Trevor Horn

"I’ve got a Roland JX-8P that I’m really fond of," Horn states in this interview with Roland.

Horn states in this interview with Roland that he owns a Roland Juno-106.

For the 12-inch ‘US Remix’ of ‘The Look Of Love’, Trevor Horn utilised the Fairlight to create a groundbreaking extended mix which chimed with early hip-hop records, using the sampler to bend and ‘scratch’ various elements of the track. “I actually think that was the best 12-inch I ever did,” he says. “Everything kind of came together on that one. What I’d said to JJ was, ‘I want bits of everything on the Fairlight — bits of the strings, bits of the vocal, just anything.’ I seemed to manage to get a narrative through it, playing these things on the Fairlight keyboard."

"That sequencer was hooked up to a Minimoog that had CV and Gate on it. And with that rig I thee wed! You know, those CV/Gate things were much tighter than MIDI. They were spot bollock on! Spot on. Much better feel than just your normal MIDI rig these days."

"It’s good to have in the studio because the vocoder is a really useful item sometimes; it’s a way of arranging vocals without actually having to sing them, and it’s also a way of hearing what certain harmonies might sound like without having to do them. So from that point of view it’s a really useful piece of equipment. I would use it as a songwriting tool, absolutely," Horn says about his Roland VP-770, in this interview.

From the gear page on the website of Trevor Horn's SARM Studios:

BACKLINE & INSTRUMENTS Yamaha Upright Piano Akai MPK 88 Controller Keyboard [Floating] Nord 88 Key Stage Keyboard [Floating] Fender Precision Bass [Floating] Gibson Les Paul [Floating] Takamine Acoustic Guitar [Floating] Gibson J-45 Acoustic Guitar [Floating] Native Instruments Maschine Studio [Floating] Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol 61 Keyboard [Floating] 2 x Avid S3 Pro Tools 16 Fader Control Surface [Floating]