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Re: [CZsynth] Re: Modulating velocity on cz1/3000/5000?

2004-12-12 by Scott Carr

I'm a little surprised that no one (to my knowledge) has modeled the CZs into a VST or something. A 
Super CZ on steroids virtual synth would be mighty cool....

This sounds like an interesting project.... If only I had the time + programming skills :)

Scott

Scott Nordlund wrote:

> It does it in hardware but it's highly-integrated digital hardware.  I'm not 
> familiar with the internals of the CZ-synths but it wouldn't surprise me at 
> all if the LFOs, envelopes, as well as the sound generation stuff was all 
> contained on one chip, making it completely impossible to add anything.   In 
> all likelihood it would be easier to model the entire synth in software and 
> add features to that (like FM7, there's no way you're going to get 
> freely-definable algorithms, or whatever, on a real DX7, it's just not 
> possible without re-creating the entire instrument).
> 


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