From osouza@illinois.edu Thu Mar 07 07:27:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!osouza From: osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar07.072712.6596@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 07:27:12 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. 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. -- Olga Souza Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man." From tnilsson@purdue.edu Fri Mar 08 02:01:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!tnilsson From: tnilsson@purdue.edu (Tyler Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar08.020112.5321@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 02:01:12 GMT References: <1996Mar07.072712.6596@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar07.072712.6596@illinois.edu>, osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Tyler Nilsson "We don't sign stars. We build them." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From lnovak@cmu.edu Fri Mar 08 12:28:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!lnovak From: lnovak@cmu.edu (Liam Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar08.122812.4147@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 12:28:12 GMT References: <1996Mar07.072712.6596@illinois.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Mar07.072712.6596@illinois.edu>, osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) 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. -- Liam Novak -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."