Hazel Mills

Hazel Mills has mentioned using the Arturia KeyLab 88 in an article on the Arturia website.

Used as vocoder thruout the video. To be heard at 1:24.

I believe it is at her home studio. As the synths can be seen in other videos as well. But here she performs a song with 2 super 6 synths.

At 5:30 in this video, when asked about her first synthesizer, Hazel Mills responds:

So, this is sort of like a two part answer. Technically, the first synth I owned was right behind me, and that's the Nord Lead 2, but when I first got it, I don't think I really understood what it did. And this was about 12 years ago. That was when I really started getting into synthesis, so I kind of did, but I didn't learn synthesis on it. So that was technically my first synth.

But the first synth that I really got to know and understood synthesis on was a Roland SH-101, and I still to this day would hugely rate that synth or anything that is kind of built in the same way and has a similar interface as a first synth or a synth that you learn synthesis on. Everything you see is what you hear, there is nothing hidden. All the controls and everything on the panel are quite easy to comprehend and that's all there is to the sound. So it's very immediate and very visual. Sometimes I consider that to be my first synth because that is what started my relationship with synthesis.

In this video, at 6:29 Hazel Mills says:

But the first synth that I really got to know and understood synthesis on was a Roland SH-101, and I still to this day would hugely rate that synth or anything that is kind of built in the same way and has a similar interface as a first synth or a synth that you learn synthesis on. Everything you see is what you hear, there is nothing hidden. All the controls and everything on the panel are quite easy to comprehend and that's all there is to the sound. So it's very immediate and very visual. Sometimes I consider that to be my first synth because that is what started my relationship with synthesis.

In this video, at 0:35 Hazel Mills mentions:

The Eventide H90 singing away in the background. I might twidle some knobs occasionally just to see what happens. I basically have a sequence coming from the MicroFreak here, which sounds like this. The H90 is doing all the work. Well, no, that's not fair. A lot of the work.