From bsmirnov@clari.net Wed Sep 04 13:00:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!bsmirnov From: bsmirnov@clari.net (Bruno Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Sep04.130031.8498@clari.net> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 13:00:31 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. 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. -- Bruno Smirnov "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / SunOS 4.1.4 From cperez@kth.se Wed Sep 04 18:43:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!cperez From: cperez@kth.se (Callum Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Sep04.184331.8804@kth.se> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 18:43:31 GMT References: <1996Sep04.130031.8498@clari.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep04.130031.8498@clari.net>, bsmirnov@clari.net (Bruno Smirnov) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Callum Pérez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------