[sdiy] new stuff (was Moogey jitter)

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
>>Ahh but sound?  Of course that's in the ear of the behearer ;)
>
>And this is where the ear is likely to fail. I remember a nice contest 
>in the German Keyboards magazine a couple of years ago, where Peter 
>Gorges programmed "typical" sounds on a variety of machines and you had 
>to guess which sound came from what machine.
>
>It was almost impossible to get it right. (Even after knowing what to 
>look, erm, hear for, it was still pretty hard on some examples.)
>
>So tell the audience that some sound comes right out of a DSP box -- 
>although it's indeed coming from analog equipment -- and people will 
>"hear" that it's indeed digital. Tell them it's coming from analog 
>equipment -- while it comes from a DSP box -- and people then will say 
>"see, *that* is warmth".
>
>This is why one should do double blind tests :)
>
>>How many people program absynth/reactor?  Very Few.  NI even made a version
>>that only plays finished instruments, that should tell you something.
>
>How many people programmed their DX7? How many people programmed their 
>K5(000)? Sheesh, how many people really programmed their M1 or D50?

Well, I actually do program a Roland D-110 (and GR50) - HOWEVER, I do NOT use the crappy
little 2 line display.  I sat my fat @$$ down and wrote a tone editor in C, this program
displays all parameters of all 4 partials on the screen at the same time.  With this
tool, it's actually fun to design sounds because you don't have the "crap, now where IS
that parameter?" thing.  I've written at least 50 of my own sounds for GR-50/D-110 (they
both use a similar internal engine so the same program works with both).  So yeah, as is,
I wouldn't bother, but...


>There's a reason why companies make a living from selling sounds...
>
>Rainer
>

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