Sascha Konietzko

Konietzko gets the process rolling in a “little room full of stuff,” relying on drum machines like the Roland TR 909 and 707, samplers such as the Kurzweil 2000, E-mu Emix 20 and Prophet 202, a StudioVision Pro MIDI sequencer and Pro Tools running on a Mac 9600.

Konietzko gets the process rolling in a “little room full of stuff,” relying on drum machines like the Roland TR 909 and 707, samplers such as the Kurzweil 2000, E-mu Emix 20 and Prophet 202, a StudioVision Pro MIDI sequencer and Pro Tools running on a Mac 9600.

Konietzko gets the process rolling in a “little room full of stuff,” relying on drum machines like the Roland TR 909 and 707, samplers such as the Kurzweil 2000, E-mu Emix 20 and Prophet 202, a StudioVision Pro MIDI sequencer and Pro Tools running on a Mac 9600.

Sascha can be seen playing Bass Station II on their current tour.

His latest acquisition, a German-made Jomox XBase 09, is among his favorite pieces of gear. “It’s kind of a half-clone of the TR 909, but it has these really nifty things,” he says. “You can change the sounds in all steps of your patterns, tune your kick drum to play melodic sequences, or you can have filter sweeps on the hi-hats.

From the "Tech Talk" section of the old KMFDM website:

Question (Johnny): How might one achieve a sound such as the synth bass on "Ready To Blow"? I'm assuming you are just using one oscillator with some portamento and no resonance.

Answer (Sascha): That is correct, I used my Sequential Pro-1 for it, the internal sequencer is sweeeet!

From the "Tech Talk" section of the old KMFDM website:

Question (Astrix): I see from the lists in the Gear Section of the site that you still have the Sidstation (Elektron Sidstation "Ninja"). How do you like it? Do you use it and has it shown up on any tracks yet?

Answer (Sascha Konietzko): Yes I still have it. I love it and use it quite frequently. You can hear it all over the MDFMK album as well as ATTAK and WWIII.

From the "Tech Talk" section of the old KMFDM website:

Question (Sean): I was wondering how you guys track your vocals and what equipment you use to put the distortion effects on them?

Answer (Sascha): The vocals are recorded once there is some semblance of an arrangement of a new song. Often, while we record the vocals new ideas come up that will then force the track to be re-arranged. The distortion varies, but more often than not I use the Ampfarm plug-in. It's by far the best sounding smooth distortion available. Another way I do it, is to re-amp the vocals and record them onto a cassette tape, with Dolby noise reduction on. Then I play back the tape with Dolby noise reduction off and re-record it into Pro Tools. Various degrees of realy nice sounding distortion can be achieved that way.

In an interview with Keyboard Magazine, Sascha Konietzko mentioned, "The difference was the approach. I started Xtort after coming off two pretty extensive tours in '95. What I did was, sat down and totally re-did my studio. I switched all my sampling stuff from [E-mu] Emax II to Akai [samplers]." This statement confirms that Sascha Konietzko previously used the E-Mu Emax II 16-bit Digital Sound System Sampler Keyboard Workstation in his music production before switching to Akai samplers.

In a Twitter post by Lucia Cifarelli, Sascha Konietzko is shown using a Roland SP-404SX.

In a Twitter post by Lucia Cifarelli, Sascha Konietzko is seen using the Arturia Analog Experience THE PLAYER.

In an interview on the YouTube channel Yes Quit Your Day Job, at 4:42 in the video, Sascha Konietzko mentions that he used a Roland SH-101 when he was first starting out.

Konietzko gets the process rolling in a “little room full of stuff,” relying on drum machines like the Roland TR 909 and 707, samplers such as the Kurzweil 2000, E-mu Emix 20 and Prophet 202, a StudioVision Pro MIDI sequencer and Pro Tools running on a Mac 9600.

Sascha Konietzko employs the Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 in his production setup, as confirmed by a DRUM! Magazine article, which describes his workspace as a "little room full of stuff" that includes various drum machines and samplers. The article mistakenly refers to the Prophet 2002 as a Prophet 202.