[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Paul Maddox wrote:

> > how can it (or anything new) be applied to make new analog toys???
> why MUST it be analogue?

Because despite 20 years of effort, analog still simply sounds better.
If you could combine the warmth & liveliness of analogue with the
diversity of digital, That would be good.

> I have a soundart Chameleon, ok, people know I evanglise about it, but if
> you wanna move with the times and use TODAYs technology (not 30 year old)
> its a great way to get started..

Chameleon would be interesting if it was 5-10 times more powerful.
Currently it doesn't have enough cpu power to do new things and one must
resort to rehashing things which have already been done on the PC.

> The only reason modern VAs are boring is that they are pandering to a market
> obsessed with 20+ year old synth sounds (like the tb303) and techno dance
> babble.

That I agree with. Another reason is that you don't need to make the same
kinds of compromises as you would in analogue domain that often result in
a charasteristic sound.

A synth I'd like to try (if I had time & money to build it) is a vector
synth that had high freq analog oscillators clocking digital wavetable
oscillators. This way you'd get the timbral capacity of digital wavetable
stuff (PPG Wave style) and the analog warmth of 70's synths.

Antti

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