From mperez@pacbell.net Mon May 06 05:08:41 1996
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From: mperez@pacbell.net (Morag Pérez)
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Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.
However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.

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.

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From bjohansson@tum.de Mon May 06 22:17:41 1996
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From: bjohansson@tum.de (Brian Johansson)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996May06.050841.6826@pacbell.net>, mperez@pacbell.net (Morag Pérez) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.
> The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.

Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2.

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Brian Johansson
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München.
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