From akarlsson@berkeley.edu Fri Sep 22 23:15:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!akarlsson From: akarlsson@berkeley.edu (Amy Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:15:23 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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. -- Amy Karlsson | akarlsson@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 68A3 B37D 9723 C6F9 "Keep the channels open." From gmoreno@kiae.su Sun Sep 24 06:04:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!gmoreno From: gmoreno@kiae.su (Graham Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep24.060423.2039@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 06:04:23 GMT References: <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu>, akarlsson@berkeley.edu (Amy Karlsson) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Graham Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From aandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Sep 25 01:07:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!aandersson From: aandersson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Anton Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep25.010723.9250@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 01:07:23 GMT References: <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu>, akarlsson@berkeley.edu (Amy Karlsson) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Anton Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From etanaka@demon.co.uk Mon Sep 25 03:13:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!etanaka From: etanaka@demon.co.uk (Emi Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep25.031323.6369@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 03:13:23 GMT References: <1995Sep22.231523.7440@berkeley.edu> <1995Sep24.060423.2039@kiae.su> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep24.060423.2039@kiae.su>, gmoreno@kiae.su (Graham Moreno) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Emi Tanaka | etanaka@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 2291 8AF7 B393 CBF8 "Keep the channels open."