[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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