[sdiy] The extreme low cost of audio gear... my little comment somehow got out of hand :P

[karl dalen]

 --- Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> skrev: 
> >Commercial synthesis stopped being interesting after the Kurzweil K2500
> >and the Kawai K5000.
> 
> Ah, don't forget the Yamaha FS1R. And the Hartmann Neuron.
> 
> And having read that Roland VariOS users can now buy a (literally)  
> program card to load a D50 into their machines makes that also quite
> appealing.
> 
> But then, the question remains. What is the "next generation" synthesis 
> method? 

None, most methods have been explored!


> Yamaha-FM and Casio-PD was what could be done easily with that day's
> digital hardware, same goes for the Kawai K5.

Simply a PC104 card with some soft!
 
> We had a bit of physical modeling (Yamaha, Korg) going on where the 
> focus of "modeling" then got moved to "emulating old machines".
 
> And then we have the Hartmann Neuron which is something entirely new.

I dont consider the neuron something new, just a adaption of
bandlimited additive. Btw it got terrible rewievs in SOS!!
 
KD
 
  

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