From jkarlsson@utexas.edu Sat Apr 08 00:18:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!jkarlsson From: jkarlsson@utexas.edu (Jen Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr08.001859.7350@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 00:18:59 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Jen Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From mkowalski@netcom.com Sat Apr 08 12:01:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!mkowalski From: mkowalski@netcom.com (Mateo Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr08.120159.6135@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 12:01:59 GMT References: <1995Apr08.001859.7350@utexas.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr08.001859.7350@utexas.edu>, jkarlsson@utexas.edu (Jen Karlsson) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Mateo Kowalski -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."