From jgirard@inria.fr Thu Jan 20 00:03:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!jgirard From: jgirard@inria.fr (Julien Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 00:03:03 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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. -- Julien Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From tnilsson@berkeley.edu Fri Jan 21 04:52:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!tnilsson From: tnilsson@berkeley.edu (Thiago Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 04:52:03 GMT References: <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr>, jgirard@inria.fr (Julien Girard) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- === Thiago Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From ebrennan@uu.net Fri Jan 21 06:05:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!ebrennan From: ebrennan@uu.net (Élodie Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jan21.060503.9495@uu.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 06:05:03 GMT References: <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr> <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu>, tnilsson@berkeley.edu (Thiago Nilsson) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Élodie Brennan | ebrennan@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 356B 178A 0171 DC73 "Keep the channels open." From ekuznetsov@mit.edu Sat Jan 22 07:17:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!ekuznetsov From: ekuznetsov@mit.edu (Elaine Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jan22.071703.4478@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 07:17:03 GMT References: <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr> <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu>, tnilsson@berkeley.edu (Thiago Nilsson) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Elaine Kuznetsov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dlee@tum.de Sat Jan 22 14:35:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!dlee From: dlee@tum.de (Dong-hyun Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Jan22.143503.3901@tum.de> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 14:35:03 GMT References: <1994Jan20.000303.7354@inria.fr> <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jan21.045203.3477@berkeley.edu>, tnilsson@berkeley.edu (Thiago Nilsson) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Dong-hyun Lee *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0