, I've got a board to plug into. I'm constantly adding things like analog synths, this and that. It makes things so much easier. If I want to bring in a vocoder, or a new synthesizer, I just plug them right into the board. Whereas going digitally into Pro Tools, it's a lot more complicated. You're dealing with a world where everything is patched through multiple digital lightpipe connections. It's a beautiful thing in one way, but frustrating in another. You can't just grab a lightpipe and plug it into a synthesizer. So I really like the combination of a hands-on mixer with meters, and having a digital, virtual mixer on a screen that has a breakdown of everything as well. So I can deal with it on an individual level, from the screen, or in a more traditional sense on a mixing board."

"Switching over to Giga changed everything. It was one of the two biggest revolutions of the last decade - GigaStudio for my samples and digital recording right into my sequencer. Those two things, then digital video, really turned everything around. Each one of these was a major step in streamlining my setup. For the Gigas, I was accessing everything from a computer screen. It made it real easy to go, I want to try this, or this, or this. I can audition 20 sounds really quickly, having a lot more places to put them. Customizing my templates for each show became much easier, simply because once I had all my sound libraries on Giga, I felt like I had everything at my fingertips all the time. Rather than going through SCSI drives and searching through multiple folders, and having to save the entire bank again just because I made one change."

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the upper third column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned a Roland SBX-80 Sync Box, alongside a Yamaha KX88, Prophet VS rack, Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 rack, and Prophet VS keyboard. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the upper third column on page 31 mentions that Danny Elfman owned a Yamaha KX88 Synthesizer, along with a Roland SBX-80 Sync Box, Prophet VS rack, Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 rack, and Prophet VS keyboard. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the upper third column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned a Sequential Circuits Prophet VS Rack, alongside a Roland SBX-80 Sync Box, Yamaha KX88, Prophet 2002 rack, and Prophet VS keyboard. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the upper third column on page 31 mentions that Danny Elfman owned a Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 rack, alongside a Roland SBX-80 Sync Box, a Yamaha KX88, a Prophet VS rack, and a Prophet VS keyboard. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the upper third column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned a Sequential Circuits Prophet VS, along with a Roland SBX-80 Sync Box, Yamaha KX88, Prophet VS rack, Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 rack, and Prophet VS keyboard. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the bottom middle column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned two Yamaha TX816 modules and a Yamaha DX7II. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger. 

In the September 1987 issue of "Keyboard Magazine," the bottom middle column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned a Yamaha DX7-IID, as well as two Yamaha TX816 modules. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the third column on page 31 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned five Yamaha TX7 Desktop Modules.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the bottom right column on page 30 mentioned that Danny Elfman used a Yamaha QX-1 for sequencing at live shows. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the bottom middle column on page 32 mentions that Danny Elfman owned an Akai S900 MIDI Digital Sampler. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the bottom left column on page 32 mentioned that Danny Elfman owned a Roland JX-10 Super JX. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, it is mentioned in the third column on page 31 that Danny Elfman owned a Roland MKS-20 and a Roland MKS-30 Planet S rack in his home studio. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In the September 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine, the third column on page 31 mentions that Danny Elfman owned a Roland MKS-20 and a Roland MKS-30 Planet-S rack in his home studio. The article was authored by Bob Doerschuk and Jeff Burger.

In a YouTube video by Creating Jason titled "Roland D-50 - Shining Moments 80's," the Roland D-50 synthesizer can be heard at 10:49, playing the very beginning of the theme song for The Simpsons, which was composed by Danny Elfman.