[sdiy] modern CEMs?

[Richard Wentk]

At 16:21 27/05/2006, Rainer Buchty wrote:
>Reminds me... What was the outcome of the warmth debate? How do we
>actually measure warmth?

With a thermocouple? ;-)

> From the 3 parameters above I think "warmth" is the hardest. Although I
>still like to see double blind tests (as well as biased tests, where one
>is told in advance "now comes the analog one" where indeed the digital
>one is playing and vice versa, just for the psychology factor...)
>whether this warmth thing is not mainly based on prejudice.

Korg's Legacy Edition softsynths are the best all-round simulations of the 
analogue sound I've heard so far, especially at 96k. Interestingly, 
according to Korg they're created using component modelling, rather than 
more abstract conceptual modelling.

It's possibly worth mentioning that one of the advantages of soft synths is 
that you can pile on the voices. If you want fully polyphonic performance 
with four or six detuned sub-voices per voice, this becomes completely 
practical with a fast enough computer. Assuming the basic voice structure 
doesn't sound too grainy, this can produce some *extremely* fat sounds.

Fat != warm, but it seems to be a related part of the sound quality picture.

Richard