[LAU] Sound Chip as a synthesizer on Linux. Thoughts, ideas?
    Fede 
    federicogalland at gmail.com
       
    Thu Jul 10 16:09:02 UTC 2014
    
    
  
> The irony is, Yamaha was theoretically right.  With enough oscillators 
> cross-modulating eachother, you could make filters optional.  Where they 
> got ahead of themselves was thinking they could do that with only six 
> per voice.  Dozens or hundreds, yeah maybe.  Six, no.
The DX7 can do many very complex timbres with only six, but who wouldn't like it to have hundreds.
> I used to have an Elektron SidStation in my studio (sold it), but it was 
> a device like you're talking about -- a little Midi-controlled silver 
> box with a real SID chip in it.
I really wished those were available anywhere in Argentina, but haven't seen any yet.
Cheers!
    
    
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