From dhernandez@mit.edu Thu Apr 27 13:03:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!dhernandez From: dhernandez@mit.edu (Dmitri Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:03:33 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- === Dmitri Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Do not worship the copy." From ychoi@hanse.de Fri Apr 28 15:37:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!ychoi From: ychoi@hanse.de (Yuki Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr28.153733.9329@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 15:37:33 GMT References: <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu>, dhernandez@mit.edu (Dmitri Hernández) 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. -- Yuki Choi -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Marcus is not one man." From sbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Apr 30 13:37:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!sbrennan From: sbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Steve Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr30.133733.7842@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:37:33 GMT References: <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu>, dhernandez@mit.edu (Dmitri Hernández) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Steve Brennan "Marcus is not one man." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From lkim@mit.edu Mon May 01 02:16:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!lkim From: lkim@mit.edu (Lucia Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May01.021633.7309@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 02:16:33 GMT References: <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr27.130333.8339@mit.edu>, dhernandez@mit.edu (Dmitri Hernández) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Lucia Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------