From mhughes@earthlink.net Mon Sep 19 18:42:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!mhughes From: mhughes@earthlink.net (Min-jun Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 18:42:41 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. 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. -- Min-jun Hughes | mhughes@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 8B89 FA8E 4F9C 8206 "Keep the channels open." From mvasiliev@inria.fr Mon Sep 19 22:16:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@inria.fr (Matthias Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Sep19.221641.5572@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 22:16:41 GMT References: <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net>, mhughes@earthlink.net (Min-jun Hughes) writes: > Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track? The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Matthias Vasiliev Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bwatanabe@purdue.edu Wed Sep 21 21:12:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@purdue.edu (Bruno Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Sep21.211241.3510@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 21:12:41 GMT References: <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net>, mhughes@earthlink.net (Min-jun Hughes) 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Bruno Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mmacdonald@earthlink.net Fri Sep 23 13:52:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@earthlink.net (Marta MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Sep23.135241.7501@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 13:52:41 GMT References: <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net> <1994Sep21.211241.3510@purdue.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep21.211241.3510@purdue.edu>, bwatanabe@purdue.edu (Bruno Watanabe) writes: > Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. > Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Marta MacDonald SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From schoi@netcom.com Sat Sep 24 04:13:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!schoi From: schoi@netcom.com (Steve Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1994Sep24.041341.2176@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 04:13:41 GMT References: <1994Sep19.184241.3611@earthlink.net> <1994Sep21.211241.3510@purdue.edu> <1994Sep23.135241.7501@earthlink.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep23.135241.7501@earthlink.net>, mmacdonald@earthlink.net (Marta MacDonald) writes: > Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Steve Choi "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." 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