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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] best hardware arpeggiator

From: Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...>
Date: 2009-01-09

You're right about the UI. I am confronting the difficult truth that we have almost run out of extended parameters to use for new features.

Which can mean only one thing. I have to rewrite the old original parameter handlers so that we can use all those free slots in the original 11-88 parameters.

Oh well! :-(

Yes, I am thinking about designing a brand new synth module. There's really only one thing stopping me. <Drum Roll>

The filter! I am not a VCF designer. I actually love the design of the NJM2069. And it is a damn shame it is no longer available in quantities otherwise i would use it in a heartbeat.

So if there is anyone out there that can point me at a good audio VCF chip that is available on the market today. Please point me toward it.

Mike.


From: Atom Smasher <atom@...>
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2009 4:17:02 PM
Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] best hardware arpeggiator

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Michael Hawkins wrote:

> I've been making good progress going back over my code and collapsing
> certain parts of it into reusable functions so that the memory use is
> actually dropping right now.
============ ======

great news!

> So I can see that altering attack on EG1/2 or EG3 might be things we'd
> like to change according to velocity.
>
> What other parameters might we want changed according to velocity?
============ =======

definitely: volume, filter cutoff

nice to have: filter res, EG1/2/x decay, LFO1/2/x speed, DCO1/2 level
level

if the UI allows (and ultimately, as mike keeps tweaking the code i think
the UI will prove to be the limiting factor in how many features can be
included), i'd like to see velocity assignable to anything that can
conceivably be controlled by it, with an option to invert the direction of
control.

mike, have you though about doing a synth kit from scratch? like a fatman
or AVR? i really don't need another synth, but with your attention to
detail and "customer focus", not to mention the technically superior job
your doing, i'd have to consider buying one. i've already got my eyes out
for another 800... i just passed on one that was as-is, broken,
pick-up-only (auckland) and sold for >150NZ$.

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