From mlaurent@netcom.com Tue Nov 08 06:09:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!mlaurent From: mlaurent@netcom.com (Mathieu Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 06:09:50 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Mathieu Laurent -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From btanaka@kiae.su Tue Nov 08 14:31:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!btanaka From: btanaka@kiae.su (Bruno Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Nov08.143150.4153@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 14:31:50 GMT References: <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com>, mlaurent@netcom.com (Mathieu Laurent) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Bruno Tanaka "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun SparcStation 20 / AmigaOS 3.1 From lperez@delphi.com Wed Nov 09 19:15:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!lperez From: lperez@delphi.com (Liam Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Nov09.191550.2653@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 19:15:50 GMT References: <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com>, mlaurent@netcom.com (Mathieu Laurent) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Liam Pérez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy." From sjohansson@ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 14:05:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!sjohansson From: sjohansson@ox.ac.uk (Sergei Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Nov10.140550.1900@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 14:05:50 GMT References: <1994Nov08.060950.2952@netcom.com> <1994Nov08.143150.4153@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov08.143150.4153@kiae.su>, btanaka@kiae.su (Bruno Tanaka) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Sergei Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0