From nkowalski@inria.fr Wed Oct 11 00:43:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!nkowalski From: nkowalski@inria.fr (Nadine Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 00:43:33 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Nadine Kowalski US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ikang@uu.net Thu Oct 12 13:21:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!ikang From: ikang@uu.net (Ines Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct12.132133.3608@uu.net> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:21:33 GMT References: <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr>, nkowalski@inria.fr (Nadine Kowalski) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Ines Kang -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From fpetrov@illinois.edu Thu Oct 12 15:19:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!fpetrov From: fpetrov@illinois.edu (Freya Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct12.151933.3508@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:19:33 GMT References: <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr> <1995Oct12.132133.3608@uu.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct12.132133.3608@uu.net>, ikang@uu.net (Ines Kang) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). 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. -- Freya Petrov | fpetrov@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 0FC6 AFE3 D0BF AA8B "Keep the channels open." From tsuzuki@ox.ac.uk Sat Oct 14 07:46:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!tsuzuki From: tsuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Tomas Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct14.074633.4814@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 07:46:33 GMT References: <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct11.004333.9921@inria.fr>, nkowalski@inria.fr (Nadine Kowalski) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Tomas Suzuki US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man."