From heriksson@cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 11 00:13:53 1994
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From: heriksson@cam.ac.uk (Heather Eriksson)
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Subject: 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.

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?

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Heather Eriksson
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From teriksson@inria.fr Mon Jul 11 18:30:53 1994
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From: teriksson@inria.fr (Tobias Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1994Jul11.001353.7810@cam.ac.uk>, heriksson@cam.ac.uk (Heather Eriksson) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

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

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Tobias Eriksson
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt.
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