[sdiy] poor man's alternative to a CS-80?

[Sean Costello]

It isn't easy, but Antti has done some nice work. His Moog filter model is
the best I have yet heard (I haven't heard the Creamware stuff, though,
which is supposed to sound really good).

Sean Costello

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ChristianH" <chris at scp.de>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] poor man's alternative to a CS-80?


> Gee, I never knew it was so easy to code a well sounding synth from
> scratch...
>
> It sounds as if it's something you do over the weekend and then have a
> running CS80 clone on monday. Even assuming some is familiar with signal
> processing - I think it's a huge difference between any basic soft synth
> that makes some noise and something Danjel is looking for.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:13:14 +0300 (EEST) Antti Huovilainen
> <ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Danjel van Tijn wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering what synth would be a considerably cheaper option to
the
> > > CS-80 but capable of simmilar lush pads a la Boards of Canada?
> > > The obvious solution is the Atrutria Cs80 vsti but I would like a
hardware
> > > version, somethign I can possibly build.
> >
> > You could always build a dsp board and code one. Add knobs and lcd for
> > user interface and you have a very nice synth for affordable $$$.
> >
> > Antti
>