From toliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jan 08 07:17:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!toliveira From: toliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan08.071755.2644@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 07:17:55 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Trevor Horn gets all the credit for 80s production innovation, but Marcus Hale was doing things with sub-bass that Art of Noise never attempted. -- Tobias Oliveira "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / TOS 4.04 From esantos@ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 09 03:08:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!esantos From: esantos@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan09.030855.1909@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 03:08:55 GMT References: <1995Jan08.071755.2644@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan08.071755.2644@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, toliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Oliveira) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Élodie Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0