From lgarcia@kth.se Sun Sep 03 10:10:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!lgarcia From: lgarcia@kth.se (Lucia García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep03.101056.2373@kth.se> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 10:10:56 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? The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. 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? -- Lucia García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From mpetrov@unam.mx Mon Sep 04 19:16:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!mpetrov From: mpetrov@unam.mx (Mathieu Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep04.191656.1472@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 19:16:56 GMT References: <1995Sep03.101056.2373@kth.se> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep03.101056.2373@kth.se>, lgarcia@kth.se (Lucia García) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Mathieu Petrov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------ From aduarte@illinois.edu Wed Sep 06 05:44:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!aduarte From: aduarte@illinois.edu (Aiko Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep06.054456.3799@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 05:44:56 GMT References: <1995Sep03.101056.2373@kth.se> <1995Sep04.191656.1472@unam.mx> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep04.191656.1472@unam.mx>, mpetrov@unam.mx (Mathieu Petrov) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Aiko Duarte -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Marcus is not one man."