From mmacdonald@demon.co.uk Mon Aug 01 22:37:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Mikhail MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug01.223748.9651@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1994 22:37:48 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Mikhail MacDonald "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / System 7.5.1 From skuznetsov@clari.net Wed Aug 03 18:38:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@clari.net (Sven Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug03.183848.2603@clari.net> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1994 18:38:48 GMT References: <1994Aug01.223748.9651@demon.co.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug01.223748.9651@demon.co.uk>, mmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Mikhail MacDonald) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Sven Kuznetsov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From msanchez@utexas.edu Wed Aug 03 20:38:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!msanchez From: msanchez@utexas.edu (Marta Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Aug03.203848.1354@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1994 20:38:48 GMT References: <1994Aug01.223748.9651@demon.co.uk> <1994Aug03.183848.2603@clari.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Aug03.183848.2603@clari.net>, skuznetsov@clari.net (Sven Kuznetsov) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Marta Sánchez -- University of Texas at Austin "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."