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Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Commercial Trance

From: "Paul Murphy" <merfman@...>
Date: 2000-11-17

Forget the technology, - I just cant see how recording someone elses
arpeggio and trying to manipulate that can be compared to playing your own
and applying your own filters !

Am I the only one here who sees that ?


----- Original Message -----
From: RayMaxer <digil@...>
To: <AN1x-list@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Commercial Trance


> 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.
> 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.
> Ray.
>
> Peter Korsten wrote:
>
> > Paul Murphy shared with us:
> > > This thread seems to have gone off the track.
> >
> > Yes, well, it's the bane of this list, I 'spose...
> >
> > > Let me go back to a statement made by Peter :
> > >
> > > " Are you nuts??? Commercial trance producers do NOT use sampling-cds
for
> > > creating arpeggios!!!!!
> > > It is impossible to create authentic dynamic filter modulation
with
> > > it!!! "
> >
> > Wasn't me. :) (But that's been covered already.)
> >
> > > I was actually agreeing with his statement, saying that if you desire
these
> > > sort of trance arpeggios, you wouldn't sample CD's because you would
be
> > > restricted to the notes and dynamic filter effects that were applied
to the
> > > original sample.
> > >
> > > Buying an actual synth would be a better option for this application
because
> > > you could construct the arpeggios you want with the effects you want.
> >
> > The way I see it, it would be a better option to use a different
> > sample, then.
> >
> > There really isn't much difference between synths like the AN1x
> > and the A-series samplers. The oscillators differ - and that's it.
> > Both rely on the substractive synthesis method, which basically
> > means they both use filters to make the sound interesting.
> >
> > - Peter
> >
> >
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