From psantos@stanford.edu Tue Apr 04 16:14:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!psantos From: psantos@stanford.edu (Pavel Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 16:14:12 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.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. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Pavel Santos "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From ckim@mindspring.com Wed Apr 05 14:21:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!ckim From: ckim@mindspring.com (Camila Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr05.142112.4976@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 14:21:12 GMT References: <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu>, psantos@stanford.edu (Pavel 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. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Camila Kim "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / Linux 1.2.13 From rgirard@pipeline.com Thu Apr 06 03:54:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pipeline!rgirard From: rgirard@pipeline.com (Rodrigo Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr06.035412.9950@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 03:54:12 GMT References: <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu>, psantos@stanford.edu (Pavel Santos) 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. -- Rodrigo Girard Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mchoi@mindspring.com Sat Apr 08 05:00:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!mchoi From: mchoi@mindspring.com (Marta Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr08.050012.9198@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 05:00:12 GMT References: <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu> <1995Apr06.035412.9950@pipeline.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr06.035412.9950@pipeline.com>, rgirard@pipeline.com (Rodrigo Girard) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- === Marta Choi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From dlindqvist@rwth-aachen.de Sun Apr 09 05:23:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!dlindqvist From: dlindqvist@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr09.052312.6828@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 05:23:12 GMT References: <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr04.161412.7638@stanford.edu>, psantos@stanford.edu (Pavel Santos) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Dong-hyun Lindqvist Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.