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RE: [CZsynth] A new CASIO GZ-50M page

2004-09-02 by sealed

TS-10/12 are very capable machine. It's a new insight to me that TS is 
based on ASR and VFX belongs to EPS generation.
Nativeinstruments may have been thinking about Ensoniq when they added 
loop point modulation in Reaktor. It would be the only synth that can 
emulate Transwave.

Sealed

> >I remember Ensoniq advertised their MR and FIZMO had 2nd generation 
> >Transwave -
> >  I suspected that it might be multi-sampled with less looping noise,
> >but I don't really know the actual details.
> 
> As far as I know, two other related models are the TS-10 and TS-12.  
They're 
> sort of an upgrade of the VFX, but based on the ASR-10 architecture. 
 They 
> can't sample but they can load samples off of disks.
> 
> >I'm impressed with EPS's loop point modulation, as I don't know other
> >synths that can do this. Some models like E-MU Morpheus can reloop 
the
> >samples, but I think this tends to yield rather static noises. If 
the
> >loop point is modulatable like EPS, it would be more creative.
> 
> it's a very rare and unique capability.  I heard once that the only 
things 
> that can do it are the PPG Wave (with Waveterm), Ensoniq synths, and 
> Reaktor.  Not even the Kurzweil samplers can do it.
> 
> Anyway I'm glad you covered the SQ-1 series as I've always been interested 
> in hearing about their capabilities but never heard a detailed description.

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