Legowelt

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.

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.

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."

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."

via Legowelt Official Website

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.

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 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.

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.

"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."

via Legowelt Official Website

During Legowelt's Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 0:16 Legowelt says, "This here is a Sequential Circuits Pro One, it's a pretty well known synthesizer. I got it in the 90's... I think 1994. I traded it for an Akai VX90 synthesizer module, with a Spanish flamenco guitarist."

During Legowelt's Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 2:33 Legowelt says that it's "…one of my favorite synthesizers cuz’ it’s really really strange, it has four oscillators which you can play together or polyphonically…you can do all kinds of exotic stuff with it”. At 2:58 Legowelt plays the synthesizer and provides examples of what it can do.

During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, Legowelt plays us a sample at 11:01 on his Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer, which is running through his Korg Monotron analog box.

During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 10:25 Legowelt shows us his Yamaha DX-7 with a wooden top. Legowelt says “I always like to put FM synthesizers through through little analog boxes, like this really cheap Monotron so I can filter it a little bit."

During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 7:05 Legowelt describes the Sequential Circuits Six-Track as "a really funky synthesizer, it’s really good for that ‘Prince’ brassy sound…the cool thing about this is that it has a six track sequencer built in”.

During Legowelt’s Studio Tour for Future Music Magazine, at 5:23 Legowelt talks about how this "is basically two Roland JX-8P’s into a giant new case. This was the flagship synthesizer in the mid 80s…it was a successor to the Roland Jupiter-8.

At 1:06:50 in the video a synthesizer is shown and Legowelt says "So this is the Prophet '08 from Dave Smith Instruments".

"one of my first synthesizers"

In the video titled "legowelt studio welt" available on Bing, Legowelt is seen using the Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Synthesizer, described as a "strange analog hybrid synthesizer."

You can find it at 0:14!

Legowelt discusses the sonic qualities of the Roland Juno-6 on his official website, noting that it sounds slightly rougher compared to the Juno-60, which he describes as more sophisticated.

Legowelt praises the Korg MicroKORG Synthesizer/Vocoder on his official website, highlighting its compact size and impressive power.

"Do you want the sound of an airbrushed native american chief on a motorcycle with palm trees and a flying eagle in the background? If you happen to do you need a KORG X5, its all in there and more in this ultimate early 1990s new age dolphin training soundscape synthesizer!"