I've been corresponding with Casey Young (Vince's synth-programmer) a lot lately and thought I'd add some info.Д«esides the synths listed by Vince above, Casey's E-mu Blue box 16-voice polyphonic synth (the only one ever made) was also used on these scores. Great thread! I just love Vince's scores to Rocky IV and Transformers. The new KURZWEIL synths are also of high quality. If I was forced to choose just one from the above it would probably be the YAMAHA Motif. The synth sounds won't be as huge and 'punchy' as we were able to get with the gear we used, but you should be able to cover a lot of ground stylistically. SPECTRASONICS Omnisphere synth (computer)Д®AST WEST Symphonic Orchestra sound library (computer) NORD Stage 2 (the best organs, acoustic and electric pianos I've heard in a keyboard in a long time, and the synth section is pretty powerful) If you're considering making a purchase, I suggest the following: (We only used arpeggiation as an ambient 'color' for a few cues.) In fact, I played about 99% of all the keyboard parts in real time for both scores. Most of the sounds we used were created from scratch (no factory presets) using some combination of the above and would be very difficult to duplicate without the gear listed.ДЇYI, that was NOT an arpeggiated part. My good friend Casey Young (sound designer for Yes and Michael Jackson, to name a few) helped out tremendously on both projects and the majority of gear we used belonged to him. It's been a very long time so I'm working from memory here but I'm pretty sure that sound was created using a combination of Moog and Emu modular synths, and it's possible that a Jupiter 8 and a Yamaha TX-816 (basically 8 DX7's in a rack) were involved as well. Regarding the synth bass sound you're inquiring about at the beginning of 'Training Montage'.

To the best of my recollection (it's been a very long time!), here's the total list of gear we used for my scores to ROCKY IV and TRANSFORMERS:

Rocky song training