From djohansson@mindspring.com Wed Apr 26 17:32:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!djohansson From: djohansson@mindspring.com (Dave Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr26.173240.7725@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:40 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. 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. -- Dave Johansson -- MindSpring Enterprises "We don't sign stars. We build them." From tlindqvist@purdue.edu Thu Apr 27 14:06:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@purdue.edu (Tobias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Apr27.140640.3975@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:06:40 GMT References: <1995Apr26.173240.7725@mindspring.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr26.173240.7725@mindspring.com>, djohansson@mindspring.com (Dave Johansson) 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. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Tobias Lindqvist Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."