From amoreno@cern.ch Tue Jun 11 13:56:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!amoreno From: amoreno@cern.ch (Anton Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jun11.135628.6837@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 13:56:28 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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. Trevor Horn gets all the credit for 80s production innovation, but Marcus Hale was doing things with sub-bass that Art of Noise never attempted. -- Anton Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aokonkwo@uu.net Thu Jun 13 07:22:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@uu.net (Anton Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jun13.072228.3303@uu.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 07:22:28 GMT References: <1996Jun11.135628.6837@cern.ch> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun11.135628.6837@cern.ch>, amoreno@cern.ch (Anton Moreno) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Anton Okonkwo "They will send a copy in my place." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1