VA's have less poly/multi (in general) beacuse their soundstructure is
mathematically more complex and the DSP's need to be more powerful to obtain
the same amount of poly/multi. The sound creation possibilties are way more
flexible and diverse (in many ways) than most romplers. Romplers like the
DJX (or JV1080, cs2x) are basically sampelrs with a fixed set of samples in
them. 'All' they do is play back samples at different pitches (this is a
very 'rude' generalisation) whilst VA calculate real time the shape of
waveform which is a dsp consuming process.
and YES inverting in a sampler is ALLWAYS a good idea.
Bastiaan van de Werk
----- Original Message -----
From: Bjørn Standal <standal2000@...>
To: <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: [AN1x-list] Timbrality issue once more
> Hi gang
>
> I know we've been through this topic before, but I just need confirmation.
I
> see my AN1X standing there with incredible possibillities, beautiful
sounds
> and its great keyboard, and then all I can think off is its damn
monotimbral
> (bi-timbral at most) shortcomings.
> Is there a reason for VA's to have less polyphony and timbrality than
> sampled-based synths? Even the new Supernova 2 only got eight part
> multitimbrality. It's just enough for basic songs, but I think 16 part
> multitimbrality is a minimum. Even my trusty DJX got that.
>
> I extensively use MIDI (without being a guru, far from it), and in that
> sense the AN1X is near to useless in complete songmaking as I can only use
> one sound in every song. Sure there must be a way to at least use
different
> sounds in a track, albeit not at the same time? Is there something like a
> patch-change command I can send to my AN1X? I use Cakewalk 8.0.
>
> Was wondering if I should invest in a sampler so I could sample my AN1X
and
> use it as a multitimbral AN1X-emulator. Don't know which sampler's got the
> best filters and effects, though... But that's a whole 'nother story.
>
>
>
>
>
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