[sdiy] MonowaveII demo sounds up

[Richard Wentk]

At 09:38 27/05/2003 +0100, Paul Maddox wrote:

>I dont know, the ONLY thing I can think of is that I'm approaching it from a
>musical side of view NOT a mathematical point of view. You need to get your
>head round some pretty hairy maths to do things, for example heres the basic
>moog filter ;-
>http://www.musicdsp.org/archive.php?classid=3#26
>I've changed thsi and modified it so its now 'imperfect' not something a DSP
>programmer would do, but something a musician might find more interesting
>that the 'perfect' filter.

Hurrah! This is exactly why a lot of digital synths sound crap, and why the 
Monowave won't.

> >I had
> > this discussion with someone and they told me that the DSP/DAC
> > combination of hardware synths makes the unique sound, and that it's
> > different from using a PC.
>
>I don't know, but I can see his way of thinking.
>But I suspect it more down to the maths Vs Musical way of looking at things.

I suspect you're right. A hardware virtual synth is just a DAC + Motorola 
(etc) DSP in a box instead of a DAC and AMD/Intel maths in a box.

Considering the fact that Csound, Pro53, FM7, and the Oddity all sound 
completely different, it's obviously all about the software and not what 
it's running on. Get the s/ware wrong and suddenly you're producing a 
faithful emulation of a mid-80s Casio...

Richard