Pulling out all the stops

Unless I'm forgetting something, every keyboard instrument I own has found its way into the in-progress mix of "Faraway Island".  The thing with synthesizers is that one often needs to layer multiple different tones for the mix to sound satisfying.  This proved a particular challenge in the brief passages of this song which are only keyboards - and I may well decide between now and the final mix that I still got the tone choices wrong.

In the case of the solo verse, this meant playing the part on the old Jupiter-80 and superimposing a pre-programmed string synthesizer playing the same notes!  If nothing else, this does promise to be a great moment and the pay-off that the "C" section always needed.  Can't be sure until the drums are in, and that's exactly what's (hopefully) coming next.