From Olivier Gillet Sent Wed, Jan 31st 2018, 20:27
From Olivier Gillet Sent Wed, Jan 31st 2018, 20:27
> Can anyone explain to me why this is being compared to The Source? It's not just a matter of voice architecture... The circuits used in The River are clones of the Moog Source's circuits. With mods and improvements. "Source" : http://forum.anafrog.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3D13673 On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Brian Willoughby <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why this is being compared to The Source? > > By the time you add FM, PWM, inverted envelopes, et cetera, how in the wo= rld > is it any closer to the The Source than some other 2 VCO + noise monosynt= h? > I played Moog=E2=80=99s The Source when it first came out, and it never s= truck me as > a unique voice architecture, so why is this new polysynth being compared = to > it? Have I missed something huge? I get the impression that the voice > architecture of The River has more features added than it has in common w= ith > The Source. > > I welcome the new synth, though. Looks like only Theo Bloderer is compari= ng > it to the Moog. Maybe folks have to throw =E2=80=9CMoog=E2=80=9D in their= blog to get > attention. I went to the Baloran web site, and the English pages make no > mention of Moog or The Source. > > Sorry to seem negative. Of course I mean no offense to Baloran. Maybe I= =E2=80=99ll > learn something about The Source that I've never noticed before. > > Brian > > p.s. I=E2=80=99m not taking issue with the comments comparing the sound t= o a > Memorymoog, Yamaha CS, Oberheim, Roland Juno and Elka Synthex. When it co= mes > to describing sound, it=E2=80=99s very difficult to find words for the ab= stract > sounds that synthesizers make, so comparing to existing models is probabl= y > about the best we can hope for. It=E2=80=99s really just the technical de= scription > of the voice architecture that doesn=E2=80=99t make any sense to me, give= n the > simplicity and ubiquity of the 2-VCO+Nouse architecture found in The Sour= ce > and so many other monosynths. > > > On Jan 31, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Jason Proctor <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > > http://greatsynthesizers.com/en/general-en/2017/11/baloran-the-river-the-= new-analog-mega-synth/ > > >