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

Dear Laurent ,

Hi there !

Great that you remember the fantastic band NENA !

The “box” that I had fixed on the minimoog is a monophonic step sequencer. It had 8 sequence programmes,and was transposable by CV/Gate connection to the minimoog.
I used in “Leuchtturm” and some other songs not featured at PINKPOP.

The problem with it was, that it was very heat sensitive - so in many shows it would stop working after about an hour or so during our shows, because of the heat generated by the stage lighting (which was very hot
Since I did not need it for 5 songs before the final song “Nur geträumt” which was based on the all important bass sequence, I had my roadie unplug it and take it of during the show for 15 minutes and carry it to our wardrobe to put it in the refrigerator - then bringing it back and plugging it in for our last song again

This worked fine but was bit crazy, because we never knew if any roadie would show up again in time with the all important sequencer ))
So in the Pink Pop show we had a new plan and our bass player plays the bass sequence for “Nur geträumt” with a Roland sequencer system , so we did not have to worry anymore about the sequencer temperature )

Another funny thing was that the speed of the sequencer was not programmable but had to be set manually by turning a knob—since there was no digital BPM number display , I had to put marks with an edding marker on the dial representing the speed setting for the different songs.

Since I had to set the speed for every song while playing on the OB-X with the other hand , lots of times songs were too fast or too slow when I started the sequencer…but once started , I could not change it without completely throwing of the rest of the band …so we hat to continue the songs like that —mostly too fast )))

best wishes,

Uwe

T'aurais pu lui demander au passage si c'était un PPG Wave 2.2