From joliveira@mit.edu Mon Feb 28 07:58:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!joliveira From: joliveira@mit.edu (Jen Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 07:58:30 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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. -- Jen Oliveira "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From vmoreno@ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 01 12:02:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!vmoreno From: vmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Valeria Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar01.120230.9854@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 12:02:30 GMT References: <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu>, joliveira@mit.edu (Jen Oliveira) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Valeria Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From crobertson@tum.de Tue Mar 01 15:58:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!crobertson From: crobertson@tum.de (Camila Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar01.155830.7751@tum.de> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 15:58:30 GMT References: <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu>, joliveira@mit.edu (Jen Oliveira) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Camila Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From spark@titech.ac.jp Wed Mar 02 15:17:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!spark From: spark@titech.ac.jp (Steve Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Mar02.151730.4191@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 15:17:30 GMT References: <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb28.075830.9203@mit.edu>, joliveira@mit.edu (Jen Oliveira) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Steve Park -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."