Paul Humphreys

Paul is credited with "Mellotron" in the liner notes for the album Architecture and Morality.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

expensive tools he cannot do without. The Fairlight is a writing tool via its versatile composition/sequencing section, Page R (so-called because of its positioning on the computer menu). The X suffix indicates the MIDI update, which came as something of a blessing to OMD in that they weren't too happy with the Fairlight's sampling facilities. Now they can link it to their Emu II.

"And," says Paul, "the MIDI in the Fairlight is really fast — we've had no flamming problems (split second delays) like we've had before when we've had long MIDI chains. It's most noticeable on bass things, I think — when we were in LA last October we hired in some gear to record 'If You Leave', our gear hadn't arrived from England. I was playing keyboard bass on that, a JP8, DX7 and an Emulator II, and I had real problems with flamming of the separate bass sounds that I'd MIDI'd up on each of the three keyboards, very percussive bass sounds, very sharp attack, so it was very noticeable. We had to do a lot of adjustments to get that right."

Paul Humphreys can be seen using a Korg MS-20 in OMD's music video for Enola Gay.

The Korg Micro Preset can be seen in front of Paul Humphreys at 00:32 in the video also appearing later in the OMD's music video for Electricity.

in the 4:55 time you see that Paul Humphreys uses the E - Mu EMULATOR II

Paul is credited with "Emulator" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture

Paul is credited with "Prophet-5" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

In this video, Paul Humphreys is playing a Roland SH-09.

Paul is pictured here using the X8 live!

Paul is credited with "Fairlight CMI" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Paul is credited with "Roland JP8" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

Although boasting a lush sound, the album was recorded largely at Paul's Rhythm Ranch studio on a single tascam 16-track with a Studiomaster desk. Synths used include: Roland D-50, Akai S1000 and S3000, Kork M1R, Waldorf Microwave, Roland Super Jupiter module, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Yamaha TX802, Minimoog, MIDIMoog, Oberheim Two-Voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and SH-101.

"We've had it updated to a Series IIX, says Humphreys. "That's been really helpful because, although the sampling on the Fairlight isn't too hot, it's a fantastic writing tool. Now we can get really crisp samples by MIDIing it to the Emulator. We still use it a lot, but there are still certain things, like sampling voices, that it can't handle."

In the video by Neil Taylor titled "OMD Early Synthesizers / Synthesizers and Samples," Paul Humphreys of OMD is shown using the Roland SH-1000 synthesizer.