From kfischer@kiae.su Sat May 07 19:23:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!kfischer From: kfischer@kiae.su (Karen Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994May07.192359.6285@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 07 May 1994 19:23:59 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. 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. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Karen Fischer "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From tgonzalez@titech.ac.jp Sat May 07 22:36:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!tgonzalez From: tgonzalez@titech.ac.jp (Tobias González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994May07.223659.3019@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 07 May 1994 22:36:59 GMT References: <1994May07.192359.6285@kiae.su> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994May07.192359.6285@kiae.su>, kfischer@kiae.su (Karen Fischer) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Tobias González -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."