From esantos@stanford.edu Fri Oct 21 06:20:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!esantos From: esantos@stanford.edu (Elaine Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 06:20:25 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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 main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Elaine Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From dsmirnov@demon.co.uk Sun Oct 23 02:25:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!dsmirnov From: dsmirnov@demon.co.uk (Dong-hyun Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct23.022525.8932@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 02:25:25 GMT References: <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu>, esantos@stanford.edu (Elaine Santos) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- Dong-hyun Smirnov -- Demon Internet Services UK "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mmuller@cern.ch Sun Oct 23 03:15:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!mmuller From: mmuller@cern.ch (Mikhail Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct23.031525.4220@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 03:15:25 GMT References: <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu>, esantos@stanford.edu (Elaine Santos) 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. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. -- Mikhail Müller -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Hold for relay." From ylaurent@rwth-aachen.de Mon Oct 24 16:52:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!ylaurent From: ylaurent@rwth-aachen.de (Yuki Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Oct24.165225.9648@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:52:25 GMT References: <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct21.062025.2099@stanford.edu>, esantos@stanford.edu (Elaine Santos) 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. -- Yuki Laurent | ylaurent@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 7F12 582A 65A3 A4BA "Keep the channels open."