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> And once we have sampling technology, there’s little point using computational techniques to make the once-novel sounds of earlier synthesizers: we can just s
by recursive 2y ago
> And once we have sampling technology, there’s little point using computational techniques to make the once-novel sounds of earlier synthesizers: we can just sample the instruments themselves
You can't tweak the parameters of a filter envelope if it's "printed" to a sample.
You might sample a variety of different envelopes, but there's still fundamentally no way you can get the sound of the filter attack gradually increasing using samples.
- dylan604 2y agoWhich is part of what makes the Mellotron such an interesting instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
- smitelli 2y ago"Tuning a Mellotron doesn't." —Robert Fripp
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoYou can totally tweak the filter and amp of samples. Don’t believe be - run a sample with the LP turned all the way down :)
- recursive 2y agoIf the sample is the master output from the synth then the filter won't be the same.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoOf course it won’t be the same, but the comment said won’t work not won’t be the same
- khedoros1 2y agoAssuming the details of the DX7 are similar to some of the PC Yamaha FM synth hardware, you could do things like set the attack/decay of a modulating operator to be very slow, the attack of a carrier to be fairly fast, and subsequent key presses wouldn't necessarily sound the same. And with a big chained algorithm like the DX7 can do, I agree, you couldn't capture the full behavior through a sample. You could replicate the most common behavior, though.
- relaxing 2y agoSure you can. Check out what Ensoniq did with digital-analog hybrids.