Sascha Dikiciyan

"The Moog was used for a lot of the arpeggiated Bass lines you will hear all over the tracks. This unit gets send first through a Chandler Tg-2 pre-amp before it hits the DAW so the signal is really phat so to speak. The Tempest came in while we were almost done with the score but I still managed to use it on two combat cues. Of course Linn style drum sounds, that was the whole point."

Tweet from Sascha Dikiciyan about the Ensoniq ESP 16.

Among the key pieces of gear are the Roland Juno-106 synth (which Dikiciyan first used way back on Quake 2), a Moog Slim Phatty for arpeggiated bass parts, the highly-desirable, retro-futuristic OP-1... and an iPad. Dikiciyan calls the iPad "a legit tool to use as a music pro" and notes that he used the Animoog app on "pretty much every single cue."

"The Moog was used for a lot of the arpeggiated Bass lines you will hear all over the tracks. This unit gets send first through a Chandler Tg-2 pre-amp before it hits the DAW so the signal is really phat so to speak. The Tempest came in while we were almost done with the score but I still managed to use it on two combat cues. Of course Linn style drum sounds, that was the whole point."

"What you see here is a modded Alesis HR-16 drum machine. The original machine is from 1988 but when you hear the crazy modded sounds, it's a killer for sure. You can patch for hours and always get something new and strange. Not sure what each mod does but I used this for more of the one shot FX hits in our ME3 combat cues. On the Soundtrack listen to 'The Scientist.'"

"Yes, the iPad is now a legit tool to use as a music pro.If you still think this is toy then you are sorely missing out on some of the most innovative software out there. Moog's Animoog app was used for a lot of the, what I call, Musical sound design. Wave table movements all send through a Eventide H8000 unit, together they make magic. You can hear this app on pretty much every single cue, esp. the ambient ones."

"I use mainly PCs, running Steinberg’s Cubase 6.5. My audio IO is a RME fireface. I just added a Dangerous Music D-Box to my setup so I’m finally enjoying the advantages of summoning mixing. Before the audio goes back into my DAW, I run everything through my Obsidian Compressor. It’s a simple but solid and good-sounding chain. I still use real keyboards, like the Korg MS2000, Korg Prophecy, Juno-106 and I’ve used a real CS-80 for my score on Mass Effect 3. I love the newer, more experimental synths like the OP-1 and all of the synths from Dave Smith. There are tons of other hardware gems I use, like Metasonix pedals and the Moog Froggers to name a few."

"I use mainly PCs, running Steinberg’s Cubase 6.5. My audio IO is a RME fireface. I just added a Dangerous Music D-Box to my setup so I’m finally enjoying the advantages of summoning mixing. Before the audio goes back into my DAW, I run everything through my Obsidian Compressor. It’s a simple but solid and good-sounding chain. I still use real keyboards, like the Korg MS2000, Korg Prophecy, Juno-106 and I’ve used a real CS-80 for my score on Mass Effect 3. I love the newer, more experimental synths like the OP-1 and all of the synths from Dave Smith. There are tons of other hardware gems I use, like Metasonix pedals and the Moog Froggers to name a few."

"Computers like the Commodore 64 featured a vast and new way of making music with the advent of so-called tracker software. It was something I got really into, until I got my first real sequencer on the Atari 1040ST, an early version of Cubase. So being into computers early on definitely helped build my skills quite a bit. Things were a lot simpler back then, but it was a great foundation to build upon that simply today doesn’t exist anymore."

"I’m no “laptop musician”. I use mainly a custom-built PC with Windows 7 running Cubase, Live and a ton of other software. I used to have several slave machines, but I hated dealing with them, so now I have only one PC doing it all with a better CPU ."

Used for the soundtracks of Quake II and Quake III Arena, as mentioned in a 2020 comment on this May 1, 2020 YouTube video about the DP/4+.

HAd [sic] one. Used it on all of the Quake games ive worked on. Sold it later. Stupid me.