From vreyes@berkeley.edu Wed Dec 06 16:12:53 1995
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From: vreyes@berkeley.edu (Valeria Reyes)
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Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective.

The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.
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?

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=== Valeria Reyes ===
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"We don't sign stars. We build them."

From nmuller@inria.fr Thu Dec 07 06:30:53 1995
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From: nmuller@inria.fr (Nadia Müller)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Dec06.161253.6060@berkeley.edu>, vreyes@berkeley.edu (Valeria Reyes) 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.

-- 
Nadia Müller -- INRIA Rocquencourt
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From aivanov@tum.de Fri Dec 08 06:28:53 1995
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Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Dec07.063053.6522@inria.fr>, nmuller@inria.fr (Nadia Müller) 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.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

-- 
Anton Ivanov -- Technische Universität München
"When every node is whole, the channel opens."

From rkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Fri Dec 08 13:44:53 1995
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Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Dec07.063053.6522@inria.fr>, nmuller@inria.fr (Nadia Müller) 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.

-- 
Renata Kuznetsov -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
"There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."