Jean Michel Jarre's Gear

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At the back of the album cover of the Rendez-vous album by Jean-Michel Jarre is a list of used instruments. In short:

Seiko DS 250, Synthex, Moog, Roland JX 8P, ARP 2600, Fairlight, Emulator II, Eminent, AKS, Lynn 9000, Memory Moog, Drumulator, Laser Harp, RMI, Seiko DS 320, OBX, DX 100, Matrisequencer, TR 808, Prophet, Casio CZ 5000, Baby Korg personal keyboard.

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There is a list of the used instruments on the "Revolutions" album by Jean-Michel Jarre. Its inside the front cover. The text contains the following instruments (and two choirs): "Roland D50, Roland D550, Fairlight CMI II, Fairlight CMI III, Synthex, AKS, Oscar, EMS Vocoder, Dynacord ADDI, Cristal Baschet, AKAI MPC-60, Emulator, Ensoniq ESQ1, ARP 2600, Kawai K5, Geiss Matrisequencer, Cavagnolo MIDY 20, Elka, AMK 800, Drums, Simmons SDX, Bass, Trumpet, Megaphone, Guitar, Choir." Cd cover can bee seen at http://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/8370982

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Jean Michel Jarre possesses a unique silver/gold edition of the Elka X705 synthesizer, as detailed on Canalblog.

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I love the MiniNova, which I think is even better for vocoder than the bigger Novation. It’s a great piece and I must say that for the few vocoders I used in the project, I used mainly the MiniNova

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Multiple EMS Synthi A and an AKS can be seen in this photo of Jean-Michel Jarre and his large collection of synthesizers. The full size image can be seen here.

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On the back of the Oxygene's album cover, Jarre credit himself the instruments and gears that he used during the recording.

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Album credit: Jarre used the Elka Synthex on tracks such has "second rendez-vous".

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The theremin is use on the live recording of "Oxygene 2007" during the "Oxygène Pt.3" solo's.

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Jean Michel Jarre discusses his use of the ARP 2500 synthesizer in an article on the Red Bull Music Academy website.

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In an interview with Red Bull Music Academy, Jean Michel Jarre mentions the Roland JD-800 Synthesizer as one of his favorite synths.

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The Nord website Artist's page shows the A1 on Jean Michel's roster. Also he is seen using the A1 in many Live and other studio videos

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Minute 5:07 is he using the Kontrol S88

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In this page, there is virus ti2 in Jean-Michel Jarre's mindblowing studio

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"Using a new Roland System 8 with a System 500 attached and a Grp A4, Jarre also had his Moog Sub37, AKS, Buchla and ARP2600 at his disposal"

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In this image Jean-Michel Jarre has an ARP Sequencer. Image from : https://sentireascoltare.com/artisti/jean-michel-jarre/

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Jean-Michel Jarre used a GEISS Matrisequencer 250 and its mentioned on the back of the Equinoxe and Rendez-vous albums covers.

Link with covers : https://lpcover.wordpress.com/tag/jean-michel-jarre/

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At the back of the album cover of the Rendez-vous album by Jean-Michel Jarre is a list of used instruments. In short:

Seiko DS 250, Synthex, Moog, Roland JX 8P, ARP 2600, Fairlight, Emulator II, Eminent, AKS, Lynn 9000, Memory Moog, Drumulator, Laser Harp, RMI, Seiko DS 320, OBX, DX 100, Matrisequencer, TR 808, Prophet, Casio CZ 5000, Baby Korg personal keyboard.

Another source of information : http://www.jarrography.free.fr/details_equipement_audio.php?id_equip=53

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At the back of the album cover of the Rendez-vous album by Jean-Michel Jarre is a list of used instruments. In short:

Seiko DS 250, Synthex, Moog, Roland JX 8P, ARP 2600, Fairlight, Emulator II, Eminent, AKS, Lynn 9000, Memory Moog, Drumulator, Laser Harp, RMI, Seiko DS 320, OBX, DX 100, Matrisequencer, TR 808, Prophet, Casio CZ 5000, Baby Korg personal keyboard.

