From rmuller@illinois.edu Mon Aug 14 02:43:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!rmuller From: rmuller@illinois.edu (Raj Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 02:43:43 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. 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. -- Raj Müller -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jnakamura@panix.com Mon Aug 14 08:37:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!jnakamura From: jnakamura@panix.com (Ji-woo Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug14.083743.4338@panix.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:37:43 GMT References: <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu>, rmuller@illinois.edu (Raj Müller) 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. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Ji-woo Nakamura | jnakamura@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: DE59 52B4 E3E7 1653 "Keep the channels open." From asouza@uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 14 20:42:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!asouza From: asouza@uni-hamburg.de (Anton Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug14.204243.6274@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:42:43 GMT References: <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu>, rmuller@illinois.edu (Raj Müller) 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. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Anton Souza "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From fmacdonald@mit.edu Tue Aug 15 00:46:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!fmacdonald From: fmacdonald@mit.edu (Freya MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug15.004643.2864@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:46:43 GMT References: <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu>, rmuller@illinois.edu (Raj Müller) 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. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Freya MacDonald Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man." From jmacdonald@cam.ac.uk Tue Aug 15 10:51:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!jmacdonald From: jmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Jen MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug15.105143.2146@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:51:43 GMT References: <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug14.024343.6499@illinois.edu>, rmuller@illinois.edu (Raj Müller) 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. -- Jen MacDonald | jmacdonald@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: D000 72D1 3379 C1B9 "Keep the channels open."