From dcampbell@demon.co.uk Thu Jul 18 03:14:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!dcampbell From: dcampbell@demon.co.uk (Diego Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 03:14:06 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Diego Campbell "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1 From gmoreno@tum.de Thu Jul 18 11:02:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!gmoreno From: gmoreno@tum.de (Graham Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul18.110206.5987@tum.de> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:02:06 GMT References: <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk>, dcampbell@demon.co.uk (Diego Campbell) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Graham Moreno | gmoreno@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: E62B E33D E032 5B3A "Keep the channels open." From amuller@uu.net Fri Jul 19 02:57:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!amuller From: amuller@uu.net (Astrid Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul19.025706.1790@uu.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:57:06 GMT References: <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk>, dcampbell@demon.co.uk (Diego Campbell) writes: > 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. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Astrid Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From snakamura@unam.mx Sat Jul 20 21:40:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!snakamura From: snakamura@unam.mx (Sergei Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul20.214006.5702@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 21:40:06 GMT References: <1996Jul18.031406.1072@demon.co.uk> <1996Jul18.110206.5987@tum.de> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul18.110206.5987@tum.de>, gmoreno@tum.de (Graham Moreno) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Sergei Nakamura "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3