Phil Oakey

Phil Oakey of The Human League discusses the versatility of the Roland System 100M in an interview from the August 12, 1978, issue of Sounds, stating, "You can build it forever. You can keep going and never run out of what you want to do."

"We all work a bit differently though — Jim and Adrian tend to go through presets, but I always go to manual and make up my own sounds. On the DX7 we always use presets; we started to do programming but it's difficult because there are six of everything and eight-stage envelopes. We have the Syco Logic MX1 board which holds 128 memories fitted in the DX7, and that's 90% full — and we have the sounds from the TX7 Expander which we transfer into the TX816 one or two at a time."