From mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk Fri Apr 14 05:08:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Morag MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr14.050808.2460@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 05:08:08 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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? -- === Morag MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From probertson@mit.edu Sat Apr 15 01:33:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!probertson From: probertson@mit.edu (Pavel Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr15.013308.7130@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 01:33:08 GMT References: <1995Apr14.050808.2460@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr14.050808.2460@ox.ac.uk>, mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Morag MacDonald) 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. -- Pavel Robertson -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From akarlsson@illinois.edu Sat Apr 15 14:00:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!akarlsson From: akarlsson@illinois.edu (Andrei Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr15.140008.7152@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:00:08 GMT References: <1995Apr14.050808.2460@ox.ac.uk> <1995Apr15.013308.7130@mit.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr15.013308.7130@mit.edu>, probertson@mit.edu (Pavel Robertson) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Andrei Karlsson -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From dbrennan@panix.com Mon Apr 17 17:57:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!panix!dbrennan From: dbrennan@panix.com (Dmitri Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr17.175708.8486@panix.com> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 17:57:08 GMT References: <1995Apr14.050808.2460@ox.ac.uk> <1995Apr15.013308.7130@mit.edu> <1995Apr15.140008.7152@illinois.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr15.140008.7152@illinois.edu>, akarlsson@illinois.edu (Andrei Karlsson) writes: > The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Dmitri Brennan "A soul is not exclusive to biology." NeXTstation Turbo Color / System 7.5.1