From echoi@cmu.edu Mon Mar 21 16:59:07 1994
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From: echoi@cmu.edu (Élodie Choi)
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Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.

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=== Élodie Choi ===
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In article <1994Mar21.165907.5629@cmu.edu>, echoi@cmu.edu (Élodie Choi) 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.

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Karen Sánchez
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