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those early Yamaha FM synths has a sound all on to themselves For sure, though the parent comment's video link was presumably rendered by software on a PDP-10.
by nitrogen 5y ago
those early Yamaha FM synths has a sound all on to themselves
For sure, though the parent comment's video link was presumably rendered by software on a PDP-10. I've spent the last week of my spare time trying to write code to make a bass sound that reasonably approximates Lately Bass, and I'm close, but since I'm not even trying to emulate any of the quirks of the Yamaha FM synths it doesn't ever sound quite right.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoTo be clear - I didn't mean it was a shame that people weren't specifically emulating FM, but that people weren't experimenting with weird synthesis techniques to make weird non-pop music with sounds no one has heard before. It's the last part that's still really difficult, possibly even harder than it used to be. And that's even with the insane processor power we all have now.
- nitrogen 5y agoI guess movie soundtracks are the closest to that in widely distributed music, or artists like Aphex Twin. There's an infinitely vast space of potential sounds, and an infinitely long fractal knife edge of interesting sounds, and it kind of makes sense that finding unexplored areas of that fractal edge between boring and incomprehensible gets harder over time.
- weatherlight 5y agospeak for yourself! hehe https://soundcloud.com/cassilda_and_carcosa/ontologies-tape-tx81z-bass-mix https://soundcloud.com/cassilda_and_carcosa/ontologies-tape-...
- weatherlight 5y agoc15 on the tx81z, you'd have to model the 12 bit DACs and the steppy-nees of the wave shapes. also the CPUs in the tx81z were slow and some calcs would lag a bit which contributed to its sound... try sending midi data to the TX81z while sequencing it, your pattern with start swinging! TX81z is one of my favorite synths.