From ehernandez@pacbell.net Sat Aug 13 06:49:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!ehernandez From: ehernandez@pacbell.net (Élodie Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug13.064903.7114@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 06:49:03 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. 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. -- Élodie Hernández Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From dito@illinois.edu Sun Aug 14 14:26:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!dito From: dito@illinois.edu (Dave Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug14.142603.8165@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 14:26:03 GMT References: <1994Aug13.064903.7114@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug13.064903.7114@pacbell.net>, ehernandez@pacbell.net (Élodie Hernández) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Dave Ito "Hold for relay." Decstation 5000/200 / TOS 4.04 From njohansson@panix.com Tue Aug 16 09:57:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!njohansson From: njohansson@panix.com (Nadine Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug16.095703.7164@panix.com> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 09:57:03 GMT References: <1994Aug13.064903.7114@pacbell.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug13.064903.7114@pacbell.net>, ehernandez@pacbell.net (Élodie Hernández) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Nadine Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.