From rramirez@uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 04 09:25:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!rramirez From: rramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 09:25:59 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. 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. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- === Raj Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From vlarsson@utexas.edu Tue Mar 05 03:51:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!vlarsson From: vlarsson@utexas.edu (Valeria Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar05.035159.6475@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 03:51:59 GMT References: <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de>, rramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Ramírez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Valeria Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From kweber@demon.co.uk Tue Mar 05 10:07:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!kweber From: kweber@demon.co.uk (Kenji Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar05.100759.3903@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 10:07:59 GMT References: <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de>, rramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Ramírez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Kenji Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From agirard@tum.de Thu Mar 07 03:33:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!agirard From: agirard@tum.de (Anton Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar07.033359.7390@tum.de> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 03:33:59 GMT References: <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Mar05.100759.3903@demon.co.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar05.100759.3903@demon.co.uk>, kweber@demon.co.uk (Kenji Weber) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- === Anton Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From vmartinez@purdue.edu Fri Mar 08 02:32:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!vmartinez From: vmartinez@purdue.edu (Valeria Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1996Mar08.023259.7912@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 02:32:59 GMT References: <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar04.092559.2415@uni-hamburg.de>, rramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Ramírez) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Valeria Martínez | vmartinez@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 35FE 5D30 E096 E046 "Keep the channels open."