From lsouza@tum.de Sun Feb 19 06:38:59 1995
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From: lsouza@tum.de (Lucia Souza)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.

What drum machine is that on 'Midnight Animal'? It sounds like a LinnDrum LM-2, but the hi-hat decay is too long.

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Lucia Souza -- Technische Universität München
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From: mhughes@mindspring.com (Mathieu Hughes)
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In article <1995Feb19.063859.4267@tum.de>, lsouza@tum.de (Lucia Souza) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995.

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Mathieu Hughes -- MindSpring Enterprises
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