Ulrich Schnauss

At 5:16 in this studio tour with MusicTech, Ulrich points to his Yamaha CP80 and says "That's the piano. Its a semi-electric piano, the Yamaha CP80. Works a bit like an electric guitar. It has strings so you can also play it when it's not amplified, but there's pickups inside and you can plug it straight into a mixing desk and it's quite easy to record that.".

When talking about his Korg PS-3200 during a studio tour with Music Tech magazine, Ulrich Schnauss says [@ 5:42], "It has a very interesting sound as well, because it's using… a kind of octave divide technology which makes it fully polyphonic, although it doesn't have 32 or 48 or whatever oscillators. It's the same technology that was used in 70's string synths, and has a bit of a similar sound to those as well..."

The first synthesizer shown in Ulrich's "Studio Tour" video by MusicTech is a Elka Synthex. This can be seen at :07s with Ulrich saying "it’s a polyphonic synthesizer from the 80s - it has a quite a particular sound."

A Waldorf Blofeld Synth can be seen on Ulrich's desk at 1:50 in this interview with Future Music Magazine.

A Rhodes Chroma is shown and described at 0:30 in this Studio Tour by MusicTech. Ulrich says about the synth "It has typically an app sound in the sense that it has a very aggressive - very present mid-range - I find it very useful for sort of elements that need to cut through in the mix, like melodies or sequences that need to be very present."

An Oberheim Eight Voice is shown and described at 1:38 in Ulrich's studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says about the synth - "that’s probably the most powerful polyphonic analog synth I’ve ever come across, which I think has got to do a lot with the fact that if you’re playing this you’re essentially playing an independent monophonic synth chained up, rather than having it designed."

A Yamaha DX7 is shown and described at 2:39 in this studio tour by MusicTech. Ulrich says "Over here, there is a classic that everyone will know, the DX7, but what's nice about this is that at some point I managed to buy a programmer for it. Only, I think, about twenty or twenty-five of these exist. The DX7 is obviously a great and very versatile instrument, but it's very difficult to program, and the good thing with this programmer is that it makes this process a lot more intuitive."

An Ensoniq Fizmo is shown at 3:49 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "There's some digital stuff here, like the Ensoniq Fizmo, which is quite an interesting instrument. Digital waveforms."

Ulrich shows us his PPG Wave at 3:56 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "It's a bit difficult to see: the PPG Wave. Another digital classic." This accompanying article confirms this as the 2.2 specifically.

Ulrich shows us his Oberheim OB-8 at 4:06 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich says "There's some analog stuff here as well, like, for instance, the Oberheim OB-8, which is probably one of my most used instruments and something that's always a good starting point."

Ulrich's Memorymoog is shown at 4:16 in this studio tour with MusicTech. Ulrich pulls out the synth and says "Memorymoog, also a nice polyphonic synthesizer from the 80s."

At 4:33 in this studio tour with MusicTech, Ulrich says "On top is another one that I can't move just by myself because it's too heavy, so that's why it's permanently set up - the Waldorf Wave - which is usually, I think, considered as probably the ultimate wave table synth. It's quite lucky actually, I bought two of these in a very very bad state, completely broken. Sent them to Germany to a technician who had worked for Walforf previously and out of the two broken ones, he assembled this working one."

A Korg VC-10 Vocoder is shown above Ulrich's Korg PS-3200 at 5:44 in this studio tour with MusicTech.

At 8:00 in this video with Future Music Magazine, Ulrich shows us and plays his Korg Triton. Ulrich says "it’s great I love this instrument it’s brilliant."

A Voyetra Eight is shown and played at 8:30 in this video with Future Music Magazine. A scanned image of the accompanying article shows a quote about the Voyetra - “It’s not usually perfectly in tune. Especially when it’s not warmed up. They’ve really gone up. I got this one for $1,500, but now I see them for four or five thousand.”

A Roland V-Synth XT can be seen behind Ulrich's head, next to his computer monitor at 1:53 in this video with Future Music Magazine.

featured using the Waldorf microwave synth in this studio video.

just above the Microwave XT in this video

It can be seen around halfway through the video

In this youtube video clip appear the Technics WSA1R synth (right below in the rack)

official website of his projekt Quaeschning-Schnauss: ULRICH SCHNAUSS:Software: Steinberg Cubase all tracks bar PRISM and AMONG MANATEES** (Logic)*Peripheral equipment: Manikin Schrittmacher sequencer.*Hardware synths:Roland JD XA synthesizerRoland Jupiter-8 synthesizerRoland JD-800 synthesizerOberheim OB-8 synthesizerRoland System 1 synthesizerRoland MKS-70 synthesizer moduleRhodes Chroma synthesizerWaldorf Q synthesizerMicrowave XT synthesizer module*Software synths & effects: Various modules from Sonic Core’s SCOPE system.*Hardware effects: Ensoniq DP4

official website of his projekt Quaeschning-Schnauss: ULRICH SCHNAUSS:Software: Steinberg Cubase all tracks bar PRISM and AMONG MANATEES** (Logic)*Peripheral equipment: Manikin Schrittmacher sequencer.*Hardware synths:Roland JD XA synthesizerRoland Jupiter-8 synthesizerRoland JD-800 synthesizerOberheim OB-8 synthesizerRoland System 1 synthesizerRoland MKS-70 synthesizer moduleRhodes Chroma synthesizerWaldorf Q synthesizerMicrowave XT synthesizer module*Software synths & effects: Various modules from Sonic Core’s SCOPE system.*Hardware effects: Ensoniq DP4

official website of his projekt Quaeschning-Schnauss: ULRICH SCHNAUSS:Software: Steinberg Cubase all tracks bar PRISM and AMONG MANATEES** (Logic)*Peripheral equipment: Manikin Schrittmacher sequencer.*Hardware synths:Roland JD XA synthesizerRoland Jupiter-8 synthesizerRoland JD-800 synthesizerOberheim OB-8 synthesizerRoland System 1 synthesizerRoland MKS-70 synthesizer moduleRhodes Chroma synthesizerWaldorf Q synthesizerMicrowave XT synthesizer module*Software synths & effects: Various modules from Sonic Core’s SCOPE system.*Hardware effects: Ensoniq DP4

official website of his projekt Quaeschning-Schnauss: ULRICH SCHNAUSS:Software: Steinberg Cubase all tracks bar PRISM and AMONG MANATEES** (Logic)*Peripheral equipment: Manikin Schrittmacher sequencer.*Hardware synths:Roland JD XA synthesizerRoland Jupiter-8 synthesizerRoland JD-800 synthesizerOberheim OB-8 synthesizerRoland System 1 synthesizerRoland MKS-70 synthesizer moduleRhodes Chroma synthesizerWaldorf Q synthesizerMicrowave XT synthesizer module*Software synths & effects: Various modules from Sonic Core’s SCOPE system.*Hardware effects: Ensoniq DP4

"I think with effects it’s actually quite similar to synths. I just try to buy stuff over the years that has an interesting character and adds a unique element to the overall sound, and the URSA MAJOR certainly does - that’s a very odd sounding unit," says Ulrich Schnauss, at 3:45 in this video for Future Music Magazine.

"The QRS is probably the opposite of that, where the Ursa Major is very low-fi, and very gritty, this is probably one of the most high end most expensive sounding reverb i’ve ever heard. I actually think it’s superior to something like the expensive Lexicon stuff," says Ulrich Schnauss, at 4:07 in this video interview with Future Music Magazine.

At 4:11 in this video with Future Music Magazine, the SBF-325 can be see just below the Ursa Major Space Station.