Fairlight-CMI

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:24 +0100, WT wrote:
> I´ll see if I can make some samples tonight.
> 
> Also, I´ll try with a microphone.
> 
> It seems that the noise is only heard when sampling bass-sounds with decay. 
> Sampling a steady lowpitched waveform ( like a sawtooth ) from another synth 
> doesn´t reveal the noise but that is understandable as the constant wave 
> masks the noise. Even sampling a triangle or sine masks the noise.
> 
> WT

Can you post a link to a recording of your sampled bass drum?  I know
that the 8-bit samples in my early versions of my replacement Alesis
HR-16 ROM had a pretty distinctive noise on long boomy decays -
particularly on 808 bass drum samples, there was a high-pitched sweep a
bit like a sync sweep on it.  This is an artifact caused by the lack of
dynamic range and relatively large steps in a linear 8-bit sample.  I
left it in, it sounded cool.

Gordon MM0YEQ