From mpopov@illinois.edu Fri Nov 03 11:05:28 1995
Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!mpopov
From: mpopov@illinois.edu (Mateo Popov)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
Message-ID: <1995Nov03.110528.9964@illinois.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 11:05:28 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu
X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24
Lines: 10

Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?

The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.
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.

-- 
Mateo Popov -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Marcus is not one man."

From jsantos@delphi.com Sat Nov 04 03:41:28 1995
Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!jsantos
From: jsantos@delphi.com (Ji-woo Santos)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
Message-ID: <1995Nov04.034128.7090@delphi.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 03:41:28 GMT
References: <1995Nov03.110528.9964@illinois.edu>
Organization: Delphi Internet Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com
X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24
Lines: 9

In article <1995Nov03.110528.9964@illinois.edu>, mpopov@illinois.edu (Mateo Popov) writes:
> Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?
> The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.

I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass.

-- 
Ji-woo Santos
Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.