digital vs analogue

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From: Paul Nugteren van <p_nugteren_van at hotmail.com>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: dinsdag 13 april 1999 17:43
Subject: digital vs analogue


>My opinion; the virtual analog hype (VA) has showed it's downsides.
>As a purist I changed my perspective; If your mind/ear can't make any
>difference between emulated or true analog synthesis why bother. Only
>those va's don't give what the purist want; 1. analogue sound 2. good
>parametre input.


The only VA synth I've bought is a Roland JP8080 and I must say
1. It can sound like an agressive old analogue or a clean digital, the
choice is all yours
2. It has 44 pots to slide/twist at realtime play-mode (pretty damn good
parametre input if you ask me! :-))


>Solutions; 1. create better models of the reality: propellerheads
>have showed us that a good emulation is possible.
>2. Don't use the midi standards for your parametre input; 24bits is
>much but sufficient for most, if not all, obvious analogue
>parametres  e.g. changing osc frequency 20-20000 Hz.
>
>Now the practical problems I would like to discuss; 1. With the help
>of the internet community, could we make a good emultaion of say a
>moog 24db/oct filter?
Is already done with this JP8080, so I suspect that other synths (newer
ones) has it on board too????

2. Can the hightech computer boards used in
>todays synthesizers be modified by users with not so hightech
>equipment?
Nope, unless you understand the art of DSP-programming and have enough
equipment to put your programm into a flash-prom.


>Why is it that after I bought myself a VA synth (nordlead 1) I
>stumbled after 3 days on it's faults? Even after I (a poor student)
>had studied numerous articles and tests of all the "great magazines"
>we all know? I felt rather betrayed by the bloody hype. But I can't
>blame the public; at least 80% of the musicians I spoke to never had
>heard of the problems with the VAS's even when the owned several.


I 've never had the change to check those Nordleads (one and two) out
completly,
but I heard a NorleadII once and it sounded much better (more analogue !!)
than the Nordlead I.
Maybe those problems you were talking about are solved in the NordleadII ?

regards