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Le Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:51:59 +0200, martythevampire  
<martythevampire@yahoo.co.uk> a écrit:

> 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
>>
>
>



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