The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Jon schreef:

> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <edward.edwards@v...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>Considering the 8 years since the release of the AN1x, you would think that a
>>Super VA would have been released by now with super polyphony and extremely
>>innovative design.  Can't say I've seen anything like this at the stores lately.

Well, there's quite a few of them already. And now that every man and 
his cousin can download a warezed copy of a soft synthesiser (or buy 
them, they're not that as expensive), producing a truly new and 
innovative synthesiser has become a bit of a business risk.

Better play it safe and produce something that you *know* will sell. 
Case in point: the Roland V-Synth. There's nothing innovative in any of 
its components: we've seen them all before in other Roland products. But 
it's a very good synth, and it will sell on those merits.

> Novation came close with the SuperNova but it also was cost 
> prohibitive for the average user - assuming that would be somebody 
> such as you me who makes their living outside of music ;-)

For all the processing power that Novation stuffed into the Supernova, 
it still has aliasing noise. Rather than improving their algorithms, 
they have come out with one new product after another. They have to be 
careful not to go down the same route as Waldorf.

> Clavia and Access seem to have found a formula for VAs that works - 
> good for them (I still like the NL2.)

Take a good design and improve upon it. I just wish that Access wouldn't 
use the same board for all of its products. The empty space on the 
keyboard versions looks suspicious.

- Peter


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