10 Jun
2011
10 Jun
'11
12:22 p.m.
Excerpts from James Morris's message of 2011-06-10 00:37:15 +0200:
On 9 June 2011 23:30, Folderol
<folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
I too think that there's not that much difference between a wavetable
synth and a sampler. I guess you could distinguish them if you like, use
things like typical sample length, user control over samples and so on,
but this rather artificial.
I think samplers and synths have a lot in common, typically midi in,
audio out, note logic, filters and more. There's no good reason not to
marry those two things.
Philipp
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:22:58 +0100
James Morris <jwm.art.net(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But are the two really so different? They both do exactly the same
thing except one does it with synthesised waveforms and the other does
it with sampled waveforms. From thinking about the fact that most soft
synths use wave-tables, it can't be that difficult to put a sample in
there? Aside from synthesised waveform and sampled waveform, I think
(but don't quote me on this :-) that it is perhaps only certain
conventions which distinguish the two.
James. Hi,
Since working on Petri-Foo I keep returning to the idea that perhaps
it would be better to add a sampler-waveform to Yoshimi or another
soft-synth. Too bad I'm not that great a coder.
Anyway, the idea seems so obvious now. Are there any good reasons for why not?
Just an idea I wanted to put out.
James.
Personally, I'd hate that. I'm very firmly in the school of 'Do just one
thing,
but do it well.'