From tlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Nov 13 02:55:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!tlarsson From: tlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 02:55:17 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Tobias Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nmoreno@panix.com Wed Nov 13 11:18:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!nmoreno From: nmoreno@panix.com (Nadine Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Nov13.111817.9392@panix.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:18:17 GMT References: <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, tlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Larsson) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Nadine Moreno | nmoreno@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 86E6 508D 203C 0605 "Keep the channels open." From esilva@mit.edu Thu Nov 14 21:56:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!esilva From: esilva@mit.edu (Elaine Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Nov14.215617.4509@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:56:17 GMT References: <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, tlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Larsson) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Elaine Silva "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Atari Falcon 030 / AmigaOS 3.1 From mgonzalez@mindspring.com Sat Nov 16 19:36:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@mindspring.com (Marisol González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Nov16.193617.8594@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:36:17 GMT References: <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Nov13.111817.9392@panix.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov13.111817.9392@panix.com>, nmoreno@panix.com (Nadine Moreno) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Marisol González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From cramirez@titech.ac.jp Sun Nov 17 23:19:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!cramirez From: cramirez@titech.ac.jp (Camila Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Nov17.231917.5264@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:19:17 GMT References: <1996Nov13.025517.7789@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Nov14.215617.4509@mit.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov14.215617.4509@mit.edu>, esilva@mit.edu (Elaine Silva) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- === Camila Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Marcus is not one man."