From nvasiliev@tum.de Sat Dec 16 19:33:17 1995
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From: nvasiliev@tum.de (Natalia Vasiliev)
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Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.

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=== Natalia Vasiliev ===
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From kgirard@utexas.edu Sun Dec 17 08:29:17 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Dec16.193317.8115@tum.de>, nvasiliev@tum.de (Natalia Vasiliev) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2.

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