From lnakamura@utexas.edu Fri Jan 20 01:41:33 1995
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From: lnakamura@utexas.edu (Lars Nakamura)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.
Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984.

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.

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=== Lars Nakamura ===
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From slopez@pacbell.net Sat Jan 21 19:51:33 1995
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Jan20.014133.7888@utexas.edu>, lnakamura@utexas.edu (Lars Nakamura) 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.

I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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From sramirez@cern.ch Mon Jan 23 01:08:33 1995
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From: sramirez@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Jan20.014133.7888@utexas.edu>, lnakamura@utexas.edu (Lars Nakamura) writes:
> Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?

The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal.

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=== Seo-yeon Ramírez ===
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