[sdiy] PPG sacrilege!

[Paul Maddox]

Aaran,

OW!!

ok, Point to bare in mind, I love PPG, so my opinions are ever so slightly 
biased :-)

Just extra bits of info ;-

The waveforms in the PPG were *NOT* sampled, they were generated in a very 
ver6y old 4809 based computer.

Palms aim with wavetables was to REMOVE filters from synths, but people 
winged too much, so the wave 2.0 had analogue filters (CEM).

How can you say that the wavecomputer sounded horrible???
I'd like to suggest buy 'Windpower' by thomas dolby, and turn it up loud..
the bass line is from a PPG 340/380 system.

The reason the PPG crashed was because people used to chuck synths around, I 
had a 2.2 and it was ROCK SOLID.
A PPG was no less reliable than any 'cutting edge' synth at the time (memory 
moog anyone?)

your picture of the microwave is of a microwaveII, which is DSP.
The microwave I is digital oscillators and analogue filters.

The DX7 wasn't the death of PPG, it was poor marketing and 'over reaching' 
themselves with the Realizer.

Further points,
The Wave 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 *ALL* played back waveforms in 8bit format!
The wave 2.2 had the ability to play 8 bit samples, sent to it from the 
waveterm-A
The wave 2.3 had the ability to play 12bit samples, again, sent from the 
waveterm-B

The 2.2/2.3 didn't sample, and didn't store them, the Waveterm did that.
The wave 2.2/2.3 could only playback a sample, *IF* connected to a Waveterm.

As for use in the 80's, just about every band in the 80's had one, the most 
notrious is Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the bassline on 'two tribes' is a PPG 
sample (T040) - http://www.ppg.synth.net/waveterm/wt_lib.shtml#84-04

PPGs are worth every dollar/pound of £900 :-)

BTW, Thanks for the plug of the Monowave :-)

Paul