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

[paula at synth.net]

What Tom said.

The world is wide open now, we have powerful 32bit 200+Mhz CPUs with 
amazing peripherals included for only a few $10s, there's a wealth of 
knowledge available at your finger tips (internet) and now these chips 
resurfacing.
It'll be fantastic to see what new stuff people come up with.

Paula

On 2017-10-26 13:47, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>> 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
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