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Welcome !
very impressive theoretical work : grab an oscilloscope to look at the 
waveforms ... You have a job in electronics engineering ?
Nice sounds too, sometimes emulations of "traditional" instruments can 
be very useful.
Cheers.
J.F.


richardon a \ufffdcrit :
> Hi
> My name is richy an i live in Karlsruhe /Germany. I am new in AN1x Group.
> Thank you for the lot of sounds that can be found here. Wow great stuff !
> I own the An1X since 1996. A great flexible synthesizer. But in the beginning
> i had some problems to understand and programm it in all details.
> E.g. I didnt knew, that the AN1X only produces thin Pulswaveforms,if FEEDBACK ist
> set to zero. So i didn't use it for a while on stage.
> To get the parameters FEEDBACK and EDGE under controle i started to emulate waveforms
> of other synthesizers on AN1X. Using an Oszilloscope, Spectral Analyzer and my ears.
> BTW: AN1x never produces straight Wavepictures like SAW or REC. Because overtones
> are out of phase. So you have to use a Spectral Analyzer or your ears.
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> Some results of this work. Perhaps the list is useful for you.
> http://home.arcor.de/richardon/2011/an1x_waves.txt
> (My sounds file contains some templates for feedback and edge parameters)
> Next step I created some tuned FM sprectrals to emulate D50 Sounds.Spectrals are also
> useful for Voices, Flute Breath, Melotron, Arco Strings and so on. The PEG can be
> used as second polyphonic AEG or FEG in such spectral sounds.Thats good, because
> LFO and EG are not polyphonic. Controling PWM via PEG you have for all waves a simple
> second polyphonic AEG.
> Of course for Organs its better to use the Free EG for typical B3 Legato Pecussion.
> I used another PW Trick in my Organ Sounds to get 888 up to Full Drawbars plus Legato
> B3 Percussion and Keyclick in one Scene. Template was my old and new CX3.
>
> Now her are my sounds :
> http://home.arcor.de/richardon/2011/richy_5_11.an1
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> I tried to opimize my sounds for stage, therefore they are more traditionell.
> For example I like to play the Vibraphone Sound during Dinner Music Gigs.
> An1x can do this as good as a rompler machine. A simple sound, but it was a lot
> of work to create it exactly like the template. With some classical Drum machines,
> left hand base you can even play Jazz Standards on AN1x :-)
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> Hope you like it. Dont wonder about some delay settings e.g. in mellotron or
> vocal sounds. The Delay FX can also be used as an "Comb Filter"
> Very good to emphasis Formants or simulate Phase Errors of older Instruments.
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> With best regards
> Thomas Richardon
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