Legowelt
Dutch producer Danny Wolfers
Legowelt's Gear
In the MusicRadar Tech studio tour video, Legowelt discusses using the Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer, noting its distinct characteristics compared to a rack compressor.
On his official website, Legowelt discusses the Korg Poly-800, an analog synthesizer from the 1980s. He highlights its features, including chord memory, a MIDI-syncable step sequencer, a joystick for pitch bend, filter cutoff and volume modulation, and a distinctive muddy fat chorus effect. He also notes its portability and lightweight design.
Flight of the Jupiter Dunno about this one but it was on a k7 mix album from James Holden so I guess it must be good Interesting trivia about this track: There is no Jupiter in this track, its all made with a Yamaha RM1X
In a studio tour video by MusicRadar Tech on YouTube, Legowelt is shown using the Korg Electribe ER-1 Rhythm Synthesizer, describing it as "a future classic."
During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 7:58 Legowelt says "what I really like about these things are the sweep filters, they're almost like an analog filter...and it has a built in effects processor by Lexicon".
During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 11:32 Legowelt shows us his very first synthesizer, which was Legowelt's first synthesizer when he was a kid.
In the YouTube video "How To Make A - Legowelt - Track" by 180 Fact, Legowelt discusses and demonstrates the use of the Korg Volca Keys, albeit expressing a critical opinion of the synthesizer.
On his official website, Legowelt describes the Korg Trident as visually striking, noting its wooden exterior, MS20-style knobs, and switches. However, he humorously critiques its functionality, calling it "supersexy but dumb as [expletive] on the inside."
On this video, Legowelt mentions having a Yamaha DX-100 going through his Doepfer modular system. At 0:48, he points at it. As you can see, the inputs and attenuators perfectly match the ones on an A-103. Also, Legowelt says that this is a TB-303 simulation filter, which is a bit of info that is present on the A-103 manual.
At around 32:50 into this video, Legowelt describes this piece of gear as being a "really nice, cheap, actually analog synthesizer."
On this page, found on the "Synthesizers" section of Legowelt's official website (which lists a lot of the gear he has or had at some point), there is his own opinion about this particular piece: "I recently acquired this in a shady deal behind the Rijswijk central station. The Casio CK500 “Electronic Musical Instrument” is a 1980s casio keyboard with a double tapedeck and a SW/FM radio build in and one of the few keyboards with an antenna!"
On the "Synthesizers" section of his official website you can find a list of gear pieces which Legowelt acquired. The Roland D-10 is one of these.
"This is the cheapest Jupiter on the market, and often discriminated as being an "organ preset synth" by people who don't know stuff.
But actually this is the best jupiter, in my opinion.
Why? First of all it looks cool...and it sais "Compuphonic" in a big 70ies retro computer font on the top. Next...the sound..I have seldomly heard such lush drifting magic analog fuzzness. It sits next to the Moog Minimoog in the analog realm...and it does this with only 1 oscillator per voice! 1 measly oscillator (and a sub oscillator, very comparable to the Juno layout)...a discrete oscillator with transistors, no SSMs or CEMs but thrustworthy discrete circuits that fly all over the place when it comes to drifting electricity.
Add some crazy modulation possibles with a superslow or fast LFO and Ringmodulator like effects, a buttery thick VCF, a superb arpeggiator, patch memory (we are talking 1978 here, it was one of the first synths with memory) and VCA EG that can be overdriven at the slightest touch (there is even a LED for this!!!)...and all this results in a beautifull synthesizer with an imense characteristic pallette."
During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 3:36 Legowelt says that this is “a digital synthesizer from 1992…I made a sample kit you can download from my site.” At 4:25 Legowelt goes on to say that it uses LA synthesis (Linear Arithmetic synthesis) which is typically difficult to edit, especially on the Roland D-10 or the rackmount Roland D-110.
During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, At 9:23 Legowelt shows us his Yamaha DX5, which in his words is a “fancier version than the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer, basically two DX-7s in one giant case”. Legowelt has his DX5 running through his MoogerFooger MF-104M Analog Delay, which he describes as giving a “warmer” sound.
During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 4:52 Legowelt says that this is a “two operator FM synthesizer with sliders, it’s basically a keyboard…it’s not really a synthesizer”.
"Actually goes trough [a modular synthesizer] an analog delay which is a Behringer Vintage Time Machine . . ." Legowelt says at 1:00:52 in the video while taking and showing the pedal to the camera.
At 1:01:20 in the video Legowelt shows a synth to the camera and says "Over here we have another one of my favourite synthesizers which is the . . . Korg Poly 61 which is an early 80s analog polyphonic synthesizer".
In Legowelt's Studio Tour, these studio monitors from Alexis can be seen at 34:10 in this video.
In the YouTube video titled "How To Make A - Legowelt - Track" by 180 Fact, Legowelt is shown using the Yamaha DX100 synthesizer.
In the YouTube video by 180 Fact titled "How To Make A - Legowelt - Track," Legowelt is shown using the Yamaha SY35 synthesizer at the 1:04 mark.
This is a video of Legowelt explaining why he loves his Roland JV-2080.
Featured on Legowelt's official website as a piece of gear that he has used at some point. No review nor anything written about it, unlike some other pieces of gear present on the website which do have their dedicated pages.
Featured on Legowelt's official website as being a piece of gear used by him at some point with a dedicated page with audio demos and his own words about it: "Behold: The Kawai K1 II is a digital synthesizer from the late 80s build by the Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Company in Hamamatsu Japan. Its a cheap and easy to find machine cause its sneered upon by analog snoots who probably don’t have any braincell left to program it cause they inhaled too much toxic soldering fumes. A Really cool thing about the K1 is that it sort of looks like Darth Vader with its sleek triangular edges. Apart from that it also has a supercool joystick to program the sounds and smoothly mix through the different waveforms while playing."
This page, present on Legowelt's official website under the "Synthesizers" section, was a piece of gear used by Legowelt according to this website. The page contains some words about it by Legowelt himself, and some audio demos as usual. "Stacatto funk basses, mysterious (not so evolving) pads, big leads and those perfect 80s solarsystem-documentary-soundtrack sounds, its all there with a strange paradoxal mixture of faded 80s cutting edge technology and plastic roughness. Put a reverb or big delay effect over it and nobody will hear this is a synth you just bought for a hundred bucks."
Presented on Legowelt's official website as a piece of gear used by him at some point also he does a few videos for NovationTV showing tricks on the Novation Peak.
Polyend produced a Legowelt special edition of their Tracker, featuring demo tracks and samples made by Legowelt.
"This one is missing one voice but it still does the job...ghetto style. I bought it in the mid 90s quite cheaply from some teenage girl who had put all kinds of New Kids on the block stickers on it....it has been serving in the studio since then and it has been used in countless of productions...this is probably my most used synth."
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Discography
Classics 1998-2003 (A Selection of Tracks from the Archive Bunker)
2003
Reports from the Backseat Pimp
2003
Dark Days
2004
Dark Days 2
2008
The Rise and Fall of Manuel Noriega
2008
Vatos Locos
2009
Narrominded Split LP Series #4
2009
The Paranormal Soul
2012
Crystal Cult 2080
2014
Legendary Freaks in the Trash of Time
2017
Unconditional Contours
2020
Jammed from the Fist
2021
Album Credits
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