From csmirnov@hanse.de Mon Oct 07 21:10:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!csmirnov From: csmirnov@hanse.de (Camila Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Oct07.211030.9489@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 21:10:30 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Camila Smirnov -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Marcus is not one man." From emartinez@cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 08 12:29:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!emartinez From: emartinez@cam.ac.uk (Emi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Oct08.122930.6491@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 12:29:30 GMT References: <1996Oct07.211030.9489@hanse.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct07.211030.9489@hanse.de>, csmirnov@hanse.de (Camila Smirnov) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Emi Martínez "Do not worship the copy." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04