From nsilva@illinois.edu Sun May 28 07:10:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!nsilva From: nsilva@illinois.edu (Nadine Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 07:10:37 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.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. 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? -- Nadine Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From rjohansson@cam.ac.uk Mon May 29 18:55:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!rjohansson From: rjohansson@cam.ac.uk (Raj Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May29.185537.6738@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 18:55:37 GMT References: <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu>, nsilva@illinois.edu (Nadine Silva) 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Raj Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dmartinez@cern.ch Wed May 31 11:17:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!dmartinez From: dmartinez@cern.ch (Dong-hyun Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May31.111737.6437@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 11:17:37 GMT References: <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu> <1995May29.185537.6738@cam.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May29.185537.6738@cam.ac.uk>, rjohansson@cam.ac.uk (Raj Johansson) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Dong-hyun Martínez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mrodriguez@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 01 10:03:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@uni-hamburg.de (Mei Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jun01.100337.4883@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 10:03:37 GMT References: <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May28.071037.6531@illinois.edu>, nsilva@illinois.edu (Nadine Silva) 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. -- Mei Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------