From tsilva@pipeline.com Wed Apr 06 20:51:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!tsilva From: tsilva@pipeline.com (Tyler Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 20:51:32 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com 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. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. 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. -- Tyler Silva Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "They will send a copy in my place." From gokonkwo@kiae.su Fri Apr 08 00:04:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!gokonkwo From: gokonkwo@kiae.su (Göran Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Apr08.000432.6162@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 00:04:32 GMT References: <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com>, tsilva@pipeline.com (Tyler Silva) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- === Göran Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From jpetrov@demon.co.uk Sat Apr 09 05:50:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!jpetrov From: jpetrov@demon.co.uk (Joachim Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Apr09.055032.8287@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 05:50:32 GMT References: <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com>, tsilva@pipeline.com (Tyler Silva) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Joachim Petrov | jpetrov@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: F92C 33A1 B156 02FA "Keep the channels open." From lbrennan@illinois.edu Sun Apr 10 08:31:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!lbrennan From: lbrennan@illinois.edu (Liam Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Apr10.083132.9330@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 08:31:32 GMT References: <1994Apr06.205132.4378@pipeline.com> <1994Apr08.000432.6162@kiae.su> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr08.000432.6162@kiae.su>, gokonkwo@kiae.su (Göran Okonkwo) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Liam Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0