From kkowalski@demon.co.uk Sat Jul 01 03:44:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!kkowalski From: kkowalski@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul01.034414.7531@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 03:44:14 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. -- Kirsty Kowalski "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From kmacdonald@inria.fr Sun Jul 02 01:27:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@inria.fr (Kirsty MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul02.012714.2199@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 01:27:14 GMT References: <1995Jul01.034414.7531@demon.co.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul01.034414.7531@demon.co.uk>, kkowalski@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Kowalski) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Kirsty MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Do not worship the copy."