Thanks, I will try it. Do you know witch synth is used in the original track ?

... and a search engine dug up:

https://audiosex.pro/threads/walk-of-life-synth-synth-sound.15832/

or

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=97332&view=previous&sid=0f744d736e080274ae9c9076f35e6cf8

The latter suggests the sound was originally performed on a DX5 - so using FMX is appropriate. The original keyboardist was said to have answered DX1 as one of the keyboards used (tweaked sound) and more recently just using a sample of the original keyboard.

Both have some interesting discussion. My search term was "walk of life dire straits keyboard used" (without quotes). There are lots of other "hits" past the ones mentioned above. Likely lots of interesting discussion to mine.

Thanks Jason. Interesting.....but they don't talk about montage 😀

You asked:

Thanks, I will try it. Do you know witch synth is used in the original track ?

And one link included information from the original keyboardist addressing this question. Of course, the original keyboard was not a Montage.

Andrea wrote:

Thanks, I will try it. Do you know witch synth is used in the original track ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30NV97_MFQ

In above live performance on 0:23 I recognise a left hand played Yamaha DX7IID (combined with a Hammond) and another one played with his rigth hand simultaniously

As mentioned before, the FM-X engine in Montage would be fine to "exactly" replicate the keyboard part assuming you were capable of sufficiently finding the correct settings.

With an album release date of May 13, 1985 - at the time of release, this would narrow the possibilities down for the studio equipment. It's more of a historical interest than a real practical question in recreating the part.

DX7/DX9 - 1983 DX1 - 1984 DX5 - 1985 DX21/DX27/DX100 - 1986 DX7II - 1987

DX7 (original) or DX1 seem most likely candidates. So DX1 seems to fit the keyboard used in the original recording. Subsequent tours the equipment was updated with the latest offerings until eventually he claims to have replaced FM with a sampled version of the sound.

The live recordings show there's more than just one board that can reproduce the sound. You could probably get away with just about anything including consumer keyboards with integrated speakers.

https://youtu.be/DljEnX_SRVM

https://www.dropbox.com/s/syoqful9vbb4nul/walk%20of%20life.X8B?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmhwab0rob1e802/walk%20of%20life.perf?dl=0

Here are links for a MODX Sound like in my vid...