Xpantastic!

--- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:
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> There´s so much to think about for a good cloning of the 
> characteristics of a synth.


Hello there PeWe,
Yes, I kept wondering who Karl Schrieb was Ha Ha, And why he was 
putting his name on my emails. 
 
Well as I mentioned I don't take the M12 out anymore. I just don't 
want anything to happen to it. So my original intent was. I would 
take my favorite patches and sample them in and play them out of my 
EMU Ultra. 
Heres a problom I never expected:
When you sample a sound, usually you sample a high note. Then the 
sampler divides this note down to give you your lower ranges. Well 
there is significant high frequency noise in a M12 sound. The 
switching power supply/ high voltage display multiplexing are two 
sources I identified. Well these are usually inaudible but when the 
sounds are divided down so is this noise and now it's part of the 
audible signal. I know I could multisample this but a lot of my 
patches were ambiant shifting kinds of things and use too much 
memory. You probobly know this is also a problem with LFO rates also.
By the time you switch everything off. You are just sampling a pure 
wavform. 
So I scratched this Idea. What is cool to do is sample in some M12 
base tones and you get some incredible low freq stuff. And there is a 
neat transfer algorithim which can create some new sounds.

Karl