On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 18:08 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:34:19PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Malte Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Thats not correct. The Prophet VS is a hybrid synth, digital oscillators > > > plus real analogue filters, my favorite combination actually. That hybrid > > > approach lives on in Dave Smiths Evolver (which again is no VA) and in the > > > Spectralis. These digital oscillators didnt ape analogue ones and even alias > > > a bit. > > > > > > Adds Emu Emulator EIII to list or hybrid analog filter & digital > > sampler/soundshaper (they're awesome, even in the all-digital "xp" version) > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260552890845 > > Wasn't the Ensoniq Mirage also a hybrid like that? Yes, as well as the ESQ-1, SQ-80 and SDP-1. Same basic idea, DOC chip, couple of multiplexers and eight Curtis filters. The Mirage had 128k of RAM and was a sampler, and the synths had the samples in ROM. I'd love to get another Mirage keyboard (got a rack, but I'm a completist) and an SDP-1 piano. Gordon MM0YEQ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
