Novation Bass Station
This was one of the first "virtual" analogue synths. Novation looked back for inspiration and came up with a TB303 clone. Something I will never understand, companies make a product, they are popular, that maintain value, and they are discontinued. Roland is a prime example, some of their most iconic equipment, 808, 909, sh101, tb303, they quite making them and after all these years have never reissued them, they would make a ton of money. Others have taken note and filled the need, there were few newer synths that were like this but this one opened the flood gate and the synth world was changed for the better. Every function had a knob, there were oscillators and not samples that could not be changed. You could actually make sounds!! Well as this was called the Bass Station, you could make basses. You could process sounds through this, figured out some Skinny Puppy tricks, and the knobs transmitted midi. I bought this toward the end of ACW and it really did not fit in to well with what we were doing. I think it was on Much Too Political it did the distorted filtered drum loops in Drowning in Carbon. It was on a bunch of Fockewolf songs, the bass on Faultless, mid synth on Regrets Bitter Empire, a bunch of stuff on Devoid and Visionary For Nothing. After I got the Nordlead this kinda fell to the wayside and I eventfully sold it. Looking back I probably did not know how to program this to its fullest. I do have another synth by the same manufacturer but that is for another post.