From rramirez@kth.se Sun Mar 06 03:55:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!rramirez From: rramirez@kth.se (Rodrigo Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar06.035557.9517@kth.se> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1994 03:55:57 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Rodrigo Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From fjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Mar 07 22:44:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!fjohansson From: fjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Fiona Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar07.224457.8685@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 22:44:57 GMT References: <1994Mar06.035557.9517@kth.se> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar06.035557.9517@kth.se>, rramirez@kth.se (Rodrigo Ramírez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Fiona Johansson | fjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 9A26 C6E3 3400 78D0 "Keep the channels open." From yivanov@earthlink.net Tue Mar 08 09:51:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!earthlink!yivanov From: yivanov@earthlink.net (Yuki Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar08.095157.8640@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 09:51:57 GMT References: <1994Mar06.035557.9517@kth.se> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1994Mar06.035557.9517@kth.se>, rramirez@kth.se (Rodrigo Ramírez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Yuki Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0