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Synthesizers/Keyboards:

ARP 2600 (custom) w/ ARP 3620 LFO keyboard
(the one with the `bad´ filter... oh, this is utter nonsense, this machine is a killer!)

Korg PE-1000 Polyphonic Ensemble
(weird and characterful...)

Korg PE-2000 Polyphonic Ensemble "Orchestra"
(x2, two out of approx. six units in existence in Germany)

Mini Moog Model D
(passed quality control on Jan. 30, 1978; stabilized VCOs)

Moog Prodigy (custom)

PPG 1020 Synthesizer
(ex Alex Oriental Experience, Ser. No. 36)

PPG Wave Computer 360-A
(presumably one of, if not the last made, Wave 2-like casing, eight voices, currently needing some fixes)

PPG Wave Computer 360-A
(eight voices, earlier production run, currently being fixed, ser. No. 037)

Rhodes 73 Stage Piano Mk. 1
(a really gigged one, but I like it)

RMI KC-2 Keyboard Computer
(one of less than ten sold in Germany, sounds like a proto-PPG but not quite as aggressive)

Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus
(my car has "VP-330" on its number plate... ´nuff said!)

Sequential Prophet 2000 Sampler
(primitive, but 12 bit resolution somehow does sound better sometimes)

Yamaha CS-80 Synthesizer
(there´s nothing to top it... okay, maybe a Korg PS-3300 but that´s a different story altogether)

Yamaha YC-45 D Organ
(some call it an organ, I call it a monstrosity. This is a real beast)

 

Sequencers/Rhythm Units:

ARP Sequencer (x2, Models 1621 and 1623)

EKO Compute Rhythm
(custom, punchcard-controlled rhythm machine, the first programmable one with memories,
ca. 1974/75, see Ashra/Jean Michel Jarre. One out of approx. 15 units ever made)

Friendchip SRC-2 Mini Clock Synchronizer (Germany´s Garfield Dr. Click)

Korg KMS-30 MIDI/DIN-Sync/Tape Synchronizer

Korg MP-7 Mini Pops (custom, w/ trigger ins and outs)

Mattel Synsonics (custom, w/ trigger inputs)

PPG 350 Computer Sequencer (custom; iffy as hell, but that´s not surprising as it´s a PPG...)

Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer

 

Stompboxes:

Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble (x2; one of them was formerly used by NOVALIS)

Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter (x2, one autographed by JM Jarre... seriously)

Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Deluxe Flanger

Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi Fuzz

Electro Harmonix Echoflanger (1977)

Electro Harmonix Polyflange

Electro Harmonix Polyphase (x2, heavily used on "Frozen Radios", running a Solina through it)

Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer

Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer Ringmodulator (x2; this is another killer)

Electro Harmonix Instant Replay plus External Trigger

Maestro Stage Phaser

Morley Pro Phaser

Rocktron The Surf Tremolo Pedal

 

Other Effects and Processors:

AKG BX-15 Stereo Spring Reverb

Alesis Quadraverb

Boss RPS-10 Digital Delay/Pitch Shifter (x2)

Lexicon Jam Man (32 Sec.)

Maestro USS-1 Universal Synthesizer System (a really wild and weird processor)

Mutron Biphase w/ Optipot (great in combination with a Rhodes, or anything else for that matter)

MXR Flanger/Doubler (rubberband sound)

MXR Pitch Transposer with display (forget Eventide)

Roland DEP-3 Reverb

Roland PH-830 Stereo Phase Shifter
(cleaner and more analytical than, say, a Moog 12 Stage Phaser or a Biphase)

Roland RE-201 Space Echo
(instant dub, and very musical even when it´s going into apeshit resonance)

Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo
(x2; this is my favourite one for strange lo-fi ambient loops)

Roland SDD-320 Dimension D
(so subtle it´s almost unnoticeable, but I guess that´s the secret about
and the reason for its desireability... if that´s a word )

Roland SDE-330 Stereo Dimensional Delay
(the RSS-tag certainly was a trick to woe many buyers...)

Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo
(Q: How do you make a mix even more spacious?)

Roland SRV-330 Stereo Dimensional Reverb
(if that´s what RSS was all about it´s not much, but it´s still great)

RSP Hush 2000 Denoiser
(x2, essential if you´re using a lot of noisy bastards)

Schulte Compact Phasing "A"
(x3, various models, two of them were formerly owned by NOVALIS)

SPL Stereo Vitalizer Mk. 2 (now that´s a real tool)

 

Recording:

Behringer MX-2642A Mixer (usually on stage but also in the studio if space is an issue)

Electro Voice PL-80 Microphone

Fostex 2016 Line Mixer

Furman PL-8 Line Conditioner

Revox A-77 Tape Recorder (9.5/19)

Sony PCM-300R DAT Recorder

Soundtracs T-Series Mixing Desk (limited but still classy and good-sounding)