From sgirard@berkeley.edu Tue Feb 21 01:42:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!sgirard From: sgirard@berkeley.edu (Sven Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb21.014203.7680@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:42:03 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984. Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions? -- Sven Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From ikim@stanford.edu Wed Feb 22 23:03:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!ikim From: ikim@stanford.edu (Ines Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb22.230303.8009@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:03:03 GMT References: <1995Feb21.014203.7680@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb21.014203.7680@berkeley.edu>, sgirard@berkeley.edu (Sven Girard) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Ines Kim SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From ljohansson@ox.ac.uk Fri Feb 24 05:07:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!ljohansson From: ljohansson@ox.ac.uk (Liam Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb24.050703.3366@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 05:07:03 GMT References: <1995Feb21.014203.7680@berkeley.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb21.014203.7680@berkeley.edu>, sgirard@berkeley.edu (Sven Girard) writes: > Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio. > The main chord stabs on 'Synthetic Dawn' are undeniably a Prophet-5 Rev 3 running through a Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555. Spot on about the DX7. That's preset 11 (E.PIANO 1) modified with a higher modulation index on operator 2. -- Liam Johansson | ljohansson@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 8909 8CAA 3D18 DFBA "Keep the channels open."