MOTM

In the same spirit, I nearly sold my Micro Modular when I heard that 
Clavia was moth-balling it (no more new revs).  But since I'm 
waiting on a new Ztar Z6-S (www.starrlabs.com) I demurred, and am 
glad I did.  Lots of cool sounds and very interesting to experiment 
with. The sound doesn't really come near the MOTM, but it is 
polyphonic and MIDI'd.  And the editor is cool.

ABSynth, I hear, is also cool.  The other incredibly interesting 
software synth is the Malstrom in Reason 2.0.  It's a combo of a 
wavetable synth and a granular synthesis with interesting routing 
and two comb filters.  Really unique timbres!

One more thing: Antares kantos is the total bomb.  Completely 
weird.  It will take a monophonic recording and resynthesize it in 
various strange ways.  What it does to vocals is, as my teenage 
daughter would say, just wrong.

Finally, has everyone seen the Oddity? Software ARP Odessy (sp?) 
with some extra tricks...

Mike 

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Les Mizzell" <lesmizz@b...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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....
> 
> *********************
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
> *********************
> 
> 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...