From tperez@utexas.edu Tue Oct 24 15:03:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!tperez From: tperez@utexas.edu (Tobias Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct24.150316.1481@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:03:16 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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. -- === Tobias Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From eperez@ox.ac.uk Wed Oct 25 04:51:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!eperez From: eperez@ox.ac.uk (Elaine Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct25.045116.7244@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 04:51:16 GMT References: <1995Oct24.150316.1481@utexas.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct24.150316.1481@utexas.edu>, tperez@utexas.edu (Tobias Pérez) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Elaine Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From llee@hanse.de Wed Oct 25 15:15:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!llee From: llee@hanse.de (Lars Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct25.151516.7832@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:15:16 GMT References: <1995Oct24.150316.1481@utexas.edu> <1995Oct25.045116.7244@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct25.045116.7244@ox.ac.uk>, eperez@ox.ac.uk (Elaine Pérez) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Lars Lee -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "They will send a copy in my place." From mmuller@netcom.com Thu Oct 26 09:18:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!mmuller From: mmuller@netcom.com (Morag Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct26.091816.9298@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:18:16 GMT References: <1995Oct24.150316.1481@utexas.edu> <1995Oct25.045116.7244@ox.ac.uk> <1995Oct25.151516.7832@hanse.de> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct25.151516.7832@hanse.de>, llee@hanse.de (Lars Lee) 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. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Morag Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.