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Software synths, and Native Inst FM7

🔗Rick McGowan <rick@...>

4/13/2002 10:21:53 AM

So I was looking around at Native Instruments "FM7 PC" product. It's an FM
synthesizer that's a generation or two ahead of the TX802, in terms of
voices.

There's a cool demo of it on their home page. Go out to:

http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?home_us

scroll down the left side until you find the downloadable demos. (And they
do ask for registration before downloading. It worked for me.)

One cool thing about this demo is that the full keyboard is retuntable in
real time. Bring up the demo. Look for the "PITCH" button along the top row
of green buttons. When you go in to the "Pitch" mode, there is a
"Microtuning" section on the lower right corner. You can mess with all
octaves, sliding the individual pitches up and down with sliders.

Unfortunately, this synth appears to be mono-timbral.

So now my question of the day... Is there, in the world, _ANY_ software
synth at any price that is multi-timbral and polyphonic and totally
microtonally tunable like the TX802???

Thanks,
Rick

🔗graham@...

4/13/2002 2:10:00 PM

Rick McGowan wrote:

> So now my question of the day... Is there, in the world, _ANY_ software
> synth at any price that is multi-timbral and polyphonic and totally
> microtonally tunable like the TX802???

Well, there's CSound. Always is.

Graham