From nito@cern.ch Sat Apr 15 04:45:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!nito From: nito@cern.ch (Natalia Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr15.044512.7882@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 04:45:12 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Natalia Ito Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From seriksson@ox.ac.uk Sat Apr 15 06:50:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!seriksson From: seriksson@ox.ac.uk (Sven Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr15.065012.4131@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 06:50:12 GMT References: <1995Apr15.044512.7882@cern.ch> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr15.044512.7882@cern.ch>, nito@cern.ch (Natalia Ito) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Sven Eriksson | seriksson@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 1A87 3297 9B72 8513 "Keep the channels open." From nsantos@titech.ac.jp Mon Apr 17 10:04:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!nsantos From: nsantos@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr17.100412.5669@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:04:12 GMT References: <1995Apr15.044512.7882@cern.ch> <1995Apr15.065012.4131@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr15.065012.4131@ox.ac.uk>, seriksson@ox.ac.uk (Sven Eriksson) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Nadia Santos -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Marcus is not one man."