From amartinez@tum.de Mon Apr 01 16:32:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!amartinez From: amartinez@tum.de (Amy Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr01.163233.4584@tum.de> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 16:32:33 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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? -- Amy Martínez -- Technische Universität München "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From cwatanabe@purdue.edu Wed Apr 03 11:33:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!cwatanabe From: cwatanabe@purdue.edu (Callum Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr03.113333.2587@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 11:33:33 GMT References: <1996Apr01.163233.4584@tum.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Apr01.163233.4584@tum.de>, amartinez@tum.de (Amy Martínez) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Callum Watanabe *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From gsouza@purdue.edu Fri Apr 05 04:33:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!gsouza From: gsouza@purdue.edu (Göran Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr05.043333.4711@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 04:33:33 GMT References: <1996Apr01.163233.4584@tum.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr01.163233.4584@tum.de>, amartinez@tum.de (Amy Martínez) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Göran Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.