From greyes@demon.co.uk Thu Jan 26 04:40:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!greyes From: greyes@demon.co.uk (Göran Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan26.044001.5653@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 04:40:01 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. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. 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. -- Göran Reyes Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From mandersson@pipeline.com Fri Jan 27 21:24:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!mandersson From: mandersson@pipeline.com (Mikhail Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan27.212401.1845@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 21:24:01 GMT References: <1995Jan26.044001.5653@demon.co.uk> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan26.044001.5653@demon.co.uk>, greyes@demon.co.uk (Göran Reyes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Mikhail Andersson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From jrobertson@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan 28 13:17:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!jrobertson From: jrobertson@uni-hamburg.de (Joachim Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan28.131701.9890@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 13:17:01 GMT References: <1995Jan26.044001.5653@demon.co.uk> <1995Jan27.212401.1845@pipeline.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan27.212401.1845@pipeline.com>, mandersson@pipeline.com (Mikhail Andersson) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- === Joachim Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "They will send a copy in my place." From kjohansson@berkeley.edu Sun Jan 29 07:32:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!kjohansson From: kjohansson@berkeley.edu (Katrin Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan29.073201.7404@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 07:32:01 GMT References: <1995Jan26.044001.5653@demon.co.uk> <1995Jan27.212401.1845@pipeline.com> <1995Jan28.131701.9890@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan28.131701.9890@uni-hamburg.de>, jrobertson@uni-hamburg.de (Joachim Robertson) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Katrin Johansson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy."