From dgonzalez@panix.com Sat Oct 28 04:19:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!dgonzalez From: dgonzalez@panix.com (Dmitri González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct28.041932.3176@panix.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:19:32 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. 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 González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From kgirard@netcom.com Sat Oct 28 18:55:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!kgirard From: kgirard@netcom.com (Karen Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct28.185532.4119@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:55:32 GMT References: <1995Oct28.041932.3176@panix.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct28.041932.3176@panix.com>, dgonzalez@panix.com (Dmitri González) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Karen Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From lsanchez@titech.ac.jp Mon Oct 30 14:19:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!lsanchez From: lsanchez@titech.ac.jp (Liam Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct30.141932.8586@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:19:32 GMT References: <1995Oct28.041932.3176@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct28.041932.3176@panix.com>, dgonzalez@panix.com (Dmitri González) 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. -- Liam Sánchez | lsanchez@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: CBC4 218A 81C1 C845 "Keep the channels open."