Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze is noted for using the Arturia Modular V Software Synthesizer, praised for its ease of use, beautiful sound, and stable tuning, as highlighted on Arturia's overview page.

"Effect plug-ins I use regularly are the UAD DreamVerb (for backgroundish vocals or softer solo instruments) and even Logic’s built-in Space Designer. In most cases, these are used on instruments considered as the background tracks in a mix. When it comes to my favorite special effects, yes, there it is: Voice Machine. Discontinued, but I like what it can add to the human voice, violins, flutes, and even drum loops or atmospheric pads."

"I did not use a lot of drums on Silhouettes; it is a rather quiet album. Most of it is even pretty backgroundish, not as important as it is on albums like Moonlake or Eternal. I think it is one of those newer drum boxes I was trying, probably the Boss DR-880. What also was used is Spectrasonics Stylus RMX plug-in."

"That is the place where my complete Spectrasonics collection resides. Man, everything those guys do sounds great. I really love these plug-ins and have them loaded in my default startup recording setup. I prefer Atmosphere over Omnisphere... loads faster and easier to use."

Klaus Schulze utilizes Emagic Logic Platinum 5, as detailed on his official instruments list.

Klaus Schulze utilizes Steinberg Cubase 5.1, as detailed on the "Klaus Schulze's Instruments" page of his official website.

Klaus uses EMT plate reverb

Today, Klaus works mainly with virtual synthesizers and other special software on his Mac computer. He uses a software drum machine (Native Instruments "Battery"), software effect processors and other virtual devices. For example, Klaus asks some singers to produce song phrases for him. Then he changes their recorded voices to such an extent that even the singers cannot recognize their own voices.

"Effect plug-ins I use regularly are the UAD DreamVerb (for backgroundish vocals or softer solo instruments) and even Logic’s built-in Space Designer. In most cases, these are used on instruments considered as the background tracks in a mix. When it comes to my favorite special effects, yes, there it is: Voice Machine. Discontinued, but I like what it can add to the human voice, violins, flutes, and even drum loops or atmospheric pads."

"I started off with tape machines, of course, but I always pursued the next technological advancement, so I owned my first Atari [ST] as a very early adopter. Back then the choice was CLab Creator or Steinberg Twenty-Four, and I went with Creator."