From ahughes@inria.fr Mon Aug 28 08:58:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!ahughes From: ahughes@inria.fr (Anton Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug28.085842.2504@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:58:42 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Anton Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rpark@cam.ac.uk Tue Aug 29 17:45:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!rpark From: rpark@cam.ac.uk (Rodrigo Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug29.174542.2619@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 17:45:42 GMT References: <1995Aug28.085842.2504@inria.fr> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug28.085842.2504@inria.fr>, ahughes@inria.fr (Anton Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Rodrigo Park "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1