Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Off the bat, I have to say that I WAS fairly impressed by the sound set that
came with my XL7, but I would not classify it as being warm...in my opinion
it just barely makes 'room temperature'. That's not necessarily bad, it's
good to have a diverse artinerary of instruments to work with, warm and cold
alike. I don't care to much for Roland or Yamaha's Analog modeling synths,
they are quite digital still...but as for Clavia...man, you are so wrong
about Clavia. I own a Nord Modular, which is by far there best synth yet,
and it can be anything really, warm cold, ripping hot...between the modular
and the 3 Leads, the clavia synths are the closest I have heard to being
analog, while remaining in the digital realm 100% (the Access Virus pulls a
very close second as well). Beyond the Modular, I have a few analog synths
as well, an Oberheim Matrix 6r, a Korg EX8000, and a Vermona DRM1
MKII....there warmth is phenomanal to say the least...BUT there are sounds
that I can make on my (ex)Korg Prophecy, and my K2500 and Nor modular, that
could never be produced via a true analog based synth (with the exception of
the ANdromeda perhaps). SO, there is a great deal of good to be said for
digital AND analog alike.

One of the best ways to get more warmth out of 'colder' sounding gear, is to
run it through analog fx...it cuts down those frigid edges and corners.
Something like a true Spring reverb or delay, Lexicon's are very very nice
fx...another good way is to run the synth through a tube based amp or
processor, like an old guitar amp, and then mic it. It has incredibly nice
results. Beyond effects, your only other choice is to program as much warmth
into as you can, like mildly modulating the pitch's of seperate layers at
different slow rates with random lfo's...it gives a much nicer pulsing
softer feel. I think the coldest edge of the xx7's are there resonance in
the filters...it's quite horrible in my opinion, I'm not just knocking the
command stations, resonant filters are usuaully the downfall of any digital
synth, few can come close to a warmth with them, and none I've heard are
perfect.

ByronIV

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> I have the XL7 with the MOPHAT ROM(and the beat garden in the
> future..);some profesionnals musicians think it's sound very good but
> not warm!too digital..i disagre!Because with all the analog type
> waveforms in theXL7 and some dedicated ROMs,the fabulous EMU's
> filters,it sound warm!(and more versatile than
> CLAVIA,NOVATION,ACCESS,WALDORF...etc because you have more than
> alalog waveforms..)
> What do you think about this opinion?What is a warm sound?And where's
> the difference between the XL7,MOPHAT and ORBIT3 roms,and analog
> physical modeling synthetizers(or real analog synthetizers..)And if
> you disagree with me,what can i do to sound "analog" with my machine?
>
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