From ischneider@rwth-aachen.de Thu May 09 10:18:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!ischneider From: ischneider@rwth-aachen.de (Ines Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996May09.101852.2379@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 10:18:52 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Ines Schneider "Row 14. No joke." Atari Falcon 030 / Linux 1.2.13 From arobertson@kiae.su Sat May 11 03:07:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!arobertson From: arobertson@kiae.su (Andrei Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996May11.030752.4870@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 03:07:52 GMT References: <1996May09.101852.2379@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May09.101852.2379@rwth-aachen.de>, ischneider@rwth-aachen.de (Ines Schneider) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Andrei Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From mgarcia@cam.ac.uk Sun May 12 08:25:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!mgarcia From: mgarcia@cam.ac.uk (Mei García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996May12.082552.4746@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 08:25:52 GMT References: <1996May09.101852.2379@rwth-aachen.de> <1996May11.030752.4870@kiae.su> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996May11.030752.4870@kiae.su>, arobertson@kiae.su (Andrei Robertson) 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. -- === Mei García === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "When every node is whole, the channel opens."