[sdiy] uLaw DACs in the modern era?

[Lanterman, Aaron]

> On May 23, 2018, at 8:17 PM, John Ames <commodorejohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Mm, I don't know about the all-digital ones, but I know I've read that the 909 (which used sampled cymbal sounds) turned up the gain as it
> played through the samples so that the quiet tail-off had better fidelity with its limited sample width. Wouldn't surprise me if they used a similar trick on the digital ones until (presumably) they went full 16-bit and it wasn't so much of an issue.

I think the Kurzweil K250 did something along those lines with their "contoured sound modeling.”

- Aaron