From stanaka@pipeline.com Sun Mar 24 02:26:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!stanaka From: stanaka@pipeline.com (Sven Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar24.022614.2382@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:26:14 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Sven Tanaka Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mnovak@uu.net Mon Mar 25 19:10:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!mnovak From: mnovak@uu.net (Marta Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar25.191014.7980@uu.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:10:14 GMT References: <1996Mar24.022614.2382@pipeline.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar24.022614.2382@pipeline.com>, stanaka@pipeline.com (Sven Tanaka) 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. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Marta Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dlaurent@cmu.edu Wed Mar 27 02:36:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!dlaurent From: dlaurent@cmu.edu (Diego Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar27.023614.9054@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:36:14 GMT References: <1996Mar24.022614.2382@pipeline.com> <1996Mar25.191014.7980@uu.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar25.191014.7980@uu.net>, mnovak@uu.net (Marta Novak) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Diego Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0