[sdiy] Wakeman

[Richard Wentk]

At 13:49 04/07/2003 +0100, jbv wrote:
> >
>Yes the Kyma is an option. I for one still have an IRCAM ISPW
>board running on a NeXT cube, and although it was designed in the
>early 90's, this system still allows me to test some (weird) ideas,
>especially in the context of mixed synthesis techniques, for instance :
>VC granular reverb, VC granular FFT, VC Sheppard tones FFT,
>VC sheppard tones reverb...

That's exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. These are all 
modular(ish) processes too, and there's very little software that allows 
them to be used in a modular kind of way.

>One important thing to consider is that splitting several DSP function
>available on a Kyma into separate modules to be include into a
>modular among other traditional VC analog modules can be a way
>to expand these DSP techniques and give them new perspectives...

That's true too. It's not that I'm against analogue techniques, I just 
think there doesn't seem to be a lot of awareness among some analogue 
builders and users that there's a huge world of other synthesis and 
processing techniques out there that have very different possibilities.

The fantastic thing about something like Reaktor is that it's so damn easy 
to make really creative, original patches. Because you're not limited to a 
fixed number of modules, you can do things like build custom gated filter 
banks and chorus units with twenty different multi-tap delays in them. Part 
of the problem with hardware analogue is that after a while really 
interesting ideas become too expensive to implement.

>Well, I'm writing this at light speed, but you see my point...

...Yes.

Richard