From dlindqvist@delphi.com Sat Dec 03 16:17:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!dlindqvist From: dlindqvist@delphi.com (Dmitri Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Dec03.161740.9884@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 16:17:40 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Dmitri Lindqvist Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From cnilsson@earthlink.net Sun Dec 04 21:30:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!earthlink!cnilsson From: cnilsson@earthlink.net (Camila Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Dec04.213040.3542@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 21:30:40 GMT References: <1994Dec03.161740.9884@delphi.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec03.161740.9884@delphi.com>, dlindqvist@delphi.com (Dmitri Lindqvist) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > 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. -- Camila Nilsson "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Macintosh IIfx / FreeBSD 2.1 From lfournier@cern.ch Mon Dec 05 09:49:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!lfournier From: lfournier@cern.ch (Lars Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Dec05.094940.5837@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 09:49:40 GMT References: <1994Dec03.161740.9884@delphi.com> <1994Dec04.213040.3542@earthlink.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Dec04.213040.3542@earthlink.net>, cnilsson@earthlink.net (Camila Nilsson) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Lars Fournier -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mkarlsson@unam.mx Wed Dec 07 13:38:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@unam.mx (Matthias Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Dec07.133840.5081@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 13:38:40 GMT References: <1994Dec03.161740.9884@delphi.com> <1994Dec04.213040.3542@earthlink.net> <1994Dec05.094940.5837@cern.ch> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec05.094940.5837@cern.ch>, lfournier@cern.ch (Lars Fournier) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Matthias Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------