From ysouza@delphi.com Wed Jan 10 15:28:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!ysouza From: ysouza@delphi.com (Yuki Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jan10.152850.4017@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:28:50 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Yuki Souza "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / Linux 1.2.13 From klarsson@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jan 11 03:20:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!klarsson From: klarsson@rwth-aachen.de (Katrin Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Jan11.032050.1840@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:20:50 GMT References: <1996Jan10.152850.4017@delphi.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan10.152850.4017@delphi.com>, ysouza@delphi.com (Yuki Souza) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Katrin Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."