From mduarte@berkeley.edu Fri Oct 14 20:38:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!mduarte From: mduarte@berkeley.edu (Mateo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 20:38:36 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Mateo Duarte Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From nstewart@rwth-aachen.de Sun Oct 16 21:30:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!nstewart From: nstewart@rwth-aachen.de (Nadia Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct16.213036.3822@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 21:30:36 GMT References: <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu>, mduarte@berkeley.edu (Mateo Duarte) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Nadia Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From tlaurent@utexas.edu Sun Oct 16 22:47:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!tlaurent From: tlaurent@utexas.edu (Thiago Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct16.224736.2661@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 22:47:36 GMT References: <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu>, mduarte@berkeley.edu (Mateo Duarte) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Thiago Laurent SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From dsato@uu.net Mon Oct 17 12:35:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!dsato From: dsato@uu.net (Diego Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct17.123536.2548@uu.net> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:35:36 GMT References: <1994Oct14.203836.6920@berkeley.edu> <1994Oct16.213036.3822@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct16.213036.3822@rwth-aachen.de>, nstewart@rwth-aachen.de (Nadia Stewart) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Diego Sato -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."