Great, Danny! I did already know most of this, but what I was thinking about was the way that Peter Howell did it to begin with (a lot more time consuming) which was to record the main bassline (constantly 1/4 bass notes and the top part) and then flip the tape over so it played backwards, and then add in the bending notes, but playing them backwards (which I tried yesterday and failed miserably; getting the timing right when you're listening to something backwards is harder than it sounds!) which gives a smoother feel. Then all that you need to do to complete the 'rhythm' track is to (keeping the bassline going backwards) add some soft white noise bursts in some parts(quite sharp attack, 350ms release), mix them in so that they can only be heard slightly, and then flip the tape the other way round again.
The part that I find the hardest is actually recreating the raw bassline sound. I have had the CS-80v for a few months now(I didn't buy it, way to expensive; if I had enough money to buy a synth plugin for over £100 then I'd buy a real CS-80, only about £7000-£8000 you know), but I find it quite hard to program (harder than a real DX-7, which was incredibly tedious), mainly because it is so complex. To be honest, I'm more used to the layout of a Mini Moog, glide, mono and tuning on one side, oscillators and waveforms in the middle, and ADSR and filter on the right.
Also, on FL Studio (
read as Fruityloops) my CS-80v gets all mucked up and all of the buttons go out of alignment, so when you click on one, it moves the one slightly above it. (see picture below)
