From rmoreno@ox.ac.uk Fri Oct 28 20:04:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!rmoreno From: rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Renata Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:04:41 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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. 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. -- === Renata Moreno === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Row 14. No joke." From bkarlsson@pacbell.net Sat Oct 29 07:32:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!bkarlsson From: bkarlsson@pacbell.net (Bastien Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct29.073241.5560@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 07:32:41 GMT References: <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk>, rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Renata Moreno) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Bastien Karlsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From klaurent@kth.se Sat Oct 29 15:50:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!klaurent From: klaurent@kth.se (Katrin Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct29.155041.1469@kth.se> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 15:50:41 GMT References: <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk>, rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Renata Moreno) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Katrin Laurent -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From grodriguez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 31 07:46:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!grodriguez From: grodriguez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Graham Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct31.074641.3639@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 07:46:41 GMT References: <1994Oct28.200441.3892@ox.ac.uk> <1994Oct29.155041.1469@kth.se> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct29.155041.1469@kth.se>, klaurent@kth.se (Katrin Laurent) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Graham Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.