MOTM

--- In motm@y..., elhardt@a... wrote:
> For a long time I've been wanting to hear a number of my acoustic 
synth 
> emulations playing together.  I finally multi-tracked a short 36 
second test 
> piece doing just that.  Kind of a simple Windham Hill - William 
Ackerman 
> style.  Link to MP3 sound file below (about 860K).  It's all done 
on analog 
> and virtual analog synths.  Synth info:
> 
> (Roland JP-8080)  Fictitious Piccolo-Flute type sound at very 
beginning
> 
> (Alesis Andromeda)  Nylon and Steel String Acoustic Guitars
> 
> (Nord Modular)  Violin and Cello
> 
> (MOTM)  Wood Flute
> 
> + phase shifters, short digital delays/comb filters, cross-mod 
resonators, 
> parametric EQs, exciters and reverb.
> 
> http://members.aol.com/elhardt4/acoustics192.mp3
> 
> -Elhardt

Hi Ken,
Please don't take this as an offence, it is not meant like that. I 
think you made a *very* nice short piece of music. As to the sound, 
my answer to your question 'Can analogs pass as acoustic? You decide' 
would have to be: no. 
Being a conductor (and player of the violin), I think I know how a 
violin or cello or flute sounds. The guitar sounds good and also 
the 'wood flute' is nice (BTW, I liked your recorder on an earlier 
demo!). I know that doing synthetic strings is very, very difficult 
and to be honest the violin and the cello don't come near the sound 
of a real one. For me even a sampled violin or cello doesn't come 
near a real one.
As to emulating in general: I think synthesizers wouldn't get enough 
credit if they would only be used to immitate other instruments. 
Synths and specially modulars have the potential to be 'real' 
instruments themselves. 
But it's always fun to try, isn't it? Please keep on having fun!

Michel