RayMaxer shared with us:
> In fact - I am not sure on this of course , but I suppose there should be a
> difference in how the filters work ..
> In AN1x or ViRUS or ... we have a digital emulation of an analog VCF - the
> algorithm in AN1x for the filter is to emulate VCF ...
> And in the samplers we usually have just the usual digital LPF or HPF filters
> which were not specifically created to emulate the
> analog filters.
I don't know about that. After all, the first sampler that actually
had filters, had pure analogue ones. I'd wager a bet that there
isn't much of a difference betweeen 'virtualogue' filters and the
ones in samplers or 'romplers', since both are based on DSP power.
> And I in fact disagree that Samplers COVER analog emulation synths ..
> Saying this - any romplers which have sine , saw and some other waves cover analog
> em. synths - and that's of course a funny statement.
The simplest, one oscillators synths can be emulated, more or less.
But something like an Edge Control, slowly varying over time, is
something that sample based oscillators can't do.
But the main reason that virtual analogue synths exist in the first
place is the craze over real analogue synths. The reasons for that
craze were partly about the sound, but for a large part about
financials as well.
- Peter