On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:36 -0500, Brent Busby wrote: > Most people now agree, now that a popular taste for > analog has returned, that the DX series was pretty cold and sterile > sounding. The DX7 does some sounds very good and it does/doesn't sound cold and sterile (it's relative to the kind of sound that it should produce), but it's very time consuming to program a DX7 sound. Some sounds can't be done with a DX7, at least not without external filters/modulation and for sure, some sounds even can't be done with external filters/modulations. Even a Prophet 5 doesn't sound that full and warm, as usually an analog Roland, even a Juno-106 or Oberheim etc. do sound. It's wanted that not all good analog synth produce the same kind of warmth. OTOH compared to a Linux sound sampler, sequential samplers 2000/Studio 440 don't provide that realistic sounds, but they provide an unique kind of warmth, that a Linux sound sampler doesn't provide. IOW it's good to have a few devices that sound very full and warm, but some devices should provide a less full and warm sound. In professional music even some of the cheapest synth were (are) used in addition to good synth. The Yamaha TG33 generate cheap sounds that can be mixed by a joystick and than the sound becomes a good and full sound. Mixing several thin sounds to produce a full and warn sound was often done by using several synth. Btw. the TG33's Vector Control would be a nice feature for e.g. Yoshimi. The TG33 does record a sequence of mixing and/or fine tuning 4 sound sources. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
