From dbrennan@clari.net Fri Sep 13 17:21:29 1996
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From: dbrennan@clari.net (Dave Brennan)
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Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective.

The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.
The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555.

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.

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=== Dave Brennan ===
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From anakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Sep 14 17:05:29 1996
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From: anakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996Sep13.172129.9133@clari.net>, dbrennan@clari.net (Dave 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.

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Aiko Nakamura -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science
"Marcus is not one man."