Fairlight-CMI

Hi Everyone, really interesting post. 

David has almost got it, this is exactly what I've thought for most of
the vst's - its not only copying the internal sound generator hardware
but certainly for the digital synths, its the D/A converters that give
them a huge part their sound. Things like FM7 are great, but its
missing the grit my mk1 DX7 has. If they could nail that, I can't see
why a decent VST attempt couldn't be made. I cant think it would be
outrageously expensive and if it has hardware A/D D/A stages and
filters - its pretty much impossible to crack. I'd certainly have one.

One step even further would be something like the Manikin Memotron
style piece of hardware if VST support was added where its a digital
hardware recreation but thats probably going a bit far for most
peoples needs. 

The originals are still going to command more respect because they
were truly groundbreaking instruments. 

Best regards, Martin   

  


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" <dvdborn@...> wrote:
>
> There is also another possibility to emulate the sound of the IIx
more faithfully.
>  
> If someone would build a firewire/USB audio interface with 8 8 bit
D/A-channels that use a 
> variable sample clock to transpose the sample of each channel and
has an analogue filter for 
> each channel, using eg. the CEM chips from the DSI Prophet '08/Evolver.
> 
> I have no idea how hard it is to design an audio interface with
todays technology that uses 
> old 8 bit technology. But I'm guessing that it isn't asking too much
from the technology. Or 
> am I mistaken?
> 
> The front end can than be a faithfull emulation of the IIx's system
as a VST or stand alone 
> application that drives the external audio interface.
> 
> David
> http://dvdborn.blogspot.com
>