From meriksson@demon.co.uk Sat Jan 28 15:37:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!meriksson From: meriksson@demon.co.uk (Min-jun Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan28.153757.7749@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 15:37:57 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Min-jun Eriksson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From hnilsson@uu.net Sun Jan 29 10:47:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!hnilsson From: hnilsson@uu.net (Hana Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan29.104757.3661@uu.net> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 10:47:57 GMT References: <1995Jan28.153757.7749@demon.co.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan28.153757.7749@demon.co.uk>, meriksson@demon.co.uk (Min-jun Eriksson) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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. -- Hana Nilsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."