Synthés dans la variété internationale dans les années 70 et 80.

Robert s'est essayé à plein d'instruments acoustiques. Pour des résultats en général assez anecdotiques...

The TR808 was really the first serious drum machine. The kick and snare still needed savage eq (and they didn't take kindly to it), the tom-toms were a complete waste of time, but otherwise it was a decent machine. Individual outputs, tunable drums, enough memory.
Ben Gunn once managed to press the TR808's dangerous red button as we were about to go onstage in Brussels, so Andrew had to reprogram the whole damn machine while everybody else was tuning their guitars up (slowly).

Roland Chorus Echo (always broken) but the best thing on the planet - when it works - for putting chorus on a bass guitar. The Cure probably have twenty-seven of these (so we're not too bothered about ours not working).

Roland TR808. In the early nineties, as acid house was developing a cult around this drum machine, it was suddenly very fashionable to riff along to TR808 sounds. We did that almost ten years earlier, when the cocktail drinking classes and the NME thought it was a bloody stupid idea. (One wet afternoon in the early eighties, we switched the Doktor to play the usual stuff but twice as fast. Hey presto! Drum'n'bass! This was interesting for about ten minutes. Even Cabaret Voltaire couldn't manage to make it interesting for much longer. Please don't tell us it's interesting now.)

Ahahah les fans de TR-808 vont adorer : des sons pourris, pas de drift du sequencer, c'est à l'opposé de ce qu'ils pensent

c'était pas une bonne idée

Ben pour l'époque c'était une machine de ouf.

ce qui est quand même un gage de qualité