From dbrennan@purdue.edu Sun Feb 12 13:25:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!dbrennan From: dbrennan@purdue.edu (Dmitri Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb12.132509.5922@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 13:25:09 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. 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. -- Dmitri Brennan -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From sokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb 14 06:41:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!sokonkwo From: sokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb14.064109.2363@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 06:41:09 GMT References: <1995Feb12.132509.5922@purdue.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb12.132509.5922@purdue.edu>, dbrennan@purdue.edu (Dmitri Brennan) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Seo-yeon Okonkwo Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From djohansson@hanse.de Wed Feb 15 10:27:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!djohansson From: djohansson@hanse.de (Dong-hyun Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb15.102709.1965@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:27:09 GMT References: <1995Feb12.132509.5922@purdue.edu> <1995Feb14.064109.2363@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb14.064109.2363@uni-hamburg.de>, sokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Okonkwo) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Dong-hyun Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From yoliveira@ox.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 23:27:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!yoliveira From: yoliveira@ox.ac.uk (Yuki Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb15.232709.9695@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 23:27:09 GMT References: <1995Feb12.132509.5922@purdue.edu> <1995Feb14.064109.2363@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb14.064109.2363@uni-hamburg.de>, sokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Okonkwo) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Yuki Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0