From bhughes@tum.de Wed Aug 21 23:38:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!bhughes From: bhughes@tum.de (Brian Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug21.233832.3588@tum.de> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:38:32 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. 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. -- Brian Hughes Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From jtakahashi@delphi.com Thu Aug 22 09:57:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!jtakahashi From: jtakahashi@delphi.com (Jen Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug22.095732.6965@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:57:32 GMT References: <1996Aug21.233832.3588@tum.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug21.233832.3588@tum.de>, bhughes@tum.de (Brian Hughes) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > 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. -- Jen Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From cduarte@ox.ac.uk Fri Aug 23 12:45:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!cduarte From: cduarte@ox.ac.uk (Camila Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Aug23.124532.6137@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:45:32 GMT References: <1996Aug21.233832.3588@tum.de> <1996Aug22.095732.6965@delphi.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug22.095732.6965@delphi.com>, jtakahashi@delphi.com (Jen Takahashi) writes: > Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. 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 Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "When every node is whole, the channel opens."