who puts out the best sound modules?

[prodeucer]

I own a Korg MicroKorg but I was curious about those sound modules. I tried one out years ago but never jot down which company it was. It had some great sounds. I was wondering how those artists like Enya, Enigma, and Deep Forest got their ethereal or new age sound.

 

[krushing]

Well, this is what Deep Forest uses these days:

...which is to say that there's probably isn't an easy answer to this - these guys (especially DF & Michale Cretu of Enigma fame) at least used to use a lot of hardware back in the day. I guess the late 80s/early 90s digital synths - the DX7, D50, Waldorf/PPG (the Wave featuring prominently in that studio pic), Wavestation & the like would be the rather obvious approaches to "that sound", but there's a lot of variance in there. And in a lot of cases, the processing (ie. fx, especially reverb) contribute possibly just as much to the sound as the synths themselves.

 

[prodeucer]

so pretty much the new age sound is heavily reliant on reverb then? So pretty much I can use any synth that has an "ethnic" tone and get the sound that is a staple in "new age" by using reverb? Maybe delays help too. Is tape echo related to delay?

 

[anitamelane]

nice... gud luck

 

[smokeydubz0]

nice

 

[Chris Schley]

Not enough hardware