Pe8er
Front 242

http://forum.vintagesynth.com/viewtopic.php?t=34558

Official Version/Front By Front: tons of DX7 (easy to recognize) and Emulator II (also easy to hear)... don't know what they used for analog... probably the CS40.

Tyranny For You: tons of Ensoniq VFX (that's what's doing all the big evil sounds, as well as the "twinky" noises up top; that's one patch!). You can hear DX7 (bass on Gripped By Fear), and surely they were still using Emulator II's (maybe updated to Emaxes or Akais).

Up Evil/Off: tons of Korg Wavestation, and the DX7's were updated to Yamaha TG77's. Drums are mostly E-mu Procussion, and by this time they had defnitely dumped the E-mu samplers for Akai S-1100's.

I saw them on the Up Evil tour, and Daniel B. just stood at a the mix board with a laptop running Cubase, with the Wavestation A/D, TG77, Procussion and S-1100.

Now for the interesting part...

Back in the early 90's, I worked for a company called Sound Source Unlimited. They were one of the big synth patch companies (used to have double page spreads in Keyboard mag). I managed to meet Daniel B. at that show, told him about the company, and I ended up trading him a bunch of patches. He gave me pretty much ALL of his soundbanks for DX7, TG77, Wavestation and VFX, so me and my fellow 242 fanatic at Sound Source had all their patches. We were pretty stoked! (my friend had a VFX and a TG77, and I had a Wavestation).

So what machines do Front 242 consider their favourites? For me it is my first machine, the System 100," says Daniel (...) "I like the Yamaha CS40M," says Patrick (...) I also enjoy the VL1 (...) "Only people like Moog come up and dare to do the Voyager, which we have recently acquired - a very good machine. It's incredible; worth every cent. Also, some people who haven't been around long like MacBeth from the UK. That machine is great."

The bands kit list: *Akai S3200 *Apple G4 running Cubase and Nuendo *Avalon 737 and 747 *Clavia DDrum4, Nordlead II, Modular, MicroModular *Dbx 160SL *Electro Harmonix sequencers (x3) *E-mu Emulator II, Morpheus *Ensoniq VFX *Eventide HD3000 *Korg Z1 and Wavestation *Lassence Venturi II *Lexicon 480 *Line 6 Echo Pro *Mackie DB8 *Moog Voyager *Oberheim Matrix 12 *ProAc Tablet8 and ATC SCM50 monitors *Roland System 100, System 100M, MC4, MKS-30, G-10, MPU-101, V-Drum, JD-990, SRV-2000, SDE-3000, RSS-10 *Sherman Filter *TC Electronics Fireworx and Finaliser *TLA EQ1, EQ2 and C1 *Waldorf Q *Yamaha 40m, DX7, TG77, VL1, VL1m, SPX1000