Seiko DS 320 is a hardware sequencer that can be attached to Seiko DS keyboards.

Another source : http://www.jarrography.free.fr/details_equipement_audio.php?id_equip=54

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Quote from album "Oxygene 7-13" by Jean-Michel Jarre (1997 release):

"Jean Michel Jarre played the following Instruments: 2600 ARP Synthesizer, VCS3 synthesizer, AKS, Eminent, Mellotron, Theremin, CS80, Quasimidi Raven, Digisequencer, Logic Audio, Akai MPC3000, Nordlead, JV 90, K2000, RMI, Prophecy, TR808, DJ70."

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There is a list of the used instruments on the "Revolutions" album by Jean-Michel Jarre. Its inside the front cover. The text contains the following instruments (and two choirs): "Roland D50, Roland D550, Fairlight CMI II, Fairlight CMI III, Synthex, AKS, Oscar, EMS Vocoder, Dynacord ADDI, Cristal Baschet, AKAI MPC-60, Emulator, Ensoniq ESQ1, ARP 2600, Kawai K5, Geiss Matrisequencer, Cavagnolo MIDY 20, Elka, AMK 800, Drums, Simmons SDX, Bass, Trumpet, Megaphone, Guitar, Choir." Cd cover can bee seen at http://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/8370982

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At the back of the album cover of the Rendez-vous album by Jean-Michel Jarre is a list of used instruments. In short:

Seiko DS 250, Synthex, Moog, Roland JX 8P, ARP 2600, Fairlight, Emulator II, Eminent, AKS, Lynn 9000, Memory Moog, Drumulator, Laser Harp, RMI, Seiko DS 320, OBX, DX 100, Matrisequencer, TR 808, Prophet, Casio CZ 5000, Baby Korg personal keyboard.

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There is a list of the used instruments on the "Revolutions" album by Jean-Michel Jarre. Its inside the front cover. The text contains the following instruments (and two choirs): "Roland D50, Roland D550, Fairlight CMI II, Fairlight CMI III, Synthex, AKS, Oscar, EMS Vocoder, Dynacord ADDI, Cristal Baschet, AKAI MPC-60, Emulator, Ensoniq ESQ1, ARP 2600, Kawai K5, Geiss Matrisequencer, Cavagnolo MIDY 20, Elka, AMK 800, Drums, Simmons SDX, Bass, Trumpet, Megaphone, Guitar, Choir." Cd cover can bee seen at http://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/8370982

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Quote from Zoolook album (1984) booklets (cd and vinyl): "... Keyboard and electronic devices: Fairlight CMI, Emulator, Moog 55, ARP 2600, DX7, Prophet V, OBXA, AMS, Simmons SDS V, Matrisequencer, AKS, EMS Vocoder, Eminent, Doctor Click, Linn 1, Linn 2 ..."

More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolook

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LinnDrum is the same as Linn 2, because LinnDrum is also known as Linn LM-2.

Quote from Zoolook album (1984) booklets (cd and vinyl): "... Keyboard and electronic devices: Fairlight CMI, Emulator, Moog 55, ARP 2600, DX7, Prophet V, OBXA, AMS, Simmons SDS V, Matrisequencer, AKS, EMS Vocoder, Eminent, Doctor Click, Linn 1, Linn 2 ..."

More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolook

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Mentioned in the booklet of "Equinoxe".

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On this article, on the Arturia website, Jean Michel Jarre claimed to use Audiofuse.

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In this photo, Jean-Michel Jarre is standing amongst his large collection of synthesizers, including the ARP 2600 directly behind him.

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cited in the listings to this cd. also he's playing it in this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1uIXOxLCb8

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On the back of the Oxygène's album cover, we can see the following instrument that Jarre played.

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