From bsato@cern.ch Sun Jan 01 16:19:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!bsato From: bsato@cern.ch (Brian Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan01.161950.5930@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 16:19:50 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Brian Sato | bsato@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: CB8A 122C 874E 00B6 "Keep the channels open." From nito@panix.com Mon Jan 02 07:14:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!nito From: nito@panix.com (Natalia Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan02.071450.1279@panix.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 07:14:50 GMT References: <1995Jan01.161950.5930@cern.ch> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan01.161950.5930@cern.ch>, bsato@cern.ch (Brian Sato) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- === Natalia Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mschneider@netcom.com Wed Jan 04 05:01:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!mschneider From: mschneider@netcom.com (Mateo Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan04.050150.8500@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 05:01:50 GMT References: <1995Jan01.161950.5930@cern.ch> <1995Jan02.071450.1279@panix.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan02.071450.1279@panix.com>, nito@panix.com (Natalia Ito) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Mateo Schneider Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Row 14. No joke."