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[Jim Johnson]

>theoretcly any acostic sound can be made in a modular
>ether by addtive or FM but this is hard to be made.

No, it's not theoretically possible to do that.

>so my qustion is can i play a acostic instrument like a
>pino or violin or other in to a mic and then in to a scope
>and see its waveshape and envelope and then calculaite
>this data and creat the same sound on a modular ?

I've never heard of such a tool. I doubt that it is possible. 

Remember that there is a lot more to recreating a sound than simply knowing
its "waveshape and envelope". Both of these change over time, with pitch,
playing technique, etc.

Sampling was the first-generation attempt at creating fully realistic
electronic simulations of acoustic instruments. Physical modeling is the
second-generation attempt. People did attempt to simulate acoustic
instruments with analog synths, digital FM synths, even organs (!), but
nobody ever claimed that these were or are substitutes for the originals.
Fortunately, synthesizers are now mostly used for the purpose God intended:
the creation of sounds not possible with other instruments.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Software for Electronic Music
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On 8/13/98, at 1:11 AM, Gur Milstein wrote: 

>hi guy's.
>theoretcly any acostic sound can be made in a modular
>ether by addtive or FM but this is hard to be made.
>so my qustion is can i play a acostic instrument like a
>pino or violin or other in to a mic and then in to a scope
>and see its waveshape and envelope and then calculaite
>this data and creat the same sound on a modular ?
>all so is ther any scope or other unit that can take a waveshape
>and do the calculate and give a data of how many sine osc in
>what freq, amplitude and phase do i need to creat the
>same waveshape.
>or even a unit that is cv conected to sin vco's and automaticly
>creat the waveshape.
>
>thanx
>Gur Milstein