From alopez@uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 14 08:37:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!alopez From: alopez@uni-hamburg.de (Andrei López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar14.083708.6434@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:37:08 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Andrei López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From bschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Mar 15 03:37:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!bschneider From: bschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bastien Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar15.033708.8804@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 03:37:08 GMT References: <1994Mar14.083708.6434@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar14.083708.6434@uni-hamburg.de>, alopez@uni-hamburg.de (Andrei López) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Bastien Schneider "Row 14. No joke." Sun SparcStation 20 / SunOS 4.1.4 From fsokolov@pacbell.net Tue Mar 15 11:21:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!fsokolov From: fsokolov@pacbell.net (Freya Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar15.112108.4200@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 11:21:08 GMT References: <1994Mar14.083708.6434@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Mar15.033708.8804@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar15.033708.8804@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, bschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bastien Schneider) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Freya Sokolov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From sjohansson@inria.fr Wed Mar 16 09:29:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!sjohansson From: sjohansson@inria.fr (Sun-mi Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar16.092908.7706@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 09:29:08 GMT References: <1994Mar14.083708.6434@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Mar15.033708.8804@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Mar15.112108.4200@pacbell.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar15.112108.4200@pacbell.net>, fsokolov@pacbell.net (Freya Sokolov) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Sun-mi Johansson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------