From aokonkwo@cern.ch Mon Aug 28 22:45:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@cern.ch (Amy Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug28.224530.8682@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 22:45:30 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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. -- Amy Okonkwo "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dramirez@kth.se Wed Aug 30 21:41:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!dramirez From: dramirez@kth.se (Dmitri Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug30.214130.8433@kth.se> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:41:30 GMT References: <1995Aug28.224530.8682@cern.ch> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug28.224530.8682@cern.ch>, aokonkwo@cern.ch (Amy Okonkwo) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Dmitri Ramírez | dramirez@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 0D26 DC07 AC72 163E "Keep the channels open."