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

[Ben Bradley]

Last night I saw this posted on the local synth club Facebook page -
classic monosynths such as the Pro-One to be reborn too! I wonder what
five of these modules will cost.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BarxtY9nV1k/

Is "lowgain" here? More Instagram pics:
https://www.instagram.com/lowgain/

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM,  <paula at synth.net> wrote:
> 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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