Bill Purvis <bill@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 28/06/2022 13:01, David Kastrup wrote: >> david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Jeanette! >>> >>> That was very nice. I really liked the mix of traditional-sounding >>> organ and synthesizer. I think they go together very well. >>> >>> Although I'm not going to consult a friend who is a fanatic about >>> "original instruments" and Baroque organs and utterly hates >>> synthesizers. >> What's his take on Hammond organs (tone wheels rotating before pickups)? >> Certainly an "original instrument", not a synthesizer, not a digitally >> sampled thing. > I would classify it as a synthesizer, as it is synthesizing the sounds from > basic tones, with some crude filtering. The "basic tones" are from physical rotation. And Italian pipe organs also synthesize the sounds from basic tones instead of having single stops with a characteristic tone (which is more in the German organ tradition). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
