From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!organ.music.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Wed Jul 3 23:34:20 PDT 1991 Article: 19154 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!organ.music.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: For sale: Prophet T8 Message-ID: <13636@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 11:24:29 GMT Reply-To: metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 26 Keywords: I'm still trying to move my Prophet T8, which I simply can't afford to keep around any more. This is the main synth on the Twin Peaks soundtrack and a beloved unit in Jerry Goldsmith's film-making arsenal. It has a 76-note A-to-C weighted wooden keyboard with attack and release velocity and polyphonic pressure, eight analog synth voices that can be split and layered, 128 memory slots, and the latest MIDI software, allowing Sysex dumps and sync to MIDI clocks of its onboard sequencer. It's in essentially perfect shape, and comes with owner's and technical/schematic manuals, a dual pedal, road case, and two cassette tapes of patches. Based on the current market, I'm asking $2000, but will consider any reasonable offer. WARNING: YOU pay shipping. This monster is HEAVY and will not travel via UPS, only truck freight. -- metlay | "We kind of lost touch after that. Though analog filter fetishist | I DID see her a few years later, playing the and wavetable nut | cello in one of those airtight rooms where metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | they show pictures." --Celestial Navigations -- metlay | "We kind of lost touch after that. Though analog filter fetishist | I DID see her a few years later, playing the and wavetable nut | cello in one of those airtight rooms where metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | they show pictures." --Celestial Navigations From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay Mon Jul 15 12:26:13 PDT 1991 Article: 19697 of rec.music.synth Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!metlay From: metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: FOR SALE: PROPHET T8 Message-ID: <13856@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Jul 91 16:38:09 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: organ.music.cs.cmu.edu Originator: metlay@ORGAN.MUSIC.CS.CMU.EDU I'm getting desperate at this point, folks, but can go no lower than the offer I'm about to make; below this, I may as well sell it to the people at Media Sonics and at least be assured of prompt payment. This is a Sequential Circuits Prophet-T8, the synth heard on the Twin Peaks soundtrack and beloved of Jerry Goldsmith, among others. It has a 76-note wooden weighted keyboard with poly aftertouch and release velocity, a full front panel for tweaking the eight analog voices that can be split and layered if desired, room for 128 programs in RAM, a small sequencer on board, and the latest MIDI ROMs that allow sysex dumps and sequencer sync to MIDI clocks, as well as a choice of MIDI modes that allow mono or poly aftertouch to be transmitted from the T8 to other synths. The synth comes with a hardshell road case, a dual pedal for sustain and sequencer start or unison toggle, owner's and technical manuals, and two cassettes of presets, 256 programs in all. Media Sonics sells these for about $1600, as does Analogics. Wine Country sells them for $3500. And those prices are for boards without cases or technical data. I'm asking $1500 for mine, with the buyer paying shipping; that's for the whole shebang. Note that this beast is HEAVY; it has to travel by truck freight, as it's way over the UPS limits. (In fact, that's why I'm selling it; I'm going to be moving my studio around a bit over the next year or so, and the T8 is not designed to be easily moved by a guy my size, argh.) Contact me via Email here, or call 412-521-3548 evenings or leave a message. Thanks, -- metlay | Someday, they'll release a working, xpander-loving old curmudgeon | user-friendly patch librarian and a | multi-output MIDI interface for the metlay@organ.music.cs.cmu.edu | Amiga. But WHEN, GOD DAMN IT ALL?! From ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!uc!shamash!jeff Mon Jul 22 09:34:46 PDT 1991 Article: 19800 of rec.music.synth Xref: ucivax rec.music.industrial:1397 rec.music.synth:19800 Path: ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!uc!shamash!jeff From: jeff@u02.svl.cdc.com (Jeff Needham) Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial,rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Prophet 10 for sale? Message-ID: <35260@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 18 Jul 91 20:08:45 GMT References: <9107161014.aa13725@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> <13888@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com Followup-To: rec.music.industrial Lines: 38 metlay+@cs.cmu.edu (Mike Metlay) writes: >In article <9107161014.aa13725@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> dharkles@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dan Harkless) writes: >> >owners that the modulation routings on the 5 (and 10?) allow noise to be No pink noise MONO MOD source on a P-10. >of the T8, whose dymanically sensitive keyboard allows for a bit more realtime The T8 allows variable keyboard tracking, which the P5 and P10 both lack. The voice boards in these instruments are identical. The changes are in MONO-MOD which is on another PCB. The T8 also permits POLY-MOD destinations for PW-B. and FREQ B. This is reminicent of the Pro-One and adds substantally to the FM capabilites of the voice as OSC B is a POLY-MOD source. The T8 also has polarity on POLY-MOD routings and ENVs. >side by side for an A/B test, so the sound quality issue is unresolved. Likewise. I have heard that a T8 isn't as punchy, but the voice is much more flexible, I would take the trade-off. A rev3.2 P5 has the same voice board as the P10, so their sound is. >One thing they DO have in common, though; you don't want to move them around >very much. Oh, my back! Quite. That's why I sold it. I will replace it with a rev2 P5 as I don't really care that much about MIDI. jeff -- The only important things these days is Rhythm and Melody - B.A.D. | Jeffrey Needham | Yet Another Oracle Performance Group | Control Data - Santa Clara, CA - INTERNET jeff@hawk.svl.cdc.com From orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!shamash!jeff Wed Jan 29 15:17:43 PST 1992 Article: 28697 of rec.music.synth Path: orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!shamash!jeff From: jeff@svl.cdc.com (Jeff Needham) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Prophet T8 quandry Message-ID: <39337@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 29 Jan 92 04:06:58 GMT Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com Lines: 30 Good news/Bad news I just found that LAST ever manufactured T8 for $400. The bad news is the person who bought it from SCI took it right off the manufacturing floor. So I guess that makes it the last attempted manufacture of a T8. Guess what part is missing for him to sell it for $400. Yup! you guessed! I am trying to track down a keyboard from either NED (rumour has it that they liscenced SCI's T8 keyborad) or Mesa Boogie who have a keyboard that is also the T8. Kurzweill's keyboard also looks like a possibility? The machine is in execllent shape (save a few, ok a LOT of missing screws) and MIDI does allow decent access. Any help in tracking down New England Digital's or Mesa Boogie's numbers would be good. Any other good keyboard supply rumours would also help. The service manuals did come with it, so that will help. later,jeff -- We threw the empty frame of reason out the cabin door As we won't be needing reasons anymore" --- Eno/Cale | Jeffrey Needham | Yet Another Oracle Performance Analysis Group | Control Data - Santa Clara, CA - INTERNET jeff@hawk.svl.cdc.com