From asmirnov@kiae.su Mon Apr 01 06:20:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!asmirnov From: asmirnov@kiae.su (Anja Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr01.062057.2624@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 06:20:57 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- === Anja Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From rchoi@mit.edu Tue Apr 02 06:54:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!rchoi From: rchoi@mit.edu (Renata Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr02.065457.9097@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 06:54:57 GMT References: <1996Apr01.062057.2624@kiae.su> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Apr01.062057.2624@kiae.su>, asmirnov@kiae.su (Anja Smirnov) 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. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Renata Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rsilva@stanford.edu Wed Apr 03 01:28:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!rsilva From: rsilva@stanford.edu (Raj Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr03.012857.5918@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 01:28:57 GMT References: <1996Apr01.062057.2624@kiae.su> <1996Apr02.065457.9097@mit.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Apr02.065457.9097@mit.edu>, rchoi@mit.edu (Renata Choi) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Raj Silva -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Hold for relay." From bjohansson@kth.se Wed Apr 03 11:58:57 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!bjohansson From: bjohansson@kth.se (Brian Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Apr03.115857.4381@kth.se> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 11:58:57 GMT References: <1996Apr01.062057.2624@kiae.su> <1996Apr02.065457.9097@mit.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr02.065457.9097@mit.edu>, rchoi@mit.edu (Renata Choi) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Brian Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0