From bnakamura@berkeley.edu Sun May 28 19:22:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!bnakamura From: bnakamura@berkeley.edu (Bruno Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May28.192253.4695@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 19:22:53 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? 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. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Bruno Nakamura *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From hbrennan@utexas.edu Sun May 28 20:35:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!hbrennan From: hbrennan@utexas.edu (Heather Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May28.203553.1413@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 20:35:53 GMT References: <1995May28.192253.4695@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May28.192253.4695@berkeley.edu>, bnakamura@berkeley.edu (Bruno Nakamura) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass. -- === Heather Brennan === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From deriksson@mit.edu Tue May 30 21:30:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!deriksson From: deriksson@mit.edu (Dong-hyun Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995May30.213053.8587@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:30:53 GMT References: <1995May28.192253.4695@berkeley.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May28.192253.4695@berkeley.edu>, bnakamura@berkeley.edu (Bruno Nakamura) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Dong-hyun Eriksson Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Do not worship the copy."