DSM-1 - WAS: Re: diy GM synth

[J. Larry Hendry]

You do remember correctly Bud.  I still own two of these beasts.  However,
it would be a set-up nightmare in the DSM-1 to accomplish this task.  It is
difficult enough to lay samples out to utilize the 16 individual outs.  The
16 outs were basically designed so you could bring drum samples out
separately and still bring bass or other polyphonic sounds out the "mix"
output.  The individual outs are assigned specifically by the sample within
the mutlisample and cannot be changed.  However, if you were setting your
multisamples up for this specific purpose, I think you could do reasonably
well.  You would have to set up an 8 zone drum multisample mapped over the
entire keyboard and a 8 zone synth sample mapped the same way, if you
wanted the synth to have individual notes out to the each filter.  The
problem would be that if you hit a second note in the same zone as the
first note, the trigger would restart your EG and filter even on the
sustaining note.  I don't see any way you could do any true voice rotation
with this set up.

However, this is one hell-of-a-good idea and would be a bitchin way to use
com-plex waveforms in place of the oscillators in my modular set up.  I
don't have to worry about 8 note poly there (HAHA) cause I can's afford 8
modules of everything to do so.  Of course, I could just use the DSS-1 (Yep
still have 2 of those (including the 2 meg SCSI model) as the filters in it
are quite nice.

Larry Hendry

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> From: woebm001 <woebm001 at lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
> To: The Dark force of dance <batzman at all-electric.com>
> Cc: Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au>; synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: Re: diy GM synth
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 10:31 PM
> 
> This reminds me of the Korg DSM-1 (rack mount DSS-1, if i remember the
> model number correctly) As far as i know, it has 16 individual outputs,
> but lacks the resonance on the filters. So why not use 8 of the outputs
as
> triggers to drive envelope generators for an external set of 8 filters?
> This would turn the DSM-1 into one hell of a powerful beast. You would
> half the polyphony to 8 voices, but this wouldn't be a problem with 8
> digital samples being fed through some decent filters.... i'm sure this
> setup would sound very fat indeed. Anyone have any experience with doing
> something like this on another seamingly useless beast?
> 
> bud