Crumar Musical Instruments User Group.

> 2. Does anyone have an idea how the Performer sound samples at Mod 
> Archive (http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/soundstate.shtml) are 
> created? Are they really dry Crumer sounds or have gone through 
> external processing? Some of these seem to be stereo sounds which 
> should not be possible with Performer... Anyway, I am worried as I 
> can't get all of these sounds out of mine :)

Margus, I've downloaded all of the sounds from above and I'm pretty 
sure that most, if not all, of the samples you're talking about use 
the Performer as their source. HOWEVER, as intimated by the preface 
to these samples, they have been heavily modified by the use of 
external resonating filters, phase shifters, delay and reverb. It's 
safe to say that 85% of the sound you're hearing in these samples is 
caused by the external filter they've been run through. Some of them 
sound so early Tangerine Dream-ish that I'd bet they were run through 
Moog filter banks.

Great sounds . . . but not typically Performer. For one thing, almost 
no use of the Performer's filter bank is used . . . well, it's 
actually labled EQ Control on the Performer but still . . . whoever 
made the samples was more interested in transforming the Performer 
into something other than what it was, and not representing what the 
instrument is really good at.

Sounds like I'm a purist, doesn't it? Not really. I like these 
samples. But I wouldn't post them as "Crumar Performer". It would 
have been more acurate to have posted them as "String Pads" 
or "Filter Sweeped Strings" or something like that because they are 
mainly effects.