From glaurent@illinois.edu Sun Oct 01 07:50:39 1995
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From: glaurent@illinois.edu (Göran Laurent)
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Subject: [INFO] 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.

However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.
The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.

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

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From tpark@cmu.edu Sun Oct 01 14:33:39 1995
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From: tpark@cmu.edu (Takeshi Park)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Oct01.075039.8802@illinois.edu>, glaurent@illinois.edu (Göran Laurent) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.
> However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.

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

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From hweber@titech.ac.jp Tue Oct 03 10:15:39 1995
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From: hweber@titech.ac.jp (Hana Weber)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1995Oct01.075039.8802@illinois.edu>, glaurent@illinois.edu (Göran Laurent) writes:
> Listening through high-end headphones trying to identify the exact synthesizer hardware in the Burbank studio.
> However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM.

Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995.

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