From htanaka@mit.edu Fri Aug 04 15:26:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!htanaka From: htanaka@mit.edu (Hugo Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 15:26:57 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Hugo Tanaka "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / SunOS 4.1.4 From jkang@utexas.edu Sat Aug 05 13:43:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!jkang From: jkang@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug05.134357.8330@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 13:43:57 GMT References: <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu>, htanaka@mit.edu (Hugo Tanaka) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Ji-woo Kang -- University of Texas at Austin "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From eschneider@unam.mx Sun Aug 06 10:51:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!eschneider From: eschneider@unam.mx (Emi Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug06.105157.7909@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 10:51:57 GMT References: <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu>, htanaka@mit.edu (Hugo Tanaka) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- === Emi Schneider === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tbrennan@earthlink.net Tue Aug 08 10:50:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!tbrennan From: tbrennan@earthlink.net (Tyler Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug08.105057.1934@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 10:50:57 GMT References: <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu> <1995Aug06.105157.7909@unam.mx> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug06.105157.7909@unam.mx>, eschneider@unam.mx (Emi Schneider) writes: > I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Tyler Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From ksantos@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Aug 10 04:19:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!ksantos From: ksantos@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kirsty Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Aug10.041957.5855@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 04:19:57 GMT References: <1995Aug04.152657.7247@mit.edu> <1995Aug05.134357.8330@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug05.134357.8330@utexas.edu>, jkang@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Kang) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. > Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Kirsty Santos SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke."