PPG's are wavetable synthesizers in which a series
of waves is sweeped in the "oscillator" to create a moving sound even before it
hits the filters, amps, lfo's and envelope generators. The evolver has a wave
table, but each of the sounds in it are used one at a time by each of
the digital oscillators so the sound is not a "swept" sound (although you
can play with that by sequencing the waves in the digital oscillators with the
sequencer, but it is not a smooth transition between the waves like the ppgs and
the Waldorf Wave and Microwaves achieved).
The PEK, in regard to its digital oscillators (it
has two analog oscillators as well) is better termed digital through analog
filters, rather than "analogue through
digital signal" as you say.
For PPG style sounds, check out Waldorf's
Wave, Microwave, Microwave II, Microwave XT and Microwave XTk. Out of
those, only the Wave and Microwave have analog filters, but the digital filters
on the II, XT and XTk are really, really good.
----- Original Message -----From: arrakianTo: EvolverSent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:06 PMSubject: [Evolver] PEK/MEK to PPG WaveHi all,
I was wondering, can the Evolvers emulate the PPG Wave sound? As I
understand it, the PPG is digital put through analogue filters. Would
the PEK's analogue through digital signal sound similar? Could
someone post examples? I like the PPPG sound, but it IS an old
machine...