Re: [LAD] Software sound

On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 12:21 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: Wait a moment. Building an anlog synth by electronic circuits could be harder or easier to do, it depends to the skills of the developer. For software designers in the past hard real-time MIDI was easier to provide, than it is to provide nowadays. There are many factors important. Several times even galvanic isolation for the MIDI interfaces provided by old gear and by modern USB devices was mentioned. What ever in theory could be programmed, even the different output amplifiers of different real synth already could provide differences for the sound, one computer, using the same sound card for several virtual instruments only would provide, if somebody would care about it. Not to mention CEM/Curtis filters etc.. Understanding an ADSR with or without a graphic display shouldn't be an issue for musicians, it might be hard for some beginners. Anyway, that is provided since decades, even the faders of a simple ADSR already show the envelope by the fader positions. I suspect the OP has got less experiences with professional gear, it abilities and what professional musicians do need. It can't be repeated often enough. The way that was provided already in the 80s is a vector control. Everybody can create sounds by a vector control, absolutely no knowledge is needed. For using an ADSR there's the need to understand very much, less how the envelope does look like, more important is what is controlled by the envelope and that the envelop might variate to the dynamic of the musicians playing, by the played note number etc..