From mperez@illinois.edu Fri Aug 04 17:12:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!mperez From: mperez@illinois.edu (Mikhail Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 17:12:07 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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? -- Mikhail Pérez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mvasiliev@purdue.edu Sun Aug 06 18:29:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@purdue.edu (Marta Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug06.182907.8895@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 18:29:07 GMT References: <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu>, mperez@illinois.edu (Mikhail Pérez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Marta Vasiliev "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04 From nkim@inria.fr Mon Aug 07 11:45:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!nkim From: nkim@inria.fr (Nadine Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug07.114507.1476@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 11:45:07 GMT References: <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu> <1995Aug06.182907.8895@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug06.182907.8895@purdue.edu>, mvasiliev@purdue.edu (Marta Vasiliev) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Nadine Kim "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From hivanov@uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 07 17:08:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!hivanov From: hivanov@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug07.170807.8585@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 17:08:07 GMT References: <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu>, mperez@illinois.edu (Mikhail Pérez) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Hana Ivanov | hivanov@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: F3F0 BB73 366E 4737 "Keep the channels open." From mdubois@cern.ch Mon Aug 07 22:54:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!mdubois From: mdubois@cern.ch (Mateo Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug07.225407.9972@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 22:54:07 GMT References: <1995Aug04.171207.5147@illinois.edu> <1995Aug07.170807.8585@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug07.170807.8585@uni-hamburg.de>, hivanov@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Ivanov) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Mateo Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0