From civanov@stanford.edu Sun Jul 03 05:54:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!civanov From: civanov@stanford.edu (Callum Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul03.055451.9679@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 1994 05:54:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Callum Ivanov "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04 From jmoreno@ox.ac.uk Sun Jul 03 18:06:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!jmoreno From: jmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Jen Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul03.180651.7994@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 1994 18:06:51 GMT References: <1994Jul03.055451.9679@stanford.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Jul03.055451.9679@stanford.edu>, civanov@stanford.edu (Callum Ivanov) 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. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Jen Moreno "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Amiga 3000T / AmigaOS 3.1 From llopez@ox.ac.uk Tue Jul 05 05:22:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!llopez From: llopez@ox.ac.uk (Lisa López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jul05.052251.3974@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 05:22:51 GMT References: <1994Jul03.055451.9679@stanford.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul03.055451.9679@stanford.edu>, civanov@stanford.edu (Callum Ivanov) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- === Lisa López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "We don't sign stars. We build them."