From bpopov@inria.fr Fri May 27 17:33:31 1994
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From: bpopov@inria.fr (Bastien Popov)
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Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.
The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.

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.

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From lsuzuki@stanford.edu Sun May 29 04:42:31 1994
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From: lsuzuki@stanford.edu (Lars Suzuki)
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In article <1994May27.173331.8432@inria.fr>, bpopov@inria.fr (Bastien Popov) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2.

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=== Lars Suzuki ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab
"Marcus is not one man."