[LAU] Samples + Synthesis synth?

[Andrew C]

Thanks for the replies guys!

Yeah, specimen looks pretty cool! I played with it recently - mono legato
mode is very cool with long synth samples!
I've heard great things about phasex, but I never knew it could load
samples! I might just look into that!

Maybe comparing what I was looking for to a prophet VS was a bad idea? :-)

Andrew.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Malte Steiner <steiner at block4.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>  Anyone know of any linux synths out there that combine samples with
>>> synthesis? I was thinking sort of like Sequential Circuit's Prophet VS?
>>>
>>
>> The Prophet boils down to what you'd call a "Virtual Analog" synth. The
>> innards are digital, but the ideas are modeled after the way that analog
>> synths were done.
>>
>>  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.
>
> Prophet VS like sounds (typical glassy sounds) can be archived with
> Minicomputer softsynth too but you cant feed in samples. It has some single
> cycle waveforms which alias a lot and can be formed well with the filters.
>
> Virtual Analogue tries to simulate analogue sounds via software but that
> kind of DSP processing was not affordable for mass market in 1986 when the
> VS was released. Typically VA oscillators are band limited to avoid
> aliasing. From all mentioned software I think AMS is closest to be a VA.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malte
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