[sdiy] Active VCO temp compensation

[Scott Nordlund]

Any sound imaginable?  Please don't get caught up in your own hyperbole.  While a skilled synthesist such as yourself can create sounds that are *suggestive* of acoustic instruments or phenomena, no Alesis Andromeda or MOTM system can literally replicate any arbitrary sound imaginable.  I would call that a limit.

I wouldn't think it would be much of a leap to go from "the unique filter configuration of the Andromeda enables it to create sounds that other synthesizers cannot" to "BUT a broad selection of user-created digital waveforms would usefully expand these capabilities".  It's a bizarre thought that a certain selection of modules/features is necessary for the creation of interesting sounds, but anything beyond a certain set is superfluous.  

> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:52:13 -0500
> From: ken.elhardt at gmail.com
> To: tom at electricdruid.net
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Active VCO temp compensation
> CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Tom Wiltshire  wrote:
>>We can't go on building sophisticated synths
>> that have an incredible selection of **three** or (wow!) **four** basic
>> waveforms!! Where's the sonic variety in that?!
> 
> SONIC VARIETY?  I pulled up a small variety of audio files where every
> single sound was created on real analog and/or virtual analog synths
> with only those 3 or 4 waveforms.  I'm not experiencing any limits
> with these instruments since they can create any sound imaginable.
> What more does anybody want?  Remember, in subtractive synthesis, the
> waveforms just provide raw harmonic material, it's how you shape them
> afterwards that counts.  The name of the files should be
> self-explanatory and put to rest any doubts about sonic variety.
> Links here:
> 
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt2/MOTM_Train.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Acoustics_192.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Pouring_Water.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/Arturia_MMV_Symphony7_Beethoven.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Beach_House_motm_160.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/Ion_Drum_Kit.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Scarlatti.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt/JP6_Freebird.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/Arturia_MMV_Piano.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth6/A6_Boiling_Liquid.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~elhardt4/Nord_Violin_Maneuvers.mp3
> http://home.att.net/~synth5/Arturia_MMV_Creation_Elhardt.mp3
> 
> -Elhardt
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