From dhughes@kiae.su Wed Apr 24 02:32:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!dhughes From: dhughes@kiae.su (Diego Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr24.023246.3730@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:32:46 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Diego Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From drodriguez@cmu.edu Wed Apr 24 04:32:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!drodriguez From: drodriguez@cmu.edu (Diego Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr24.043246.9917@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:32:46 GMT References: <1996Apr24.023246.3730@kiae.su> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr24.023246.3730@kiae.su>, dhughes@kiae.su (Diego Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Diego Rodríguez -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk Thu Apr 25 11:46:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Marisol González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr25.114646.9777@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:46:46 GMT References: <1996Apr24.023246.3730@kiae.su> <1996Apr24.043246.9917@cmu.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Apr24.043246.9917@cmu.edu>, drodriguez@cmu.edu (Diego Rodríguez) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Marisol González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0