Well aware, being primarily a Linux guy myself these last couple of years. I find Audacity superb (within its somewhat limited scope); mostly I'm surprised in that support for these very sorts of niche functions is where FOSS stuff tends to really excel, and it does seem like a conspicuous oversight...

Wavosaur can read and edit loop points. Yeah...really wish Audacity would implement that...*sigh*

I'll second the recommendation of XPand2--it's not stellar or anything, but I have always liked it and found it a very charming and useful little ROMpler. Cheap as chips too--it's more or less permanently on sale (as of this writing, it's on AudioDeluxe for $10; Plugin Boutique frequently sells it f...

So he wants an ARP PRO SOLOIST for his christmas... :lol: hahaha i hear you laugh. As i'm not in the position to invest in a great piece of vintage kit... Yeah, that's probably wise. Aside from the upfront expense, a 40+ year old piece of gear like that is very likely to require some non-trivial re...

In general analog signals are continuous and digital signals have steps, no matter how small. While it may be kind of an academic point, this is simply not true. Intersample values are strictly undefined and can only be bridged by a single (smooth) function. Digital audio is exactly as "continuous"...

I'll definitely second Tyrell. TAL Noisemaker is also quite good, notwithstanding the slightly awkward tabbed interface. I'm a big fan of most of Native Instruments' stuff and would absolutely recommend looking at their free Komplete Start bundle which includes a modest selection of very nice instru...

I don't know that I've bought anything from that particular merchant, but I have bought several EPROMs off ebay before (I know for both my Ensoniq synths and my ADA guitar preamp) and have had perfectly good experiences with each. I wouldn't sweat it.

I'll second the suggestion of picking up something modest and free to tinker with at first--TAL Noisemaker is a great one as madtheory mentioned. (Also great: u-he Tyrell N6, and Synth1 is a solid workhorse as well.) And I would urge you to learn general synthesis principles. Sound on Sound has an o...

(Disclaimer: I am unfamiliar with the Bits) It's definitely not aliasing, as that would produce enharmonic partials that move contrary to the base pitch, and you wouldn't be hearing it triangle waves if you weren't on pulse waves, which produce louder harmonics by a power of 2. It sounds distinctly ...

A synthesizer forum is a pretty questionable place to ask about guitar amps, but as a guitarist myself, I'll try to help. It's difficult to say without knowing what sort of sound or style you had in mind though. I played a little 15W Fender when I was in college, which I quite liked, although the di...

Hard to say without a clearer idea of what type of thing you're after. I can't think of a more appropriate approach than the aforementioned white noise through HPF thing for a static, undifferentiated hiss. (A BPF with high resonance--or a few in parallel--might be a useful variation thereupon.) For...

I couldn't find anything concrete, but I'd be very surprised if it could process stereo signals--this would require two separate signal paths from the mixer on down, and as far as I can tell the Pulse is strictly monaural upstream of the VCA outputs.

This is an extremely simple sound to make--just use one oscillator set to a triangle wave, and modulate the pitch by around an octave to an octave and a half via an envelope with a fairly rapid decay, i.e., attack and sustain all the way down, decay (and optionally release) somewhere in the neighbor...

It disables decrementing with the up and down buttons (although you can still navigate normally with the data slider; only wave selection is affected), but you can advance up to (I think) wave 255. It bears mentioning that apart from the first couple of waves beyond the standard rom (which are heavi...

Foolish question: is the VCA Gain slider up?