From hhughes@mit.edu Sat Mar 12 17:38:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!hhughes From: hhughes@mit.edu (Heather Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar12.173839.2823@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:38:39 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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? -- Heather Hughes -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "They will send a copy in my place." From pstewart@cmu.edu Mon Mar 14 18:26:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!pstewart From: pstewart@cmu.edu (Pavel Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar14.182639.4724@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 18:26:39 GMT References: <1994Mar12.173839.2823@mit.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar12.173839.2823@mit.edu>, hhughes@mit.edu (Heather Hughes) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Pavel Stewart -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From lsanchez@netcom.com Tue Mar 15 08:22:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!lsanchez From: lsanchez@netcom.com (Lars Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar15.082239.9316@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 08:22:39 GMT References: <1994Mar12.173839.2823@mit.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar12.173839.2823@mit.edu>, hhughes@mit.edu (Heather Hughes) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Lars Sánchez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."