From ltanaka@berkeley.edu Thu Jul 11 03:35:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!ltanaka From: ltanaka@berkeley.edu (Lars Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul11.033506.1971@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 03:35:06 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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? -- Lars Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From srodriguez@mindspring.com Thu Jul 11 23:18:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!srodriguez From: srodriguez@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul11.231806.3301@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 23:18:06 GMT References: <1996Jul11.033506.1971@berkeley.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul11.033506.1971@berkeley.edu>, ltanaka@berkeley.edu (Lars Tanaka) 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. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Seo-yeon Rodríguez | srodriguez@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: AE3F 6EF8 9E93 5E80 "Keep the channels open." From dhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jul 12 18:20:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!dhughes From: dhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dmitri Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul12.182006.9872@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:20:06 GMT References: <1996Jul11.033506.1971@berkeley.edu> <1996Jul11.231806.3301@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul11.231806.3301@mindspring.com>, srodriguez@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Rodríguez) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- === Dmitri Hughes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."