Message 7/41
Date: 02-Jan-02 @ 08:44 PM -
RE: Are new synths boring !!
interpolating between a set of samples so that your sound can morph? that's a microwave XT
it also sounds a bit like a wavestation maybe, with vectoring between samples? i would imagine many samplers can do something similar with layers. transwaves (like on the very cheap these days ensoniq asr-x) can do similar things too as the XT.
FMing samples with each other has been around since the TG77 afaik, though i've never tried it... at least i know it lets you use its internal samples as operators withing an FM construct....
really there isn't very much that hasn't been done, especially if you include reaktor in that equation... for $300 there isn't a whole lot it can't do (though i still think that digital FM and feedback etc. still don't sound like an analog equivalent).
we haven't even exhausted the ones we have... FM is a very interesting model (i will have an fs1r one day), but too often people buy tx81zs just to use the lately bass preset. i turn on my xt, and most of the factory patches are basses, strings, analog-style leads....??? why? i have an analog machine. this machine is quite unique in architecture and all we want to do is emulate analog sounds? and additive - why would you buy a k5000s to make a 303 sound??
now, i can understand starting with something you know in order to use the unique capabilities of the instrument to 'bend' it away from what you know, in ways the emulated instrument can't (like doing additive piano emulations, then cross-pollinating with a cymbal emulation or something). but i just don't hear it often. then again i'm just as lazy so who am i to talk
(then again, i haven't bought anything new since 1993...)