From eokonkwo@clari.net Tue Oct 03 22:11:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!eokonkwo From: eokonkwo@clari.net (Elaine Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct03.221102.7960@clari.net> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 22:11:02 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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. 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. -- Elaine Okonkwo US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mmuller@earthlink.net Wed Oct 04 04:55:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!mmuller From: mmuller@earthlink.net (Marta Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct04.045502.3532@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 04:55:02 GMT References: <1995Oct03.221102.7960@clari.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct03.221102.7960@clari.net>, eokonkwo@clari.net (Elaine Okonkwo) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Marta Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kivanov@illinois.edu Fri Oct 06 03:02:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!kivanov From: kivanov@illinois.edu (Kirsty Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Oct06.030202.4185@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 03:02:02 GMT References: <1995Oct03.221102.7960@clari.net> <1995Oct04.045502.3532@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct04.045502.3532@earthlink.net>, mmuller@earthlink.net (Marta Müller) writes: > Just buy an Oberheim Matrix-6 or a Roland Juno-106, you get 90% of the sound for a quarter of the price. > Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! Must be nice to own a Jupiter-8! Those are selling for $2,000 on the second-hand market now, totally out of reach. -- Kirsty Ivanov Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."