From soliveira@mindspring.com Sat Feb 26 07:46:15 1994
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From: soliveira@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Oliveira)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.

Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions?

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=== Seo-yeon Oliveira ===
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From: stakahashi@pacbell.net (Sun-mi Takahashi)
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In article <1994Feb26.074615.3682@mindspring.com>, soliveira@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Oliveira) writes:
> Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?

The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal.

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