[sdiy] poly800II loses sounds...right..before..savinggg!!! anybody recall where this sound set might be?

[Bob Weigel]

Man..what is up with my life anyway?  hehe.  I just got everthing 
rearranged and...forgot I had things hooked up to create a midiloop and 
the poly800 II dumped it's patches!  Nice...feature.  Not.

I was on the verge of having it hooked up to easily save patches on my 
old spg setup..anyway.  There were a couple distinct patches in the 
sound set.  Patch 11 was a blunt 'jump' type sound.  13 was a sweet 
sounding organ.  56 was a delay/bell sound that I really liked.

Does anyone remember a soundset like that?  I was just getting to use 
some of those sounds.   -Bob

John Mahoney wrote:

> At 12:54 PM 10/1/2007, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> ... On the Pulse, we developed
>> control voltage generators that are really fast. The modulation
>> update is 523 times per second, which means that each modulation gets
>> updated every 1.9mS. This gives you envelopes with analogue feel and
>> digital control."
>>
>> The same article mentions Tom Oberheim's Marion Prosynth in passing,
>> which it says "has an update speed of 16 to 22mS!".
>>
>> So there you go. 523Hz is 'really fast' according to at least one
>> important and influential figure in synthesizer design. The MSR2 and
>> Prosynth envelopes are both notoriously lazy, but at a rate of
>> 50-60Hz, I'm not surprised.
>
>
> Uh, that was over 10 years ago. I believe that we've raised our 
> expectations in the mean time. :-)
>
> I can hardly believe they were generating software envelopes at 50-60Hz.
> -- 
> john
>
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