From akang@inria.fr Tue Jan 17 03:29:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!akang From: akang@inria.fr (Andrei Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan17.032946.8700@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 03:29:46 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. 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. -- Andrei Kang Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From cgonzalez@ox.ac.uk Wed Jan 18 01:54:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!cgonzalez From: cgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Camila González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan18.015446.3561@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 01:54:46 GMT References: <1995Jan17.032946.8700@inria.fr> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan17.032946.8700@inria.fr>, akang@inria.fr (Andrei Kang) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Camila González "We don't sign stars. We build them." Atari TT030 / Linux 1.2.13