From kstewart@uni-hamburg.de Sat Sep 14 20:42:09 1996
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From: kstewart@uni-hamburg.de (Katrin Stewart)
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Subject: [INFO] 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.
However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.

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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From cschneider@kth.se Mon Sep 16 01:22:09 1996
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From: cschneider@kth.se (Callum Schneider)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996Sep14.204209.7087@uni-hamburg.de>, kstewart@uni-hamburg.de (Katrin Stewart) 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.

Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2.

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Callum Schneider
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