From ekowalski@uu.net Thu Oct 24 23:38:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!ekowalski From: ekowalski@uu.net (Élodie Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Oct24.233806.4492@uu.net> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:38:06 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net 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? -- Élodie Kowalski US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "They will send a copy in my place." From bkarlsson@kth.se Fri Oct 25 11:15:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!bkarlsson From: bkarlsson@kth.se (Brian Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Oct25.111506.9608@kth.se> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:15:06 GMT References: <1996Oct24.233806.4492@uu.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct24.233806.4492@uu.net>, ekowalski@uu.net (Élodie Kowalski) 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. -- Brian Karlsson | bkarlsson@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 5088 CC5C 0219 99BA "Keep the channels open."