From acampbell@kth.se Mon Dec 25 15:18:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!acampbell From: acampbell@kth.se (Andrei Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Dec25.151855.4853@kth.se> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 15:18:55 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. 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. -- Andrei Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From rfournier@ox.ac.uk Wed Dec 27 05:02:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!rfournier From: rfournier@ox.ac.uk (Renata Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Dec27.050255.9585@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 05:02:55 GMT References: <1995Dec25.151855.4853@kth.se> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec25.151855.4853@kth.se>, acampbell@kth.se (Andrei Campbell) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Renata Fournier -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mrodriguez@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 27 15:04:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Marisol Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Dec27.150455.2415@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:04:55 GMT References: <1995Dec25.151855.4853@kth.se> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec25.151855.4853@kth.se>, acampbell@kth.se (Andrei Campbell) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995. -- Marisol Rodríguez "Marcus is not one man." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1