I seem to remember Patrick Kunz (the guy behind the excellent Togu Audio Line stuff) had a technical document somewhere describing his method of modelling oscillators, using some complicated integration of pulse trains or something, from what I can recall. Made me realise softsynths have come a long...

Did you get a reply from the Prophet 2012 author ? I mailed him a while ago to report that my P2000 didn't work with it, but received no reply. As a SW engineer, I would like to look into to fixing the code for myself and maybe even extending the feature set if the source code were available. I'll ...

In other words I continue to believe that if one switched oscillators in a synth with some other ones from a different manufacturer, the net sonic change at the synth OUTS would be barely distinguishable and musically meaningless or useless. You really haven't used many synths then. There are plent...

Ensoniq EPS or EPS-16 . Polyphonic aftertouch and multitrack sequencer are unique features. Nice crunchy aliasing / transposition too (the original EPS, anyway). They're got a meaty sound generally. Even the non-resonant digital filters have a nice character of their own. Yes the wonderful Roland d...

I don't know, I've never done an A/B test. I usually find the fact that oscillators sound considerably different to be fairly convincing evidence that oscillators sound considerably different.

Thanks for putting up these graphs. But looking at the 2 curves the minimoog wavelength is 10 units, that of the voyager is 9.5 units so already there is a frequency setting discrepancy of 5%: they are not tuned. If I remember correctly the difference in frequency between A and A# is only about 4.3...

The point is that this: I think DSI instruments have alot of color I just want to be able to record in without raising the master volume too high on the Synth itself. Shows that you're willing to drop a whole lot of cash on a 1% difference in audio, when you haven't even learnt the basics of gain st...

Just a suggestion- if you used that software along with the HxC floppy emulator, you'd only have to wait for the MIDI dump once (ish). Then when it's all set as you like and in the Prophet, save it to the SD card. Or you could ask the HxC folk to support whatever file the software generates to repr...

I generally build the patches in Prophet2012 using assets from my own sample library, then dump it to the Prophet, play around and perform whatever tweaks need to be done, then save it to a file. I also have some blank patch files with all the parameters set up generically that I use to build any ne...

I still use mine a fair bit. Pain in the arse to use, but sounds lovely. Anyone on Windows really should grab this, it makes dealing with the Prophet's... "characterful" architecture a little less embolism-inducing: http://synth.curlsystems.de/Prophet2012/Prophet2012.html I don't use disks any more,...

I see Artemyev's had a couple of nods in this thread, but no mention yet of Siberiade?



Yeah, that'll be stuck in your head all day now.

Now saving the patches is the real issue for me. Everyone talks about taking photos but since just minor changes to knob positions can lose the whole patch it's not truly practical. Creating a sound and using it immediately didn't work for me. I tried sampling but never could figure out exactly wha...

I'm sure the many people quite happily and effectively using modulars in a working environment doing music, composition, and sound design will be glad to hear they can finally sell those bulky things off now that the game's up. But seriously, I am genuinely fascinated by the actively anti-modular se...

ppg_wavecomputer wrote:no more flexible than a Mini Moog with the bonus of having some additional patch points?

I look forward to your recreation of this patch on your Minimoog.

Yeah fair enough, I do know you can trigger other stuff from a keyboard/touchplate. But then it essentially becomes like a trigger button/controller. Yes, but going back to the original comparison with traditional standalone synths, what synth units do you know that will give you those 20-odd pads,...