From nmartinez@berkeley.edu Wed Jul 12 18:47:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!nmartinez From: nmartinez@berkeley.edu (Nadia Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 18:47:38 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Nadia Martínez "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Macintosh IIfx / SunOS 4.1.4 From rstewart@mindspring.com Fri Jul 14 06:20:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!rstewart From: rstewart@mindspring.com (Rodrigo Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul14.062038.2711@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 06:20:38 GMT References: <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu>, nmartinez@berkeley.edu (Nadia Martínez) 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. -- Rodrigo Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------ From frodriguez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jul 16 02:29:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!frodriguez From: frodriguez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Fiona Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul16.022938.9912@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 02:29:38 GMT References: <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu> <1995Jul14.062038.2711@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul14.062038.2711@mindspring.com>, rstewart@mindspring.com (Rodrigo Stewart) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- === Fiona Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From pgirard@cmu.edu Sun Jul 16 20:34:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!pgirard From: pgirard@cmu.edu (Pavel Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul16.203438.1182@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 20:34:38 GMT References: <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu> <1995Jul14.062038.2711@mindspring.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul14.062038.2711@mindspring.com>, rstewart@mindspring.com (Rodrigo Stewart) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- === Pavel Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From dnilsson@unam.mx Tue Jul 18 23:07:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!dnilsson From: dnilsson@unam.mx (Dong-hyun Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul18.230738.4896@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:07:38 GMT References: <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul12.184738.2582@berkeley.edu>, nmartinez@berkeley.edu (Nadia Martínez) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Dong-hyun Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------