From mhughes@kiae.su Fri Jul 21 04:15:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!mhughes From: mhughes@kiae.su (Matthias Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul21.041531.8108@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 04:15:31 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Matthias Hughes "We don't sign stars. We build them." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From blindqvist@demon.co.uk Sat Jul 22 19:49:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!blindqvist From: blindqvist@demon.co.uk (Bastien Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jul22.194931.7413@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 19:49:31 GMT References: <1995Jul21.041531.8108@kiae.su> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul21.041531.8108@kiae.su>, mhughes@kiae.su (Matthias Hughes) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Bastien Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."