[LAU] Hardware synths

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Dec 1 21:38:06 EST 2007


David Olofson wrote:

>> What is thicker?
> 
> Now, that is probably very subjective, but in general, it would be a 
> sound with more information in it. For example, some sounds are 
> improved by adding slightly detuned oscillators in large numbers. 
> (Well, most sounds, if you're into "organic" or analog/acoustic feel 
> sounds in general.)

I recently discovered that the Yamaha PSR-740 has both a "Sine Wave" 
voice and a "Thick Sine" voice. There is a big difference between the 
two, yet you can tell that they're both using sine waves. So that's my 
empirical experience of what is "thicker".

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