From gbrennan@kiae.su Fri Sep 16 17:17:41 1994
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From: gbrennan@kiae.su (Göran Brennan)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.
The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.

What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long.

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From spopov@titech.ac.jp Sat Sep 17 13:08:41 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1994Sep16.171741.9633@kiae.su>, gbrennan@kiae.su (Göran Brennan) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.
> The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.

Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2.

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From dnilsson@stanford.edu Mon Sep 19 05:58:41 1994
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From: dnilsson@stanford.edu (Dong-hyun Nilsson)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1994Sep16.171741.9633@kiae.su>, gbrennan@kiae.su (Göran Brennan) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.
> The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.

The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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