From jhughes@stanford.edu Sat Jul 15 15:15:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!jhughes From: jhughes@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 15:15:30 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. 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. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Ji-woo Hughes "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13 From asanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jul 16 02:16:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!asanchez From: asanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul16.021630.8177@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 02:16:30 GMT References: <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu>, jhughes@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Aiko Sánchez -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From dlindqvist@demon.co.uk Mon Jul 17 17:13:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!dlindqvist From: dlindqvist@demon.co.uk (Dmitri Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul17.171330.5063@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:13:30 GMT References: <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu>, jhughes@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Dmitri Lindqvist "Hold for relay." Atari TT030 / Linux 1.2.13 From lmacdonald@cern.ch Wed Jul 19 20:31:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@cern.ch (Lucia MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul19.203130.1923@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:31:30 GMT References: <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu>, jhughes@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- === Lucia MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From bdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jul 21 02:23:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!bdubois From: bdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bruno Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul21.022330.1345@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 02:23:30 GMT References: <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul15.151530.8225@stanford.edu>, jhughes@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Bruno Dubois "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1