[sdiy] For you FM synthesis fans

[eidorian at aladan.net]

On 2014-11-17 11:13, Ben Lincoln wrote:
> On Mon, November 17, 2014 10:44 am, gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:15:49AM -0800, Ben Lincoln wrote:
>>> There was a Sound Diver module for the K5000 (produced by Kawaii, 
>>> IIRC)
>>> that would allow for most of that sort of thing. It would also do a
>>> Fourier transform on a WAV file and attempt to recreate it using 
>>> the
>>> K5000's synthesis model.
>>
>> Oh, that sounds fun.  Have you got any examples of this?
>
> I have the software and data files and I even still have my K5000W, 
> but
> it's all packed away until I have enough space to set up my home 
> studio
> again :\.
>
> I've found a number of references to that feature, but no one seems 
> to
> have example audio online anymore.
>
> IIRC (it was over 14 years ago that I last used that feature), the 
> results
> sounded as though the software had done the FFT, performed a logical 
> OR on
> the frequencies from each point in time across the entire WAV file 
> (so
> basically turning it into a single-cycle approximation of the overall
> sound), and then applied a simplified version of the amplitude 
> envelope
> from the WAV file.

What a coincidence - only yesterday in an unrelated conversation a 
friend of mine mentioned he had a copy of that very software (which was 
apparently quite expensive to buy, back in the day).  I think he said it 
only runs on Windows 98, so get your old hardware and/or Virtual 
Machines out :-)

I will see if I can find out more...

Cheers,
A.