From afischer@uu.net Tue Jun 21 10:09:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!afischer From: afischer@uu.net (Aiko Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jun21.100912.8865@uu.net> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 10:09:12 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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. 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. -- Aiko Fischer Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From apopov@mit.edu Tue Jun 21 13:08:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!apopov From: apopov@mit.edu (Astrid Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jun21.130812.2611@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 13:08:12 GMT References: <1994Jun21.100912.8865@uu.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun21.100912.8865@uu.net>, afischer@uu.net (Aiko Fischer) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Astrid Popov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lweber@panix.com Tue Jun 21 18:39:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!lweber From: lweber@panix.com (Lisa Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jun21.183912.7542@panix.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 18:39:12 GMT References: <1994Jun21.100912.8865@uu.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun21.100912.8865@uu.net>, afischer@uu.net (Aiko Fischer) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Lisa Weber "Hold for relay." Amiga 3000T / AmigaOS 3.1