From mtakahashi@uu.net Wed May 10 11:59:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@uu.net (Min-jun Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May10.115922.6571@uu.net> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:59:22 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. 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? -- Min-jun Takahashi US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Hold for relay." From tkarlsson@demon.co.uk Thu May 11 19:42:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!tkarlsson From: tkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Thiago Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May11.194222.7321@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:42:22 GMT References: <1995May10.115922.6571@uu.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May10.115922.6571@uu.net>, mtakahashi@uu.net (Min-jun Takahashi) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Thiago Karlsson Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Hold for relay." From mwatanabe@ox.ac.uk Sat May 13 00:22:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@ox.ac.uk (Marisol Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May13.002222.7028@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 00:22:22 GMT References: <1995May10.115922.6571@uu.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May10.115922.6571@uu.net>, mtakahashi@uu.net (Min-jun Takahashi) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Marisol Watanabe | mwatanabe@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: BC31 BB73 AD21 A11C "Keep the channels open."