Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

"Ravi Ivan Sharma" <noision1@...> writes:
> VA is virtual analog synthesis, not just something that kind of sounds
> pretty close to Analog.

Care to define `virtual analog synthesis', or `VA coding'?

I can't think of anything except rather trivial things like `doesn't use
sampled oscillators' -- and that seems mindlessly pedantic; surely the
virus would still be a `VA' if they decided to only use sampled
oscillators, but changed nothing else.

Indeed I think it's accurate to say that there's precious little
qualitative difference between a particularly well-speced rompler and a
VA (certainly Roland's recent synths have been playing fast and loose
with this confusion).

> Finally what's the big push to call the MW something it isn't? It
> doesn't change its sound, which is all that matters. Or am I missing
> something?

There's no push.  However, it is a bit annoying to see the term `VA'
tossed around like it has some deep meaning.  It doesn't, it's a
marketing term.

-Miles
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