From cstewart@netcom.com Fri Sep 08 23:03:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!netcom!cstewart From: cstewart@netcom.com (Camila Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 23:03:22 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. 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. -- === Camila Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From sramirez@tum.de Sun Sep 10 13:39:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!sramirez From: sramirez@tum.de (Sergei Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep10.133922.3714@tum.de> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 13:39:22 GMT References: <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com>, cstewart@netcom.com (Camila Stewart) writes: > 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. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Sergei Ramírez -- Technische Universität München "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From jhughes@netcom.com Tue Sep 12 12:26:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!jhughes From: jhughes@netcom.com (Jen Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep12.122622.5153@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:26:22 GMT References: <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com> <1995Sep10.133922.3714@tum.de> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep10.133922.3714@tum.de>, sramirez@tum.de (Sergei Ramírez) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Jen Hughes | jhughes@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: 827B D204 EE7C 168C "Keep the channels open." From kmacdonald@kth.se Thu Sep 14 06:13:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@kth.se (Kirsty MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep14.061322.1819@kth.se> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 06:13:22 GMT References: <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com>, cstewart@netcom.com (Camila Stewart) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Kirsty MacDonald Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From rsanchez@hanse.de Fri Sep 15 04:43:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!rsanchez From: rsanchez@hanse.de (Rodrigo Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Sep15.044322.5311@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 04:43:22 GMT References: <1995Sep08.230322.1649@netcom.com> <1995Sep10.133922.3714@tum.de> <1995Sep12.122622.5153@netcom.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep12.122622.5153@netcom.com>, jhughes@netcom.com (Jen Hughes) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Rodrigo Sánchez -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Row 14. No joke."