Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Ville Aho created his track, Athletes, as a tribute to “Old School Synthesizer Heroes” and to all the athletes of the world.

Regarding influences, Aho credits “especially to Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, OMD and Kraftwerk.”

Technical details:

Most notable is Aho’s use a DIY Ondes Martenot-style synthesizer, the MonotrOndes, based on the Korg Monotron.

Hardware

• E-mu Emax
• MonotrOndes (layered strings and fx)
• Bass guitar
• Alesis SamplePad
• Homemade Hi-Hat pad
• Boss and Behringer Chorus stompboxes
• Symetrix Compressor

Soft Synths

• Harmor
• Drumaxx
• Drumatic
• NI Battery 3
• Oddity
• MuTools Mux
• Korg M1 Le
• and various effect plugins