MOTM

> In that MP3 I'm running the motm through
> a something like a 32 or 36 stage phaseshifter
> in a Roland SE70 to  generate a  complex
> series of peaks and notches....and so forth...


Few other ideas and thoughts and ramblings....

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Since Elhardt isn't afraid of digital (...and we both obviously love our
Nords....)...

I've been neglecting my Nord recently as I slowly get comfortable with
complex sound creation with ABSynth. ABSynth has, as one of the filter
choices, a tuneable comb filter that I find truly amazing. You can set up an
ABSynth patch that looks like:

OSC - FILTER  \
OSC - FILTER   --Waveshaper -- Master Filter -- Master Effects
OSC - FILTER  /

The Master Effects section has another multicomb filter with up to six taps,
or a multitap delay, or a "pipe".

Between all these, it's pretty easy to set up all kinds of different
resonant structures. I've been working on a Cello patch that's coming along
very nicely.  Will post some audio files in the next few days, if I can kick
this freaking flu virus I've caught...


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So, what to do with our analogue synths for this type stuff? Buy 15
multimode filters and a few delays and put up with the accumulated noise of
them all? Seems an expensive solution at best...

There are several electric guitar preamps out there (Roland comes to mind)
that uses modelling to give you a decent sounding "Acoustic Guitar" from
your electric. Doesn't sound bad either.  Now, a guitar body is a little
different that a Cello body, and too big for Viola or Violin, but it would
be interesting to see what it would do as far as helping create a more
"acoustic" timbre from a synth.

I've thought it would be interesting to try a Helicon VoicePrism VoiceCraft
on a modular synth as well, since it allows you to define vocal tract
resonance...

What I'd love to see, would be a digital module that would, probably with a
computer interface, allow you to define a resonant structure and then use it
as a filter in your system.  All the individual components to do this
already exist. To varying degrees the Yamaha VL series used software to do
this, and the Korg Z1 did this as well...

Now if somebody was smart enough to reverse engineer the process, and then
get just the resonant filter structures to run on a small processor on a
single module......jezz, would that be cool or what?

Since Paul is now adding MOTM modules using digital components, I don't
really see this as "cheating" in the analogue world, or am I in a minority
here...

I'm not particularly interesting in creating a dead-on violin or trumpet
myself - but what does interest me is the creation of something that would
be 1/2 way BETWEEN a violin and trumpet, and sound acoustic enough to sound
"real" and not electronic - even though it would be an instrument nobody has
ever heard before....

Just my random thoughts anyways...