From stanaka@rwth-aachen.de Mon Jun 12 08:08:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!stanaka From: stanaka@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 08:08:39 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Sergei Tanaka "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / FreeBSD 2.1 From glaurent@cmu.edu Tue Jun 13 03:47:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!glaurent From: glaurent@cmu.edu (Graham Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 03:47:39 GMT References: <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de>, stanaka@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Tanaka) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Graham Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From kmoreno@utexas.edu Tue Jun 13 19:58:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!kmoreno From: kmoreno@utexas.edu (Karen Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun13.195839.7829@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 19:58:39 GMT References: <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu>, glaurent@cmu.edu (Graham Laurent) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Karen Moreno -- University of Texas at Austin "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From dmoreno@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 15 04:18:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!dmoreno From: dmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Diego Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun15.041839.6851@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 04:18:39 GMT References: <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu>, glaurent@cmu.edu (Graham Laurent) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- === Diego Moreno === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rdubois@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jun 15 08:29:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!rdubois From: rdubois@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun15.082939.5328@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:29:39 GMT References: <1995Jun12.080839.9998@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.034739.2732@cmu.edu>, glaurent@cmu.edu (Graham Laurent) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Renata Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------