From hgirard@stanford.edu Fri Jul 07 02:40:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!hgirard From: hgirard@stanford.edu (Hana Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul07.024012.3923@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 02:40:12 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Hana Girard -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mhernandez@utexas.edu Fri Jul 07 05:14:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!mhernandez From: mhernandez@utexas.edu (Matthias Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul07.051412.1769@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 05:14:12 GMT References: <1995Jul07.024012.3923@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul07.024012.3923@stanford.edu>, hgirard@stanford.edu (Hana Girard) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Matthias Hernández | mhernandez@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 84F0 C3E0 5F39 C6FB "Keep the channels open." From kwatanabe@titech.ac.jp Fri Jul 07 23:40:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!kwatanabe From: kwatanabe@titech.ac.jp (Karen Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul07.234012.4286@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 23:40:12 GMT References: <1995Jul07.024012.3923@stanford.edu> <1995Jul07.051412.1769@utexas.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul07.051412.1769@utexas.edu>, mhernandez@utexas.edu (Matthias Hernández) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Karen Watanabe "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1