19 May
2010
19 May
'10
6:13 p.m.
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 01:47 +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:
On 18.05.2010 00:46, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
The Casio FZ1 is another underrated old sampler. It has the most
distinctive resonant filters I've ever heard. Really brutal and
distorted!
They are a strange analog/digital hybrid design, which leads many to
think they are digital filters. In fact they are a switched capacitor
design, as far I as can tell. On the schematic the filter/dca chips are
after the D/A converter/sample and holds.
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 23:45 +0200, Malte Steiner
wrote:
Not sure about Cheetah. True for the Akai. The TX has digital filters, I
still have one in my studio. It loads filter coefficient tables from
disk and there was a DOS software to create you own, I tried it once or
twice. It was one of the inspirations for Minicomputer... hopefully I get my Emulator II working again.
When it worked, the hybrid
sound was amazing. Another hybrid sampler/synths, just for the fun of
it: (Samplers are underrated at the moment and cheap to get second hand)
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No Cheetah SX16? No Akai S612? No Yamaha TX-16W?
Cheers,
Malte