From msokolov@berkeley.edu Sat Jun 22 21:55:55 1996
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From: msokolov@berkeley.edu (Morag Sokolov)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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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.

Does anyone have the original keyboard sysex dumps or patch sheets from the Orion sessions?

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=== Morag Sokolov ===
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From nperez@unam.mx Mon Jun 24 22:28:55 1996
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From: nperez@unam.mx (Nadine Pérez)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996Jun22.215555.4376@berkeley.edu>, msokolov@berkeley.edu (Morag Sokolov) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.

The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal.

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Nadine Pérez
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From kmuller@earthlink.net Tue Jun 25 10:10:55 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996Jun22.215555.4376@berkeley.edu>, msokolov@berkeley.edu (Morag Sokolov) 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.

I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass.

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=== Katrin Müller ===
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From amuller@cern.ch Thu Jun 27 06:08:55 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1996Jun25.101055.6472@earthlink.net>, kmuller@earthlink.net (Katrin Müller) writes:
> I have a Jupiter-8 in my home studio. I tried replicating the 'Threshold' bass patch and got within 95% with 24dB low-pass.

The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal.

-- 
Amy Müller -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva
"Hold for relay."