W00t!
Ok, those of you who have read some of my earlier topics know that I'm a big Christine fan, and that I like to do authentic sounding FM covers.
At first I was trying to track down what keyboards Chris used on the Tango in the Night album. From Big Love's music video, it appears she is playing a Yamaha DX7.
It's convenient for me, since I have the TX7, the 'rack' synth module version.
So, I was basically looking for that ringy-bell sounding EP she used on Everywhere and Little Lies. I decided to dig through my hundreds of DX7 sound banks. I figured that she would use something that comes with the DX7... but no... at least, not the original ones.
I started going through some banks a friend sent me... on the 3rd bank, I came across a patch called PianoBells. This patch is what I call a 'low octave' bank, where all the pitches are much lower than they should be. Up in the high octaves, it really sounded like what she used. I consulted the CD, but the music is slightly out of tune so it wasn't easy to make a fair judgement.
I finally popped in my Tango DVD (which is in tune!) and that's definitely it!
I'm so happy, and now I can do my covers which will sound very much like the original versions.
I do still have some digging to do... I have to find that Marimba like sound that's used on Little Lies' verses.
-Alex