synths in paula abdul's "straight up" album

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What late 80's/early 90's keyboards/drum machines were used to make the "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul?

― atartrekman, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't the Yamaha DX7 kind of the industry standard at the time?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Paula Abdul can go suck a toad's ass.

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

i can confirm the DX7 (i think) by being told this by an engineering teacher who worked on this album. one of my assignments was to remix a demo of "straight up" (!!).

― mason r butler, Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Now what kind of drum machine was used in "Straight Up"?

― startrekman, Monday, 21 November 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Paula Abdul can go suck a toad's ass.

:-O

How did you found out about this?

― do knut (donut), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna guess Roland R-8 because it was very up-to-the-minute in the late 80s and seems like something a big corporate studio would have used at the time. Second choice is an E-mu SP-series sampler.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 21 November 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Although it could be a drum machine (eg the Roland R8 or the Emu SP12, as mentioned above), it was becoming perfectly routine by that time (1989) to sequence drum tracks on a computer or other midi sequencer. The sequencer would trigger sounds on an external sampler eg Akai S900.

― Oak (small items), Monday, 21 November 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

didn't they use either the Linn 9000 or the Akai MP-60

― startrekman, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

That sounds plausible. Did you read that somewhere then?

― Oak (small items), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

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