microtonal synths

In my opinion, a synth with decent sounds that don't make you cringe is
more important than a synth with massive re-tuning capabilities.

Of course it would be great to have both.

But meanwhile, I'm happy with my Roland XV-5050.

cb

(Been listening to Darreg's De-Twevlulate--music is OK, but theose string
timbres--ick!!)

Jon Szanto wrote...

> Addendum: some people seem to make FM synthsis work just swell for them;
> Rick McGowan comes to mind.

Well, thanks, Jon! ;-)

Anyway, I'm somewhat surprised to hear you lump the TX802 with the
TX81Z... The 81Z is much less capable. Well, either of them are 20 year old
boxes...

These days, I think if I were going to buy a performance box on a budget
-- something to take on stage with me -- I'd get a fast laptop, a velocity
sensitive keyboard controller, and run Big Tick's "Rhino" on the laptop.

In case anyone's not yet tried Rhino... It has a method of simple additive
synthesis (16 harmonic components) as well as 6-operator FM with a large
selection of waveforms, so you can mix FM and additive together. It has a
great deal of control over keyboard tracking curves (8 parameter curves per
oscillator) and sensitivity to velocity & aftertouch.

Rick

Most of today's activity in microtuning is the software synthesizers.
I've seen very few new hardware designs in the last four years that
added microtuning. Most of the new HW with this feature is just
sustaining previous software features, such as the Emu Proteus line.

John Loffink
jloffink@...

The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/

The Wavemakers Modular and Integrated Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/

>
> Anyway, I'm somewhat surprised to hear you lump the TX802 with the
> TX81Z... The 81Z is much less capable. Well, either of them are 20
year
> old
> boxes...
>
> These days, I think if I were going to buy a performance box on a
budget
> -- something to take on stage with me -- I'd get a fast laptop, a
velocity
> sensitive keyboard controller, and run Big Tick's "Rhino" on the
laptop.
>
> In case anyone's not yet tried Rhino... It has a method of simple
additive
> synthesis (16 harmonic components) as well as 6-operator FM with a
large
> selection of waveforms, so you can mix FM and additive together. It
has a
> great deal of control over keyboard tracking curves (8 parameter
curves
> per
> oscillator) and sensitivity to velocity & aftertouch.
>
> Rick
>