From hfischer@kth.se Fri Sep 15 19:19:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!hfischer From: hfischer@kth.se (Heather Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:19:20 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Heather Fischer "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / SunOS 4.1.4 From eoliveira@berkeley.edu Sun Sep 17 15:43:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!eoliveira From: eoliveira@berkeley.edu (Elaine Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep17.154320.9550@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 15:43:20 GMT References: <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se>, hfischer@kth.se (Heather Fischer) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- === Elaine Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From spopov@kiae.su Mon Sep 18 15:53:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!spopov From: spopov@kiae.su (Seo-yeon Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep18.155320.9527@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:53:20 GMT References: <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se>, hfischer@kth.se (Heather Fischer) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Seo-yeon Popov "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / AmigaOS 3.1 From kivanov@utexas.edu Wed Sep 20 09:27:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!kivanov From: kivanov@utexas.edu (Karen Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep20.092720.3113@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:27:20 GMT References: <1995Sep15.191920.4575@kth.se> <1995Sep18.155320.9527@kiae.su> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep18.155320.9527@kiae.su>, spopov@kiae.su (Seo-yeon Popov) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Karen Ivanov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."