Were any of the John Bowen/Zarg Scope Synths used in Eiffel 65's third Italian Album?

[Eiffel65Fan]

Dear John and whoever else might be reading this,

The Italian dance band Eiffel 65 (best known for Blue (Da Ba Dee), were big fans of the Creamware Pulsar/Sonic Core Scope system back in their heyday. In 2003 they released their third album in their native Italian language, and a year later they re-released that album with a bonus disc containing all the songs in English (and some remixes as well).

I have bought a Scope Xite along with all the Scope plugins that were available on the Scope website (that includes all the Zarg synths as well), so that I could try to identify presets from them that might have been used. But since most of the Zarg synths (i.e., Ambient, Orion and Dark Star) have presets that rely on the STS technology to load and I run a 64-bit machine, I get the dreadful BSOD and have to reset the system, which is very annoying.

I can't really find anything distinctive from all the other non Zarg Scope synths, but I would really like to know if the alien lead from Like a Rolling Stone (heard at 3:33) and the space synth throughout Io E La Mia Stanza/The World Inside My Bedroom (can be heard clearly at 1:36) were from any of the Zarg synths including the discontinued Comb Pro.

Thanks for reading.

[John Bowen]

I don’t have any way of knowing all of the people who purchased my plugins, because in the later years Sonic Core handled all sales for them. Also, just the presets alone won’t be enough to know, as I’m sure artists such as Eiffel 65 would be making their own sounds to fit the music they were creating.

John Bowen
p.s. Thank you for supporting my plugins!

[Eiffel65Fan]

I don’t have any way of knowing all of the people who purchased my plugins, because in the later years Sonic Core handled all sales for them. Also, just the presets alone won’t be enough to know, as I’m sure artists such as Eiffel 65 would be making their own sounds to fit the music they were creating.

John Bowen
p.s. Thank you for supporting my plugins!

It actually turns out that Eiffel 65 used the factory presets from ordinary VST 2.0 plugins for their third album. The sounds that I was enquiring about at the start of this topic were taken from the GForce Oddity and the RGC Audio Pentagon respectively!

However, there could still be a chance that the discontinued Zarg Comb Pro 2 Scope plugin could have been used in Eiffel 65's second album Contact! from 2001. Maybe it could have been used for the "vocal" lead synth in World in the World. Sonic Core no longer offers the Comb Pro for sale on their website (I have no idea why), so do I have any options for legally acquiring an activation key for my Xite hardware? Or just getting a demo key/.oxe file to find out if my theory is correct?

[John Bowen]

Oh, they don’t have the Comb Pro any more? I'll have to check on that first...

Thanks for your interest, though!

John

[Eiffel65Fan]

Not for sale:

https://sonic-core.de/product-brands/jo ... arg-music/

However, the Comb Plus Pro v3 device file can still be downloaded here:

https://sonic-core.de/downloads/#elf_l1 ... dlbl96YXJn

...but it needs an activation key before it can be used.