From gjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jun 26 12:16:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!gjohansson From: gjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun26.121645.7376@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:16:45 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long. -- Göran Johansson "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Macintosh IIfx / FreeBSD 2.1 From msanchez@mit.edu Wed Jun 28 09:20:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!msanchez From: msanchez@mit.edu (Mike Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun28.092045.9682@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:20:45 GMT References: <1995Jun26.121645.7376@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun26.121645.7376@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, gjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Johansson) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Mike Sánchez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ilopez@illinois.edu Wed Jun 28 22:30:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!ilopez From: ilopez@illinois.edu (Ines López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun28.223045.1896@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 22:30:45 GMT References: <1995Jun26.121645.7376@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Jun28.092045.9682@mit.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun28.092045.9682@mit.edu>, msanchez@mit.edu (Mike Sánchez) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- === Ines López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."