From msilva@mindspring.com Tue Feb 28 03:32:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!msilva From: msilva@mindspring.com (Morag Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb28.033208.2777@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 03:32:08 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. 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. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Morag Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------ From anovak@pacbell.net Wed Mar 01 11:38:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!anovak From: anovak@pacbell.net (Amy Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Mar01.113808.7980@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 11:38:08 GMT References: <1995Feb28.033208.2777@mindspring.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb28.033208.2777@mindspring.com>, msilva@mindspring.com (Morag Silva) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Amy Novak Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From eeriksson@utexas.edu Wed Mar 01 22:33:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!eeriksson From: eeriksson@utexas.edu (Élodie Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Mar01.223308.6023@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 22:33:08 GMT References: <1995Feb28.033208.2777@mindspring.com> <1995Mar01.113808.7980@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar01.113808.7980@pacbell.net>, anovak@pacbell.net (Amy Novak) 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. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Élodie Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------