Members turretg Posted November 27, 2010 Members Share Posted November 27, 2010 At 2 minutes 50 seconds Steve Miller tells the interviewer that he used ( a cheap little synth he says) then they pan across an White face Arp 2800 Odyssey. to do the intro and some other things he says. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDvx3Xu4JY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Conbrio Posted November 27, 2010 Members Share Posted November 27, 2010 The OP is long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Unfed Posted November 27, 2010 Members Share Posted November 27, 2010 At 2 minutes 50 seconds Steve Miller tells the interviewer that he used ( a cheap little synth he says) then they pan across an White face Arp 2800 Odyssey. to do the intro and some other things he says. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDvx3Xu4JY wow, great video! not sure if that's completely accurate though, you can see from the track sheets that one track was dedicated to 'Roland'. who knows? could be one or the other, or even both. love Steve Miller's stuff, either way. my first guess of ARP 2600 was actually due to my bad memory. i'm pretty sure that Joe Walsh used the 2600 on some of his stuff, and i always get those guys confused for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members turretg Posted November 27, 2010 Members Share Posted November 27, 2010 The OP is long gone. Yeah...Don't care though. Nice pic of the 2800, I want one.. go figure. Had an Axxe in the 70's not the same though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members terrellmiller Posted November 28, 2010 Members Share Posted November 28, 2010 At 2 minutes 50 seconds Steve Miller tells the interviewer that he used ( a cheap little synth he says) then they pan across an White face Arp 2800 Odyssey. to do the intro and some other things he says. which means it wasn't an ARP Odyssey.They were hardly "cheap". The credits on the original LP said "Roland", and the track sheets they show in this video say the same thing. The engineer on the sessions says it's Roland. That's pretty definitive. Documentaries are notorious for using whatever kinda-relevant footage they can find, regardless if it's actually related to the subject. Docs of the space program are bad offenders, they show footage or pix from completely different missions (and often from completely different SPACECRAFT) than the one they're currently talking about. So to put your mind at ease: there's no ARP Odyssey on "Fly like an eagle". It's all Roland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikael488 Posted November 28, 2010 Members Share Posted November 28, 2010 FWIW: this live footage from Nov 1976 shows the keyboard player with a couple of Roland SH-2000's, so maybe that's what was used on the studio album too: Here's a quote I found on mixonline.com: "things like the rising synth on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strenge Posted November 29, 2010 Members Share Posted November 29, 2010 I agree that just about anything could have made that sound, if you heard it without delay and verb there just wouldn't be much there to talk about IMO, certainly not anything very weird-sounding (not saying that as a negative, it's super-cool sounding on the track). My favorite thing about it is that is really makes me think "outer space", especially the little *beep* *beep* at the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceNorman Posted November 29, 2010 Members Share Posted November 29, 2010 This being the HC Synth Forum ... I thought the right answer is always a MicroKorg.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Harmoney Posted November 29, 2010 Members Share Posted November 29, 2010 The intro synth sounds are replicated exactly in the Demo on a Yamaha CS1X that I picked up. Now I know that synth wasn't introduced until the eighties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Suilebhain Posted November 29, 2010 Members Share Posted November 29, 2010 which means it wasn't an ARP Odyssey.They were hardly "cheap". Actually, at the time, the Odyssey was kinda on the cheap-ish side, if you consider that most people thought of huge modulars when they thought of professional synths. If not for the quote that it was an ARP, I was going to suggest that it might have been an EML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members afmunderback Posted November 29, 2010 Members Share Posted November 29, 2010 You know whats REALLY funny about this? When this thread was started, noone knew who the heck justin beiber even WAS!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dervish whirl Posted April 13, 2020 Members Share Posted April 13, 2020 Roland SH-1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted April 14, 2020 Members Share Posted April 14, 2020 YouTube the video with him doing it with the Roots from last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dallasdons Posted April 30, 2020 Members Share Posted April 30, 2020 I suggest a Roland sh 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Bird Posted May 22, 2020 Members Share Posted May 22, 2020 Roland SH-2000 on clarinet setting with delay. the SH-2000’s Frogman and Xylophone patches were used in The Window the Funny Cat and a tweaked Pulsar were used on Wild Mountain Honey. Paolo from Synthmania has good demos of the SH-2000 on his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted June 10, 2020 Members Share Posted June 10, 2020 Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMHIMvbLKE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members XtianKeys Posted November 12, 2020 Members Share Posted November 12, 2020 Fly Like and Eagle was created with a Roland SH-2000 ran through an Echoplex. - info from Steve Miller himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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