Gary Numan

Gary Numan is credited with Roland Jupiter 4 in the liner notes for Telekon.

Gary Numan used an ARP Omni 2 during a televised presentation.

Rrussel Bell : “I was the guitarist and I had five synths!! I had a Polymoog, two Minimoogs, Moog Taurus pedals, Synares and a Roland guitar synth !”

Source : Electricity Club

Gary Numan used the Simmons SDS-V Drum Synthesizer, a staple of electronic drums in the mid-80s, as mentioned in the Bloodfetish91 article "Gary Numan: Berserker."

Photo from Gary Numan's Twitter, in which he can be seen playing a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MKII keyboard.

Although Numan writes all of his music on an aged upright piano, slowly adding effects, synth sounds and big beats, he also works with modern gear: Emagic Logic Audio Platinum and Digidesign Pro Tools on an Apple Mac G4 with two iZ Technology RADAR 24 digital recorders and a Mackie d8b desk. His synths are both soft and hard: Korg Wavestation, Alesis QuadraSynth, Korg M1, Roland D50 LA, GEM S2 Turbo and a Korg electric piano.

In the effects rack lie the new Roland delays the SDE-1000 and SDE-3000. It transpires that these were quite a find for Gary and they now get put to great use on both voices and instruments.

"The new AMS units will still be there - the DMX 15-80S has a 1.6 second delay which is quite enough, and if we want to fly in longer samples like hook lines or multiple backing vocals, we do it from quarter-inch tape. Because the studio isn't being used commercially I don't feel we need 35 second digital delays and I have to be a bit frugal on the financial side. The AMS RMX16 reverb and the Lexicon will stay, although we don't really need all the compressors and noise gates we have. There's a Scamp rack, some Drawmers, Kepex gates, a Universal Audio Limiter and a few other things - I think the Drawmers are my favourites."

"The new AMS units will still be there - the DMX 15-80S has a 1.6 second delay which is quite enough, and if we want to fly in longer samples like hook lines or multiple backing vocals, we do it from quarter-inch tape. Because the studio isn't being used commercially I don't feel we need 35 second digital delays and I have to be a bit frugal on the financial side. The AMS RMX16 reverb and the Lexicon will stay, although we don't really need all the compressors and noise gates we have. There's a Scamp rack, some Drawmers, Kepex gates, a Universal Audio Limiter and a few other things - I think the Drawmers are my favourites."

"I use the E-magic Logic sequencer through a Mac Quadra 650 computer. This is linked to the instruments and to the studio via an Opcode Studio 4 interface. The studio desk is a Soundtracs Quartz (32 Channel, the little one), Quad amp and Tannoy Little Gold speakers. I have an Otari MX-80 24 track 2" tape recorder which I mix onto DAT via a Soundtools hard disc editor. (An Atari version so it will have to go soon). I wired the room myself and, surprisingly, it works quite well."

In the August 1986 issue of Sound on Sound magazine, Gary Numan discusses his use of the PPG System and PPG samples, which necessitates the use of a PPG Wave synthesizer and a PPG Waveterm B. He mentions, "Numan has been using a wide variety of sound sources on the upcoming album including a lot of PPG Wave samples."