From okang@cmu.edu Thu Jul 21 21:53:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!okang From: okang@cmu.edu (Olga Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 21:53:45 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Olga Kang | okang@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 026F 412B C2F1 FD28 "Keep the channels open." From jlaurent@kth.se Sat Jul 23 16:39:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!jlaurent From: jlaurent@kth.se (Joachim Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 16:39:45 GMT References: <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu>, okang@cmu.edu (Olga Kang) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- === Joachim Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Row 14. No joke." From lrodriguez@demon.co.uk Mon Jul 25 09:07:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!lrodriguez From: lrodriguez@demon.co.uk (Lucia Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul25.090745.2254@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 09:07:45 GMT References: <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu> <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se>, jlaurent@kth.se (Joachim Laurent) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Lucia Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From klopez@kth.se Mon Jul 25 18:32:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!klopez From: klopez@kth.se (Kenji López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul25.183245.5565@kth.se> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 18:32:45 GMT References: <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu> <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se>, jlaurent@kth.se (Joachim Laurent) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Kenji López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From rkuznetsov@berkeley.edu Wed Jul 27 08:39:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!rkuznetsov From: rkuznetsov@berkeley.edu (Rodrigo Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul27.083945.9327@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:39:45 GMT References: <1994Jul21.215345.4304@cmu.edu> <1994Jul23.163945.2850@kth.se> <1994Jul25.090745.2254@demon.co.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul25.090745.2254@demon.co.uk>, lrodriguez@demon.co.uk (Lucia Rodríguez) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- === Rodrigo Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."