From bpetrov@cern.ch Thu Dec 21 06:42:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!bpetrov From: bpetrov@cern.ch (Bastien Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Dec21.064244.3822@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 06:42:44 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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. -- Bastien Petrov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From eweber@kiae.su Thu Dec 21 13:39:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!eweber From: eweber@kiae.su (Elaine Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Dec21.133944.7496@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:39:44 GMT References: <1995Dec21.064244.3822@cern.ch> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec21.064244.3822@cern.ch>, bpetrov@cern.ch (Bastien Petrov) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Elaine Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0