From msilva@hanse.de Fri Mar 04 09:33:20 1994
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From: msilva@hanse.de (Mikhail Silva)
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Subject: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective.

The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.
However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.

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.

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Mikhail Silva -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg
"5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."

From amoreno@uni-hamburg.de Sun Mar 06 11:12:20 1994
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From: amoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Aiko Moreno)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1994Mar04.093320.2330@hanse.de>, msilva@hanse.de (Mikhail Silva) writes:
> Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective.

I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass.

My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise!

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Aiko Moreno
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik.
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