[LAU] Hardware synths

bradley newton haug bradleyhaug at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 13:14:44 EST 2007


agreed, though the conversation itself was useful, the prokeys88 is hardly a
decent example.  I hadn't heard about it until this thread and this morning
I saw one on display at guitar center.   The keys were mush and it sounded
like any typical 'softsynth wrapped by some plastic'.

-brad


On Dec 4, 2007 9:26 AM, Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca> wrote:

> > > Le Dimanche, 02 Décembre 2007 15:53:30 +0000,
> > > Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> a écrit :
> > > > You still haven't posted a sample of it.
>
> That particular patch (that Ianas finds so rich) can be heard here:
> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProKeys88-main.html
>
> demo patch number 12.
>
> To me it sounds like strings samples with slow attack through
> chorus+reverb and a bit of low pass filtering.
> So I think that all the talk about swsynths vs. hwsynths is irrelevant
> as this particular instrument seems to be sample-based.  I guess it
> could very easily be achieved with fluidsynth (loaded with a decent
> soundfont) and optionally jack-rack with a couple of LADSPA plugins.
>
> I really don't see what the fuss is all about.
>
> Cheers.
>
> ./MiS
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