From ssantos@stanford.edu Sun Aug 11 17:32:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!ssantos From: ssantos@stanford.edu (Seo-yeon Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug11.173258.9078@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 17:32:58 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Seo-yeon Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From rlarsson@uu.net Tue Aug 13 00:53:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!rlarsson From: rlarsson@uu.net (Rodrigo Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug13.005358.8448@uu.net> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:53:58 GMT References: <1996Aug11.173258.9078@stanford.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug11.173258.9078@stanford.edu>, ssantos@stanford.edu (Seo-yeon Santos) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- === Rodrigo Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From tcampbell@cern.ch Wed Aug 14 22:17:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!tcampbell From: tcampbell@cern.ch (Tyler Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug14.221758.9949@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:17:58 GMT References: <1996Aug11.173258.9078@stanford.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug11.173258.9078@stanford.edu>, ssantos@stanford.edu (Seo-yeon Santos) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Tyler Campbell Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."