The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Well i wrote a very long answer, but my IE5 crashed so, here the 
shortform:

--- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, "Peter Korsten" <peterk@i...> wrote:
> The AN1x is far superior to XG tone generators, 
Now it is you, comparing apples and oranges. The AN1x is a virtual 
analoge synthesizer, XG tone generators are sampleromplayer. So how 
is AN1x superiour? Or can your AN1x play 16 different drumsets on all 
16 MIDI-channels?

> and the envelopes and
> filters in my EX5 kick the AN1x's butt major big time. 
Really? How? I wanna hear a prove, before i take it.

> Substractive synthesis is taking bits from the signal from the 
oscillators
> away, and you do this with a filter. Since both (virtual) analogue 
synths
> and S&S (sample and synthesis) synths work with oscillators - 
whether this
> is a sample or something generated is irrelevant - they are 
essentially the
> same.

Hm, fascinating. Do you know a site for more info about this topic?

Regards, Tom