Hi Ed !
very good text ! I hope that it helps a lot of people ...
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J.F.
Ed Edwards a écrit :
>Obviously the AN1x was NOT designed for emulating mere organ sounds.
>There were plenty of units marketed at the time for that purpose.
>
>The AN1x is a Virtual Analog synth --- meant to sound like synthesizers
>made from about 1968 through 1988. It is an inexpensive alternative to
>having to buy a lot of different units made during that time to get
>similar sounds.
>
>If you are a new user and you haven't read the introduction part of the
>manual, then you might not understand what this synth was designed for.
>
>I am posting this to help newbies understand what they own and stop
>asking silly questions.
>
>This is an EXCELLENT virtual analog synth. Play it with enthusiasm,
>program it with ingenuity, post useful ideas and questions to this
>list.... You have come to the Right Place. We are here to help and get
>useful ideas. Thanks for subscribing.
>
>(The following section is from the introduction section of the manual.)
>(After you read this, you shouldn't have a major reason for complaining
>to the list about why it doesn't sound exactly like a trumpet or a piano
>or an organ. You shouldn't want to try to make it store samples. Enjoy
>it's uniqueness - understand its purpose.)
>
>
>∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗!∗∗!∗!∗
>
>The Making Of A Modern Classic
>
>The classic analog synth sound is back with a vengeance and more popular
>than ever. Vintage analog synthesizers are hot items, recirculating and
>finding their way into the arsenals of the world’s most innovative music
>makers, many of whom weren’t even born when the voltage controlled
>synthesizer was coming of age more than a quarter of a century ago.
>Enter the Yamaha AN1x Control Synthesizer—a modern classic in its own
>right—complete with the VCO, VCF, and VCA blocks, or "modules" that give
>retro synths that famously fat, rich, warm sound, plus multiple knobs
>for controlling every nuance of the sound, and even an on-board
>Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer for generating pattern loops at the press
>of a key. What’s much more, however, is that the AN1x incorporates
>features that vintage synths could only dream about—like three onboard
>programmable digital multi-effects units and a 3-band stereo EQ, a
>multiple controller-to-parameter assignment architecture, a 4-track Free
>EG for “hand drawing” real-time knob position movements of up to four
>different tone generator parameters, plus real-time morphing between two
>different sounds, and more—all of which can be customized for each of
>the 128 voices and stored as individual voice data.
>
>
>The History…
>
>Why is the “analog sound” so popular in a digital age? What long and
>winding road had to be
>traveled—just to end up right back where we started from? Let’s take a
>quick look at how we got from there
>to here, and where here really is, anyway. Electronic music synthesis
>has been around in one form
>or another since the beginning of the 20th Century. But it wasn’t until
>the early 1970s that developments in
>voltage controlled synthesis technology made the concept practical—and
>affordable.
>As such, the voltage controlled synthesizer became less and less an
>experimental curiosity in the world’s great
>universities and sound labs and more and more a valid—and
>revolutionary—musical instrument in its own
>right. It quickly became a staple in professional recording studios, and
>its myriad sounds started
>gracing the ears of millions through popular recordings in literally all
>genres of music.
>Then came the 1980s, and the introduction of wildly popular,
>affordable-for-the-masses, great-sounding and
>easy-to-use digital synths like the famous Yamaha DX7. What followed was
>the MIDI revolution, which drove
>the rapid development of ever-more-sophisticated multitimbral digital
>synthesizers and tone generators, along
>with the overwhelming acceptance of digital sampling which has literally
>changed the way we create and
>listen to music. And all of which have gone hand-inhand with the desktop
>music revolution.
>Most recently there has been the introduction of breakthrough physical
>modeling synthesis technology,
>which has been successfully applied to the accurate reproduction of
>acoustic instrument sounds through
>purely electronic means, as well as the creation of new “hybrid-type”
>acoustic-oriented sounds.
>
>
>Enter Analog Physical Modeling…
>
>The classic analog synth never fell out of favor with the world's most
>innovative musicians. That's because it
>has a special punch, power, plus important elements of interactivity
>that digital synths and samplers have
>tended to lack by comparison. And now, with the demand for that "classic
>analog sound" due to the global popularity of techno, trance, and other
>modern forms of dance music, it's hardly surprising that Yamaha—a
>company consistently at the very pinnacle of electronic musical
>instrument technology—would react to that demand and create a completely
>new performance-oriented "control synthesizer" that takes the company's
>original breakthroughs in physical modeling synthesis and uses it to
>digitally "model" the analog sound-generating components which gives
>voltage controlled synthesis its unique character and virtually
>unlimited range of sound. And package it with a host of digital extras
>to bring the technology full circle with a completeness and utility
>never before possible. In short, the AN1x is a logical—and timely—
>development in the evolution of electronic musical instrument history,
>based on the modern needs and
>demands of the world’s cutting-edge musicians. And once again, as is
>often the case with creations from Yamaha, music history will never be
>the same. All the tools are in the box. The rest is up to you….
>
>(end quote from manual)
>
>I hope this helps resolve questions about the major purpose of this
>keyboard.
>
>∗Ed Edwards∗
>
>
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