Re: [AH] Moar Polysynth Thoughts

From Brian Willoughby
Sent Mon, Apr 2nd 2018, 00:17

Aliasing? or quantization? If you heard steps in the parameter value, =
then that would be quantization.


On Apr 1, 2018, at 4:32 PM, annika morgan <xxxxxx.x.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> =
wrote:
> A couple of comparisons between the two:
>=20
> 1. The knob scanning on the Prophet Rev 2 is a bit different. Turning =
knobs creates aliased artifacts. This seems to me not a "live =
performance knob turning" synth, unless the aliasing artifacts are =
desirable to your sound. For me personally it would be distracting. That =
said as live performance synth with predetermined patches, you could =
play a killer live set with the Prophet, playing deeply textured and =
well-articulated sounds across a gigantic music field in an =
extraordinarily clean and precise way that still has warmth and heat and =
bite and grit. It's like taking a 70's OBx and giving it sculpted =
precision all the way down the audio spectrum then giving it a 3rd =
dimension. Quite unbelievable, really.
>=20
> The knob action of the prologue suffers no such artifacting that I =
could tell, but it seems to not have the range the prophet has. The =
prologue has well, "the prologue sound":  an incredibly rich, dense, and =
blossoming tone and overtone machine. I truly do believe "the prologue =
sound" is unique to synthesizers and benefits greatly from a rich sonic =
palette married to an incredibly intuitive playability.