To get such a fatthick padsound as heard on Tonys Theme, Kristian Schultze layered three or four custommade CS-80 padsounds with slightly different speeds for modulation (pwm mostly).

Apart from Giorgio Moroder himself there were four music arrangerssynthesists involved in the making of the Scarface OST; Arthur Barrow, Sylvester Levay, Kristian Schultze and another guy whose name escapes me for the moment.

Lets start with Levay and Schultze; they arranged and performed the instrumental underscore as used in the film.

Schultze did the album version of Tonys Theme as well as most film versions of that theme, whereas Levay performed the rest of the instrumental underscore (except the cue that accompanies the Cubans() arriving in the boat scene, which Im told was done by Barrow).

Barrow additionally arranged and played synths and bass guitar on all of the songs.

Im not sure about the other instrumental cue featured on the album, Ginas and Elviras theme, but I do know that neither Schultze, Levay nor Barrow performed this particular version (thats what they told me anyway).

Im guessing therefore it was done by the fourth guy andor by Moroder himself.

About the gear. Arthur Barrow used a Roland Jupiter-8 and Serge modular synthesizer.

Kristian Schultze used a Yamaha CS-80 (which provided the huge pads on Tonys Theme), Minimoog (the bassline is a combination of a Fairlight sample and Minimoog, thunder effects etc.) and Fairlight CMI II (voicy sounds, percussion etc.).

Schultze: it was my Fairlight ser II at that time, the 8bit-machine that I transported to Georgio.s place from Munich, together with my custom library on those big disks A linndrum was used in combination with cmi-percussionsounds.

Not sure about Levay because he simply didnt remember what he used on this score when I asked him about it.

I can tell you though that most of his Airwolf score (which was recorded around the same time as Scarface) was done on an Oberheim OB-8 and DSX, so its not unlikely that he used the same setup on Scarface.

Furthernore, Moroder had a Minimoog, Jup-8, Synclavier II, Prophet 5 and possibly a DX-7 at the time so some of that stuff probably made it onto the score as well.

The music was recorded on 48 tracks (2 studers synchronized)- Hope this helps.

Haha, awesome, thanks Theres Serge on that soundtrack Any idea which tracks it might be on.

From what I understand it was used on some of the vocal tracks alongside the Jp8, which was the main synth.

One good example of the Serge is the the spacyrobotic sounding stuff on Rush Rush.

The Jp8 in arpeggio mode does the trigger bass and the pads in that song as well as the other vocal tracks.

There was no sequencer used at that time, and all non-triggered things were played by hand.

Micke.

I also like the guitars that were used in Shes on fire, shake it up and gina and elviras theme.

The beautiful cue that kicks in at 1:00 into this video clip was apparently performed by Arthur Barrow.

Oh well. YouTube - Scarface 1983-part 1 FR Studios.

Scarface Soundtrack Zip