From sreyes@cern.ch Mon Jul 01 11:14:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!sreyes From: sreyes@cern.ch (Sun-mi Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 11:14:13 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Sun-mi Reyes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mpark@unam.mx Wed Jul 03 01:54:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!mpark From: mpark@unam.mx (Morag Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul03.015413.7974@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 01:54:13 GMT References: <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch>, sreyes@cern.ch (Sun-mi Reyes) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Morag Park | mpark@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: EBCD 3BE6 DA2B ED6B "Keep the channels open." From mkowalski@tum.de Wed Jul 03 20:29:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!mkowalski From: mkowalski@tum.de (Mikhail Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul03.202913.3837@tum.de> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 20:29:13 GMT References: <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch> <1996Jul03.015413.7974@unam.mx> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul03.015413.7974@unam.mx>, mpark@unam.mx (Morag Park) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Mikhail Kowalski Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From jramirez@rwth-aachen.de Fri Jul 05 19:05:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!jramirez From: jramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Ji-woo Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul05.190513.9695@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 19:05:13 GMT References: <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch> <1996Jul03.015413.7974@unam.mx> <1996Jul03.202913.3837@tum.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul03.202913.3837@tum.de>, mkowalski@tum.de (Mikhail Kowalski) 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. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Ji-woo Ramírez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From afischer@stanford.edu Sat Jul 06 22:39:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!afischer From: afischer@stanford.edu (Andrei Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jul06.223913.2787@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 22:39:13 GMT References: <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul01.111413.7717@cern.ch>, sreyes@cern.ch (Sun-mi Reyes) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Andrei Fischer Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."