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I started working in a small studio there and eventually became a partial owner and lead engineer. The band ended up moving to Chicago in 1989 and quickly fell apart. It absolutely blew my mind when I heard it and solidified my passion for synthesized sounds. The owner told us that Bob Moog himself delivered and installed it. The tiny studio where we recorded our first original song demos had a Moog Modular set up in the control room. We were covering bands like New Order and Depeche Mode in a classic rock town. When I was 16 the band I was in started playing shows in the local bars. Everything from Acid Rock to Herb Alpert & Sergio Mendes. Growing up I had 3 older brothers that all had different tastes in music. What is your musical background? Have you ever played in bands? Worked on albums? I discovered some tracks you created on Soundcloud, they are really interesting and we all (French KORG team) really liked them.

It taught me some of the terminology and a few basic elements of sound design. This was a learning experience but I didn't know it at the time. Mostly stuff I heard in movies like Close Encounters, Flash Gordon and Excalibur. I think, like most beginners, I started out by trying to recreate some of my favorite sounds. Did you start creating your own patches from the beginning? Later on I enrolled in a few music theory courses in high school for which I am forever thankful. A few years later I got my first musical instrument, the Casio CZ-3000. It was a handheld sound fx synthesizer with presets that you could tweak. The Sound Gizmo by Fundimensions in 1980. Almost immediately after that I got my first synth.

#FUNDIMENSIONS SOUND GIZMO HOW TO#

She taught me how to play 'Cars' by Gary Numan which was a huge hit at the time. Her whole family was in a traveling band that toured all over Canada and France. I met a very cute French Canadian girl there named Denise. The camp where we stayed had an activites building with a beautiful old piano available for anyone to play. When I was very young, my family used to vacation in Canada for 2 weeks every year. I've been interested in music and sound design since I can remember. Since how many years do you play with synthesizers? Splitting my time between the 2 can often be challenging, but I love what I do so it's always worth it at the end of a long day. I also own and operate a project studio known as Ape Studios in the Cleveland, Ohio Area. Hello everyone! My name is Randy Wilson and I am the owner and lead sound designer of Robust American Patches. I would like to start by expressing a big thank you to Philippe Brodu for giving me this chance to talk a little about a synth I'm very passionate about.

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The translation from English to French got pretty garbled so I thought I would post the full interview here in English as well.įirstly : can you introduce yourself and your current activity(ies)? Korg France wanted to know more about us Robust Americans and asked if we would participate in this online interview for the artists section of their site.

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