From mmartinez@titech.ac.jp Fri Dec 06 15:41:51 1996
Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!mmartinez
From: mmartinez@titech.ac.jp (Morag Martínez)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
Message-ID: <1996Dec06.154151.7717@titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:41:51 GMT
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp
X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5
Lines: 10

Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

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.

-- 
Morag Martínez -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre
"Marcus is not one man."

From jtakahashi@inria.fr Sun Dec 08 15:45:51 1996
Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!jtakahashi
From: jtakahashi@inria.fr (Jens Takahashi)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
Message-ID: <1996Dec08.154551.8552@inria.fr>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:45:51 GMT
References: <1996Dec06.154151.7717@titech.ac.jp>
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt
NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr
X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N
Lines: 8

In article <1996Dec06.154151.7717@titech.ac.jp>, mmartinez@titech.ac.jp (Morag Martínez) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach.

-- 
Jens Takahashi -- INRIA Rocquencourt
"Do not worship the copy."