[sdiy] free AS3320, AS3340, AS3310 and AS3360 samples

[Tom Wiltshire]

> On 26 Oct 2017, at 11:09, Matthias Herrmann <matthias.herrmann at fonik.de> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Everyone?
>> How about competition "who makes an AS33 polysynth first", or let's bet
>> on the number of new polysynths made until, say November 2018?
>> 
>> Roman
> 
> that's what i was thinking. now that these chips are available again there will be some new (old) things coming.
> 
> matthias

It’s going to be interesting, for sure.

The advent of 3310 envelopes is an interesting one. That allows full clones of serious analog polysynths, something like the Prophet 5 or the MemoryMoog.

That said, if you look at synth history, most of the later synths moved all the non-audio stuff into the digital domain, since this offers a lot more in the way of modulation possibilities (the modulation options can easily be half the circuit in a fully analog voice). So if you look at synths like the Prophet T8 or Oberheim Xpander, there’s just VCOs, filter and VCA, and generally only a handful of CVs to control it (Freq, PW, Cutoff, Res, Vol, for example). Compared to the number of CVs in the Prophet 5, that’s a major simplification. Given the powerful processors we have now, the limitations of this method at the time (slow update rate, primarily) aren’t really an issue any more.

The next step after this was when the analog oscillators disappeared and the integrated filter/VCA chips appeared and we got instruments like the Prophet VS or Ensoniq ESQ-1 or SQ-80.

Any of these approaches are possible these days, and it’ll be interesting to see where people take it.

Tom