Howard Jones

Roland Cloud is listed as part of Howard's rig.

From the Arturia webiste, Howard Jones' comments about the Jupiter 8V: "My favorite synth of all time is now a soft-synth thanks to the wonderful people at Arturia...This is a must have for all of us JP8 lovers."

"I’ve been able to sample some of those keyboards into [Apple Logic Pro sampler] EXS24, but I also usually layer those sounds with a synth on top to give more meat to the sounds. So, it’s a mix, and I try and update the sounds so I’m not just slavishly recreating the records as they were. I try to push things even further, and make the sounds even punchier. Sometimes I even change them radically. I can go back to those original synths, but I want to be pushing forward all the time. It’s always been about creating the most amazing sounds. The only live mic on stage with us is my vocal mic, so we can get a pristine sound. We don’t have monitors, so it’s a completely silent stage, apart from the drummer tapping on his pads!"

Arturia V Collection is listed as part of Howard's rig.

"Every track has different synthesizers, sometimes hardware, that I just recorded in as audio, but I also found it very exciting to use software, especially Omnisphere 2. It enables you to connect your hardware synth and it can then emulate it in software. It’s the best of both worlds – you have loads of knobs to twiddle and have fun with, but also you can capture and remember everything in the software. I think that is a major leap forward."

"Instead I decided to concentrate on my songwriting tools — my keyboards and the Mac with Studio Vision software. When I get into songwriting mode, I'll get an engineer in for the morning to set me up on the desk, so that I only have to work the big faders and a few effects. For the actual songwriting process I need to be on my own. But for demoing and tracklaying I need people around me to bounce ideas off."