From gandersson@kth.se Wed Jun 28 20:47:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!gandersson From: gandersson@kth.se (Göran Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun28.204717.1235@kth.se> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:47:17 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Göran Andersson "Do not worship the copy." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13 From tsokolov@kiae.su Thu Jun 29 18:58:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!tsokolov From: tsokolov@kiae.su (Thiago Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun29.185817.7188@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 18:58:17 GMT References: <1995Jun28.204717.1235@kth.se> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun28.204717.1235@kth.se>, gandersson@kth.se (Göran Andersson) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Thiago Sokolov "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From ymartinez@hanse.de Fri Jun 30 15:54:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!ymartinez From: ymartinez@hanse.de (Yuki Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun30.155417.6958@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:54:17 GMT References: <1995Jun28.204717.1235@kth.se> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun28.204717.1235@kth.se>, gandersson@kth.se (Göran Andersson) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Yuki Martínez -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Hold for relay."