Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

It's taking a ridiculously long time for my posts to show up on this damn
list. Keep in mind this is the same Yahoo whose e-mail service can recieve
e-mail, but many times can't send it. What good is an e-mail account that
only works in one direction? Who the hell knows. Everyday I'm reminded of
how computers are programmed by complete and total idiots.

As for the Patchbook, it has been on my mind for the past couple of months.
The last one was more work than I thought it would be, so it's hard to get
started. I want to do male and female choirs next, but I need to port the
methods I've used on a couple of other synths over to the MOTM. The female
voice I did on the MOTM some time ago uses some odd stuff that people don't
have like the Boss Voice Transposer or for male voices and other female
voices it uses the 21 vocoder bands as a filter bank from the SE-70 effects
unit, and with it's fixed resonant nature means it only works over a very
small range. I've compared my Arturia choirs (similar to my Ion) to
East/West's sampled choirs that come in their Silver package, and they are
surprising close. I'll do so again to remind myself, but I can't say that
the real sampled voices sound any more real than my synthesized impressions.
In fact, I've created quite a large Tomita sound set on the Arturia
Moogmodular V, mellotron type voices being one of them. Mellotron flute,
delicate harp, massive pipe organ, full string orchestra with different
bowing styles, and weird spacy Tomita-like synth sounds, are also there.

The thing is I have very little expansion left in my MOTM and I need to pick
wisely what module I want to get paid in, and the one I most want, VC-ADSR,
isn't here yet. This is assuming Paul still wants to continue with the
Patchbook thing.

I also still need to get the blank patchsheets done. I haven't forgotten
about that either.

-Elhardt