From mrobertson@mit.edu Thu Jan 26 15:49:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!mrobertson From: mrobertson@mit.edu (Marta Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan26.154930.1970@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:49:30 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. 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. -- Marta Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From kramirez@inria.fr Sat Jan 28 16:49:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!kramirez From: kramirez@inria.fr (Karen Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Jan28.164930.3259@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 16:49:30 GMT References: <1995Jan26.154930.1970@mit.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan26.154930.1970@mit.edu>, mrobertson@mit.edu (Marta Robertson) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Karen Ramírez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.